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Indo-Scythian Studies, Being Khotanese Texts Volume III. Ed. H. W. Bailey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1956. viii, 140. Appendix. $7.50.

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Indo-Scythian Studies, Being Khotanese Texts Volume III. Ed. H. W. Bailey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1956. viii, 140. Appendix. $7.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

M. J. Dresden
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University of Pennsylvania
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References

1 See Lamotte, Etienne, “Sur la formation du Mahāyāna,” Asiatica, Festschrift Friedrich Weller (Leipzig, 1954), pp. 392395.Google Scholar

2 (1) Khotanese Texts I (Cambridge, 1945) (KhT I)Google Scholar; (2) Khotanese Buddhist Texts (London, 1951) (KhBT)Google Scholar; (3) Indo-Scythian Studies, Being Khotanese Texts Volume II (Cambridge, 1954)Google Scholar (KhT II).

3 Since references are lacking they are given here: text No. 2 was published previously by Bailey, H. W., BSOS, VIII (19351937), 923930Google Scholar; No. 6 (Vajracchedikā) by Konow, Sten in Manuscript Remains of Buddhist Literature Found in Eastern Turkestan, ed. Hoernle, A. F. Rudolf, I (Oxford, 1916), 214288Google Scholar; Nos. 26, 27, 28 (Rāma story) by Bailey, H. W., BSOAS, X (19391942), 365376, 559598Google Scholar; No. 33 (Turkish-Khotanese vocabulary) by Bailey, H. W., BSOAS, XI (19431946), 290296Google Scholar; parts of Nos. 18, 34, 42, 45 by Bailey, H. W., BSOAS, X, 892895, 904907Google Scholar; No. 52 (Sanskrit-Khotanese bilingual) by Bailey, H. W., BSOS, IX (19371939), 521543.Google Scholar

4 The popularity of Indian medicine (āyurveda) is apparent from the translation of Indian medical texts into Khotanese (KhT I), Kuchean (Filliozat, J., Fragments de textes kouchéens de médecine et de magie, Paris, 1948)Google Scholar and Uigur Turkish (Rachmati, G. R., “Zur Heilkunde der Uiguren,” I–II, SPAW, 1930, 1932).Google Scholar

5 See Bailey, H. W., BSOAS, XI, 769 and XIII, 395.Google Scholar

6 Most of the documents are to be found in KhT II.