[INDOLOGY] Aśoka, Ashoka, Ahsoka
Tieken, H.J.H. (Herman)
H.J.H.Tieken at hum.leidenuniv.nl
Wed Oct 11 07:42:10 UTC 2023
Dear List members,
I saw announced a sequel to Star Wars which features a character called Ahsoka. I am curious to know if this is a mangled version of Aśoka, via Ashoka (in Dutch papers the aspiration in the name Gandhi is often misplaced: Ghandi).
with kind regards, Herman
Herman Tieken
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website: hermantieken.com<http://hermantieken.com/>
The Aśoka Inscriptions: Analysing a corpus, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2023.
https://primusbooks.com/ancient/the-asoka-inscriptions-analysing-a-corpus-by-herman-tieken/
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