Meanwhile, in ancient Bactria & Kushana...

In terms of taking MS and turning them into editions, it seems the
Bactrian/Kushan studies are now ahead of Pali.

Certainly some of these ("Buddhist texts") will be of importance as
comparative studies for Pali recensions ... but I cannot, offhand,
recall a single article citing such a thing.

E.M.

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To: Kushanas@yahoogroups.com
From: a.korn@...
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 15:32:51 +0200
Subject: [Kushanas] important new text editions of Bactrian and other texts


Dear all,

the 2nd volume of Bactrian Documents is available now from
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/84429 !!!

Bactrian Documents, Part 2
by Nicholas Sims-Williams
The second volume of Bactrian documents from Afghanistan of the 2nd
to 9th cents AD.
(Studies in the Khalili Collections 3, part 2, 2007)
ISBN-13: 978-1-874780-90-8
ISBN-10: 1-874780-90-0
328p. Hardback. GB £23.00

The book is an edition (with translations) of some 80 texts (letters and
Buddhist texts), all but one written on leather.
With the present book, all Bactrian texts known so far are accessible in
editions!

In addition to the texts, there is a glossary and a grammatical sketch.
Both incorporate the material from the texts of this book as well as
from those of the previous volume (Bactrian Documents I, 2000), and of
those edited in 4 additional articles by Nicholas Sims-Williams, which
means that readers who want to check a certain word or grammatical
feature only need to consult this new volume to get the full info.

Also interesting in this context is another new text edition, viz. that
of Arabic documents from the same archive as the latest Bactrian
documents (mentioning some of the same individuals):

Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan
by Geoffrey Khan
Thirty two legal and administrative documents from a private archive
of a family from north-eastern Afghanistan, datable between AH 138 and
AH 160 (AD 755-777).
(Studies in the Khalili Collections 5, 2005)
ISBN-13: 978-1-874780-71-7
ISBN-10: 1-874780-71-4
184p. Hardback. GB £23.00
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/84430

Best wishes,
Agnes Korn