power (subject to the provisions of clauses 1, 2 and 3) to make regulations as to the selection of them, and (when they think fit) to prescribe particular books. 7. In the Class List issued by the Examiners in the Honour School of Oriental Studies the principal and additional languages offered by each Candidate who obtains Honours shall be indicated. 8. Any Candidate whose name has been placed in the Class List, upon the result of the Examination in any one of the subjects mentioned in clause 1, shall be permitted to offer himself for examination in any other of the subjects mentioned in the same clause at any subsequent Examination before the end of the twentieth Term from his Matriculation, provided that no such Candidate shall offer any of the languages or subjects already offered by him in the School of Oriental Studies. (ii) Regulations of the Board of the Faculty. I. SANSKRIT. A. Candidates who take Sanskrit must offer the following texts :(a) Vedic Philology. Rig-veda, with the Commentary of Sayaṇa, excluding sacrificial matter, Mandala X, i-xxii, ed. Max Müller. (B) Meghadūta, with Mallinātha's Commentary. (y) Vedānta-sāra. Manu, Books II and III; Book II, with the Commentary of (€) Ratnāvalī. (3) Laghu-kaumudi: pp. 1-130 in Ballantyne's edition. B. They must also offer the History of Indian Literature and Civilization from the earliest times to A. D. 1000. Books specially recommended :— Schröder, Indiens Literatur und Cultur. The subject may also be studied in : Colebrooke's Miscellaneous Essays. Eggeling, article Sanskrit in the Encyclopædia Britannica. Max Müller, History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature. C. They must also offer one special subject and one language from the following list :- LANGUAGES. (a) Pāli. Text printed in Andersen's Pali Reader. The language may be studied in Eduard Müller's Pali Grammar. (B) Zend. Texts printed in Mills' Five Zarathushtrian Gathas. The language may be studied in Jackson's Avesta Grammar. SPECIAL SUBJECTS. (a) Comparative Grammar of Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit; and Zend, if that language is offered. The subject may be studied in Brugmann's Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der Indogermanischen Sprachen. Oldenberg, Die Religion des Veda. Barth, Religions of India. Hopkins, Religions of India. Max Müller, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by the Religions of India. Monier-Williams, Religious Thought and Life in India. Oldenberg, Buddha. Rhys Davids, American Lectures on Buddhism. II. ARABIC. A. Candidates who take Arabic must offer the following texts :- Qur'ān, Suras 3-4, with the Commentary of Beidāwī. Hamāsa, Book I, Nos. 1-21, with Tebrīzī's Scholia (pp. 1-61 in Freytag's edition). Maqāmas of Harīrī, i-iii, and xlix, 1. B. They will also be required to offer the General History of the Caliphate and growth of the Arabian rule, which may be studied in— D. S. Margoliouth, Mohammed, London, 1906. Muir, Life of Mahomet (third edition). Muir, Annals of the early Caliphate (1883). Muir, The Caliphate, its Rise, Decline, and Fall. G. Zaydan, Umayyads and Abbasids, London, 1907. Von Kremer, Kulturgeschichte des Orients unter den Chalifen (1875-7). Dozy, Essai sur l'histoire de l'Islamisme (Leiden, 1879). L. Caetani, Annali dell' Islam, Milano, 1905 ff. C. They must also offer one special subject and one language from the following list :— LANGUAGES. (a) Persian. (1) Shāhnāma, ed. Vullers, vol. i, pp. 62-127. (2) The Masnavī of Jalālu-d-dīn Rūmi, Lucknow edition of 1877, with Commentary of Hazrat Baḥru-l-'ulum, pp. 4-26 inclusive. (3) Turkish. (1) Wells' Grammar and Chrestomathy. (2) Kirk Vesir, pp. 1-99 of the Constantinople edition, A.H. 1303. (y) Hebrew. I and II Samuel, The first six Minor Prophets, Job. (8) Aramaic. Onkelos on Genesis. The Targum of Jonathan on Isaiah xl-lxvi. St. Matthew in the ancient Syriac versions. The Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite (ed. Wright, Cambridge University Press). Acta Martyrum (ed. Bedjan), iii, pp. 1-174. SPECIAL SUBJECTS: (a) North-Semitic Epigraphy. Candidates who offer this subject will be expected to show knowledge of the Inscriptions in Lidzbarski, Handbuch der nord-semitischen Epigraphik (omitting the Punic Inscriptions on pp. 433-439), in G. A. Cooke, Textbook of North-Semitic Inscriptions (pp. 342-362, with plates ix-xi), and, after the Examination in Trinity Term, 1916, in Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text of Samuel (ed. 2, pp. i-xxi); also of Papyri A, G, K, in Sayce and Cowley, Aramaic Papyri from Assuan, and of Papyri i and iii in E. Sachau, Aramäische Papyrus und Ostraka aus einer jüdischen Militärkolonie zu Elephantine (see also A. Ungnad, Aramäische Papyrus aus Elephantine, Nos. 1 and 3). The subject may be further studied in G. A. Cooke, Textbook of NorthSemitic Inscriptions; S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text of Samuel, ed. 2, pp. lxxxiv ff.; W. Staerk, Die jüdisch-aramäischen Papyri von Assuan; Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, Parts I and II; Répertoire d'Epigraphie Sémitique; Lidzbarski, Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik; De Vogüé, Syrie Centrale, 1868, Mélanges d'Archéologie Orientale, 1868; Jul. Euting, Nabatäische Inschriften, 1885; Nöldeke, Article Semitic Languages, Encycl. Brit., ed. 11 (republished separately in German under the title Die semitischen Sprachen, Leipzig, ed. 2, 1899) ; F. W. Madden, Coins of the Jews. (B) South-Semitic Epigraphy. Candidates who offer this subject will be expected to show knowledge of the inscriptions in F. Hommel, Süd-Arabische Chrestomathie, pp. 91-108, and of the inscriptions numbered 1, 2, 6, 19, 20, 28, 29, 37, 40, 41, 73, 74-76, 106, 126, 140, 287, 306 in Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, Pars iv. The subject may be further studied in J. H. Mordtmann, Beiträge zur minäischen Epigraphik, Weimar, 1897; J. H. Mordtmann and D. H. Müller, Sabäische Denkmäler, 1883 (or Denkschr. d. Wiener Akad., phil.-hist. Cl., vol. 33, pt. 2); E. Glaser, Mittheilungen über einige sabäische Inschriften, Prag, 1886; M. Lidzbarski, Ursprung d. nord- und süd-semitischen Schrift (in Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik, i. pp. 109-136, Giessen, 1902); Halévy, Études Sabéennes, 1874 (or in Journ. Asiatique, 1873); O. Weber, Studien zur südarab. Altertumskunde, Berlin, 1901 ff. (y) History of Arabic Literature to the end of the twelfth century: this may be studied in Brockelmann, Handbuch der Arabischen Litteratur-Geschichte. Nicholson, Literary History of the Arabs. (8) General History of Mohammedan Theology: this may be studied in— III. HEBREW. A. Candidates who take Hebrew must offer the following texts : I and II Samuel, The Twelve Minor Prophets, Job. Pirkē Aboda Zara (ed. Strack). Midrash B'reshîth Rabba (ed. Theodor, Rashi on Exodus x-xvii. Yōma (ed. Strack). Kimchi on Psalms i-viii. B. They will also be required to offer the History of the Jews, general and literary, from the return from the Captivity to 500 A.D.: this may be studied in— Ewald, History of Israel (Eng. Tr.), Vol. V. Grätz, Geschichte der Juden, Vol. II. 2, III, IV. Cassel, Lehrbuch der jüdischen Geschichte und Literatur. Zunz, Gottesdienstliche Vorträge der Juden. Derenbourg, Essai sur l'histoire et la géographie de la Palestine. Wellhausen, Israelitische u. Jüdische Geschichte, chaps. xii-xxiv. Schürer, Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi, 4te Auflage (1901-11), or Schürer, History of the Jewish People in the time of Jesus Christ (1895-8). Meyer, Die Entstehung des Judenthums. Meyer, Der Papyrusfund von Elephantine. C. They must also offer one special subject and one language from the following list: LANGUAGES. (a) Arabic. Texts to be offered— El-Fakhri (ed. Ahlwardt, 1860), pp. 88-175. Qur'ān, Suras 1-3. Beidāwī, Commentary on Sura III, vv. 1–139. (B) Aramaic. Texts to be offered (as above). (y) Assyrian. Texts to be offered Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh. (The portion of the text contained in Abel and Winckler's Keilschrifttexte zum Gebrauch bei Vorlesungen, Spemann, Berlin, 1890.) The Code of Hammurabi; Prologue, Cols. i-v (ed. R. F. Harper). Tell el-Amarna Tablets: the Letters from Jerusalem. (Text in Winckler's Der Thontafelfund von El Amarna II.) The Cylinder Inscription of Tiglath-pileser I, Col. iv. 43-100; Col. v. 1-32; Col. vii. 36-59 (in Delitzsch's Lesestücke, fourth edition). Annals of Sennacherib: Taylor Cylinder, Col. ii. 34-iii. 41 (in Delitzsch's Lesestücke). Nebuchadrezzar: India House Inscription. (Text in Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, Vol. i, Plates 53-58 (59-64).) SPECIAL SUBJECTS. (a) Jewish literary history from the tenth century to A. D. 1300. The following texts will be required : Juda Ha-Levi, Poems (original Hebrew), (ed. Harkavy), pp. 7-40 and pp. 76-97. Maimonides, Moreh Nebuchim (ed. Friedländer), Introduction and The history may be studied in— Grätz, Geschichte der Juden, Vols. VI, VII. Geiger, Divan des Castiliers Abu'l Hassan Juda Ha-Levi (1851). Zunz, Synagogale Poesie des Mittelalters (1855). Steinschneider, Jewish Literature (1857). Neubauer, Notice sur la lexicographie hébraïque (in the Journal Cassel, op. cit. Friedländer, Introduction to Moreh Nebuchim. (8) North-Semitic Epigraphy (as above). (7) South-Semitic Epigraphy (as above). Candidates will be expected to show a knowledge of Grammar, and ability to transcribe cuneiform texts into the Roman character. IV. PERSIAN. A. Candidates who take Persian must offer the following texts :- The Shāhnāma, ed. Vullers, vol. i, pp. 433-516. The Masnavi of Jalālu-d-din Rūmī, Lucknow edition of 1877, with The Dīvān of Ḥāfiz, ghazals ending in ☺. Akhlaq-i-Jalali, with Commentary, Lucknow edition of A.D. 1879, pp. 48-144, line 4 (omitting from p. 100 to p. 111, line 5, inclusive). B. They will also be required to offer the History of the Samanid Dynasty, to be studied in Malcolm's History of Persia, and Defrémery's translation of Mirkhwand's History of that Dynasty. C. They must also offer one Special Subject and one Language from the following list : LANGUAGES. (a) Arabic. Texts to be offered El-Fakhri (ed. Ahlwardt, 1860), pp. 88-175. Qur'ān, Suras 1-3. (B) Zend. Texts printed in Mills' Five Zarathushtrian Gathas. The language may be studied in Jackson's Avesta Grammar. |