This study focuses on the gold coins featuring the Gupta king with a banner carrying the image of the mythic eagle Garu?a, the supreme symbol of his power. They belong to five coin types that comprise
In the history of the Indian grammatical tradition, Bhartrhari (about fifth century C.E.) is the fourth great grammarian - after Panini, Katyayana and Patanjali - and the first to make the philosophic
The articles by Henk Bodewitz collected in this volume, published between 1969 and 2013, deal with Vedic cosmology and ethics on basis of a systematic philological study of early Vedic texts, from the
In Universal Saivism Peter Bisschop provides a critical edition and annotated translation of the sixth chapter of the Sivadharmasastra `Treatise on the Religion of Siva’, the so-called Santyadhyaya `C
The present book is an essay in which the ‘classical age’ of India is studied by exploring textual as well as archaeological sources that relate to the kingdom of the Vaka?akas, the southern neighbour
This book gives an insight into Ka??aikkuttu, a living Tamil theatre tradition. Taking the perspective of performers as a starting point, it analyses how this theatre tradition has been able to adjust
What was the function of Buddhist art at the time Buddhism was at its height in Asia? These questions are discussed in a volume about ‘Function and Meaning of Buddhist Art’ which contains the papers f
