Harry Falk is a retired professor of

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at the Freie Universität in

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. He has also been Director of the Institute of Indian Philology and Art History at the Free University in Berlin. He realized that the astrological Sanskrit-Text Yavanajātaka (79,15) defined the era of the Kushans, i.e. of Kaniṣka I, as ''śaka'' 149, that is AD 227. This he linked to the long-established practice of the “dropped hundreds”, which allowed to include contemporary data from the Chinese annals Hou Hanshu. The start of the Kushan era was so defined in AD 127. In addition it became apparent that the Kushan era was used with dropped hundreds up to the fifth century under Gupta rule in Western India. He is a noted Indologist.

Works

* ''Quellen des Pañcatantra (Freiburger Beiträge zur Indologie) (German Edition, 1978) * ''Bruderschaft und Würfelspiel: Untersuchungen zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des vedischen Opfers'' (German Edition, 1986) * ''Schrift im alten Indien: Ein Forschungsbericht mit Anmerkungen (ScriptOralia, German Edition, 1993) * ''Asokan Sites and Artefacts: A Source-Book with Bibliography'' Mainz 2006 * ''The tidal waves of Indian history'' in "Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE" (Oxford University Press 2006) * ''Foreign terms in Sanskrit'' in "The Idea of Writing: Play and Complexity (Brill, 2010) * ''Harisyenalekhapañcasika: Fifty Selected Papers on Indian Epigraphy and Chronology'', 2014

References

External links

Articles by Harry Falk on Academia.edu
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