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wrote on Indo-Tibetan Astronomy, 1960.
Dharmaśāstra and Arthaśāstra
T. Goldstuecker, a German seholar living in London, edited a commentary on the Mānavakalpa Sūtra. Owing to his knowledge of Indian Law, he was often consulted by the British Government. G. Buehler compiled the "Digest of Hindu Law Cases” together with a dharmaśāstravid, 1867-60, G. Buehler has contributed the volume "The Laws of Manu” to the Sacred Book of the East". J. Jolly also studied Indian Law and wrote in "Encycolopedia of Indo-Aryan Research”. G. D. Sontheimer (Heidelberg) wrote a doctoral thesis "The Hindu Joint Family, Its Evolution as a Legal Institution", Delhi, 1976. H. Brinkhaus (Hamburg) also specialises in Dharmas. hāstra. J. Jolly and J. J. Meyer published editions of the Arthashāstra. A. Hillebrandt wrote on ancient Indian politics. Today E. Ritschl (Berlin) and F. Wilhelm (Muenchen) work on Arthashastra. Epigraphy
F. Kjelhorn, G Buehler, and E. Hultzsch helped elucidate Indian history and chronology by studying inscriptions and publishing them in Epigraphia Indica. G. Buehler's Indische Palaeographie von 350 a. Chr, bis circa 1360 p. Chr., Strassburg, 1896, is still considered the standard work on this subject. E. Hultzsch, H. Lueders, and L. Alsdorf studied Ashoka inscriptions. K. L. Janeft published Studien zu den Ashoka Inschriften in "Proceedings of the Goettingen Academy”, 1959, 1961, 1969. H. Lueders' Bharhut Inscriptions was revised by E. Waldschmidt and M. A. Mehendale, Ootacamund, 1963. H. Humbach (Mainz) discussed the Aramaic inscriptions from Taxila, Wiesbaden, 1969. G. V. Mitterwallner (Muenchen) studies the Kushana and Gupta inscriptions. History, Art and Archaeology
Indian history, art and archaeology have only recently been researched by German scholars. E. Waldschmidt, H. Hoffmann (Erlangen). H. W. Koehler (Berlin) and G. Budruss (Mainz) have contributed chapters on Indian history to world histories. H. Goetz M. Njammasch (Berlin), H. Kulke (Kiel) and F. Wilhelm (Muenchen) also wrote on Indian history. J. Luett and D. Rothermund, both teaching at Heidelberg's South Asia Institute, have modern Indian history as their field of specialisation.
H. Goetz surveyed Indian art in Indien. Fuerf Jahrtausende indischer Kunst (India, Five thousand years of Indian Art), Baden-Baden
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