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In the News (Fri 18 Dec 09)

  
  Nityanand Shastri Kashmir Research Institute (NSKRI)
Sir Aurel Stein has referred to Sahib Ram as "undoubtedly the foremost among the Kashmiri Sanskrit scholars of the last few generations".
Sir Aurel Stein, Indologist, recognised Buhler's pioneering work on establishing the critical principles as propounded by Pts.
Stein had seen some parts of Damodar's incomplete sequel to Rajatarangini too, and recorded his views in these words: "Had Pandit Damodar been spared to complete it, his work would have shown that Kalhana could have found generations past no worthier successor."
www.unmesh.com /UnmeshII_16-17.html   (6520 words)

  
 Marc Aurel Stein - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862 - 1943) was a Hungarian archaeologist.
The British Library's Stein collection of Chinese, Tibetan and Tangut manuscripts, Prakrit wooden tablets, and documents in Khotanese, Uighur, Sogdian and Eastern Turkic is the result of his work.
The art objects he collected are in the British Museum and the Museum of Central Asian Antiquities, Delhi.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Marc_Aurel_Stein   (115 words)

  
 SASIGUPTA AND THE POISONING OF ALEXANDER
A closer examination of the histories of India and Iran shows that this is indeed the truth, but before going into details it is expedient to examine an age-old riddle which has been glossed over by all the writers though its bearing on the history of Alexander is immense.
In the closing years of the eighteenth century Sir William Jones made the so-called discovery that Palibothra was Patna in eastern India.
From Sir Aurel Stein’s discovery of a Buddhist shrine at Kuh-e Khwaja it can be seen that one of these Prophets was Gotama Buddha who is the same as Gomata mentioned in the Behistun inscription.
www.1stmuse.com /frames/sasigupta.html   (4331 words)

  
 Chinese Publishing
A traditional Chinese engraved wood block, the print made from it, and graving tools.
The frontispiece of the world's oldest surviving book printed on paper, the Diamond Sutra, discovered at Tunhuang by Sir Aurel Stein in 1907.
The book is in the form of a roll with a total length of 171/2 feet, and it was printed in the year 868.
www.nawpublishing.com /expansionpages/ephemera/chinese_publishing.htm   (15836 words)

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