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| Uṣavadāta's Akhayanivi: The Eternal Endowment in the Early Historic Deccan | ||
| 作者 | Visvanathan, Meera |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies=JIABS |
| 卷期 | v.41 |
| 出版日期 | 2018 |
| 頁次 | 509 - 535 |
| 出版者 | Peeters Publishers |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.peeters-leuven.be/ |
| 出版地 | Leuven, Belgium [魯汶, 比利時] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | In scholarship on Indian epigraphy, akhayanivi/akṣaya-nīvī is a term whose meaning has often been taken for granted without an analysis of how and when it came to mean what it did. This paper argues that rather than assuming that the term has a prior and constant meaning, we need to situate specific instances of its practice so as to chart its trajectory over time. By focusing on an inscription of the Śaka-kṣatrapa ruler Uṣavadāta at Nasik, I make a preliminary attempt at historicizing the phenomenon by framing it within the political economy of the early historic Deccan. While arguing that this inscription affords us a unique vantage point for understanding the akhayanivi, I also emphasize that it needs to be read in conjunction with a number of other contemporary inscriptions from the Western Deccan, even if these do not enunciate the endowment in such detailed ways. Finally, I have tried to show how a correlation of textual and epigraphic materials may help us better understand this practice. |
| 目次 | A Literary Account of Origins 510 The Akhayanivi in the Events of the Western Deccan 513 Uṣavadāta’s Akhayanivi 516 Of Changing Vocabularies and the Gift of Land 525 Concluding Remarks on the Akhayanivi 531 Acknowledgments 533 Bibliography 533 |
| ISSN | 0193600X (P); 25070347 (E) |
| DOI | 10.2143/JIABS.41.0.3285750 |
| 點閱次數 | 255 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.03.14 |
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