Classical Civilizations of South-East Asia

by Braginsky,Vladimir

• ISBN13: 9780700714100
• ISBN10: 0700714103
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136848865
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-23
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
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Summary

With particular emphasis on history, religion, literature and arts, this collection provides a multifaceted and representative picture of the classical civilizations of South-East Asia which will be of interest for comparative and cross-disciplinary studies in this field and also provides a number of historical and literary documents and translations of great scholarly value.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(48)
Religion
Bauddha brahmins in Bali	49	(7)
C. Hooykaas
A new look at Sasanavamsa	56	(13)
V.B. Lieberman
The dewatau sotapan: a Mon prototype of the 37 nats	69	(15)
H.L. Shorto
History, Historical Sources
Tambralinga	84	(21)
O.W. Wolters
The Malay founder of medieval Malacca	105	(4)
R.O. Winstedt
Malay history from Chinese sources	109	(2)
R.O. Winstedt
Banten and the Dutch in 1619: six early `pasar Malay' letters	111	(9)
M.C. Ricklefs
North-western Cambodia in the seventh century	120	(30)
O.W. Wolters
Some Sanskrit inscriptions of Arakan	150	(29)
E.H. Johnston
The Kyaikmaraw inscriptions	179	(7)
H.L. Shorto
The 32 myos in the medieval Mon kingdom	186	(20)
H.L. Shorto
Collaborateur versus Abstentioniste (Tuong versus Tri): political polemic in poetic dialogue during the French acquisition of southern Viet-Nam	206	(43)
J.H.C.S. Davidson
Literature and Arts
The story of Sudhana and Manohara: an anlysis of the texts and the Borobudur reliefs	249	(26)
Padmanabh S. Jaini
Further light on Sir Richard Winstedt's 'undescribed Malay version of the Ramayana'	275	(13)
E.C.G. Barrett
Three old Achehnese manuscripts	288	(11)
P. Voorhoeve
The date of the SOAS manuscript of the Sjair perang Mengkasar	299	(3)
R. Jones
The Song of the Three Mons	302	(7)
J.A. Stewart
Three `immortal' Burmese songs	309	(13)
Hla Pe
A.J. Allott
J. Okell
Country life in Burmese literature	322	(10)
C.W. Dunn
Hla Pe
J.A. Stewart
Mahorasop in a Thai Manora manuscript	332	(13)
E.H.S. Simmonds
New evidence on Thai shadow-play invocations	345	(18)
E.H.S. Simmonds
Historical Linguistics
A Chinese vocabulary of Malacca Malay words and phrases	363	(35)
E.D. Edwards
C.O. Blagden
A Chinese vocabulary of Cham words and phrases	398	(39)
E.D. Edwards
C.O. Blagden
Tangut or Proto-Burman	437	(4)
G.H. Luce
Three Mon--Khmer word families	441	(8)
H.L. Shorto
Achinese and mainland Austronesian	449	(22)
H.L. Shorto
The structure of the word in Old Khmer	471	(18)
J.M. Jacob
Index	489	(20)
Appendix 1 Briefly about the authors	509	(10)
Appendix 2 Articles and notes on South East Asia published in BSOAS in 1918--1990	519