H W Bailey
Biographic Data
| ID | 697944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H W Bailey |
| GIVEN NAMES | H W |
| FAMILY NAME | Bailey |
| SIGNATURE | BAILEY H W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 95 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Pratidanam
Indo-Iranian languages and peoples
Pāli sūkara-maddava
Astuvāk ‘powerful’
The Cambridge History of Iran
The second volume describes the formation, in the sixth century BC, of the earliest multi-national empire, its administration, its confrontation with Greece, and its eventual dissolution under the impact of Alexander's conquest of Iran in 331 BC. This was a time of great importance in the history of the entire Middle East, and embraced figures of the stature of Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes. The sources for this period are more diverse than for any ot…
Durauzha the drink exhilarant
Two Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions
The Kharoṣṭhī inscription here published (in private possession) has been referred to me by an interested friend for a reading. The Kharoṣṭhī script, and the North-West Prakrit language written in it still remain problematic, so that as usual the following translation is preliminary. The accompanying photographs (Plates II and III) will offer specialists in Kharoṣṭhī the necessary basis for study. The inscription is on the halo of a standing Budd…
Maka
Ethnical and geographical names are found in Iranian from a base mak - with three suffixes, -a-, -u-, -i- , in maka - (Old Persian maka -, , with possibly maku - in makurastān, makurān , and before -i-, mači - in Old Pers. mačiya - These names are widely separated in three regions in ancient Iran
Dictionary of Khotan Saka
A Kharoṣṭrī inscription of Seṇavarma, king of Oḍi
This inscription, in private possession, is on gold, seven centimetres long bearing fourteen lines in Kharoṣṭrī script with some 100 syllables ( aḳsaras ) to a line. Its importance as containing a date of a king of Oḍi and a reference to the Kušān Emperor Kuyula Kataphśa has made me willing, though no specialist in Kharoṣṭrī texts, to prepare the following transliteration, preliminary translation and comment
Professor Georg Morgenstierne
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North Iranian problems
The vocabulary of Khotan Saka of ancient Khotan, Gostana-deśa of Buddhist Sanskrit, has a large fund of basic words; for the philosophy of Buddhism too they made full use of the Buddhist Sanskrit vocabulary, beside a number of north-western Prakrit forms. Many words, however, stand isolated. Their meanings are indeed often assured by bilingual texts or parallel passages in Buddhist literature, but other words are translated speculatively from con…
Two Kharoṣṭhī casket inscriptions from Avaca
These two caskets, relic bowls, with Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions in North-western Prakrit (Gandhārī) are in the collection of Professor Samuel Eilenberg. The larger casket (Plates I–IV) of dark grey steatite is in height 10.8 cm. with seven inscribed lines, the smaller casket (Plate V) of lighter grey steatite, 7 cm. with three lines. They are of Buddhist origin and similar to the Bajaur casket published by N. G. Majumdar in Epigraphia Indica , XXIV, …
Indian sÍndhu-, Iranian hindu
The problem of the Iranian hindu- in the mountain name Us.hәndava and Old Indian síndhu- has already been subjected to frequent investigation. Up to 1972 these earlier interpretations are listed in M. Mayrhofer, Kurzgefasstes etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindischen, Lief. 23, 1972, s.v. síndhu-. Accepting a basic meaning 'flowing water', connexions have been offered with syandate 'it flows' from the time of Yāska till today, assumed as a varia…
Sad-dharma-puṇdarīka-sūtra
Taklamakan miscellany
To do honour to my old friend Walter Simon I have put together here five documents from Central Asia. These are: (1) the photograph of the Turkish text in Khotan Saka script; (2) a Tibetan letter in Khotan Saka script; (3) pieces of document from Kuci (Kucha) inscribed with Kharoṣṭhī and Brahml script; (4) a fragment of Khotan Saka containing the word bisīvrai; and (5) three Tibetan documents with Khotan Saka words
A Half-Century of Irano-Indian Studies
On this my first occasion of lecturing to the Society I have a more light-hearted theme to treat than the solemn lecturer on an obscure problem. The emphasis on the first part of Irano-Indian in the title of this brief allocution is for the Iranian tinged with Indian and excluding the Arabian content of Islam. The interaction of these two disciplines, Iranian and Indian, has been constant since the 18th century when the sacred book of the Zoroast…
Saka Studies
Vāsta
Tokharika
In the Učenye Zapiski , XVI (1958), 280–308, the late V. S. Vorobiev-Desiatovsky published facsimiles of some Central Asian fragments preserved in Leningrad. One fragment contained a bilingual text, a traveller's guide, a type familiar elsewhere in Saka of Khotan, in Buddhist Sanskrit and Saka; and also in Chinese and Saka. The two languages in the new fragment were Buddhist Sanskrit and Kuchean, the language of ancient Kuci, modern Kucha, the so…
Saka Documents
Avesta and Saka
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Indo-Scythian Studies, being Khotanese Texts, Vol. VI
Altun Khan
Though the linguistic interest for Indo-Iranian predominates in the study of the texts from Gostana-dea (Khotan), the contents offer also considerable materials for closer understanding of pre-Muslim Chinese Turkistan in Central Asia
The Sudhana Poem Of Ṛddhiprabhāva
In the Saka language of Gostana (Khotan) three manuscripts contain a metrical version of the Buddhist avadāna of Sudhana. These texts were printed in my Khotanese Buddhist texts (1951). Two, Ch. 00266 and P 2025 (with P 4089a), are two copies of one text. The third text, P 2957, differs markedly in phrases, in additional verses, and in orthography; it is in a less developed form of the language
Dictionary of Khotan Saka
Khotanese Buddhist Texts
Iranian Studies
In the Bahman Yašt, ii, 49, there is an interesting list of geographical names. The readings of two MSS. of the Pahlavi Text as well as the Pāzand version (unhappily Pāzand far inferior to that of the Mēnōkē χrat) are available, the Pahlavi in the facsimile of K 20 (fol. 135 recto, 1. 4 et seq.) published by the University of Copenhagen, 1931, and the edition of Dastūr Nosherwān Kaikobād Ādarbād, The Pahlvi Zand i Vôhûman Yasht, 1899, a copy of a…
Gāndhārī
The word Gāndhārī has been chosen to head this study as a term sufficiently wide in its scope to embrace the forms of the one Middle Indian dialect of the north-west of India, centred in the old Gāndhāra region, around modern Peshawar, and which we meet in most varied sources. Under this name I propose to include those inscriptions of Aśoka which are recorded at Shahbazgaṛhi and Mansehra in the Kharoṣṭhī script, the vehicle for the remains of muc…
Hvatanica III
The Sanskrit-Khotanese bilingual text edited in this study is contained in the manuscript fonds Pelliot 5538. Since we are still seriously in need of bilingual texts in the elucidation of Khotanese problems, the present short text is welcome. I am deeply indebted to Professor Paul Pelliot who has most kindly and courteously given me permission to read and to publish Khotanese manuscripts of his collection. I was able during the Christmas vacation…
A Kharoṣṭrī inscription of Seṇavarma, king of Oḍi
This inscription, in private possession, is on gold, seven centimetres long bearing fourteen lines in Kharoṣṭrī script with some 100 syllables ( aḳsaras ) to a line. Its importance as containing a date of a king of Oḍi and a reference to the Kušān Emperor Kuyula Kataphśa has made me willing, though no specialist in Kharoṣṭrī texts, to prepare the following transliteration, preliminary translation and comment
Saka Studies
Ttaugara
STEIN MS. Ch. 00269 is a report byhaḍa("), who call themselvesñaśa bīsa(" humble servants"), on behalf of sevenrispura(" princes "). It consists of 120 lines, but of that a considerable part cannot yet be translated. The report is concerned with the cities of Ṣacū and Kaṃmicū. Danger from robbers is reported and an investment of the city of Kaṃmicū, so that food and cattle are lacking
Indo-Seythian Studies, Being Khotanese Texts
Prologus Bibliography List of abbreviations 1. Argi and Kuci 2. Cimuda 3. Cimgga 4. Dum 5. Erma 6. Hara 7. Hinduva 8. Huna 9. Hve:hvu:ra 10. Kaspara 11. Kharostri 12. Khyesa 13. Kirkut 14. Prusava 15. Saka 16. Suli 17. Supiya 18. Svarnagotra 19. Ttamgata 20. Ttamhatta 21. Ttasika 22. Ttattara 23. Ttulisa 24. Tturka 25. Gara Epilogus Index
The word "But" in Iranian
An important passage which has often been treated, but not so far satisfactorily, is found on page 186 of the Iranian text of the Bundahišn, lines 11-12,that is, but dēv ān kē-š pat Hindūkān paristēnd api-š vaχš pat ān butīhā mēhmān čēegōn bōδˇāsaf paristēt: "the demon But is that which they worship in India and in his images a spirit is resident which is worshipped as Bōδāsaf
Two Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions
The Kharoṣṭhī inscription here published (in private possession) has been referred to me by an interested friend for a reading. The Kharoṣṭhī script, and the North-West Prakrit language written in it still remain problematic, so that as usual the following translation is preliminary. The accompanying photographs (Plates II and III) will offer specialists in Kharoṣṭhī the necessary basis for study. The inscription is on the halo of a standing Budd…
Taklamakan miscellany
To do honour to my old friend Walter Simon I have put together here five documents from Central Asia. These are: (1) the photograph of the Turkish text in Khotan Saka script; (2) a Tibetan letter in Khotan Saka script; (3) pieces of document from Kuci (Kucha) inscribed with Kharoṣṭhī and Brahml script; (4) a fragment of Khotan Saka containing the word bisīvrai; and (5) three Tibetan documents with Khotan Saka words
Arya IV
Older Khotanese Saka has the wordjsei'ṇa-, jseiṇa-, jsäṇa-, superlativejsei'ndama-, later Khotanesejseiṇa-, jsaiṇa-, jseṇa-, jseṃṇa-, jsiṃṇa-, jsiṇa-'small', of size rendering Sansk
Iranica et vedica
I R A N I C A ET VEDICA by H. W. BAILEY Cambridge 1. IRANIAN SAGRA-, OLD INDIAN ~AGM.4- An Iranian base sag- "be content, satiated" could be established on the evidence o f three dialect forms. In the fragmentary Pahlavi Psalter 1 the word sgly *sagra- used with the verbs batan and kartan means "satiated", this being assured by its employ three times to translate Syriac sb' "satiatus e s t ' . The three passages are as follows: Psalm 122.3-4 M H …
Kusanica
1. From the period of the rule of the Kuṣāṇa family of the Saka kings cor three inscriptions from Mathurā. Of the first two neither is completely preserved, but in both a word bakanapati is unmistakably present. The first inscription is of the time of the mahārāja rājātirāja devaputra Huviṣka. The second inscription written on a pedestal seems to contain the name Vima, and this by both K. P. Jayaswal and Mme van Lohuizen de Leeuw is considered to…
The Tumshuq Karmavācanā
In the Journal Asiatique for 1941–2 my friend the late Professor Sten Konow published an article entitled Une nouvelle forme aberrante de khotanais . This new type of Iranian is contained in the document P 410 brought back by the late Paul Pelliot from Tumšq, a ruined site near the modern Maralbashi. For the study of the history of this region all the materials, unfortunately often fragmentary, which the various expeditions have recovered for us …
Yazdi
WHILE I was in Isfahān at the end of June, 1932, a young of Yazd, came to see me before going on to his school in Shīrāz. We met four times, and before leaving he requested an acquaintance of his, a young man, Qobād, who was visiting Isfahān, to come to see me. Qobād's home was with his parents in Teheran, so that he had little opportunity to use this dialect. In August of the same year I was able to visit Yazd for one week, and there found a you…
North Iranian problems
The vocabulary of Khotan Saka of ancient Khotan, Gostana-deśa of Buddhist Sanskrit, has a large fund of basic words; for the philosophy of Buddhism too they made full use of the Buddhist Sanskrit vocabulary, beside a number of north-western Prakrit forms. Many words, however, stand isolated. Their meanings are indeed often assured by bilingual texts or parallel passages in Buddhist literature, but other words are translated speculatively from con…
Two Kharoṣṭhī casket inscriptions from Avaca
These two caskets, relic bowls, with Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions in North-western Prakrit (Gandhārī) are in the collection of Professor Samuel Eilenberg. The larger casket (Plates I–IV) of dark grey steatite is in height 10.8 cm. with seven inscribed lines, the smaller casket (Plate V) of lighter grey steatite, 7 cm. with three lines. They are of Buddhist origin and similar to the Bajaur casket published by N. G. Majumdar in Epigraphia Indica , XXIV, …
Indo-Scythian Studies, being Khotanese Texts, Vol. VI
Altun Khan
Though the linguistic interest for Indo-Iranian predominates in the study of the texts from Gostana-dea (Khotan), the contents offer also considerable materials for closer understanding of pre-Muslim Chinese Turkistan in Central Asia
Dvārā Matīnām
As one reads through the Rigveda the āyú- stand out challenging attention. They are vīprās (8.12.13) and belong to the antiquity of the poets (9.10.6; 9.23.2 prtnasa āyávaḥ). Their activities are clearly to some extent identical with those of the kārú- officials. They even share one verse with these in RV 9.10.6 āpa dvrā matīnm pratn ṛṇvanti kārávaḥ hárasa āyávaḥ 'the ancient kārú- officiants (and) the āyú- officiants have opened the gates of the…
Indo‐iranian Studies—iii
The Seven Princes
The following few pages, dedicated to Dr. L. D. Barnett in memory of many A kindnesses, may call up for a brief moment the forgotten princes, the acaryas, Buddhist teachers, who in the tenth century on their way between Khotan and China were plundered and distracted by the Turks who met them on their way. They are religious teachers and have no enemies, said their guides to the Turks. The short text forms part of the Buddhist legacy of India to C…
Irano-Indica
In a recent lecture to the Philological Society (now in the press, and to appear in the Transactions, 1947) I had occasion to quote a Central Asian ethnic name Ttaudägara-. The one passage where this name has been found is in the Khotanese manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale numbered P 2741. I had prepared this text for publication in 1942, but it remains still unprinted. I therefore print it here since a controversy may be expected over thi…
Iranica
An important difference between the North-Western and South-Western Middle Iranian dialects consists in the correspondence of North-Western -ḥ- to South-Western - d - (that is -δ-), beside - y
To the Zāmāsp-Nāmak. I
I Give below a portion of the Pahlavi Žāmāsp-Nāmak with notes. The text is easily accessible in J. J. Modi's Jâmâspi, Pahlavi Pâzend and Persian Texts, 1903, Bombay, and, for a part only, in West's edition in Avesta, Pahlavi, and Ancient Persian Studies, 1904. It has, therefore, seemed unnecessary to reprint the Pahlavi. West used a MS., entitled DP., of the late Shams ul Ulama Dastur Dr. Peshotanji Behramji Sanjana (West, loc. cit.), for the oth…
Kumzari Dimestan
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Three Pahlavi Notes
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Būm-Čandak
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The word "But" in Iranian
An important passage which has often been treated, but not so far satisfactorily, is found on page 186 of the Iranian text of the Bundahišn, lines 11-12,that is, but dēv ān kē-š pat Hindūkān paristēnd api-š vaχš pat ān butīhā mēhmān čēegōn bōδˇāsaf paristēt: "the demon But is that which they worship in India and in his images a spirit is resident which is worshipped as Bōδāsaf
To the Zamasp Namak II
The apocalypse proceeds to describe three episodes of rulers who are to appear respectively in .XVarāsān, NēmrōČ, and PatašXvārgar and to be followed by the coming of Pišyōθn, son of Vištāsp. The language touches that of the Bahman Yašt at many points. Religious views are closely interwoven. The "Xvarr of PatašXvārgar" is of interest, as are also the revelation of many mysteries by Mihr Yazd,and Mihr's conflict with Ēšm. The druž Vat-yavakān seem…
Pdšqyrd
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Iranian Studies
In the Bahman Yašt, ii, 49, there is an interesting list of geographical names. The readings of two MSS. of the Pahlavi Text as well as the Pāzand version (unhappily Pāzand far inferior to that of the Mēnōkē χrat) are available, the Pahlavi in the facsimile of K 20 (fol. 135 recto, 1. 4 et seq.) published by the University of Copenhagen, 1931, and the edition of Dastūr Nosherwān Kaikobād Ādarbād, The Pahlvi Zand i Vôhûman Yasht, 1899, a copy of a…
Iranian Studies II
A passage of the tale of Husrav and the Page ( Pahl. Texts , pp. 29-30, in Unvala's edition, § 30) may form the starting-point for a discussion of kavāt . It has not so far been fully translated
Iranica (II)
The Latin strāta is one of the words of culture which passed to the East. Greek has στρτα Aramaic has srṭy ' Levy, Chaldäisches Wb. , Dalman, Aram, nhebr. Wb. , with plural srṭyn , as also the form ' sṭrṭy ' in the same sense. For Syriac is quoted (Brockelmann, Lex. Syr. ) ' sṭrṭ . Arabic has ṣirāṭ in the eschatological al-ṣirāṭu 'l-mustaqīmu of the Qur'ān. A similar narrow bridge is well known in the Zoroastrian činvatō pərəntuš of the Avesta
Iranian Studies III
It is so published that injury that comes upon the fruits lies upon the holder of the pledge, that which comes upon the stock, lies upon the farmer."For the interpretation of graβakāndār, bar and bun, one may refer to Bartholomae, MM., 1, 14
Codices Avestici et Pahlavici Bibliothecae Universitatis Hafniensis. Vols. III, IV. The Pahlavi Codex K. 35. Copenhagen
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Iranian Studies V
The task of publishing the Khotanese Saka texts of the India Office and the British Museum, on which I am engaged, is likely to be long protracted. It therefore seems advisable to make known as soon as possible a list of the words for which parallel texts guarantee the meanings in Tibetan, Chinese, or Sanskrit. Most of the following words are from the Siddhasāra-śāstra of Ravigupta, of which there are extant sixty-five folios. The Tibetan is to b…
A Fragment of the Uttaratantra in Sanskrit
Ch. 47 is an incomplete roll of the Stein collection at the India Office, measuring 130 X 31 cm. The accompanying photograph shows the roll except the lower part (32 cm.) containing six short vertical lines (a business account) in Chinese, the last 10 cm. being blank. The reverse of the roll contains the Chinese version of the Aparimitāyuh Sūtra, and one line in Tibetan script
Iranian Studies IV
Corresponding to Av. anra-, angra-, the Pahlavi has the word (occurring also with the doubledotted ). Numerous explanations had already been proposed when Bartholomae, Zur Kenntnis der mitteliranischen Mundarten, i, 1916, 18 ff., discussed the word more fully than had till then been done. He concluded that the Pāzand ganā was ùntrustworthy, rejected Spiegel's explanation of gan- as equivalent to zan-, equally Darmesteter's zanāk, his own earlier …
A Brāhmī Akṣara
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Yazdi
WHILE I was in Isfahān at the end of June, 1932, a young of Yazd, came to see me before going on to his school in Shīrāz. We met four times, and before leaving he requested an acquaintance of his, a young man, Qobād, who was visiting Isfahān, to come to see me. Qobād's home was with his parents in Teheran, so that he had little opportunity to use this dialect. In August of the same year I was able to visit Yazd for one week, and there found a you…
Ein Manichäisches Bet- und Beichtbuch. Von Dr. W. Henning. Abhandlungder Preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin
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Die Alten Arier
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Hvatanica
It has seemed desirable to make known at once certain information of interest to Central Asian studies contained in Khotan texts of the British Museum and India Office. This information may here be conveniently grouped under the heads (1) the animal cycle of twelve years, (2) the names of the months and seasons in Khotan, (3) dates androyal names
Ttaugara
STEIN MS. Ch. 00269 is a report byhaḍa("), who call themselvesñaśa bīsa(" humble servants"), on behalf of sevenrispura(" princes "). It consists of 120 lines, but of that a considerable part cannot yet be translated. The report is concerned with the cities of Ṣacū and Kaṃmicū. Danger from robbers is reported and an investment of the city of Kaṃmicū, so that food and cattle are lacking
Indo-Turcica
In 1904 Dr. H. Stönner published as an appendix to a paper on Zentralasiatische Sanskrittexte in Brāhmīschrift aus Idikutšahri, Chinesisch-Turkistān, i, a short description of a fragment of Turkish in Brāhmi script containing forty lines of text with a Chinese text on the recto side. Its interest and importance for Turkish is evident. We have here a fully vocalized fragment of Turkish. It is therefore somewhat unexpected not to find more use made…
Hvatanica II
The present notes were suggested by the publication of the Glossary to the texts contained in the Khotanese MS. designated E by the late Professor E. Leumann.The Glossary has been awaited eagerly. Professor Ernst Leumann's work, as one of the pioneers in the study of the unknown languages of Central Asia, has already been warmly recognized. And to his son, Professor Manu Leumann, we owe the edition of the Glossary, and of the two previous parts c…
Hvatanica III
The Sanskrit-Khotanese bilingual text edited in this study is contained in the manuscript fonds Pelliot 5538. Since we are still seriously in need of bilingual texts in the elucidation of Khotanese problems, the present short text is welcome. I am deeply indebted to Professor Paul Pelliot who has most kindly and courteously given me permission to read and to publish Khotanese manuscripts of his collection. I was able during the Christmas vacation…
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