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- Title: Asokan Sites and Artefacts: A Source-Book with Bibliography (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 186 KB
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Asokan Sites and Artefacts: A Source-book with Bibliography. By HARRY FALK. Monographien zur indischen Archaologie, Kunst und Philologie, vol. 18. Mainz am Rhein: VERLAG PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2006. Pp. 295. [euro]49.90. In the author's own words, "this book mainly aims at providing photographs and explanations of the [Asokan] sites. ... All other information provided here should be regarded as side dishes, i.e. the bibliography, the extracts from travel accounts, the references to literature and excavations etc. Completeness on these points was not a major aim" (p. 7). In other words, this is, as the title indicates, primarily a study of the Asokan sites, inscriptional and otherwise, rather than of the Asokan inscriptions themselves: "It was not the aim to provide new editions of the texts, although in some cases the full reading is given, occasionally only some stray remarks on readings verified on the spot are made" (ibid.).
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