European contacts with Hinduism

[Adela or Alain Sandness Leblanc]

Regarding Nikitine see also:

Athanase Nikitine, Le Voyage au-del� les Trois mers, introduction,
traduction du vieux-russe et notes par Ch. Malamoud - suivi de Une oeuvre
litt�raire par N. Troubetkoy (traduit du russe par Ch. Malamoud) Paris:
Francois Maspero, La D�couverte, 1982.

Best wishes,
Adela Sandness

Associate Researcher
Faculty of Religious Studies
McGill University

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>From: Michael Witzel <witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU>
>To: INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: European contacts with Hinduism
>Date: Thu, Jul 6, 2000, 8:29 AM
>

>One person that always is forgotten is the early Russian trader Nikitin.
>It is a long time that I looked at him, so please read yourself,
>and it also is unlikely that he had a great impact on the rest of Europe,
>but here he is:
>
>
>                                                India in the fifteenth
>century : being a collection of
>                                                narratives of voyages to
>India in the century preceding the
>                                                Portuguese discovery of the
>Cape of Good Hope from Latin,
>                                                Persian, Russian, and
>Italian sourcess / edited, with an
>                                                introduction [by] R.H. Major.
>                                                 New Delhi : Asian
>Educational Service, 1992.
>
>
>Sabsoub, Jean-Pierre.
>Die Reise des Kaufmanns Nikitin von der Rus' nach Indien, 1466-1472 : ein
>Beitrag zur Begegnung mit dem Anderen / Jean -Pierre Sabsoub.  Bonn :
>Holos, 1988.
>
>
>                                                Nikitin, Afanasii Nikitich,
>                                                Khozhenie za tri moria
>Afanasiia Nikitina / izdanie podgotovili
>                                                IA.S. Lur'e i L.S. Semenov.
>                                                Leningrad : Izd-vo "Nauka,"
>Leningradskoe otd-nie, 1986.
>
>Le voyage au-dela des trois mers d'Afanasij Nikitin : (1466 -1472) /
>introd., traduction du vieux-russe et notes par Jean -Yves Le Guillou.
>Quebec, Canada : Comeditex, 1978.
>
>
>plus a dozen more, older books. Also a detailed Slavistic/Indian
>dissertation, by
>
>Inge Wezler, diss. Univ. Tuebingen c. 1965/70.
>
>(perhaps George Bauman can help here, please?)
>
>
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