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SOUTH ASIA |
PRIMARY SOURCES |
Greeks & Romans, Buddhism & Hinduism 400 BCE - 950 ACE |
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| Cctesia (404-397) | Greek physician at court of (Persian) Artaxerxes II |
| Bhagavad Gita (?) | American International Gita Society, also (a), (b) |
| Alexander the Great (325) | Itinerary, also Indus mutiny, & Brotherhood -Man |
| Onesicritus & Nearchus (325) | Voyage from Indus to Euphrates (in Pliny) |
| Megasthenes (290/280s) | Indika, also extract on Pataliputra |
| Ashoka (262-232) | Edicts, also (a), Princep's rock & pillar edicts |
| Kautilya (250 c.) | Arthashastra, extracts |
| Arrian (2nd century BC) | Indica, ditto |
| Ashtavakra | Ashtavakra Gita, teacher of Patanjali, Vedanta |
| Patanjali (150 c. ??) | Yoga Sutras, also (a), (b) trs |
| Milindapanha (140 c.) | Questions of Milinda (Menander), selections, ditto |
| Tiruvalluvar (130?) | Tirukural, ditto, Tamil ethics, other tr. ch. 1-10 |
| Zhang Qian (127) | Expedition (Shih chi 123), ditto, India (Shen-du) |
| Han Shu (100 c.) | Notes on the Western Regions inc. Kabulistan |
| Isidore of Charax (0 c.) | Parthian Stations |
| Strabo (10 ACE c.) | On India (=Book XVGeography), ditto |
| Acts of Thomas (20c.) | Syriac text, ditto Ante-Nicene Fathers 8, death |
| Hou Han Shu (20-50 c.) | Kushan occupation of Indus valley, N.W. India |
| Appolonius of Tyana (1st) | Travels, inc. India, also India snippets, shrine |
| Asvaghosa (1st) | The Buddha-Karita, tr. Cowell, 1894 |
| Matrceta (1st) | Satapancasatka' Hymn to the Buddha' (Dhammika) |
| Periplus...Erythraean Sea (50) | Indian Ocean Trade, anonymous ditto, snippets |
| Pliny (77) | Natural History |
| Heart Sutra | Mahayana Buddhist, emptiness, paradox,ditto,ditto |
| Diamond Sutra | Mahayana Buddhist - 'emptiness', |
| Lotus Sutra | Kern (1884), SBE; ch. 25 mod. tr. Avalokitesvara |
| Mahayana texts - women | Vimilakirti, Lotus, Ashtashasrika sutras |
| Nagarjuna | Maha-prajnaparamita |
| Vatsayayana (1st-6th century) | Kama Sutra, Sir Richard Burton, translator (1883) |
| Aelian (c. 150) | On the Peculiarities of Animals, excerpts on India |
| Auvaiyar (pre-300) | Early Alvar saint Female |
| Badarayana (c. 200-450) | Brahma (or Vedanta) Sutras, tr/com Krishnananda |
| Samudragupta (335-375) | Eran stone inscription (fragmented) |
| Harishena (c. 375) | Allahabad posthumous inscription - Samudragupta |
| Chandragupta II (375-415) | Mathura inscription, by Chandragupta II |
| Amrakardava (400 c.) | Endowment to village of ?? |
| Shaba (400 c.) | Thanksgiving by a poet, at Pataliputra |
| Matridasa (407/8) | Gadhwa inscriptions, Brahmin almshouse gift |
| Dhruvasharman (415/6) | Eulogy to Dhruvasharman and to Kumaragupta |
| Fa-xian (394-414) | Records…, Gutenberg Project, ditto, Indus valley, (ditto) |
| Kumuragupta eulogies (425/35) | Udayagiri (425/6) Gadhwa (435 c.), other Gadhwa |
| Vatsabhati (435 c.) | Suntemple eulogy to Kumaragupta/Bandhuyarman |
| Buddhamitra (448/9) | Inscription to Buddha, praise of Kumaragupta |
| Harisvamini (450/1) | Endowment to Buddhist vihara of Kākanādabōta |
| Vishnu Purana (5th ??) | Vishnu praises, Buddha denunciation |
| Devata (455) | Gift to Buddhist vihara at Mathura, short |
| Skandagupta (461 c.) | Bhitari inscription,also Bihar eulogy of Guptas |
| Chakrapalita (461 c. ) | Junagadh praise> Skandagupta, Parnadatta, self |
| Madra (461 c.) | Kathaum praise> Brahmins,ascetics,Skandagupta |
| Devavishnu (465/6) | Brahmin endowment to temple at Indrapura |
| Matrivishnu (484/5) | Eran praises > Budhagupta and Maitrivishnu |
| Chatrang (550 c.) | Chess coming from India to Iran |
| Bhavisya Purana (6th?) | Extracts on Jesus in India, Hephthalite setting? |
| Tirumular (7th?) | Tirumantiram Saiva Siddhanta Tamil saint-mystic |
| Hsien-Tsang (621 c.) | Su-Yu-ki Bk.1, China to Hindukush (Kapisa) |
| St. John Damascene (early 8th) | Barlaam & Josaphat, Christian legends > Buddha |
| Shankara (700s) | Viveka-Chudamani 'Crest-jewel of Wisdom' |
| Shankara | Devotional song to Shiva |
| Chach-na'ma (712) | Arab invasion of Sind |
| Futuhu-l Bula'n (711-842 c.) | Arab invasion of Sindh & adminstration to c.830s |
| Padmasambhava (770s c.) | Self liberation |
| Vasugupta [770-830] | Shiva sutra, summary, Kashmiri Saivism |
| Radanites (847) | Jewish trade routes to the East |
| Antal (850s) | Nacciyar Tirumoli , Alvar saint,Tiruppavai female |
| Saraha (800s ?) | dohar Tantric songs, taken from Conze |
| Tales of Sanjan (936) | Zoroastrian arrival in India |
before 500 E SOUTH ASIA - PRIMARY SOURCES F 950s onwards
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