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The Buddhist Indus Script and Scriptures

Name: The Buddhist Indus Script and Scriptures
ISBN: 9783447199827

On the so-called Bhaikṣukī or Saindhavī Script of the Sāṃmitīyas and their Canon

Dragomir Dimitrov,

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The Buddhist Indus Script and Scriptures

On the so-called Bhaikṣukī or Saindhavī Script of the Sāṃmitīyas and their Canon

Dragomir Dimitrov,

About this book

The Buddhist Indus script ( Sindhulipi or Saindhav? ) refers to an Indian script with "arrow-headed" characters which the British Indologist Cecil Bendall (1856–1906) noticed for the first time in a twelfth-century manuscript, and which later scholars tentatively called "Bhaik?uk?". With the help of some Tibetan sources it is actually possible not only to establish its original name, i.e. "Saindhav?", but also to prove a direct connection between this script and the Saindhava monks or the S??mit?yas. Despite the importance of this Buddhist school, until recently its original canonical literature was considered to have been lost. Dragomir Dimitrov presents now information about the unexpected discovery of several Indian manuscripts written in Saindhav? script and offers a new analysis of the Old Bengali codex unicus of the so-called Patna Dharmapada, which should rather be known now as the Saindhav? Dharmapada. This study proves that in fact a number of original canonical texts of the S??mit?yas and some of their post-canonical works have survived. The texts are written in a Middle Indian language which it is suggested here to call "Saindhav?". The better understanding of the close link between the S??mit?yas/Saindhavas, the Saindhav? language, and the Saindhav? script permits to fill some glaring gaps in Buddhist studies and Indian linguistics.

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