The Miscellany section of this volume assembles a series of shorter notes and reviews covering diverse topics. The first note analyses a rare silver coin attributed to King Rudravarma, examining its…
The article examines the “dhutanga” practices—thirteen austerities prescribed in the Buddhist monastic code as means of purification. It begins by defining the term dhutanga (“shaking off”) and…
In this linguistic study the author evaluates competing hypotheses about the relationship between Pāli and Ardhamāgadhī. Some scholars argued that Pāli was merely a literary variety of Ardhamāgadhī;…