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This five-chapter dissertation engages two conventionally separated fields—Modern Perso-Islamic textual criticism inaugurated by Mohammed Qazvini in the context of early 20th-century Iran and Orientalist scholarship, and post-modernist literary theory—to examine the significance…

This dissertation examines the early Buddhist attitude toward anger (G kros̱a, OIA krodha) through the lens of an unpublished verse text, hereafter referred to as the *Kros̱a-gas̱a, from a newly discovered collection of Buddhist texts in the Gāndhārī language and Kharoṣṭhī script. …