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Preliminary Examination for Part I of the Oriental Studies Tripos, 2000: Notice

The Faculty Board of Oriental Studies give notice that the specified texts for the Preliminary Examination for Part I of the Oriental Studies Tripos, 2000, are as follows:

Aramaic

Paper Am. 1. Aramaic specified texts

Selections from Syriac texts.

Assyriology

Paper As. 1. Akkadian specified texts

The Code of Hammurapi, in E. Bergmann ed., Codex Hammurabi (1953), laws 1-65. In cuneiform.

The Annals of Sennacherib, third to seventh campaigns, in R. Borger, Babylonisch-assyrische Lesestücke, 2nd ed. (1979), pp. 329-332. In cuneiform.

Chinese Studies

Paper C. 1. Classical Chinese texts

Selections from early classical literature.

Hebrew Studies

Paper H. 1. Hebrew specified texts

Selections from Biblical Hebrew texts.

Paper H. 4. Modern Hebrew literature and its history

Selections from Modern Hebrew literature.

Indian Studies

Paper In. 1. Sanskrit specified and unspecified texts and Paper In. 2. Sanskrit specified texts and composition

Mahābhārata 2, 66-68.

Rāmāyaṇa 2, 19-20.

Hitopadeśa, extracts 3-21 (C. R. Lanman, A Sanskrit Reader, pp. 20-44).

Kathāsaritsāgara, extracts 22-27 (Lanman, pp. 45-56).

Bhagavadgītā 3-4.

Paper In. 3. Hindi specified texts

Upendranāth Aśk, 'Jñānī'.

Omprakāś Vālmīki, 'Ek dalit kī ātmakathā', from Rājkiśor, ed., Harijan se dalit, Delhi 1994.

Premcand, 'Naśā', 'Kafan'.

Phaṇīśvarnāth Reṇu, 'Pañclaiṭ'.

Nirālā, 'Toṛtī patthar' (poem).

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Cambridge University Reporter, 3 June 1999
Copyright © 1999 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.