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1. Manuscript, including tables and figure legends.
2. Figures (guidelines for preparing figures see below).
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Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of the manuscript from Nikolay F. Petrovsky Manuscripts' Collection which belongs to the Central Asian Manuscripts' Fund of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It presents a brief outline of the history of the discovery and the study of two Ajitasena-vyākaraõa's versions of the text (Gilgit and Khotanese) as well as the manuscript palaeographic description and the attempt of its genre identification. Authors show the closeness of the plot of Ajitasena-vyākaraõa with that of Ajitasena-vyakarana-nirdesha-nama-mahayana-sutra. Ajitasena-vyākaraõa is so-called “proto-Mahayana” sutra which was found near Gilgit in 1931.
Key words: Buddhism, manuscripts, Sanskrit, Brāhmī script, palaeography, sūtra, avadāna, jātaka, Serindia, Nikolay F. Petrovsky, Sergey F. Oldenburg, The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
People who contributed to the work but do not fit the standard authorship criteria should be listed in the acknowledgments, along with their contributions. You must ensure that anyone named in the acknowledgments agrees to being so named.
Together with the text of the article the authors should provide the Reference list according to the Harvard Referencing System.
Löfgren, O. (1963), “Äthiopische Wandamuletten”, Orientalia Suecana, vol. 11, pp. 95—120.
Ross, H. C. (1994), The Art of Bedouin Jewellery. A Saudi Arabian Profile, New York: Players Press.
Karateke, H. T. & Reinkowski, M. (eds.) (2005), Legitimizing the Order: The Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power, Leiden & Boston: Brill.
For transliteration of titles in Cyrillic characters, please, use the Library of Congress Transliteration System (LC) at http://www.translit.ru.
Rezvan, E. & Rezvan, M. (2006), “‘Chtoby prokliatiia ostalis' snaruzhi’ ili ‘plat'e-obereg’ (zhenshchina i ee odezhda v magicheskom prostranstve Tsentral'noi Azii)” [“‘So the Curse Remains on the Outside’ or the ‘Protective Dress’ (Woman and Her Clothes in Magical Space of Central Asia)”], in: Rezvan, E. (ed.), Oriental Dreams. Russian Avant-Guard and Silks of Bukhara, St. Petersburg: MAE RAN, pp. 14—20.
Nurkova, V. V. (2006), Zerkalo s pamiat'iu: fenomen fotografii: kul'turno-istoricheskii analiz [The Mirror With a Memory. The Phenomenon of Photography. Cultural and Historical Analysis], Moscow: Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi gumanitarnyi institut.
Al-Bukhārī, Ṣalāḥ b. Mubārak (1371/1992), Anīs al-ṭālibīn wa ‘uddat al-sālikīn [The Companion of The Seekers and Provider of The Followers], Ṣārī-ūghlī, Kh. I. (ed.), Tehrаn: Intishārāt-i Kayhān.
When the same work is cited successively, “ibid.” is used.
Indrenius, I. B. (1899), The Report of the Captain of the Sea-Going Gun-Boat “Gilyak” Commander I. B. Indrenius on Calls of the Gulf Ports. Fund 417, description 1, file 2037. Russian State Navy Archives, St. Petersburg.
Author, Name (“Translation”). Material, size, number of folios. Place, time. Institution, call number, folio. Courtesy.
Al-Bakrī, Kitāb Simṭ al-la’āli’ al-durriyya wa-uslūb al-jawāhir al-baḥriyya. European paper, 26.3×17.5 cm, 106 ff. Irāq or Irān, 881/1476. Bernard Quaritch Ltd., fol. 23v—24r. Courtesy of the Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
Figures (not less then 300 dpi) should be sent as separate attachment and not included in the manuscript file, but figure legends should be.
Sharaknots (collection of hymns). Parchment, 130×90 mm, 196 f. Armenian, 14th century. Purchased in 1999. NLR, Manuscript Department, call. No.: Arm.n.s 60, fol. 79. Courtesy of the NLR.
Obtaining permission to reproduce the images is the responsibility of the authors. Copy of such permission should be sent in the same attachment as the figures.
Tables should be cited in ascending numeric order upon first appearance. Each table should be inserted immediately after the first paragraph in which it is cited in the article file. All tables should have a concise title. Footnotes can be used to explain abbreviations.
In his short CV each author should list her/his full name, degree, associated department, university, or organizational affiliation, and field of her/his scholarly interests.
Sample: Dr. Igor A. Alimov — Head of the Department of East and Southwest Asia of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in Far Eastern ethno cultural texts. Author of the series of monographs in the field.
As a rule, for the Arabic names and terms we use transliteration, not transcription. That is why, normally, all the Persian and Turkic words connected with the Muslim world, are given in the Arabic form (e. g. zāde -> zāda, etc.) However, in some particular cases it is important to reproduce the local transcription, so for some articles we try to find individual solution.
For the Arabic we use the system, close to that of Encyclopaedia of Islam, with two exceptions: “j” instead of “dj” and “q” instead of underdotted “k”. The article should not be assimilated (e. g., Abū al-Rabī‘, not Abū l-Rabī‘).
Chinese terms, proper names, geographical names and titles of works are presented in hieroglyphics and in mainland China phonetic transcription both in the text of the article and the reference list.
The Russian texts should be transliterated using the rules presented at the web-site translit.ru.