The Khotanese Sudhanavadana (Beitrage Zur Indologie)

Literature & Fiction

De Chiara, Matteo

History & Criticism

Harrassowitz

<p>The Sudhanavadana is a 10th-century poem written in Khotanese, a Middle Iranian Language spoken in Central Asia and used to compile Buddhist works. The agreeable tale relates a previous life of Buddha: that of prince Sudhana and his wife, the fairy princess Manohara. At the core of the work is Sudhana's journey in search of his lost consort. The poem is preserved in three virtually complete manuscripts and seven fragments all found in Dunhuang. The manuscripts and fragments must originate in a single source, but what remains are two distinct recensions: indeed, it may be assumed that, in order to conform to the needs of different audiences, the story was modified in the course of time to obtain two recensions that still run in parallel but are independent from each other, either one being complete in itself.This volume marks the completion of the author's study of Sudhanavadana. It contains the philological commentary on the text and an etymological glossary. The commentary explains the choices made in the critical edition and draws attention to problematic passages. The etymological glossary offers three levels of information: an etymological explanation, the parallels to other Khotanese sources, and etymological propositions on the item in question. Two appendixes contain a list of all loanwords in Sudhanavadana, and a list of all hapaxes.</p>

The Khotanese Sudhanavadana: Commentary (Beitrage Zur Indologie)

Harrassowitz Verlag

<p>Pashto is an Iranian language spoken by almost 50 million speakers in eastern Afghanistan, western Pakistan, as well as in an important diaspora. Pashto, official language of the Afghan refugees along with Dari (Afghan Persian), is nowadays the focus of a growing interest, not only in the humanitarian field but also in linguistic studies. In this work, following the preceding volume on the Pashto verbal system, the Authors provide a detailed analysis of the Pashto Simple "Naked" Verbs, i.e. all not suffixed simple verbs, and the linguistic dynamics at work still nowadays. Used Simple "Naked" Verbs may be distributed among three main groups: a) those belonging to the "norm", i.e. irregular and regular verbs; b) those whose position is changing and can be located in a "zone frontiere"; c) those showing a complexification linked to the aspect, i.e. the two verbalizers and the mixed verbs. After the long and in-depth introduction, the fiches of all Simple "Naked" Verbs are presented and offer complete dialectological, typological and lexicographical information, as well as ample phraseologies. The verbs are organized in two main chapters, if the verb is used or only appears in the dictionaries. The appendixes provide indexes of all Simple "Naked" Verbs and of the French meanings. A final glossary allows the reader full understanding of the grammatical definitions. The manifold audience to which this work addresses is composed principally by scholars and researchers involved in the fields of linguistics and Pashto and Iranian studies, but also by students of Pashto language and by all those working in the humanitarian field and with refugees.</p>

Le Verbe Simple En Pashto: Etat Des Lieux (French Edition)

Reference

Septfonds, Daniel

Words, Language & Grammar

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