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Central Asian Brahmi palaeography: the relationships among the Tocharian, Khotanese, and old Turkic Gupta scripts

open access: yes, 1981
Bibliography: p. 154-159.It has been assumed that Tocharian and Khotanese Brahmi writing were not related and that both systems arose through Indian missionary activity.
Hitch, Doug
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Tokharian Elements in the Kharoṣṭhī Documents from Chinese Turkestan

open access: yes, 1935
The language of the Kharosthi documents recovered from Chinese Turkestan by Sir Aurel Stein is in the main Prakrit, but contains a considerable amount of non-Indian material. Of this there are a number of Iranian words (under a score).
T. Burrow
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Evidences of Hierarchy of Brahmi Numeral System

open access: yes, 2018
The numeral system developed in South Asian Subcontinent in third century B. C. E. as the ancestor of the Hindu Arabic, Lichhavi, Kharosthi and other different numeral systems is popular by Brahmi numeral system.
Eka Ratna Acharya
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The Location of the Capital of Lou-lan and the Date of Kharosthi Inscriptions [PDF]

open access: yes, 1963
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At the Crossroad of the Ancient World : The role of the kingdom of Kroraina on the Silk Roads between the third and fifth centuries CE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This dissertation sets out to study the Silk Road exchange network of late antiquity, seeking a framework for how this wide-reaching phenomenon should be understood.
Høisæter, Tomas Larsen
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Photographs in the British Library of documents and manuscripts from Sir Aurel Stein's fourth Central Asian expedition

open access: yes, 1998
ON I September 1995, shortly before I returned to China from a visit to the British Library on a British Academy K. C. Wong Fellowship, a box containing photographs of documents and manuscripts from Sir Aurel Stein's fourth Central Asian expedition(1930 ...
Jiqing, Wang
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On the No.511 Text of the Kharosthi Inscriptions (2)

open access: yes, 2002
departmental bulletin ...
イワマツ, アサオ   +2 more
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On the No.511 Text of the Kharosthi Inscriptions (1)

open access: yes, 2001
departmental bulletin ...
イワマツ, アサオ   +2 more
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The Early Silk Road(s)

open access: yes, 2018
Much has been said and written about the “Silk Road” since Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen coined the phrase in 1877. Fostered by spectacular discoveries by so-called explorers such as Sir Aurel Stein, Paul Pelliot, Sven Hedin, and others, the Silk ...
Armin Selbitschka
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试论梵语声字在般若经典中的形态与功能 On the Form and Function of Sanskrit Akṣara in Prajñā-pāramitā-Sūtras and Śāstras

open access: yes, 2022
内容提要梵语“阿剎罗”(akṣara)一词在印度古代文化背景中具有哲 学、语言学两个方面的意义。从哲学层面言之,akṣara 一词具有不灭、不朽之义,因而用来指称常住不灭的终极存在;就语言 学层面而言,其义项为不可分析、不可拆分之义,通常指音节、字母,即梵语言文字最根本的拼读、书写单位。在汉译佛 典中,“阿剎罗”通常被译作声字、字、字本、字母,以陀罗尼、真言、明、咒、秘密语等形式,在以《般若经》为代表的大乘 佛教经典中有广泛应用。《般若经》是出现最早的大乘佛典,是大乘佛教成立的标 志 ...
Zhou, Guangrong
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