Research Notes on the Zhangzhung Language (=Bon Studies; 14/ Senri Ethnological Reports; 99) - Couverture souple

Tsuguhito Takeuchi (editor); Burkhard Quessel (editor); Yasuhiko Nagano (editor)

 
9784901906852: Research Notes on the Zhangzhung Language (=Bon Studies; 14/ Senri Ethnological Reports; 99)

Synopsis

Contents:
Chapter 1. Introductory and Geographical
(1) Geographical
Chapter 2. Historico-geographical
(1) Himalaya in early Indo-Aryan history
(2) Cis-Himalayan peoples and territories
(3) Trans-Himalayan peoples and territories
(3a) Areas of the Ladakh State
(3b) rnNaḥ-ris-skor (khor)-gsum
Chapter 3. Ethnographical
(1) General views
(1a) Hodgson
(1b) Cunningham
(1c) 'Munda' views in the Linguistic Survey of India
(1d) Przyluski's 'Austro-Asiatic' view
(1e) Khasa theory
(2) Some remarks on the two wide views
(3) Indications in early Sanskrit literature
(4) Modern observations and deductions
(4a) Cis-Himalayan regions
1. Two generalities
2. Ethnographically significant usages
3. Kanets: status and usages (general)
4. Kanets: distinctive usages
5. Three main areas of Western cis-Himālaya populations
6. Origins (traditional or hypothetic) of Ghirths Raṭhis and Kanets
7. Kanets and Kunindas (with Tanganas)
8. Kanet divisions (Khash and Rao)
9. Khaśas and Nepal Khas
10. Kirātas
11. 'Menial' classes
12. Bhotias
(4b) Trans-Himalayan territories
1. Anthropological date and deductions
2. Tibetan and other extrinsic items in nomenclature of peoples and classes
3. Material analogies between Trans and Cis-Himalayan conditions
4. Beda and Mon
5. Early relations with outside peoples
6. Hunza-Nagar
7. Khotan and Kashmir
8. Bru-sa and Balti
Chapter 4. Linguistic
(1) Cis-Himalayan areas
(1a) Indo-Aryan languages
1. Dating of lndo-Aryan languages
2. Early and other loan-words in, or from, Indo-Aryan: preservation of old forms
3. A wide-spread phonetic change
(1b) Tibeto-Burman languages
(2) Trans-Himalayan territories
(2d) Summary
Chapter 5. The language of the medical Mss.

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