Kharosthi Inscriptions

This is a book of rare value, available again now after a long gap of time. It contains detailed descriptions of the valuable documents found by Sir Aurel Stein on his successive expeditions to Central Asia, transliterated as well as systematically arranged by the editors, each of them reputed scholars. The book is divided into three parts, the first part contains, descriptions of the documents discovered by Sir Aurel Stein during his first expedition to the ancient archaeological site beyond the Niya River in Chinese Turkestan in the years 1900-01. Details of the expedition itself are to be found in Aurel Stein’s Ancient Khotan. The second part of the book describes the documents discovered by Stein in his second expedition to Chinese Turkestan in the years 1906-08. The sites covered were in the regions of Niya, Endere and Lou-lan. The third part completes the publication of the Kharosthi Inscriptions discovered by Aurel Stein in his first, second and third expeditions, to Chinese Turkestan. It contains the text of the documents found at Niya and Lou-lan sites in the years 1913-16, detailed accounts of which are available in Sir Aurel Stein’s Innermost Asia. The volume also contains the corrigenda to parts I & II, CHAPTERS ON” The Kharosthi Alphabet of Chinese Turkestan” and on index of words occurring in the inscriptions published in parts I-III. This book will be of immense value to all students of ancient history, archaeology and linguistics as well as those interested in the geographical region of Central Asia. It would complete any shelf on the works of Sir Aurel Stein.