Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Source Documents and Texts in South Asian Studies

Project South Asia, Source Documents and Texts in South Asian Studies
Project South Asia is a Web-based digital library for improving the study and teaching of South Asia, focusing especially on India and Pakistan. It creates and introduces an innovative materials and resource development program, designed to assist professors in advancing the study and teaching of South Asian history and culture across several disciplines and at various levels throughout the post-secondary curriculum. Read more about Project South Asia.

Project South Asia was initiated with grant funding from the National Security Education Program (NSEP) and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. We thank both NSEP and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for their financial support.

Project South Asia is an official Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library Associate Website

Ancient and Classical South Asia

Ashokan Rock and Pillar Edicts

Rock Edicts

Pillar Edicts


Dramatic Texts


Kalidasa's
Shakuntala (1912 Arthur W. Ryder translation)
Harsha's Nagananda (Acts I-III)

Foreign Descriptions of South Asia


Greek and Roman Sources



Chinese

Xuan Zang's (Hiuen Tsiang's) Buddhist Records of the Western World

Inscriptions (Epigraphy)

Gupta Inscriptions
Samudragupta (335-375 CE)
Chandragupta II (375-415 CE)
Kumaragupta (415-455 CE)
Skandagupta (455-467 CE)
Budhagupta (467-497 CE)
Gupta-era Inscriptions
Aihole Inscription of Pulikeshin II (634-635 CE)
Basim Copper-Plates of Vindhyashakti II
Chiplun Copper-Plate Grant of Pulikeshin II (ca. 609-642 CE)
Hathigumpha Inscription of Kharavela of Kalinga
Garuda (Heliodorus) Pillar of Besnagar
Junagadh Rock Inscription of Rudradaman


Legal and Political Texts
The Laws of Manu (full 1886 G. Bühler translation)
Kautilya's Arthashastra (full 1915 Shamasastry text)

Literature

The Mahabharata
Source: The Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Condensed into English verse by Romesh C. Dutt. New York: Dutton, 1910.

The Ramayana
Source: The Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Condensed into English verse by Romesh C. Dutt. New York: Dutton, 1910.
Bhagavad Gita (Sir Edwin Arnold translation) Harsha-carita of Bana (full 1897 E. B. Cowell and F. W Thomas translation) Religious Documents and Texts

The Dhammapada (complete 1881 F. Max Müller translation)

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