Akota bronzes--a few pages please!

[Claudine Bautze-Picron]

Dear Jonathan,

Check indeed the paper by G. Bhattacharya mentioned before (down this mail), it is also republished in "Essays on Buddhist, Hindu, Jain Iconography & Epigraphy", by Gouriswar Bhattacharya (Studies in Bengal Art Series N° 1, Dhaka: The International Centre for Study of Bengal Art, 2000, pp. 385-406) - see in particularly his endnote 134 (with references to Edgerton & von Hinüber).
Claudine.

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From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jonathan Silk
Sent: Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2009 09:21
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Akota bronzes--a few pages please!

I confess that it occured to me only too late of course to check Sircar
first of all--rather stupid, sorry!

But the context itself as well as othe reference cited by Stefan make me
strongly suspect that the answer should be sought elsewhere (that is, I
don't think we should be disposed to take deva as = deva). A graphic error
is hardly possible, I should think; is there a phonological explanation?
Again, I apologize but our library is closed until next week...

many thanks jonathan

2009/5/21 Antonio Ferreira-Jardim <antonio.jardim at gmail.com>

> I'm not sure if this is helpful or not but Sircar's Indian
> Epigraphical Glossary sv. "devadharma" states:
>
> "deva-dharma (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 144), same as
> deya-dharma when the gift was the image of a god."
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Antonio Ferreira-Jardim
> University of Queensland
>
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Stefan Baums <baums at u.washington.edu>
> wrote:
> >> Didn't Gouriswar Bhattacharya also write something about this
> >> word more recently?
> >
> > Maybe this article:
> >
> >   G. Bhattacharya, 1987. Dāna - deyadharma: donation in early
> >   Buddhist records (in Brāhmī). In: Marianne Yaldiz and Wibke
> >   Lobo, eds., Investigating Indian art: proceedings of a
> >   symposium on the development of early Buddhist and Hindu
> >   iconography held at the Museum of Indian Art Berlin in May
> >   1986, Berlin: Museum für Indische Kunst (Veröffentlichungen des
> >   Museums für Indische Kunst, volume 8), pp. 39-60.
> >
> > S.
> >
> > --
> > Stefan Baums
> > Asian Languages and Literature
> > University of Washington
> >
>



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