Further Reading

Bechert H (ed.) (1991) The Dating of the Historical Buddha. Gottingen: Vandenhoek and Ruprecht.

Huntington S (1985) The Art of Ancient India, Buddhist, Hindu, Jain. NY: Weatherhill (with contributions by John

C. Huntington).

Lamotte E (1988) History of Indian Buddhism: From the Origins to the Saka Era. Trans. from French by Sara Webb-Boin under the supervision of Jean Dantinne Louvain-la-Neuve: Universite catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste.

Mahaparinibbanasutta. (from the Dighanikaya). Trans. From Pali by SisterVajira Francis Story (1998). The Last Days of the Buddha. (Rev. ed.) Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society.

Misra BN (1998) Nalanda. 3 vols. Delhi: B. R. Publishing Corp.

Schwartzberg J (ed.) (1992) A Historical Atlas of South Asia. NY: Oxford University Press.

Rea A (ed.) (1894 repr. 1969) ArchaeologicalSurveY ofIndia, New Imperial Series: South Indian Buddhist Antiquities, Vol. 15. Madras: Superintendant Government Press and Varanasi: Indological Book House.

Stargardt J (2002-03) City of the Wheel, city of the ancestors: spatial symbolism in a Pyu royal city. Indo-Asiatische Zeitschrift (6/7): 144-67.

Stargardt J (2005) Death rituals of the late Iron Age and early Buddhism in Central Burma and Southeast India - whose norms, whose practices? In: Schalk P, Deeg M, Freiberger O, Kleine C, and van Nahl A (eds.) Im Dickicht der Gebote; Studien zur Dialektik von Norm und Praxis in der Buddhismusgeschichte Asiens. [In the thicket ofthe rules; studies in the dialectics ofnorm and practice in the history of Asian Buddhism.] Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Historia Religionum 26.

Williams J (1982) The Art of Gupta India: Empire and Province. Princeton: University Press.