Haoma and Harmaline

Haoma and Harmaline
Author: David Stophlet Flattery
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780520096271

Dictionary and Thesaurus of Tocharian A

Dictionary and Thesaurus of Tocharian A
Author: Gerd Carling
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2009
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783447058148

This dictionary describes Tocharian A, one of two Tocharian languages documented in manuscripts of Buddhist texts from the second half of the 1st millennium CE, excavated in the oases of the Tarim basin. The dictionary contains also a thesaurus, based on all the identified texts in Tocharian A, including previously published and unpublished texts from various collections (Paris, Berlin). All forms of words, including variants occurring in the texts, are listed separately with reference to all occurrences and a sample of passages in transcription and translation. The meaning of a number of words has been better defined and, when necessary, corrected against previous glossaries. Much focus has been laid on phraseology and literary parallels with other Buddhist texts in Sanskrit and Uighur. The description of the verbal forms has been listed according to the stems of the paradigms. The sources of loanwords, e.g., from Tocharian B, Old and Middle Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Old Turkic, and Chinese, as well as the corresponding words in Tocharian B, are also given.

Bactrian Personal Names

Bactrian Personal Names
Author: Nicholas Sims-Williams
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2010-09-16
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Bactrian was the principal language of administration in what is now Afghanistan from the time of the Kushan empire (1st to 3rd centuries C.E.) until the early Islamic period. The surviving Bactrian inscriptions and documents, coins and countermarks, seals and sealings attest a large number of personal names, whose various linguistic origins - Persian, Sogdian, Indian, Hunnic, Turkish, and of course native Bactrian ? mirror the variety of peoples and religions which combined to form the unique culture of this region during the 1st millennium C.E. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Sims-Williams analyses the etymology, structure and meaning of the names themselves and where possible identifies the persons who bore them. It will be of interest both to specialists in onomastics and to linguists and historians concerned with the languages and culture of pre-Islamic Afghanistan and neighbouring regions.

Glotta

Glotta
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1971
Genre: Classical philology
ISBN:

1909-1934 include section: Literaturbericht fu r das jahr 1907-1932.