Primary Sources and Asian Pasts.

• Superior document: Beyond Boundaries Series ; v.8
• Author: Bisschop, Peter C.
• TeilnehmendeR: Cecil, Elizabeth A.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2020.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Beyond Boundaries Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)

Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State is a research initiative hosted by the British Museum and the British Library in London. Moving beyond geographical, chronological, disciplinary and historiographical boundaries, the books in this series explore the interactions of India and her neighbors from late antiquity to the close of the medieval.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Primary Sources and Asian Pasts: Beyond the Boundaries of the "Gupta Period" -- Part I: Narrative Form and Literary Legacies -- Why So Many 'Other' Voices in the 'Brahmin' Mahābhārata? -- After the Mahābhārata: On the Portrayal of Vyāsa in the Skandapurāṇa -- The "Best Abode of Virtue": Sattra Represented on a Gupta-Period Frieze from Gaṛhwa,̄ Uttar Pradesh -- The Skandapurāṇa and Bāṇa's Harṣacarita -- Part II: Political Landscapes and Regional Identity -- Describing the Own Other: Chinese Buddhist Travelogues Between Literary Tropes and Educational Narratives -- Imperial Languages and Public Writings in Tamil South India: A Bird's-Eye View in the Very Longue Durée -- Landscapes, Linkages, and Luminescence: First-Millennium CE Environmental and Social Change in Mainland Southeast Asia -- Sri Ksetra, 3&lt -- sup&gt -- rd&lt -- /sup&gt -- Century BCE to 6&lt -- sup&gt -- th&lt -- /sup&gt -- Century CE: Indianization, Synergies, Creation -- Part III: Religion, Ritual, and Empowerment -- The Meaning of the Word ārya in Two Gupta-Period Inscriptions -- Four Syllables for Slaying and Repelling: A Tibetan Vajrabhairava Practice from Recently Recovered Manuscripts of the "Lost" Book of Rwa (Rwa pod) -- Love, Unknowing, and Female Filth: The Buddhist Discourse of Birth as a Vector of Social Change for Monastic Women in Premodern South Asia -- A Natural Wonder: From Liṅga Mountain to Prosperous Lord at Vat Phu -- Index.