Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography, Vol. 3

Lokesh Chandra

Reference

Aditya Prakashan,India

<p>By analyzing the ancient texts in full detail, this book establishes the relative chronology of the Rigveda vis-à-vis the Avesta and the Mitanni inscriptions; the geography of the Rigveda; the internal chronology of the (different parts of) the Rigveda; and, finally, the first steps in the establishment of the absolute chronology of the Rigveda, i.e. the actual point of time BCE when the hymns of the text were composed. Moroever, it presents linguistic evidence for the Indian Homeland hypothesis as the only one that explains all the linguistic problems arising in the course of the quest for the Original Homeland. While the beginnings of the history of the Egyptian and the Mesopotamian Civilizations are known to lie at least as far back as the fourth millennium BCE on the basis of detailed decipherable and deciphered records, the beginnings of Indian Civilization as we know it could not really be traced far earlier than the Ashokan inscriptions of the third century BCE. The earlier rec</p>

Rigveda and the Avesta: The Final Evidence

Shrikant G. Talageri

Ski Cakrasamara

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography: A-Amoghavajra v. 1

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