Browsing Asian languages and literature by Subject "Ancient languages"
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City of the Turks: Urban Encounters in Vidyāpati's Kīrttilatā
This thesis study examines two main issues through a close examination of Vidyāpati Ṭhakura’s 15th century Avahaṭṭha text, the Kīrttilatā. The first issue revolves around the interactions and encounters of Hindus and Muslims ... -
Common Yue: A Comparative Study of Yue Dialect Historical Phonology
Common Yue is a comparative study of the phonology of the Yuè dialects of Guǎngdōng and Guǎngxī. It draws upon the lexical studies and zìyīn 字音character reading data of 21 Yuè dialects as recorded in the fieldwork of ... -
Marks of Empire: Extracting a Narrative from the Corpus of Kuṣāṇa Inscriptions
University of Washington Abstract Marks of Empire: Extracting a Narrative from the Corpus of Kuṣāṇa Inscriptions Michael C Skinner Chairperson of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Richard Salomon Department of Asian ... -
The Emotionology of Anger in Early Buddhist Literature: Through the Lens of a Gāndhārī Verse Text
This dissertation examines the early Buddhist attitude toward anger (G kros̱a, OIA krodha) through the lens of an unpublished verse text, hereafter referred to as the *Kros̱a-gas̱a, from a newly discovered collection of ...