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Contents: Introduction/Susmita Basu Majumdar. Part I: Archaeology, Material Remains and Archives. 1. Finding Forgotten Stories about the Harappan Civilization: Vignettes from the Archives/Nayanjot Lahiri. 2. Wine-making and Wine-drinking in Central Asia and Gandhara from the Bronze Age to Pre-Kushan Antiquity/Henri-Paul Francfort. 3. Giribawa in the Context of Glass Production and Maritime Exchanges in South Asia/Ariane De Saxce. Part II: Epigraphic and Numismatic Sources and Interpretative Histories. 4. Liako Kusulako and the Era of Maues/Harry Falk. 5. Berenike Brahmi Inscription Revisited/Susmita Basu Majumdar. 6. A Prosperous Hub in the Hinterland: Situating Junnar in the Early Historic Context/Smita Halder. 7. Seventeenth-century Pali Inscriptions from Wat Chaiwathanaram, Ayuthaya: The Sambuddhe Verses and Dependent Arising/Peter Skilling. 8. The Indo-Greek Gold Coinages: A New Heliocles II Specimen?/Olivier Bordeaux. 9. The Verehakale Hoard of Roman Coins/Michael Amandry. 10. About Collection of Lieutenant Alexander Burnes and some questions of Bactrian History/Kazim Abdullaev. 11. A So Strange Coinage: The Coins of the Western Regions in the Chinese Texts of Han period/Francois Thierry. 12. Remarks on Lead-Tin Chinese Coins from the Tenth-Century Cirebon Shipwreck/Lyce Jankowski. 13. Interpreting Monetary History of Medieval Bengal: Some Issues Reflected through the Prism of Coin Hoards/Sutapa Sinha. Part III: Looking Through and Beyond the Texts. 14. Foreign Geographic Projections in Cosmas Indicopleustes/Federico Romanis. 15. Archaeology, History and the Poetic Imagination: Valmiki s Ramayana as a Tale of Three Cities/Robert P. Goldman. 16. Demonic Demise: Demons, Dismemberment, and Decapitation in Valmiki s Ramayana/Sally J. Sutherland Goldman. 17. Cultural Relations between Nagarjunakonda and Sri Lanka as Revealed in the Sihalavatthu/Nadeesha S. Gunawardana. 18. Five Weeks After: Post-Enlightenment in Xuanzang s Record of the Western Regions/Max Deeg. 19. Situating Early Kashmir: Connected Histories in Kalhana s Rajatarangini/Shonaleeka Kaul. Part IV: Art, Architecture and Beyond. 20. Seeking Survivals in Buddhist Art: Ananda Coomaraswamy s Early Development/Janice Leoshko. 21. The Archery Competition of Siddharta and the Pre-Marital Ceremony in Gandharan Art: An Example of Shared Traditions in Buddhism and Indian Epics/Laura Giuliano. 22. Bodhisattvas or Deified Portraits in Gandharan Art? Some Thoughts/Vincent Lefevre. 23. From Gandhara to Kucha and Back Again: Identifications of Gandharan Reliefs/Means of Kuchean Iconography/Monika Zin. 24. Iconographical Remarks on the Mural Fragments from the Kizil Grottoes in the Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum, Japan/Satomi Hiyama. 25. The Relationship between a Portrait of Prince Shotoku (c.573 622) and Tang Royal Murals: On the Materialist of the Cultural Identity of the Tang/Pei Ying Lin. 26. The Indian Elements of the Qingzhou Style of Buddha Images in China/Tianshu Zhu. 27. Morphing Icons: Radiant Icono text Paintings in Medieval Jodo Shin Buddhism/Mark L. Blum. 28. An Ancestral Skill: The Decorative Motifs of Sinjali Architecture (West Nepal)/David C. Andolfatto. 29. Embodying Prosperity: The Treasures Sankhanidhi and Padmanidhi s Long Auspicious Journeying/John Guy. 30. Finding Fua Haribhitak (1910 1993), Thailand s First National Artist, in Santiniketan, India: Discerning Methodology and Thickening Discourse/Yin Ker. Part V: Fusion and Diffusion: Religion with Special Focus on Buddhism. 31. On Pious Ladies and Merchants Making Money for Buddhist Monks: An Inscription and a Rule/Gregory Schopen. 32. Towards Identifying Bhiksunis in Gandhara/Ashwini Lakshminarayanan. 33. A Lost Copy of the Buddha s Footprint/Donald Stadtner. 34. A Moveable Court: Itinerant Kingship, Royal Temples, and Buddhist Monasteries during the Kusana Era/Sanjyot Mehendele. 35. Bamiyan Buddhist Caves and Squinches/Shumpei Iwai. 36. A Hindu Buddha ? Inclusive Propensities and Philosophical Differe.