Handbuch der Orientalistik=Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia
附屬叢書
Ajanta: History and Development
叢書號
1
資料類型
書籍=Book
使用語言
英文=English
關鍵詞
Ajanta Caves (India) History; Ajaṇṭā (Inde : Site archéologique) Histoire
摘要
The twenty-nine Buddhist caves near Ajanta form a devotional complex which ranks as one of the world's most startling achievements, created at the very apogee of India's Golden Age.
Ajanta: History and Development, appears as part of the series Handbook of Oriental Studies, present the reader with a systematic treatment of all aspects of the site, the result of forty years of painstaking research in situ by Walter M. Spink. Volume one deals with the historical context in which this dramatic burst of pious activity took place under the reign of Vakataka emperor Harisena, (c. 460 - 477 A.D.), and with the sudden halt of activity almost immediately following the death of the emperor. In surprising detail the relative and absolute chronology of the site can be established from a careful reading of the physical evidence, with consequences for our dating of India's Golden Age. Ajanta, it appears, is a veritable illustrated history of Harisena's times, crowded with information on its history, development and how it was used.
目次
(from paperback version published in 2011) Preliminary Material i Introduction and a few Conventions 1 Ajanta in a Historical and Political Context 7 A Query and a Response 22 How the Monks Lived: Shrines and Cells at Ajanta 66 In Defense of Dandin: The Historicity of the Visrutacarita 119 A Revised Vakataka Chronology 163 Dandin’s Visrutacarita and the Future of Harisena’s Imperium 169 Family Relationships bearing upon Ajanta’s Short Chronology 179 “The Persian Embassy” 181 Ajanta Cave 1: Its Origins and its Aftermath 184 Ajanta's Latter Days: A Review 200 Understanding the Site’s Collapse: The “Vakataka” Caves 220 Understanding the Site’s Collapse: the Asmaka Caves 272 Caves Abandoned at Harisena’s Death 315 Related Caves of the Vakatakas or Their Feudatories 325 The Need for Study in Situ 366 The DaŚakumĀracarita Of Daṇṇin, Uchchhvâsa VIII 393 Inscriptions of 4, 16, 17, 20, and 26 412
