I just remembered that in the late eighties or the nineties Prof. B.N.Mukherjee discovered some evidence of the presence of Sakadviipii Brahmins in Bengal at the close of the ancient period, perhaps 2nd or 3rd century CE. Professor Mukherjee was not in good health when I last tried to contact and was not available for communication.
DB

From: Jan E.M. Houben <jemhouben@gmail.com>
To: "indology@list.indology.info" <indology@list.indology.info>
Cc: Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh@umich.edu>; Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com>; Dipak Bhattacharya <dbhattacharya200498@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Śākadvīpīya brahmans

Dear Dominik, Madhav and Dipak,

Perhaps still not THE most but at least MORE up to date (list of relevant publ. in chronological order, 1812-1976, at the end) is:

"MiΘra in India and the Hinduized Magi" by H. Humbach in Acta Iranica 17 (1978): 229-253.

Nagendra Nath Basu's publication not mentioned though.

Jan

On 19 February 2013 16:32, Dipak Bhattacharya <dbhattacharya200498@yahoo.com> wrote:

I did not get it thru Yahoo search.Like to try further. Dominik should know better
Best
DB

From: Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh@umich.edu>
To: Dipak Bhattacharya <dbhattacharya200498@yahoo.com>
Cc: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com>; "indology@list.indology.info" <indology@list.indology.info>
Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2013 5:07 PM

Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Śākadvīpīya brahmans

By the way, is H. von Stietenkron's PhD, published in 1966 available online to read or download?

Madhav Deshpande

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Dipak Bhattacharya <dbhattacharya200498@yahoo.com> wrote:

I have not read Stietencron’s thesis. So I do not know if he referred to the older account of the community available in Nagendra Nath Basu’s Vanger jātīya itihās ‘Caste history of Bengal’, Brāhmaṇakhaṇḍa (=Vol.1). Basu has other writings on them, in English too, but these require corrections and are not dependable.

Best

DB

From: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com>
To: indology@list.indology.info
Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2013 3:05 AM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Śākadvīpīya brahmans

I've discovered H. von Stietenkron's PhD, published in 1966, and Humbach's helpful review of it in the IIJ 12 (1969): 43-7.

Dominik Wujastyk

On 18 February 2013 22:11, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com> wrote:
Can anyone point me to some up-to-date information about Śākadvīpīya brahmans? What did it mean to a twelfth to seventeenth-century author to identify himself as belonging to a Śākadvīpīya family? Would such a family have retained cultural links to Central Asia and Eastern Iran, to Seistan? I would have thought not. But is there any scholarly exploration of this issue?

Many thanks,
Dominik Wujastyk

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