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Kushan histories : literary sources and selected papers from a symposium at Berlin, December 5 to 7, 2013 / edited by Harry Falk.

Title
Kushan histories : literary sources and selected papers from a symposium at Berlin, December 5 to 7, 2013 / edited by Harry Falk.
Publication
Bremen : Hempen Verlag, 2015.

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Additional Authors
Falk, Harry,
Description
304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Monographien zur Indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie ; Band 23
Uniform Title
Monographien zur indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie ; Bd. 23.
Subject
  • 324 B.C.-1000 A.D
  • India > History > 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. > Congresses
  • India
  • Kushans > Congresses
  • Kushans > History > Sources
  • Kushans
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • History.
  • Sources.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • English; contains texts in Chinese, Greek, Latin, Bactrian, Middle Persian, and Pahlavi, with English translations and commentary.
Contents
Primary sources and translations -- The texts. Possible prehistory of the Yuezhi -- The three attacks of the Xiongnu on the Yuezhi -- The phase of the Yabghus -- Events in the time of Kujūla Kadphises -- Events in the time of Vema Takhtu alias Sōtēr megas -- Events in the time of Vima Kadphises -- Events in the time of Kaniṣka I -- Events in the time of Huviṣka -- Events in the time of Vā̄sudeva -- The time of Kaniṣ̣ka II -- Events in the time of Vaskuṣā̄ṇ̣a I -- The time of Vasiṣka -- The time of Kaniṣka III -- Iranian Dominance -- The smaller (group of) Yuezhi and the Kidarites -- The aftermath. Papers. Kushan power and the expansion of Buddhism beyond the Soleiman mountains / Gé́rard Fussman -- Zoroastrianism among the Kushans / Frantz Grenet -- A Kushan military camp near Bactra / Étienne de la Vaissiè̀re, Philippe Marquis & Julio Bendezu Sarmiento -- A new Bactrian inscription from the time of Kanishka / Nicholas Sims-Williams -- Kushan rule granted by Nana : the background of a heavenly legitimation / Harry Falk.
ISBN
  • 9783944312248
  • 3944312244
LCCN
2016486011
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries