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  • Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

    Contributions to Current Research in Indology, Volume 1

    Serier Bog 1 - PUSPIKA
    It is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of the world's richest and most enticing cultures. One thousand years have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first "Indologist", wrote his outsider's account of the subcontinent and two hundred years have passed since the inception of Western Indology. And yet, what this monumental scholarship has achieved is still outweighed by the huge tracts ... Læs mere

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