140181 UE Epigraphy and Palaeography of Inscriptions in Northern Pakistan (2018S)
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Th 01.02.2018 08:00 to We 28.02.2018 12:00
- Deregistration possible until Sa 31.03.2018 23:59
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max. 24 participants
Language: English
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- Friday 13.04. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Friday 20.04. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Friday 27.04. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Friday 11.05. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Friday 18.05. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Friday 25.05. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Friday 01.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Friday 08.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Friday 15.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Friday 22.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
- Friday 29.06. 11:45 - 13:45 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
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Aims, contents and method of the course
This seminar is intended to serve as a practical workshop for introducing participants to source materials and methods for the study of Indian (Brāhmī and Kharoṣṭhī), Middle Iranian (Sogdian and Bactrian), Tibetan, Chinese, and other graffiti inscriptions in northern Pakistan. The seminar’s primary focus is on epigraphy and palaeography of the Indian language inscriptions as original sources for the cultural and religious history of the Upper Indus region.
Assessment and permitted materials
Assessment: 50% participation / 50% weekly assignments
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Prerequisite: Sanskrit language (features of Prakrit and Buddhist Middle Indic languages will be introduced)
Examination topics
Reading list
Bandini-König, Ditte. Die Felsbildstation Hodar. Materialien zur Archäologie der Nordgebiete Pakistans [MANP] 3. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1999.
———. Die Felsbildstation Thalpan. 6 vols. MANP 6-11. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 2003-
______ and Martin Bemmann. Die Felsbildstation Oshibat. MANP 1. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1994.
——— and Gérard Fussman. Die Felsbildstation Shatial. MANP 2. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1997.
______ and Oskar von Hinüber. Die Felsbildstationen Shing Nala und Gichi Nala. MANP 4. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 2001.Bemmann, Martin. Die Felsbildstation Dadam Das. MANP 5. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 2005.Bruneau, Laurianne. 2007. “L’architecture bouddhique dans la vallée du Haut Indus (Pakistan): un essai de typologie des représentations rupestres de stūpa.” Arts Asiatiques 62 (2007): 63-75.
Bühler, Georg. Indische Palaeographie von circa 350 A. Chr—circa 1300 P. Chr. (Grundriss der indoarischen Philologie und Altertumskunde 1.2), Strassburg: Trübner, 1896.Daamstegt, Theo. Epigraphical Hybrid Sanskrit: Its Rise, Spread, Characteristics and Relationship to Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina 23. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978.Dani, Ahmad Hasan. Indian Palaeography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963 (2nd ed., New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1986).
––––––. Chilas, the City of Nanga Parvat (Dyamar). Islamabad: 1983.
––––––. “The Sacred Rock of Hunza.” Journal of Central Asia 8.2 (1985): 5-124.
———. “Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions from the Sacred Rock of Hunza.” In India and the Ancient World: History, Trade and Culture before A.D. 650, Professor P.H.L. Jubilee Volume edited by Gilbert Pollet, 33-45 + pls. V-VII. Orientalia Lovaniensa, Analecta 25. Leuven: Department Oriéntalistiek, 1987.Fussman, Gérard. “Inscriptions de Gilgit.” Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient 65 (1978): 1-64 + pls. 1-32.
———. “Les inscriptions Kharoṣṭhī de la plaine de Chilas.” In Antiquities of Northern Pakistan 1, edited by Karl Jettmar, 1-40 + pls. 1-43. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1989.
———. “Chilas, Hatun et les bronzes bouddhiques du Cachemire.” In Antiquities of Northern Pakistan 2, edited by Karl Jettmar, 1-60 + pls. 1-40. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1993.
———. “Une peinture sur pierre: Le triptyque au stūpa de Shatial.” In Antiquities of Northern Pakistan 3, edited by Gérard Fussman and Karl Jettmar, 1-55 + pls. 1-16. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1994.Humbach, Helmut. “Hybrid Sanskrit in the Gilgit Brāhmī Inscriptions,” Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik 16 (1980), 99-121.
———. Die Kharoṣṭī-Inschriften aus Gilgit. Münchener Studien sur Sprachwissenschaft 39 (1980), 53-58.Jettmar, Karl. Beyond the Gorges of the Indus: Archaeology before excavation. Ed. Ellen Kattner. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2002.
_____ and Volker Thewalt. Zwischen Gandhāra und den Seidenstrassen: Felsbilder am Karakorum Highway: Entdeckungen deutsch-pakistanischer Expeditionen, 1979-1984. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1985.
_____, et al., eds. Antiquities of Northern Pakistan. 5 vols. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1989-1994.
______and Klaus Sagaster with Loden Sherab Dagyab. “Ein Tibetisches Heiligtum in Punyal.” In Antiquities of Northern Pakistan 2, 123-139 + abb. 1-16. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1993.Neelis, Jason. “Kharoṣṭhī and Brāhmī Inscriptions from Hunza-Haldeikish: Sources for the Study of Long-Distance Trade and Transmission of Buddhism.” In South Asian Archaeology, 1997, eds. Maurizio Taddei and Giuseppe De Marco, vol. 2: 903-923. Serie Orientale Roma 90. Rome: Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, 2000.
———. “La Vieille Route Reconsidered: Alternative Paths for Early Transmission of Buddhism Beyond the Borderlands of South Asia.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 16 (2002, but 2006): 143-164.
———. “Hunza-Haldeikish Revisited: Epigraphical Evidence for Trans0regional History.” In Karakoram in Transition: Cutlure, Development, and Ecology in the Hunza Valley. Ed. Hermann Kreutzmann, 159-170. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
———. “Localizing the Buddha’s Presence at Wayside Shrines in
———. Die Felsbildstation Thalpan. 6 vols. MANP 6-11. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 2003-
______ and Martin Bemmann. Die Felsbildstation Oshibat. MANP 1. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1994.
——— and Gérard Fussman. Die Felsbildstation Shatial. MANP 2. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1997.
______ and Oskar von Hinüber. Die Felsbildstationen Shing Nala und Gichi Nala. MANP 4. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 2001.Bemmann, Martin. Die Felsbildstation Dadam Das. MANP 5. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 2005.Bruneau, Laurianne. 2007. “L’architecture bouddhique dans la vallée du Haut Indus (Pakistan): un essai de typologie des représentations rupestres de stūpa.” Arts Asiatiques 62 (2007): 63-75.
Bühler, Georg. Indische Palaeographie von circa 350 A. Chr—circa 1300 P. Chr. (Grundriss der indoarischen Philologie und Altertumskunde 1.2), Strassburg: Trübner, 1896.Daamstegt, Theo. Epigraphical Hybrid Sanskrit: Its Rise, Spread, Characteristics and Relationship to Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina 23. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978.Dani, Ahmad Hasan. Indian Palaeography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963 (2nd ed., New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1986).
––––––. Chilas, the City of Nanga Parvat (Dyamar). Islamabad: 1983.
––––––. “The Sacred Rock of Hunza.” Journal of Central Asia 8.2 (1985): 5-124.
———. “Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions from the Sacred Rock of Hunza.” In India and the Ancient World: History, Trade and Culture before A.D. 650, Professor P.H.L. Jubilee Volume edited by Gilbert Pollet, 33-45 + pls. V-VII. Orientalia Lovaniensa, Analecta 25. Leuven: Department Oriéntalistiek, 1987.Fussman, Gérard. “Inscriptions de Gilgit.” Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient 65 (1978): 1-64 + pls. 1-32.
———. “Les inscriptions Kharoṣṭhī de la plaine de Chilas.” In Antiquities of Northern Pakistan 1, edited by Karl Jettmar, 1-40 + pls. 1-43. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1989.
———. “Chilas, Hatun et les bronzes bouddhiques du Cachemire.” In Antiquities of Northern Pakistan 2, edited by Karl Jettmar, 1-60 + pls. 1-40. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1993.
———. “Une peinture sur pierre: Le triptyque au stūpa de Shatial.” In Antiquities of Northern Pakistan 3, edited by Gérard Fussman and Karl Jettmar, 1-55 + pls. 1-16. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1994.Humbach, Helmut. “Hybrid Sanskrit in the Gilgit Brāhmī Inscriptions,” Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik 16 (1980), 99-121.
———. Die Kharoṣṭī-Inschriften aus Gilgit. Münchener Studien sur Sprachwissenschaft 39 (1980), 53-58.Jettmar, Karl. Beyond the Gorges of the Indus: Archaeology before excavation. Ed. Ellen Kattner. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2002.
_____ and Volker Thewalt. Zwischen Gandhāra und den Seidenstrassen: Felsbilder am Karakorum Highway: Entdeckungen deutsch-pakistanischer Expeditionen, 1979-1984. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1985.
_____, et al., eds. Antiquities of Northern Pakistan. 5 vols. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1989-1994.
______and Klaus Sagaster with Loden Sherab Dagyab. “Ein Tibetisches Heiligtum in Punyal.” In Antiquities of Northern Pakistan 2, 123-139 + abb. 1-16. Mainz: P. v. Zabern, 1993.Neelis, Jason. “Kharoṣṭhī and Brāhmī Inscriptions from Hunza-Haldeikish: Sources for the Study of Long-Distance Trade and Transmission of Buddhism.” In South Asian Archaeology, 1997, eds. Maurizio Taddei and Giuseppe De Marco, vol. 2: 903-923. Serie Orientale Roma 90. Rome: Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, 2000.
———. “La Vieille Route Reconsidered: Alternative Paths for Early Transmission of Buddhism Beyond the Borderlands of South Asia.” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 16 (2002, but 2006): 143-164.
———. “Hunza-Haldeikish Revisited: Epigraphical Evidence for Trans0regional History.” In Karakoram in Transition: Cutlure, Development, and Ecology in the Hunza Valley. Ed. Hermann Kreutzmann, 159-170. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
———. “Localizing the Buddha’s Presence at Wayside Shrines in
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