During this course we will read a number of Sanskrit inscriptions in Indonesia (of Mulavarman in East Kalimantan, Purnavarman in West Java, Canggal, Kalasan, and Hariti in Central Java, and Ligor in the Malay Peninsula). You will learn to decipher two types of script used in Indonesia, both of them of Indian origin, and you will read a texts dealing with these inscriptions and their (art)historical context. There will be reading assignments every week. They will make you familiar with discussions in this field of studies.
Admission requirements
BA in Archaeology or another relevant discipline.
SAP and exchange students: admission after approval by the Graduate School of Archaeology.
Method of instruction
Formal lectures and group discussions.
Examination
Under the hourly programme for each week, homework is assigned for the next meeting. The reading reports assigned each week will be due at that next meeting. You will receive it back a week later, with comments. A complete collection of revised reading reports will be due at the end of the semester. See Blackboard: Secondary Literature for the assigned readings. The articles listed as “other readings” are not mandatory, but we certainly recommend that you do keep them in mind as possible sources for the final assignment (to be prepared groupwise or individually). This may involve a paper based on secondary sources or the transliteration and translation of an inscription not dealt with during the class.
Required reading
See Blackboard.
Primary readings: – Mulavarman (c. AD 400)
OD photos 15163-15166, 21479-21481, 21589-21594
Kern 1917, Verspreide geschriften 7:55-76.
Vogel 1918, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 74:167-232.
Chhabra 1949, Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 83(4):370-374.
Chhabra 1965, Expansion of Indo-Aryan culture, pp. 48-53. – Purnavarman (c. AD 450)
Digibeeld 25685, 25689
OD photo 7258 – Abklatsch
Vogel 1925, Publicaties van den Oudheidkundigen Dienst 1:15-35.
Dinas Purbakala 1962, Laporan Tahunan 1954, p. 5.
Chhabra 1965, Expansion of Indo-Aryan culture, pp. 48-53, 85-92.
Sarkar 1971, Corpus of the inscriptions of Java, vol. 1, no. i. – Canggal (AD 732)
OD photos 4185, 4751-4785, 12388-12389, 12790-12791, 12890
OV 1938:18, foto fig. 49.
Kern 1917, Verspreide geschriften 7: 115-128.
Chhabra 1965, Expansion of Indo-Aryan culture, pp. 45-48.
Sarkar 1971, Corpus of the inscriptions of Java, vol. 1, no. ii. – Ligor
EFEO estampages n. 253 and 329
Cœdès 1918, Bulletin de l’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient 18(6):1-36.
Chhabra 1965, Expansion of Indo-Aryan culture, pp. 26-36. – Kalasan
OD photos 6366, 7465-7466 (cf. OD photos 12787-12789 found at Kalasan).
Bosch 1928, Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 68:57-62.
Sarkar 1971, Corpus of the inscriptions of Java, vol. 1, no. v. – Inscription with a depiction of Hariti
OD photo 2194, 2195
Stutterheim 1956, Studies in Indonesian Archaeology, pp. 145-158.