Illustrated Rajatarangini

Stein, Marc Aurel:
Illustrated Rājataraṅgiṇī : Together with Eugen Hultzsch’s Critical Notes and Stein’s Maps / Marc Aurel Stein. Ed. by Luther Obrock in collaboration with Katrin Einicke. - Halle (Saale) : Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, 2013. - 248 S. : Ill, Kt.- (Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis ; 6)
ISBN 978-3-86977-077-2
EUR 78,00
DDC: 891.21; 954.6

Beschreibung
The edition (1893) and translation (1900) of Kalhaṇa’s Rājataraṅgiṇī remain Marc Aurel Stein’s most lasting contributions to the study of Sanskrit and premodern Indian history. While this work remains unsurpassed in modern scholarship, references in Stein’s private letters pointed to the existence of an updated and expanded version of the Rājataraṅgiṇī, illustrated by photographs of various locales mentioned in Kalhaṇa’s history. These revisions and additions, which Stein called the Illustrated Rājataraṅgiṇī in correspondence, were long considered lost, however this volume presents Marc Aurel Stein’s Illustrated Rājataraṅgiṇī, edited from manuscripts kept in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Appearing in print for the first time, the Illustrated Rājataraṅgiṇī collects Stein’s additions and corrections to his text and translation of Kalhaṇa’s Rājataraṅgiṇī. These notes are illustrated photographs of important sites in the Kashmir Valley taken by Stein on his last tour of the Valley in 1940. This collection of photographs has been reassembled from collections in Oxford and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. The volume is completed with reprints of four important papers on the Sanskrit text Rājataraṅgiṇī by Eugen Hultzsch. These papers served as catalysts for Stein to rethink important textual variants in the Rājataraṅgiṇī. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Foreword. 9
Marc Aurel Stein: Illustrated Rājataraṅgiṇī. 15
   Prolegomena. 17
   Appendix I. 23
   Appendix II. 35
   Figures 1–47 illustrating Stein’s edition of the Rājataraṅgiṇī. 63
   Figures 48–82 illustrating Stein’s “Memoirs”. 113
Literature and Indices. 151
   Untraced Photograph. 153
   Literature Cited. 154
   Place Names Included by Stein Without Specified Photographs. 156
   Index of Figures and Citations in Stein’s Rājataraṅgiṇī. 157
   Index of Proper Names in Stein’s Illustrated Rājataraṅgiṇī. 166
   Index of Verses and Pages of the Rājataraṅgiṇī with additional notes and illustrations in Stein’s Illustrated Rājataraṅgiṇī. 172
Eugen Hultzsch: Articles. 177
   Notes on Seventh Taranga. Indian Antiquary XL (1911): 97–102. 179
   Notes on Eighth Taranga. Indian Antiquary XLII (1913): 301–306. 187
   Kritische Bemerkungen. ZDMG 69 (1915): 129–167, 271–282. 195
Marc Aurel Stein: Maps
   Ancient Kaśmīr
   Ancient Śrīnagar

Autoren
MARC AUREL STEIN (1862-1943) was a Hungarian-British archaeologist, known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia, as well as an indologist. Wikipedia [en]; Fascinated by the Orient: Aurel Stein 1862-1943 (Website on the life and works of M. A. Stein); Articles of Helen Wang (ed.): Sir Aurel Stein (British Museum).
EUGEN HULTZSCH (1857-1927) was a German indologist. Since 1903 professor at the University Halle. Wikipedia [de]; Janert, Klaus Ludwig: „Hultzsch, Eugen“, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 10 (1974), S. 31 f. [Onlinefassung].

Herausgeber
Luther Obrock is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on Sanskrit in Kashmir during the Sultanate and Mughal Periods.
Katrin Einicke holds a doctorate in Indology. She is a research associate at the Institute for Indology of the University of Halle.

Quellen: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg; Deutsche Nationalbibliothek; Buchhandel.de
Bildquelle: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg
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