Harry Falk
Biographic Data
| ID | 698391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harry Falk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harry |
| FAMILY NAME | Falk |
| SIGNATURE | FALK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mit Wema Takhtu unterwegs, auch in Almosi und Reh
In 2022, several texts were found written on stone in the Almosi Gorge, in the mountains north of Dushanbe, Tajikistan. One mentions the name and the title of the second Kushan king, Wema Takhtu, in standard Bactrian. In terms of geographical location, this gorge today marks the northernmost evidence of Kushan dominance. Two other texts were found nearby, written in an “unknown” script. In one of them, the same name and title were soon recognized…
Indian Gold Crossing the Indian Ocean Through the Millennia
Śiva or Brahma? The “Masque Court” at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
A number of “masks” cast in metal are known from the North-West, particularly Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. They are not used as theatre masks, they lack openings for view or speech, and are found in temples fixed to a wall. One, found near Peshawar in Gandhara is conspicuous by its artistic beauty. It is inscribed on its lower rim; both script and style allow to date it in the middle or late Gupta period. The inscription has been read and interp…
Two Dated Sātavāhana Epigraphs
The length of reign of the individual Sātavāhana kings is often defined on the basis of the records of the Purānas. Contradictory as these records are, more reliable evidence is provided by dated documents of their time, which are, unfortunately, rare. A sealing re-interpreted here, shows that Sātakanni, starting the dynasty, lived for at least 30 years, in line with the Purānas who allot him 56 years. A dedicatory plaque from Kanganhalli is date…
The Tidal Waves of Indian History
The time from the Mauryas to the Guptas can be broadly divided into four phases, which are closely linked to a series of dynasties. The first phase comes with the Mauryas proper. The second phase is indigenous, covered by the succeeding dynasties of the Śuṅgas, the Kanvas, the so-called Mitras, Dattas, and others. The third phase is dominated by intruding Westerners, be they of Iranian, Scythian, or Kushana stock. The fourth phase is another phas…
A Buddha from Mathurā at the Hirayama Museum
Le bouddha de Mathura conserve au Musee Hirayama a vu recemment son authenticite mise en cause par une equipe de chercheurs allemands. L’A. examine de maniere critique chacun des arguments ayant conduit a cette remise en cause. Le 1er argument est la similarite du Bouddha du Musee de Hirayama avec celui, endommage, du musee de Mathura, qui pourrait suggerer que le premier est une copie du second. A l’aide d’exemples de similarites comparables au …
Graeco-Baktrien und Indien
Um 250 v. Chr. machte sich Diodotos [2], der seleukidische → Satrap von → Baktria, selbstandig und grundete das graeco-baktrische Reich. Seit dem Anfang des 2. Jh. v.Chr. eroberten die baktrischen Konige Demetrios [10] I. und Menandros [6] I. Soter auch Nordwest-Indien (→ Indogriechen). Das Reich wurde bald in mehrere Teilkonigreiche geteilt. Die Geschichte dieser ostlichsten hell. Herrscher und ihrer iranischen Nachfolger bereitet manche Schwier…
How His Srauta-Fires Save the Life of an Ahitagni
Harry Falk, How His Śrauta-Fires Save the Life of an Āhitāgni, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, No. 2, Indic and Iranian Studies in Honor of Stanley Insler on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Apr. - Jun., 2002), pp. 248-251
On the Origin of the Early Indian Scripts
Aā 5.3.3
Silver, Lead and Zinc in Early Indian Literature
(1991). Silver, Lead and Zinc in Early Indian Literature. South Asian Studies: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 111-117
Soma I and II
It was a common idea in the last century, and one which can be found even today,2 that Soma/Haoma was a drink which led to ecstasy, and drugs which produce such an extraordinary state of mind have always been objects of curiosity. Therefore, the search for the plant which was used by the Indo-Iranian peoples in their solemn rituals was never abandoned, although the variety of candidates brought forward made the question look unsolvable.Some of th…
Zur tierzucht im alten Indien
The three groups of particles in the Nirukta
Yska, in his Nirukta, divides words into four classes: nman (noun), khyta (verb), upasarga (preposition) and nipta (particle). He is the only one of all the ancient writers on grammar who deals at some length with the last mentioned category of particles. The introduction to this class runs as follows:atha nipt uccvaceṣv artheṣu nipatanti. apy upamrthe. api karmopasaṃgrahrthe. api padapraṇḥ
Quellen des Pañcatantra
Macedonian Intercalary Months and the Era of Azes
The Azes era was identified with the Vikrama era when a date in a year “of King Azes the Great” was read for the first time on the Indravarman casket in 1978, making more likely what had been suspected before. Doubts about this identification have been brought forward occasionally. The present study starts from a new reading of the so-called Traṣaka reliquary. In addition to its month called “intercalary Gorpiaios” a year number could be read as …
Soma I and II
It was a common idea in the last century, and one which can be found even today,2 that Soma/Haoma was a drink which led to ecstasy, and drugs which produce such an extraordinary state of mind have always been objects of curiosity. Therefore, the search for the plant which was used by the Indo-Iranian peoples in their solemn rituals was never abandoned, although the variety of candidates brought forward made the question look unsolvable.Some of th…
Macedonian Intercalary Months and the Era of Azes
The Azes era was identified with the Vikrama era when a date in a year “of King Azes the Great” was read for the first time on the Indravarman casket in 1978, making more likely what had been suspected before. Doubts about this identification have been brought forward occasionally. The present study starts from a new reading of the so-called Traṣaka reliquary. In addition to its month called “intercalary Gorpiaios” a year number could be read as …
Two Dated Sātavāhana Epigraphs
The length of reign of the individual Sātavāhana kings is often defined on the basis of the records of the Purānas. Contradictory as these records are, more reliable evidence is provided by dated documents of their time, which are, unfortunately, rare. A sealing re-interpreted here, shows that Sātakanni, starting the dynasty, lived for at least 30 years, in line with the Purānas who allot him 56 years. A dedicatory plaque from Kanganhalli is date…
Aā 5.3.3
Silver, Lead and Zinc in Early Indian Literature
(1991). Silver, Lead and Zinc in Early Indian Literature. South Asian Studies: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 111-117
On the Origin of the Early Indian Scripts
Zur tierzucht im alten Indien
Macedonian Intercalary Months and the Era of Azes
The Azes era was identified with the Vikrama era when a date in a year “of King Azes the Great” was read for the first time on the Indravarman casket in 1978, making more likely what had been suspected before. Doubts about this identification have been brought forward occasionally. The present study starts from a new reading of the so-called Traṣaka reliquary. In addition to its month called “intercalary Gorpiaios” a year number could be read as …
Quellen des Pañcatantra
Zur tierzucht im alten Indien
The three groups of particles in the Nirukta
Yska, in his Nirukta, divides words into four classes: nman (noun), khyta (verb), upasarga (preposition) and nipta (particle). He is the only one of all the ancient writers on grammar who deals at some length with the last mentioned category of particles. The introduction to this class runs as follows:atha nipt uccvaceṣv artheṣu nipatanti. apy upamrthe. api karmopasaṃgrahrthe. api padapraṇḥ
Soma I and II
It was a common idea in the last century, and one which can be found even today,2 that Soma/Haoma was a drink which led to ecstasy, and drugs which produce such an extraordinary state of mind have always been objects of curiosity. Therefore, the search for the plant which was used by the Indo-Iranian peoples in their solemn rituals was never abandoned, although the variety of candidates brought forward made the question look unsolvable.Some of th…
Silver, Lead and Zinc in Early Indian Literature
(1991). Silver, Lead and Zinc in Early Indian Literature. South Asian Studies: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 111-117
Aā 5.3.3
On the Origin of the Early Indian Scripts
How His Srauta-Fires Save the Life of an Ahitagni
Harry Falk, How His Śrauta-Fires Save the Life of an Āhitāgni, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, No. 2, Indic and Iranian Studies in Honor of Stanley Insler on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Apr. - Jun., 2002), pp. 248-251
Graeco-Baktrien und Indien
Um 250 v. Chr. machte sich Diodotos [2], der seleukidische → Satrap von → Baktria, selbstandig und grundete das graeco-baktrische Reich. Seit dem Anfang des 2. Jh. v.Chr. eroberten die baktrischen Konige Demetrios [10] I. und Menandros [6] I. Soter auch Nordwest-Indien (→ Indogriechen). Das Reich wurde bald in mehrere Teilkonigreiche geteilt. Die Geschichte dieser ostlichsten hell. Herrscher und ihrer iranischen Nachfolger bereitet manche Schwier…
The Tidal Waves of Indian History
The time from the Mauryas to the Guptas can be broadly divided into four phases, which are closely linked to a series of dynasties. The first phase comes with the Mauryas proper. The second phase is indigenous, covered by the succeeding dynasties of the Śuṅgas, the Kanvas, the so-called Mitras, Dattas, and others. The third phase is dominated by intruding Westerners, be they of Iranian, Scythian, or Kushana stock. The fourth phase is another phas…
A Buddha from Mathurā at the Hirayama Museum
Le bouddha de Mathura conserve au Musee Hirayama a vu recemment son authenticite mise en cause par une equipe de chercheurs allemands. L’A. examine de maniere critique chacun des arguments ayant conduit a cette remise en cause. Le 1er argument est la similarite du Bouddha du Musee de Hirayama avec celui, endommage, du musee de Mathura, qui pourrait suggerer que le premier est une copie du second. A l’aide d’exemples de similarites comparables au …
Two Dated Sātavāhana Epigraphs
The length of reign of the individual Sātavāhana kings is often defined on the basis of the records of the Purānas. Contradictory as these records are, more reliable evidence is provided by dated documents of their time, which are, unfortunately, rare. A sealing re-interpreted here, shows that Sātakanni, starting the dynasty, lived for at least 30 years, in line with the Purānas who allot him 56 years. A dedicatory plaque from Kanganhalli is date…
Śiva or Brahma? The “Masque Court” at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
A number of “masks” cast in metal are known from the North-West, particularly Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. They are not used as theatre masks, they lack openings for view or speech, and are found in temples fixed to a wall. One, found near Peshawar in Gandhara is conspicuous by its artistic beauty. It is inscribed on its lower rim; both script and style allow to date it in the middle or late Gupta period. The inscription has been read and interp…
Indian Gold Crossing the Indian Ocean Through the Millennia
Mit Wema Takhtu unterwegs, auch in Almosi und Reh
In 2022, several texts were found written on stone in the Almosi Gorge, in the mountains north of Dushanbe, Tajikistan. One mentions the name and the title of the second Kushan king, Wema Takhtu, in standard Bactrian. In terms of geographical location, this gorge today marks the northernmost evidence of Kushan dominance. Two other texts were found nearby, written in an “unknown” script. In one of them, the same name and title were soon recognized…
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