The vast expansion of Indian culture by Buddhists who penetrated through Bactria into the region of modern Kashghar, Yarkand, Khotan, Maralbashi, Kucha and Loulan has been disclosed by the results of expeditions sent out in the first decade of this century. Among the numerous documents was a considerable number written in Ancient Khotan, but in a dialect of the akas, or Indo-Scythians, who from the first century BC to the third century AD were dominant in North-western India. Volume I of Khotanese Texts was published in 1946, Volume II in 1954 and Volume III, which completed the publication...

The Book of Zambasta is Professor Bailey's name for a collection of aka-Khotanese texts hitherto designated as E. The texts were first published in Berlin by E. and M. Leumann in the period 1933 6; and since then it has become possible to establish the meaning of almost the whole vocabulary used in the texts. The result is that Iranian scholars have a sound basis for their use of aka linguistic materials. The prolexis is a close commentary on the establishment of the text. It contains all the evidence for the interpretation of words not previously understood. The words are arranged by the...

This is a reprint of the 1969 second edition. Khotanese Texts I III, originally published at intervals in separate volumes and out of print for some years, are made available again and bound together in a single volume. Professor Bailey inserted anusvaras into the text of Khotanese Texts I (they were originally omitted to lighten the diacritical density of transliteration) and he made adjustments to the texts themselves from photographs not available for the original edition. He also added a number of important texts which were identified after the publication of the first edition."

A collection of literary texts, business letters and military orders from the 8th century AD, written in an Indo-Scythian dialect.

A discussion of the form, provenance and identity of the people included in the Khotan Saka documents of Central Asia.