Early Āndhradeśa: Historical Studies around the Epigraphic Corpus CSET (2-vol set)

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Arlo Griffiths
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This two-volume work highlights the central importance of the Āndhra region in the political, cultural, and religious history of early South Asia. It results from a decade-long project undertaking to document, inventory, and edit anew a body of over a thousand inscriptions, many of which never duly assessed as historical documents, and many unpublished to this day. The first volume presents the first ever attempt at a systematic inventory of this tragically dispersed corpus. The eleven essays gathered in the second volume, written by prominent philologists, epigraphists, art historians, and ancient historians of India, make elaborate use of the presently available evidence and put forward new perspectives on a great variety of sources, shedding fundamental new light on issues of power, patronage, and religious pluralism in the early historic and early medieval Deccan.
Contributors are: Stefan Baums, Shailendra Bhandare, Christine Chojnacki, Max Deeg, Emmanuel Francis, Valérie Gillet, Mekhola Gomes, Arlo Griffiths, Petra Kieffer-Pülz, Andrew Ollett, Akira Shimada, Upinder Singh, Ingo Strauch, Vincent Tournier, and Peter Zieme
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Early Āndhradeśa: Historical Studies around the Epigraphic Corpus
Volume One: Introduction and Inventory
Editor(s): Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier, and Akira Shimada
Publication Date: 01 Dec 2025
978-90-04-74408-0
Early Āndhradeśa: Historical Studies around the Epigraphic Corpus
Volume Two: Studies
Editor(s): Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier, and Akira Shimada
Publication Date: 01 Dec 2025
978-90-04-74409-7
Arlo Griffiths, Ph.D. (2004), Leiden University, is Professor of Southeast Asian History at the École française d’Extrême-Orient. His work on the social and religious past of South and Southeast Asia focuses on the scholarly documentation and editing of primary sources in the form of manuscripts and inscriptions, in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and other languages.
Vincent Tournier, Ph.D. (2012), École pratique des Hautes Études (Paris), is Professor of Classical Indology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He has published on the history of Buddhist communities, doctrines, and scriptures across the Indian subcontinent, and the epigraphy of the Deccan.
Akira Shimada, Ph.D. (2006), University of London, is Professor of History at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He has published on the history of early Buddhist art and architecture in Andhra, including Early Buddhist Architecture in Context: The Great Stupa at Amaravati (ca. 300 BCE–300 CE), Brill, 2013.
Scholars and advanced graduate students of early South Asian political, cultural, and religious history, interested in exploring the place of Early Āndhra in regional and transregional networks.
Volume 1: Introduction and Inventory

Preface
Conventions
List of Maps, Tables and Figures

Introduction
 Arlo Griffiths, Akira Shimada and Vincent Tournier

Inventory of the Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa
 Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier

References
Index for Volume 2

Volume 2: Studies

Conventions
List of Maps, Tables and Figures

Part 1 Insights from Newly scrutinised Numismatic and Epigraphic Data



1 Numismatic Landscape of the Āndhra Country between the 1st and 4th Centuries CE
 Shailendra Bhandare

2 Inscribed Pots and Potsherds from Āndhradeśa in the Context of Early Buddhist Archaeology
 Ingo Strauch

3 Early Memorial Stones from the Deccan (up to 300 CE)
 Andrew Ollett, Vincent Tournier and Arlo Griffiths

4 Between Two Rivers: Śālaṅkāyana Charters (EIAD 159–168, ca 300–450 CE)
 Emmanuel Francis

Part 2 Power, Kinship, and Buddhist Monuments at Nagarjunakonda



5 Early Historic Nagarjunakonda: A ‘Buddhist Site’ in Indian and Asian Contexts
 Upinder Singh

6 The Beginning of Nagarjunakonda: Sculptures from Sites 6 and 9
 Akira Shimada

7 Ties of Blood on Monuments of Piety: Buddhism, Kinship, and Rule in Āndhradeśa
 Mekhola Gomes (with an Appendix by Stefan Baums)

Part 3 Networks and Religious Pluralism in Āndhra



8 Traces of Theriyas in Āndhradeśa: Glimpses from Inscriptions and from the Andhaka-Aṭṭhakathā
 Petra Kieffer-Pülz

9 Chinese Reports about Buddhism in Early Āndhra
 Max Deeg (with an Appendix by Peter Zieme)

10 Mahāsena, from Āndhradeśa to the Tamil Country: The Descent of a God
 Valérie Gillet

11 The Emergence of Jainism in Āndhradeśa: Exploring Evidence before the Tenth Century
 Christine Chojnacki


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