An Old Khotanese Reader

The Tale of Bhadra

By (author) Nicholas Sims-Williams With Jonathan Silk

Extent: 144 pages

Publisher: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag

Subjects: Buddhist Studies, Language & Linguistics

Series: Beiträge zur Iranistik

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2025)

ISBN: 9783752009170

6.69 x 9.45 inches

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The series Beitrage zur Iranistik was founded in the 1960s by Georges Redard and subsequently edited by Nicholas Sims-Williams from 1997 to 2020; the present series editor is Agnes Korn. The series publishes works on the languages of the Iranian branch of Indo-European. The focus is on linguistics, including grammars, dictionaries, text editions, philology as well as diachronic and synchronic studies of linguistic topics. Neighbouring fields such as literature, archaeology and anthropology are likewise represented. The languages of the series are English, German and French. The Beitrage zur Iranistik are represented in libraries internationally and are widely used standard works of Iranian studies.

This reader contains the complete text of the Buddhist ‘Tale of Bhadra’, the second chapter of the Old Khotanese Book of Zambasta, accompanied by a translation, commentary and glossary. All morphological forms occurring in the text are identified in the glossary and in the introduction, which also includes a survey by Jonathan A. Silk of sources and parallels in other languages. The volume thus provides everything required to make this text accessible either to a student who has already worked through the ‘Introduction to Khotanese’ which forms the first part of R. E. Emmerick’s Handbook of Khotanese (BzI 51, 2024) or even to a complete beginner. It also contains substantial original material, particularly in the commentary and the etymological notes in the glossary, which will be of interest to specialists in Khotanese and in Iranian and Indo-European languages in general.

By (author) Nicholas Sims-Williams
With Jonathan Silk

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