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Leicht berieben und besto�n, sonst guter Zustand / slightly rubbed and scuffed, otherwise good condition. - Contents Preface Acknowledgements ix List of Figures & Plates xiii Abbreviations & Symbols Prologue PART ONE The Buddhist Indus Script 1.1 The Epigraphic Evidence 1.2 The Bhaiksuki Hypothesis 1.3 Yi ge sna tshogs kyi phyi mo 1.4 Rgya dkar . . . gyi yi ge dan dpe ris rnam grans man ba 1.5 Cha tshad kyi dpe ris Dpyod Idan yid gsos 1.6 The Saindhavi Script 1.7 Some Manuscripts in Saindhavi Script 1.8 On the Origin of the Saindhavi Script PART TWO The Sacred Scriptures of the Sammitiyas 2.1 The Literature of the Sammitiyas 2.2 The Dharmapada of the Sammitiyas 2.2.1 The Discovery of the �Patna Dharmapada� 2.2.2 The Editions of the �Patna Dharmapada� 2.2.3 The School-Affiliation of the �Patna Dharmapada� 2.3 The Saindhavi Dharmapada and Its codex unicus 2.3.1 A Quotation from the Saindhavi Dharmapada 2.3.2 The Colophon of the codex unicus 2.3.3 The Date and Script of the codex unicus 2.3.4 Some Palaeographic Features 2.3.3 Some Peculiar Scribal Errors 2.3.6 Some Text-Critical Considerations 2.4 The Saindhavi of the Saindhavas 2.5 The Saindhavi Language and Its Name 2.6 Further Traces of the Sammitiya Canon 2.6.1 The Saindhavi Kevattasutra 2.6.2 Other Saindhavi sutras 2.7 Some Later Saindhavi Texts Epilogue Bibliography Indices Colophon. ISBN 9783447113854