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ANCIENT INDIAN STORIES OF THE SANSKRIT COLLECTION “KARMASHATAKA” IN THE OIRAT WRITTEN MONUMENT “THE TALE OF THE NECTAR TEACHING”
- Authors: Menyaev B.V.1
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- Kalmyk State University named after B.B. Gorodovikov
- Issue: No 8(889) (2024)
- Pages: 151-157
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2542-2197/article/view/298738
- ID: 298738
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Abstract
This article is the first to examine scenes from the Oirat written monument of the 17th-18th centuries. “The Tale of the Nectar Teaching” in comparison with its source, the Sanskrit collection “Karmashataka”, translated in the 8th century. into Tibetan language. As a result of the study, it was established that genetically similar plots from “Karmashataka” help to reconstruct and better understand the content of short stories from the Oirat collection, which have lost their essential structural components due to several stages of translation (Oirat
About the authors
Badma Victorovich Menyaev
Kalmyk State University named after B.B. Gorodovikov
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Email: bmeyaev@mail.ru
Specialist at the International Research Center “Oirats and Kalmyks in the Eurasian space”
Kalmyk State University named after B. B. Gorodovikov
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