Further Old Khotanese Texts in ‘Metre B’

Old Khotanese poetry makes use of three metres, conventionally referred to as A, B and C. The metre of the longest surviving Old Khotanese poem, the Book of Zambasta (Z) was analysed in detail in Sims-Williams 2022, which was followed by a series of articles studying the use of metre C in other text...

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主要作者: Sims-Williams, Nicholas 1949- (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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出版: 2025
In: Indo-Iranian journal
Year: 2025, 卷: 68, 发布: 1, Pages: 15-33
Further subjects:B Old Khotanese poetry
B Book of Zambasta
B Khotanese metre
B Khotanese language
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总结:Old Khotanese poetry makes use of three metres, conventionally referred to as A, B and C. The metre of the longest surviving Old Khotanese poem, the Book of Zambasta (Z) was analysed in detail in Sims-Williams 2022, which was followed by a series of articles studying the use of metre C in other texts and fragments, in order to determine to what extent their treatment of this metre conforms to the practice of Z. The present article applies the same approach to passages in metre B, identifying some which probably belong to lost parts of the Book of Zambasta and others which certainly do not. The relevant passages are presented with a detailed metrical analysis as well as an English translation and brief commentary.
ISSN:1572-8536
Contains:Enthalten in: Indo-Iranian journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06801008