R E Emmerick
Biographic Data
| ID | 3662335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R E Emmerick |
| GIVEN NAMES | R E |
| FAMILY NAME | Emmerick |
| SIGNATURE | EMMERICK R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A guide to the literature of Khotan
Khotanese birre
In the Khotanese Sudhana story it is related that Sudhana will come upon a rākṣasī and must slay her with his sword. The Khotanese text reads at this point kāḍara jse vara ṣṭau raysga vīra jsanauña (Ch 00266.178–9 KBT 28) = kāḍąrinai vara ṣṭāṃ raysgi vī jsan ñä (P 2957.118 KBT 37), which Sir Harold Bailey rendered “There he must promptly slay her with his sword” ( BSOAS XXIX, no. 3, 1966, 512). MS. P. 4089a presents a variant reading for this lin…
Tibetan nor-ra-re
The late Walter Simon discussed the Tibetan particle re in two important articles published in this journal: 'The Tibetan particle re' (BSOAS, xxx, 1, 1967, 117-26) and 'Tibetan re in its wider context' (BSOAS, xxxi, 3, 1968, 555-62
Saka grammatical studies
Studies in the vocabulary of Khotanese, 1
Buddhism Among Iranian Peoples
The historical Buddha, Śākyamuni, lived in north-east India in the 6th to 5th century b.c. He died at the age of eighty in about 483 b.c. , leaving no written records of his teaching. At that time, northern India was dominated by the kingdoms Avanti, Kosala, Vatsa and Magadha. In the north-west, Gandhāra was a province of the Achaemenian empire. In the 4th century the Achaemenian empire fell to the all-conquering Alexander, who came in person to …
The Iranian Settlements to the East of the Pamirs
In the case of one Iranian settlement in Central Asia that attained great fame in the first millennium AD. There were two great kingdoms in east of the Pamirs: Khotan and Shan-shan. Most of the knowledge of the political history of Khotan derives from Chinese sources. After a period of intermittent Chinese influence, Khotan could be described as "a pleasant and prosperous kingdom, with a numerous and flourishing population" by the Chinese pilgrim…
The Cambridge History of Iran: The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid Periods, Part 1 of 2
The third volume, published in two parts, is an account of every aspect of Iranian civilisation from the death of Alexander in 323 BC to the advent of Islam in the seventh century AD. This complex period, of major importance in Iranian history and extending for almost a thousand years, encompasses the reigns of the Seleucid, the Parthian, the Kushan and Sasanian dynasties. As additions to the general objectives of these volumes, Professor Yarshat…
Hoernle and the Jvaka-pustaka
Writing in 1941, in the foreword to his Khotanese texts I (Cambridge, 1945), H. W. Bailey related concerning the Jvaka-pustaka: The late Dr A. F. Rudolf Hoernle had begun a study of part of this text. Some six years ago I saw the MS on one afternoon, but when about two years later I wished to examine it, it was not to be found. I have not seen it again and do not know what Dr Hoernle had done
Khotanese bihīya again
In JRAS, 1967, 22-5, I was able to prove that Khotanese bihīysde means 'it increases' and not 'it decreases' as had been thought earlier. In BSOAS, XXIX, 3, 1966, 616-17, I showed how bihīysde could be connected with bihīyu 'very' and bihīta- 'intense'. The forms discussed there were analysed under the lemmata *bihis-, bihījs-, *bihīys-, and bihīs- in SGS 100
Contributions to the study of the Jīvaka-pustaka
The India Office Library MS Ch ii 003 contains 73 folios of a medical text written alternatingly in Sanskrit and Khotanese. The folios are numbered from 44 to 116. Although the text ends in the middle of a Sanskrit recipe, the beginning of the text has survived. As no title and no colophon are extant and as the text has not been traced elsewhere H. W. Bailey assigned the text the convenient label Jwaka-pustaka 'The Book of Jivaka'. The text begin…
A Propos Sanskrit Mālākanda
In 1970 I was privileged to hear in the rooms of the Linnaean Society the Burkill Memorial Lecture delivered by J. R. Marr. His discursive but interesting paper “An examination of some plant-names and identities in India” has now appeared in JRAS , 1972, 40–56. On the last page of that paper the Sanskrit word mālākanda is discussed, and its properties are described in a Sanskrit verse quoted from a “Malayāḷam ‘herbal’”, which apparently was publi…
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, Part II Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Period and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia, Vol. V Saka, Portfolio V: Plates xcvii-cxxvi. Saka Documents V
The Khotanese Śūraṅgamasamādhisūtra
New light on the Siddhasāra
It seldom occurs that a philologist has the opportunity of seeing the results of his labours confirmed or disproved by the discovery of new material. In the field of Oriental studies such events occur relatively less seldom but bear equal testimony to the value of philological studies. What would in many instances have remained conjectures concerning the text of the Siddhasāra, conjectures having various degrees of probability according to the ar…
Avestanva?re yaona
AvestanvaΔre yaona
On Ravigupta's ganas
That the Khotanese version of Ravigupta's Siddhasāra was made from the Tibetan translation extant in the Tanjur has been known since H. W. Bailey's convincing demonstration in BSOAS, X, 3, 1940, 599-605. But it is clear that the situation is more complicated than would at first appear. There are very numerous instances where the Khotanese version shows a correct understanding of the original Sanskrit while the Tibetan translation is in error. In …
The Sanskrit text of the Siddhasāra
The Siddhasāra of Ravigupta, son of Durgagupta, is known in three main versions, the original Sanskrit, the Tibetan, and the Khotanese. Each is important for certain reasons. The Sanskrit text is important mainly because of its date. Although the extant MSS are late-they have been assigned to A.D. 1374 and 1443 respectively -the original must be earlier than A.D. 1000, after which date we have no Khotanese. It is likely to be considerably earlier…
The Khotanese Śūraṅgamasamādhisūtra
A Khotanese verb-list
Some Chorasmian and Khotanese Etymologies
If everyone—so to speak—is now reading and quoting Chorasmian, the credit most fully belongs to J. Benzing. He has with this volume made available in a readily usable form the greater part of the linguistic material known to exist for Chorasmian, a very important but hitherto largely neglected Middle Iranian language
Nanda the merchant
The story of the merchant Nanda is told in Khotanese on a roll now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, P(elliot) 2834. The first five lines are a document, transliterated by our honorand in KT , III, 77. Thereafter comes the Nanda story. The story is incomplete, although the roll is blank at the end and the text finishes in mid-line at 1. 58 with a double daṇḍa . Even the final sentence is incomplete. The reason for this unfortunate circumstance is un…
Notes on the Book of Zambasta
The Book of Zambasta is not without importance in the history of Buddhist studies. We know that Khotan was a major centre of Mahāyāna studies when Fa-hsien visited it about a.d. 400 on his way to India, and it had expanded in this direction when Hsüan-tsang in the 7th century spent several months in Khotan on his way back from India to China. Khotan was, if not the cradle, at any rate the stronghold of the Mahāyānist movement. We know of its impo…
Some Khotanese Inscriptions on Objets D'art
It was a pleasant surprise during the Christmas vacation of 1966 to receive a letter from a Mrs. C. T. Williams, who described herself as “a graduate student in oriental art history at Harvard University” working on Khotanese painting, and enclosed the four photographs which are now published here. They provide four previously unpublished Khotanese inscriptions, which, though difficult to read and providing little information, are of interest bec…
Tibetan Texts Concerning Khotan
Syntax of the cases in Khotanese
It is surprising that not a single page has hitherto been devoted to the treatment of Khotanese syntax, even though Khotanese is unique among the attested later Iranian languages in preserving, for the most part distinctly, at any rate in Old Khotanese (OKh.), in the singular, six of the eight cases normally attributed to Indo-European (IE), and in the plural, five. M. J. Dresden, in his 'Grammatical notes' introducing his edition of the Khotanes…
Some Chorasmian and Khotanese Etymologies
If everyone—so to speak—is now reading and quoting Chorasmian, the credit most fully belongs to J. Benzing. He has with this volume made available in a readily usable form the greater part of the linguistic material known to exist for Chorasmian, a very important but hitherto largely neglected Middle Iranian language
Notes on the Book of Zambasta
The Book of Zambasta is not without importance in the history of Buddhist studies. We know that Khotan was a major centre of Mahāyāna studies when Fa-hsien visited it about a.d. 400 on his way to India, and it had expanded in this direction when Hsüan-tsang in the 7th century spent several months in Khotan on his way back from India to China. Khotan was, if not the cradle, at any rate the stronghold of the Mahāyānist movement. We know of its impo…
Syntax of the cases in Khotanese
It is surprising that not a single page has hitherto been devoted to the treatment of Khotanese syntax, even though Khotanese is unique among the attested later Iranian languages in preserving, for the most part distinctly, at any rate in Old Khotanese (OKh.), in the singular, six of the eight cases normally attributed to Indo-European (IE), and in the plural, five. M. J. Dresden, in his 'Grammatical notes' introducing his edition of the Khotanes…
The Mustard Upamā
The Khotanese version of the well-known Buddhist prophecy concerning Maitreya forms chapter 22 in the unnamed Buddhist miscellany in Khotanese verse, of which more than 4,000 complete lines are extant. The chapter concerning Maitreya was edited separately by E. Leumann ( Maitreya-samiti , 1919), and later the whole work was edited and translated by the same scholar (E, 1933–6). The Maitreya story contains the verses: pātcä Ānandi tta hvate ba|lys…
Notes on the Tale of Bhadra
This article is a review of V. S. Vorob'ev-Desjatovskij and M. I. Vorob'eva-Desjatovskaja's Skazanie o Bxadre (novye listy sakskoj rukopisi E). 1 This recent publication of what is in large part a facsimile volume of Old Khotanese is greatly to be welcomed. We now have at last facsimiles of all the 192 folios (actually 191, see below) in Leningrad that constitute the major part of a Buddhist miscellany written in the oldest type of Khotanese. 173…
Some Khotanese Inscriptions on Objets D'art
It was a pleasant surprise during the Christmas vacation of 1966 to receive a letter from a Mrs. C. T. Williams, who described herself as “a graduate student in oriental art history at Harvard University” working on Khotanese painting, and enclosed the four photographs which are now published here. They provide four previously unpublished Khotanese inscriptions, which, though difficult to read and providing little information, are of interest bec…
Tibetan Texts Concerning Khotan
Notes on the Book of Zambasta
The Book of Zambasta is not without importance in the history of Buddhist studies. We know that Khotan was a major centre of Mahāyāna studies when Fa-hsien visited it about a.d. 400 on his way to India, and it had expanded in this direction when Hsüan-tsang in the 7th century spent several months in Khotan on his way back from India to China. Khotan was, if not the cradle, at any rate the stronghold of the Mahāyānist movement. We know of its impo…
The Khotanese Śūraṅgamasamādhisūtra
A Khotanese verb-list
Some Chorasmian and Khotanese Etymologies
If everyone—so to speak—is now reading and quoting Chorasmian, the credit most fully belongs to J. Benzing. He has with this volume made available in a readily usable form the greater part of the linguistic material known to exist for Chorasmian, a very important but hitherto largely neglected Middle Iranian language
Nanda the merchant
The story of the merchant Nanda is told in Khotanese on a roll now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, P(elliot) 2834. The first five lines are a document, transliterated by our honorand in KT , III, 77. Thereafter comes the Nanda story. The story is incomplete, although the roll is blank at the end and the text finishes in mid-line at 1. 58 with a double daṇḍa . Even the final sentence is incomplete. The reason for this unfortunate circumstance is un…
Avestanva?re yaona
AvestanvaΔre yaona
On Ravigupta's ganas
That the Khotanese version of Ravigupta's Siddhasāra was made from the Tibetan translation extant in the Tanjur has been known since H. W. Bailey's convincing demonstration in BSOAS, X, 3, 1940, 599-605. But it is clear that the situation is more complicated than would at first appear. There are very numerous instances where the Khotanese version shows a correct understanding of the original Sanskrit while the Tibetan translation is in error. In …
The Sanskrit text of the Siddhasāra
The Siddhasāra of Ravigupta, son of Durgagupta, is known in three main versions, the original Sanskrit, the Tibetan, and the Khotanese. Each is important for certain reasons. The Sanskrit text is important mainly because of its date. Although the extant MSS are late-they have been assigned to A.D. 1374 and 1443 respectively -the original must be earlier than A.D. 1000, after which date we have no Khotanese. It is likely to be considerably earlier…
A Propos Sanskrit Mālākanda
In 1970 I was privileged to hear in the rooms of the Linnaean Society the Burkill Memorial Lecture delivered by J. R. Marr. His discursive but interesting paper “An examination of some plant-names and identities in India” has now appeared in JRAS , 1972, 40–56. On the last page of that paper the Sanskrit word mālākanda is discussed, and its properties are described in a Sanskrit verse quoted from a “Malayāḷam ‘herbal’”, which apparently was publi…
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, Part II Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Period and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia, Vol. V Saka, Portfolio V: Plates xcvii-cxxvi. Saka Documents V
The Khotanese Śūraṅgamasamādhisūtra
New light on the Siddhasāra
It seldom occurs that a philologist has the opportunity of seeing the results of his labours confirmed or disproved by the discovery of new material. In the field of Oriental studies such events occur relatively less seldom but bear equal testimony to the value of philological studies. What would in many instances have remained conjectures concerning the text of the Siddhasāra, conjectures having various degrees of probability according to the ar…
Contributions to the study of the Jīvaka-pustaka
The India Office Library MS Ch ii 003 contains 73 folios of a medical text written alternatingly in Sanskrit and Khotanese. The folios are numbered from 44 to 116. Although the text ends in the middle of a Sanskrit recipe, the beginning of the text has survived. As no title and no colophon are extant and as the text has not been traced elsewhere H. W. Bailey assigned the text the convenient label Jwaka-pustaka 'The Book of Jivaka'. The text begin…
Khotanese bihīya again
In JRAS, 1967, 22-5, I was able to prove that Khotanese bihīysde means 'it increases' and not 'it decreases' as had been thought earlier. In BSOAS, XXIX, 3, 1966, 616-17, I showed how bihīysde could be connected with bihīyu 'very' and bihīta- 'intense'. The forms discussed there were analysed under the lemmata *bihis-, bihījs-, *bihīys-, and bihīs- in SGS 100
Hoernle and the Jvaka-pustaka
Writing in 1941, in the foreword to his Khotanese texts I (Cambridge, 1945), H. W. Bailey related concerning the Jvaka-pustaka: The late Dr A. F. Rudolf Hoernle had begun a study of part of this text. Some six years ago I saw the MS on one afternoon, but when about two years later I wished to examine it, it was not to be found. I have not seen it again and do not know what Dr Hoernle had done
Buddhism Among Iranian Peoples
The historical Buddha, Śākyamuni, lived in north-east India in the 6th to 5th century b.c. He died at the age of eighty in about 483 b.c. , leaving no written records of his teaching. At that time, northern India was dominated by the kingdoms Avanti, Kosala, Vatsa and Magadha. In the north-west, Gandhāra was a province of the Achaemenian empire. In the 4th century the Achaemenian empire fell to the all-conquering Alexander, who came in person to …
The Iranian Settlements to the East of the Pamirs
In the case of one Iranian settlement in Central Asia that attained great fame in the first millennium AD. There were two great kingdoms in east of the Pamirs: Khotan and Shan-shan. Most of the knowledge of the political history of Khotan derives from Chinese sources. After a period of intermittent Chinese influence, Khotan could be described as "a pleasant and prosperous kingdom, with a numerous and flourishing population" by the Chinese pilgrim…
The Cambridge History of Iran: The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid Periods, Part 1 of 2
The third volume, published in two parts, is an account of every aspect of Iranian civilisation from the death of Alexander in 323 BC to the advent of Islam in the seventh century AD. This complex period, of major importance in Iranian history and extending for almost a thousand years, encompasses the reigns of the Seleucid, the Parthian, the Kushan and Sasanian dynasties. As additions to the general objectives of these volumes, Professor Yarshat…
Studies in the vocabulary of Khotanese, 1
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