GANDHARA and HISTORY 1.0. (9/20/05, MW) ------Dates: Vedic texts Grammar Buddh. texts Archaeology Persians/Greeks BCE ------1000- Post-Kuru Painted oral transmiss. Gray of texts, with Ware; local versions/ not found in dialects East, where scattered settle- ments only (pre- Indo-Aryan) Development Early, unsystem. of Yajurveda Vedic notes on Samhita prose sounds, accents; and older e.g., discussion of Brahmana Cuv/Cv cases texts (E. Panjab - Allahabad)
Sakala clan in E. Panjab (AitB 3) ------530/ emigration of The Buddha Persian 519 many western (high chronol.) occupation Vedic ‘schools’ of Gandhara; to the east: later, of Kosala, Videha: Sindh canonization of texts and rituals
Baudhayana Srautasutra (earliest Sutra, in Brahm. style; in Kosala): Pars’u (Persians?) Aratta (Sistan) mentioned
Ait.B. 6-8 in East: immigration of state formation Royal rituals; of Malla, Vajji in the East: Myths of incorpo- (Vrji), Sakya Kosala, Videha ration of Munda etc. into N. Bihar (later: Magadha) tribes and Brahmani- zation of the East predecessors of Sakalya as per AA 3 and Panini ?? early Pratisakhyas ?? S. mentioned Sakalya’s in late Padapatha part of Satapatha Brahmana
------c.450 no towns 2nd urba- Gymno- in Veda nization sophists (perhaps: begins; (Herodot) nagarin, JB)
Early earliest texts N. Black Upanisads are still of a Polished Ware (BAU, ChU, JUB): rural background spreads over most travel between of N. India Gandhara/Panjab Buddha and East (BAU: (lower captive; Yajna- chronology, valkya) c. 400 BCE)
Magadha remains Magadhan Magadha state off-limits area expansion towards formation Kosala and Vajji
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Ait.Ar.3 Sakalya, etc., Samhita, Pada and Kramapatha mentioned in AA 3; first Brahmins in Magadha (AA ) Panini: lipi ‘script’, bhiksu Sutra, Kamboja king, Manava MSS quoted Srautasutra (middle SS)
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326 Alexander in Panjab; his scholars’ texts on India
305 Candragupta & Seleukos Katyayana: Yavana script ------
250 Pali Asoka’s inscriptions canon
------150 Patanjali
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