Arlo Griffiths
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arlo Griffiths |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arlo |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffiths |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITHS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | École Française d'Extrême-Orient |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-6088-6718 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
When, Where, and What were Janggala and Kadiri: Delimiting periods and territories in the early history of Java
Early Javanese history entered a new phase following Airlangga’s partition of his kingdom into Janggala and Kadiri, spanning 1052–1222 CE. The historiography of these two kingdoms remains largely obscure, owing to persistent confusions with regard to their duration, territorial extent, and designations. We revisit the work of earlier scholars and seek to establish a more definite understanding of when these kingdoms are visible in the historical …
Early Āndhradeśa: Historical Studies around the Epigraphic Corpus: Volume Two: Studies
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Maritime Links Between China, Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, and Buddhist Monasteries in India (c. 11th–12th Centuries) in the Light of Two Fragmentary Inscribed Strips of Copper from Muara Jambi
This article explores the maritime connections relating to Buddhism and diplomacy between polities in Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, the Indian subcontinent, and China from the beginning of the 11th century up to the 12th century CE. It focuses on new epigraphic evidence from Muara Jambi in the form of two inscribed strips of copper mentioning the Cūḍāmaṇivarmavihāra, a monastery funded by the king of Śrīvijaya in Nagapattinam (South India), and t…
The Wooden Beam (Dhadha Peksi) of the Lasem Jami Mosque: Traces of European Influence in an Early Modern Islamic Context
This study examines a carved and inscribed wooden beam, called Dhadha Peksi, which was once a structural component of Lasem’s historic mosque, now known as Masjid Jami, in Rembang Regency, Central Java. By analysing the beam’s enigmatic inscription and intricate floral motifs, this article explores several hypotheses regarding its dating. Through a comprehensive philological and art historical approach, this study demonstrates that the Dhadha Pek…
The earliest documents in Old Javanese
This short contribution presents two recently discovered inscriptions from Central Java that are among the oldest documents in the Old Javanese language, namely a dated stone from Kesongo (685 Śaka/743 CE) and the Disunuh inscription (709 Śaka/787 CE). These two artefacts constitute new evidence that Old Javanese had become a written language in this part of Java already in the eighth century CE. Previously, the period of use of Old Javanese in e…
A Buddhist Procession Inaugurated in a 7th-century Inscription from Óc Eo (K. 1426) and the Ancient Toponym Tamandarapura
This article presents a reading and translation of inscription K. 1426, discovered recently at the Óc Eo archeological site in the Mekong Delta. The stela, inscribed in Southeast Asian Brāhmī script typical of the 7th century, references King Jayavarman I (654–694 ce). Face A features Sanskrit stanzas detailing a royal grant to the Buddhist Sandalwood Monastery (Candanavihāra) for an annual Vaiśākha full moon procession and donations to support t…
Five Contributions to Pyu Studies: Introduction
The Talan Charter of Jayabhaya: A Kadiri-period Inscription Casting New Light on Airlangga’s Kingdom
The association of Jayabhaya (East Java, 12th century CE) with the prophecies known as Jangka Jayabaya has made this figure one of the most celebrated kings of ancient Java. While these prophecies seem to have no factual relation to the historical Jayabhaya, the epigraphic record of this king’s reign holds considerable potential for the historian of premodern Java. And yet the relevant inscriptions have attracted no sustained scholarly attention.…
Obituary: Werner Franz Knobl 1942–2023
Towards a Corpus of Inscriptions Issued during Airlangga’s Reign in Eastern Java: A Provisional Inventory and Four New Inscriptions
Constatant un déroutant mélange de faits et de fiction dans la réception historiographique du roi Airlangga (Java oriental, vers 1019-1052 de notre ère) alors qu’il existe d’abondantes sources primaires sous forme d’inscriptions qui demeurent inexplorées, les auteurs tentent dans cette contribution de jeter les bases nécessaires pour de futures recherches sur le règne d’Airlangga. Pour ce faire, ils dressent d’abord un inventaire des inscriptions…
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription: Tenth-Century Luzon, Java, and the Malay World
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its peoples, both in the homeland and overseas. It believes the past is illuminated by historians as well as scholars from other disciplines; at the same time, it prefers ethnographic approaches to the history of the present. It welcomes works that are theoret…
Old Sundanese Inscriptions: Renewing the Philological Approach
Old Sundanese inscriptions had already been studied by the end of the 19th century by the Dutch scholars, and post-Independence Indonesian scholars have continued to make occasional contributions. However, the epigraphic corpus still leaves many problems without a compelling solution, while the available editions are of uneven quality. This article’s objective is to present new editions of fifteen Old Sundanese inscriptions, based on direct readi…
The Sanskrit Inscription of Śaṅkara and Its Interpretation in the National History of Indonesia
It is a well-known fact that Sanskrit had a relatively shorter and less prolific lifespan in the epigraphy of Indonesia, particularly in the Javanese epigraphic record, than in that of other Southeast Asian regions. All the more precious, therefore, are the rare opportunities to add a Sanskrit inscription to the historical record of Java and learn more of how the Sanskrit language was deployed on the island to represent events recorded for poster…
Études du corpus des inscriptions du Campā, X. Le haut Campā de Gia Lai-Bình Định au XVe siècle selon les stèles de Tư Lương (C. 237) et du mont Man Lăng (C. 56)
Griffiths Arlo. Études du corpus des inscriptions du Campā, X. Le haut Campā de Gia Lai-Bình Định au XVe siècle selon les stèles de Tư Lương (C. 237) et du mont Man Lăng (C. 56). In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 106, 2020. pp. 363-377
Inscriptions of Sumatra, IV: An Epitaph from Pananggahan (Barus, North Sumatra) and a Poem from Lubuk Layang (Pasaman, West Sumatra)
This contribution presents two 14th-century inscriptions from the northwestern quadrant of Sumatra. Both are engraved on stone and in Indic script. Although both are composed largely of vocabulary borrowed from the Sanskrit language, presence of some specifically Malay words or forms makes it possible to classify them as being formulated in Old Malay. The first text, whose Śaka date is precisely convertible to 29 June 1350 CE, is engraved on a to…
Rediscovering an Old Javanese Inscription: Mpu Mano’s Donation in Favor of a Buddhist Dignitary in 888 Śaka
This paper furnishes a detailed philological analysis of an Old Javanese copper-plate inscription, dated 888 Śaka (966 ce), that was long considered lost but has been rediscovered during a survey of inscriptions kept in Dutch collections. The inscription, of which only the beginning is preserved, and that too only in the form of the first of a set of plates onto which it was copied in the 14th century ce, records a certain Mpu Mano’s donation in …
The International Intensive Courses in Old Javanese (2014–2019)
Old Javanese is the foremost classical language of Indonesia. Competence in this language provides access to a rich Indianized literary tradition and a wide epigraphic corpus covering the period from 800 to 1500 ce. But it is not regularly taught in any Western university, and no solid conditions for its study exist even in Indonesia. Given this state of affairs, the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) and the National Library of Indonesia (P…
Les bas-reliefs du Rāmāyaņa de la tour sud de Khương Mỹ
In 2000, a set of approximately ten bas-reliefs was discovered close to the southernmost of the three towers of the Khương Mỹ temple (Quảng Nam, Central Vietnam). Together they form the longest known sculpted narrative series in Campā dedicated to episodes of the Rāmāyaṇa. By critically comparing the images with Vālmīki’s text, it is possible to identify both the figures and the scenes found in two books of the epic, book III (Araṇyakāṇḍa) and bo…
Studies in Pyu Epigraphy, I: State of the Field, Edition and Analysis of the Kan Wet Khaung Mound Inscription, and Inventory of the Corpus
Au premier millénaire de notre ère, avant l’arrivée de l’ethnie birmane, le centre de la Birmanie abrita un important système urbain. Les chercheurs comme le grand public connaissent sa culture sous le nom « Pyu ». Les traces écrites des Pyus prennent la forme d’inscriptions sur pierre ou d’autres supports, rédigées en trois langues, chacune dotée de son propre type de graphie indienne. Le pyu, langue vernaculaire de la famille sino-tibétaine, do…
Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa: Results of fieldwork in January and February 2016
Baums Stefan, Griffiths Arlo, Strauch Ingo, Tournier Vincent. Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa: Results of fieldwork in January and February 2016. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 102, 2016. pp. 355-398
Three More Sanskrit Inscriptions of Arakan: New Perspectives on Its Name, Dynastic History, and Buddhist Culture in the First Millennium
The earliest phase of Arakan history, between about the fifth and the tenth centuries, has to be written on the basis of inscriptions and related material such as coins bearing Sanskrit texts, as well as sculpture and architecture. These show Arakan to have had strong ties to Southeastern Bengal (the Samataṭa and Harikela regions) and beyond this with the Buddhist communities of Northeastern India using Sanskrit as preferential medium of expressi…
Un vase khmer inscrit de la fin du XIe siècle (K. 1296)
Vincent Brice, Griffiths Arlo. Un vase khmer inscrit de la fin du XIe siècle (K. 1296). In: Arts asiatiques, tome 69, 2014. pp. 115-128
Ancient Indonesian Ritual Utensils and their Inscriptions: Bells and Slitdrums
Lunsingh Scheurleer Pauline, Griffiths Arlo. Ancient Indonesian Ritual Utensils and their Inscriptions: Bells and Slitdrums. In: Arts asiatiques, tome 69, 2014. pp. 129-150
The Romanisation of Indic Script Used in Ancient Indonesia
The paper calls the attention of Javanists, and Indonesianists at large, to theoretical as well as practical issues connected with conventions for the Romanisation of Old Javanese, Old Malay, Old Sundanese and other Indonesian languages which were traditionally written in Indic scripts, and underscores the difference between transliteration, on the one hand, and transcription or orthography (‘spelling’) on the other. In doing so, it replies to th…
Written traces of the Buddhist past: MantrasandDhāraṇīs in Indonesian inscriptions
This article examines a group of ten Indonesian inscriptions citing a range ofgāthās,mantras anddhāraṇīs. The texts, contextualized and in some cases read and identified for the first time, underline the pan-Asian character of Buddhism and the integral place the Indonesian archipelago once held in the ancient Buddhist world. The identification of the sources of several of these texts in known Sanskrit scriptures raises the question whether some o…
The Romanisation of Indic Script Used in Ancient Indonesia
The paper calls the attention of Javanists, and Indonesianists at large, to theoretical as well as practical issues connected with conventions for the Romanisation of Old Javanese, Old Malay, Old Sundanese and other Indonesian languages which were traditionally written in Indic scripts, and underscores the difference between transliteration, on the one hand, and transcription or orthography (‘spelling’) on the other. In doing so, it replies to th…
The Problem of the Ancient Name Java and the Role of Satyavarman in Southeast Asian International Relations Around the Turn of the Ninth Century CE
One of the most familiar narratives of ancient Southeast Asian history is the account of how Cambodian king Jayavarman II liberated his country from Javā, and consequently declared himself emperor in the year 802 CE. These events and this year are widely considered to represent the beginning of the Angkorian “ empire”. Recent years have seen several new scholarly contributions questioning parts of this narrative. One issue is the very historicity…
Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa: Results of fieldwork in January and February 2016
Baums Stefan, Griffiths Arlo, Strauch Ingo, Tournier Vincent. Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa: Results of fieldwork in January and February 2016. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 102, 2016. pp. 355-398
The Pāśsupata Observance ( Atharvavedapariśsista 40)
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Written traces of the Buddhist past: MantrasandDhāraṇīs in Indonesian inscriptions
This article examines a group of ten Indonesian inscriptions citing a range ofgāthās,mantras anddhāraṇīs. The texts, contextualized and in some cases read and identified for the first time, underline the pan-Asian character of Buddhism and the integral place the Indonesian archipelago once held in the ancient Buddhist world. The identification of the sources of several of these texts in known Sanskrit scriptures raises the question whether some o…
Inscriptions of Sumatra: Further Data on the Epigraphy of the Musi and Batang Hari Rivers Basins
This is a review article of a catalogue of Sumatra inscriptions, recently published in Indonesia. After some remarks on this catalogue, the article presents details about twelve (groups of) inscriptions originating from the Musi and Batang Hari rivers basins, in the provinces of South Sumatra, Jambi and West Sumatra. Some items offer additional information (especially readings and translations) for entries in the catalogue, but most of them prese…
Inscriptions of Sumatra, IV: An Epitaph from Pananggahan (Barus, North Sumatra) and a Poem from Lubuk Layang (Pasaman, West Sumatra)
This contribution presents two 14th-century inscriptions from the northwestern quadrant of Sumatra. Both are engraved on stone and in Indic script. Although both are composed largely of vocabulary borrowed from the Sanskrit language, presence of some specifically Malay words or forms makes it possible to classify them as being formulated in Old Malay. The first text, whose Śaka date is precisely convertible to 29 June 1350 CE, is engraved on a to…
The epigraphical collection of Museum Ranggawarsita in Semarang (Central Java, Indonesia)
This article present the epigraphical collection of Museum Ranggawarsita, the provincial museum of Central Java province, in Semarang. Some of these were entirely unstudied, others had been published only in inaccessible media, and yet others had been reported when they were still in situ, without any reading or translation being offered. Several belong to the important assemblage of probably 7th century inscriptions from sites at the Javanese no…
Six Passages in Callimachus and the Anthology
Journal Article SIX PASSAGES IN CALLIMACHUS AND THE ANTHOLOGY Get access A. H. Griffiths A. H. Griffiths University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1, December 1970, Pages 32–43, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1970.tb00080.x Published: 12 March 2010
A Buddhist Procession Inaugurated in a 7th-century Inscription from Óc Eo (K. 1426) and the Ancient Toponym Tamandarapura
This article presents a reading and translation of inscription K. 1426, discovered recently at the Óc Eo archeological site in the Mekong Delta. The stela, inscribed in Southeast Asian Brāhmī script typical of the 7th century, references King Jayavarman I (654–694 ce). Face A features Sanskrit stanzas detailing a royal grant to the Buddhist Sandalwood Monastery (Candanavihāra) for an annual Vaiśākha full moon procession and donations to support t…
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription: Tenth-Century Luzon, Java, and the Malay World
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its peoples, both in the homeland and overseas. It believes the past is illuminated by historians as well as scholars from other disciplines; at the same time, it prefers ethnographic approaches to the history of the present. It welcomes works that are theoret…
Studies in Pyu Epigraphy, I: State of the Field, Edition and Analysis of the Kan Wet Khaung Mound Inscription, and Inventory of the Corpus
Au premier millénaire de notre ère, avant l’arrivée de l’ethnie birmane, le centre de la Birmanie abrita un important système urbain. Les chercheurs comme le grand public connaissent sa culture sous le nom « Pyu ». Les traces écrites des Pyus prennent la forme d’inscriptions sur pierre ou d’autres supports, rédigées en trois langues, chacune dotée de son propre type de graphie indienne. Le pyu, langue vernaculaire de la famille sino-tibétaine, do…
La stèle d'installation de Śrī Tribhuneśvara
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Six Passages in Callimachus and the Anthology
Journal Article SIX PASSAGES IN CALLIMACHUS AND THE ANTHOLOGY Get access A. H. Griffiths A. H. Griffiths University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 17, Issue 1, December 1970, Pages 32–43, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1970.tb00080.x Published: 12 March 2010
Postscript on Vedic jan̮gahe
Dans un precedent volume, le terme vedique jangahe avait ete presente comme etant un intensificateur de la racine gandh- (sentir, avoir une odeur). Cette forme n'est attestee qu'a trois reprises. Bien que les deux premiers passages laissent le doute sur sa signification, les manuscrits de l'Orissa du texte revise de l'Atharva Veda, actuellement disponibles, offrent la preuve definitive de sa signification. Les auteurs presentent dans cet article …
The Pāśsupata Observance ( Atharvavedapariśsista 40)
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The Textual Divisions of the Paippalāda Samhitā
tory of transmission and belong to various schools of tradition. The textual divisions – the places where they are made, the names they are given – are an integral part of the tradition, being among those marks that distinguish individual schools from each other, and as such are in themselves object of indological enquiry. 2 In the second place: given the way Vedic ritual manuals refer to mantras to be recited during the rituals, and given the im…
La stèle d'installation de Śrī Tribhuneśvara
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La stèle d'installation de Śrī Satyadeveśvara
Publication et traduction d’une inscription sanskrite du Campā decouverte en 1993 a Phu’o’c Thien, dans le district de Ninh Phu’o’c au Vietnam. La stele, datee de 705 ere śaka, soit 784 de notre ere, commemore l’installation par le roi Satyavarman d’un linga a visage (mukhalinga). Le contexte historique est reconstitue par comparaison avec la stele de Satyavarman du temple de Po Nagar a Nha Trang (inscription C38). L’inscription est suivie d’un c…
Lectures du livre X de la Paippalādasaṃhitā de l'Atharvaveda
Les quatre conférences du directeur d’études invité ont porté sur le livre X de la Paippalādasaṃhitā de l’Atharvaveda, un texte de première importance dans l’ensemble de la littérature védique. La première conférence, consacrée à des généralités sur le texte et la structure que les rédacteurs lui ont donnée, a permis de rappeler les multiples genres et textes de la littérature atharvavédique et de souligner la grande disparité entre ses deux é…
Imagine Laṅkapura at Prambanan
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Inscriptions of Sumatra: Further Data on the Epigraphy of the Musi and Batang Hari Rivers Basins
This is a review article of a catalogue of Sumatra inscriptions, recently published in Indonesia. After some remarks on this catalogue, the article presents details about twelve (groups of) inscriptions originating from the Musi and Batang Hari rivers basins, in the provinces of South Sumatra, Jambi and West Sumatra. Some items offer additional information (especially readings and translations) for entries in the catalogue, but most of them prese…
Inscriptions of Sumatra; II. Short epigraphs in Old Javanese
This article documents the existence of inscriptions using Old Javanese language on the island of Sumatra, by editing three short epigraphs, the first of which has previously been published but never satisfactorily interpreted, while the remaining two have not yet been published at all. However short these texts are in themselves, they raise interesting questions about the cultural, commercial, political, and linguistic connections between Java a…
The epigraphical collection of Museum Ranggawarsita in Semarang (Central Java, Indonesia)
This article present the epigraphical collection of Museum Ranggawarsita, the provincial museum of Central Java province, in Semarang. Some of these were entirely unstudied, others had been published only in inaccessible media, and yet others had been reported when they were still in situ, without any reading or translation being offered. Several belong to the important assemblage of probably 7th century inscriptions from sites at the Javanese no…
An Inscribed Bronze Sculpture of a Buddha in bhadrāsana at Museum Ranggawarsita in Semarang (Central Java, Indonesia)
Une délicate sculpture de Buddha en bronze (ca. IXe siècle), provenant de Rejoso, près du Candi Plaosan dans la province de Java Centre, fut récemment trouvée dans les réserves du musée Ranggawarsita à Semarang. Le Buddha est assis en bhadrāsana, la posture avec les deux jambes pendantes, et les deux mains en dharmacakramudrā, soit un type iconographique fréquent en Asie du Sud et à Java au cours de la deuxième moitié du premier millénaire. Ce br…
Études du Corpus des inscriptions du Campā. V. The Short Foundation Inscriptions of Prakāśadharman-Vikrāntavarman, King of Campā
The string of territories called Campā, lying in what is today Vietnam, has yielded about two hundred and fifty inscriptions spanning over ten centuries, from ca. 400 well into the fifteenth century ce . These inscriptions have not yet drawn much attention from the point of view of the shared religious history of South and Southeast Asia. In the present contribution, we focus on a group of seven short Sanskrit inscriptions issued by a king named …
The Problem of the Ancient Name Java and the Role of Satyavarman in Southeast Asian International Relations Around the Turn of the Ninth Century CE
One of the most familiar narratives of ancient Southeast Asian history is the account of how Cambodian king Jayavarman II liberated his country from Javā, and consequently declared himself emperor in the year 802 CE. These events and this year are widely considered to represent the beginning of the Angkorian “ empire”. Recent years have seen several new scholarly contributions questioning parts of this narrative. One issue is the very historicity…
Un vase khmer inscrit de la fin du XIe siècle (K. 1296)
Vincent Brice, Griffiths Arlo. Un vase khmer inscrit de la fin du XIe siècle (K. 1296). In: Arts asiatiques, tome 69, 2014. pp. 115-128
Ancient Indonesian Ritual Utensils and their Inscriptions: Bells and Slitdrums
Lunsingh Scheurleer Pauline, Griffiths Arlo. Ancient Indonesian Ritual Utensils and their Inscriptions: Bells and Slitdrums. In: Arts asiatiques, tome 69, 2014. pp. 129-150
The Romanisation of Indic Script Used in Ancient Indonesia
The paper calls the attention of Javanists, and Indonesianists at large, to theoretical as well as practical issues connected with conventions for the Romanisation of Old Javanese, Old Malay, Old Sundanese and other Indonesian languages which were traditionally written in Indic scripts, and underscores the difference between transliteration, on the one hand, and transcription or orthography (‘spelling’) on the other. In doing so, it replies to th…
Written traces of the Buddhist past: MantrasandDhāraṇīs in Indonesian inscriptions
This article examines a group of ten Indonesian inscriptions citing a range ofgāthās,mantras anddhāraṇīs. The texts, contextualized and in some cases read and identified for the first time, underline the pan-Asian character of Buddhism and the integral place the Indonesian archipelago once held in the ancient Buddhist world. The identification of the sources of several of these texts in known Sanskrit scriptures raises the question whether some o…
Three More Sanskrit Inscriptions of Arakan: New Perspectives on Its Name, Dynastic History, and Buddhist Culture in the First Millennium
The earliest phase of Arakan history, between about the fifth and the tenth centuries, has to be written on the basis of inscriptions and related material such as coins bearing Sanskrit texts, as well as sculpture and architecture. These show Arakan to have had strong ties to Southeastern Bengal (the Samataṭa and Harikela regions) and beyond this with the Buddhist communities of Northeastern India using Sanskrit as preferential medium of expressi…
Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa: Results of fieldwork in January and February 2016
Baums Stefan, Griffiths Arlo, Strauch Ingo, Tournier Vincent. Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa: Results of fieldwork in January and February 2016. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 102, 2016. pp. 355-398
Les bas-reliefs du Rāmāyaņa de la tour sud de Khương Mỹ
In 2000, a set of approximately ten bas-reliefs was discovered close to the southernmost of the three towers of the Khương Mỹ temple (Quảng Nam, Central Vietnam). Together they form the longest known sculpted narrative series in Campā dedicated to episodes of the Rāmāyaṇa. By critically comparing the images with Vālmīki’s text, it is possible to identify both the figures and the scenes found in two books of the epic, book III (Araṇyakāṇḍa) and bo…
Studies in Pyu Epigraphy, I: State of the Field, Edition and Analysis of the Kan Wet Khaung Mound Inscription, and Inventory of the Corpus
Au premier millénaire de notre ère, avant l’arrivée de l’ethnie birmane, le centre de la Birmanie abrita un important système urbain. Les chercheurs comme le grand public connaissent sa culture sous le nom « Pyu ». Les traces écrites des Pyus prennent la forme d’inscriptions sur pierre ou d’autres supports, rédigées en trois langues, chacune dotée de son propre type de graphie indienne. Le pyu, langue vernaculaire de la famille sino-tibétaine, do…
The International Intensive Courses in Old Javanese (2014–2019)
Old Javanese is the foremost classical language of Indonesia. Competence in this language provides access to a rich Indianized literary tradition and a wide epigraphic corpus covering the period from 800 to 1500 ce. But it is not regularly taught in any Western university, and no solid conditions for its study exist even in Indonesia. Given this state of affairs, the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) and the National Library of Indonesia (P…
Études du corpus des inscriptions du Campā, X. Le haut Campā de Gia Lai-Bình Định au XVe siècle selon les stèles de Tư Lương (C. 237) et du mont Man Lăng (C. 56)
Griffiths Arlo. Études du corpus des inscriptions du Campā, X. Le haut Campā de Gia Lai-Bình Định au XVe siècle selon les stèles de Tư Lương (C. 237) et du mont Man Lăng (C. 56). In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 106, 2020. pp. 363-377
Inscriptions of Sumatra, IV: An Epitaph from Pananggahan (Barus, North Sumatra) and a Poem from Lubuk Layang (Pasaman, West Sumatra)
This contribution presents two 14th-century inscriptions from the northwestern quadrant of Sumatra. Both are engraved on stone and in Indic script. Although both are composed largely of vocabulary borrowed from the Sanskrit language, presence of some specifically Malay words or forms makes it possible to classify them as being formulated in Old Malay. The first text, whose Śaka date is precisely convertible to 29 June 1350 CE, is engraved on a to…
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