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Abkürzungen/Abbreviations

BEI     Bulletin d’études indiennes
EJVS   Electronical Journal of Vedic Studies
HOS    Harvard Oriental Series
IIJ        Indo-Iranian Journal
IJDL    International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics
IJTS    International Journal of Tantric Studies
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society
JNRC Journal of the Nepal Research Centre
MT     Mother Tongue
StII     Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik
ZDMG Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft

I. Selbständige Werke/Monographs

  1. Das Pravargya-Brāhmaṇa der Kaṭha-Schule des Schwarzen Yajurveda. Edition und Übersetzung mit textkritischen und exegetischen Noten. M.A. thesis, Erlangen 1971, 170 S.
  2. Das Kaṭha-Āraṇyaka, textkritische Edition mit Übersetzung und Kommentar. PhD thesis, Erlangen 1972; (Teildruck, Erlangen-Kathmandu 1974, XXVI, 185 S.
  3. On Magical thought in the Veda [Inaugural Lecture]. Leiden 1979, 22 S. On Magical thought in the Veda 
  4. English commentary on Vedic chanting, video cassttes 1 & 2 / E. J. Michael Witzel. LoC. MLCS 95/10552 (B) FT Meade. International Foundation for Vedic Education, Rahway NJ, 1993.
  5. Early Sources for South Asian Substrate Languages. MT (extra number; October 1999): 1–70 [longer, slightly revised version of III.1 no. 68].
  6. Das Alte Indien. [C. H. Beck Wissen in der Beck’schen Reihe: bsr 2304]. München 2003, 126 S.
  7. Āryoṃ ke bharatīya mūla kī kalpanā: itihāsa meṃ mithaka kā mishrana. Dilli 2004.
  8. Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange in Prehistoric Western Central Asia. Philadelphia: Sino-Platonic Papers 129 (Dec. 2003). http://www.sino-platonic. org/complete/spp129
  9. Kaṭha Āraṇyaka. Critical edition with a translation into German and an introduction. [HOS. 65]. Cambridge 2004, lxxix, xxvi, 220 S.
  10. Rig-Veda. Das heilige Wissen. Erster und zweiter Liederkreis. Aus dem vedischen Sanskrit übersetzt und herausgegeben von Michael Witzel und Toshifumi Gotō unter Mitarbeit von Eijirō Dōyama und Mislav Ježić. Frankfurt am Main, 889 S.
  11. Das Alte Indien [C. H. Beck Wissen in der Beck’schen Reihe: bsr 2304]. 2. durchgesehene Auflage. München 2010, 126 S.
  12. The Origins of the World’s Mythologies. Oxford 2012, xx, 665 S.
  13. Rig-Veda. Das heilige Wissen. Dritter bis fünfter Liederkreis. Aus dem vedischen Sanskrit übersetzt und herausgegeben von Michael Witzel, Toshifumi Gotō und Salvatore Scarlata. Berlin/Frankfurt a. M. 2013, 708 S.
  14. Lokaprakāśa by Kṣemendra. With a commentary by Sahaja Bhaṭṭa. Prefaces by A. Krause and P.-S. Filliozat. Ed. Michael Witzel. [HOS. 85]. Vol. 1. Cambridge 2018, 541 S.
  15. The Veda in Kashmir. History and Present State of Vedic Tradition in the Western Himalayas. Vol. I & II [with 2 DVDs]. [HOS. 94–95]. Cambridge 2020,  Vol. I: xiii, 573 S., Vol. II: ix S., S. 575–1466.
  16. Lokaprakāśa by Kṣemendra with the commentary of Sahaja Bhaṭṭa, Vol. 2: Additional Manuscripts and Early Studies. Ed. Michael Witzel. [HOS. 90]. Cambridge 2022, 435 S.
  17. The Rājyābhiṣeka Manual for the Coronation of King Bīrendra of Nepal (1975): Introduction and Facsimile Edition. Ed. Michael Witzel. [HOS. 100]. Cambridge 2023, 418 S.
  18. Selected Papers on the History of Ancient India /  Ausgewählte Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte des Alten Indiens Halle: Umiversitätsverlag

Halle-Wittenberg. 2023, 906 p.

19. Reprint: The Veda in Kashmir. History and Present State of Vedic Tradition in the Western Himalayas. Vol. I & II. Dev Publishers and Distributors. New Delhi 2024.

II. Herausgebertätigkeit/Editorship

II.1 Bücher/Books

  1. W. Caland: Kleine Schriften. [Glasenapp-Stiftung. Bd. 27]. Stuttgart 1990, xxxiii, 786 S.
  2.  [zusammen mit/together with] A. Lubotsky and M. S. Oort (eds.): F. B. J. Kuiper, Selected Writings on Indian Linguistics and Philology. Amsterdam-Atlanta 1997, xxvi, 566 S.
  3. [zusammen mit/together with] Toshiki Osada: Cultural Relations between the Indus and the Iranian Plateau during the Third Millennium BCE. Indus Project, Research Institute for Humanities and Nature, June 7–8, 2008. [HOS, Opera Minora. 7]11, 382 S.
  4. Inside the Texts, Beyond the Texts. New Approches to the Study of the Vedas. Proceeding of the International Vedic Workshop, Harvard Universiy, June 1989. [HOS. Opera Minora. 2]. Cambridge 1997, xix, 380 S.
  5. [zusammen mit/together with] Richard K. Payne: Homa Variations. The study of ritual change across the Longue Durée. New York 2016, xvi, 418 S.
  6. [zusammen mit/together with] Qinyuan Wu: The Two Oldest Veda Manuscripts. Facsimile edition of Vājasaneyi-Saṃhitā 1–20 (Saṃhitā- and Padapāṭha) from Nepal and Western Tibet (c. 1150 CE). [HOS. 92]. Cambridge 2018, 180 S.

II. 2 Zeitschriften/Journals

  1. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies 1.1– (May 1995–).
  2.  Reihen/Series: HOS vol. 50–100.

III. Aufsätze/Articles

III.1 Aufsätze zur Indologie

  1. Jungavestisch apāxəδra- im System der avestischen Himmelsrichtungsbezeichnungen. MSS 30 (1972): 163–191.
  2. On the reconstruction of the authentical Paippalāda-Samhitā [Part I:], Journal of the Ganganath Jha Research Institute XXIX (1973): 463–488; [Part II:] XXXII (1976): 137–168.
  3. On some unknown systems of marking the Vedic accents. In: Acharya Dr. Vishvabandhu Commemoration Volume, ed. by B. R. Sharma, Hoshiarpur 1974 = Vishveshvaranand Indological Journal XII.1 (1974): 472–508. 
  4. Eine fünfte Mitteilung über das Vādhūla-Sūtra. StII 1 (1975): 75–108.
  5. Zur Geschichte der Rājopādhyāyas von Bhaktapur. In: Folia Rara. Festschrift W. Voigt, ed. by H. Franke et al., Wiesbaden 1976: 159–179.
  6. On the History and the Present State of Vedic Tradition in Nepal. Vasudha XV.12 (1976): 17–24; 35–37.7. On the history and the present state of Vedic tradition in Nepal.
  7. An unknown Upanisad of the Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda: The Kaṭha-Śikṣā-Upanisad. JNRC 1 (1977): 139–153.
  8. Die Katha-Śikṣā-Upanisad und ihr Verhältnis zur Kṛṣṇavalli der Taittirīya-Upaniṣad. WZKS XXIII (1979): 5–28 [= introduction, text, transl.].
  9. On the Loction of the Licchai Capital of Nepal. In: Festschrift Paul Thieme zur Vollendung des 75. Lebensjahres dargebracht von Schülern und Freunden, ed. by Georg Buddruss. Reinbek 1980 = StII 5/6 (1980): 311–337.
  10. Die Katha-Śikṣā-Upanisad und ihr Verhältnis zur Kṛṣṇavalli der Taittirīya-Upaniṣad. WZKS XXIV (1980), 21–82 [continuation of No. 8: discussion].
  11. Early Eastern Iran and the Atharvaveda, in: Persica: jaar- boek van het Genootschap Nederland-Iran IX (1980): 86–128.
  12. Materialien zu den vedischen Schulen: I. Über die Caraka-Schule. StII 7 (1981): 109–132. [= Pt. 1: History of the Caraka School]. Materialien zu den vedischen Schulen: I. Über die Caraka-Schule. 
  13. Über die Caraka-Schule [continuation of No. 12: 2–4: position of the school, texts, present state of this lost Śākhā]. StII 8/9 (1982): 171–240. Über die Caraka-Schule 
  14. Über śaṅkhu und padbīṣa. In: A. Wezler, Zum Verständnis von Chandogya-Upanisad 5.1.12 (=) StII 8/9 (1982):
  15. Anunâsika in medieval Veda tradition. (Materials on Vedic Śākhās, 3). IIJ 25 (1983): 180.
  16. The Ṛgveda-Saṃhitā as known to AV-Par. 46. (Materials on Vedic Śākhās, 4). IIJ 25 (1983): 238–239.
  17. Ṛgvedisch udumbalá. IIJ 25 (1983): 239–240.
  18. An unknown Yajurveda Saṃhitā (AV
  19. umbala.pdf-Par. 46). (Materials on Vedic Śākhās, 6). IIJ 27 (1984): 105–106.
  20. The earliest form of the concept of rebirth in India (Summary). In: 31st CISHAAN (Tokyo-Kyoto) Proceedings, ed. by T. Yamamoto, Tokyo 1984: 145–146.
  21. Buddhist forms of fire ritual (homa) in Nepal and Japan. (Summary). In: 31st CISHAAN (Tokyo-Kyoto), Proceedings, ed. by T. Yamamoto, Tokyo 1984: 135.
  22. On the origin of the literary device of the “frame story”. (Summary). 31st CISHAAN (Tokyo-Kyoto), Proceedings, ed.by T. Yamamoto, Tokyo 1984: 534.
  23. On searching for, describing and editing of Vedic manuscripts. (Summary). In: 31st CISHAAN (Tokyo-Kyoto), Proceedings, ed. by T. Yamamoto, Tokyo 1984: 1098–1099.
  24. Sur le chemin du ciel. BEI 2 (1984), 213–279. Sur le chemin du ciel. 
  25. Die mündliche Tradition der Paippalādins von Orissa. In: Festgabe für K. Hoffmann, I, ed. by Bernhard Forssman, München 1985 = MSS 44 (1985): 259–287.
  26. Die Atharvavedatradition und die Paippalāda-Saṃhitā. ZDMG, Supplementband VI [XXII. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Tübingen, März 1983] (1985): 256–271.
  27. Regionale und überregionale Faktoren in der Entwicklung vedischer Brahmanengruppen im Mittelalter. (Materialien zu den vedischen Schulen, 5). In: Regionale Tradition in Südasien, ed. by H. Kulke and D. Rothermund [Beiträge zur Südasienforschung. 104]. Stuttgart 1985: 37–76. 1985, pp. 256-2711. Regionale und überregionale Faktoren in der Entwicklung vedischer Brahmanengruppen in Mittelalter
  28. Agnihotra-Rituale in Nepal. Formen kulturellen Wandels und andere Beiträge zur Erforschung des Himalaya, ed. by B. Kölver und S. Lienhard. Sankt Augustin 1986: 157–187.
  29. Zu den Namen vedischer Śākhās. (Materialien zu den vedischen Schulen, 2). StII 10 (1983/85): 231–237.
  30. On the Archetype of Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya. IIJ 29 (1986): 249–259.
  31. On the origin of the literary device of the ‘Frame Story’ in Old Indian literature. In: H. Falk (ed.), Hinduismus und Buddhismus, Festschrift für U. Schneider. Freiburg 1987: 380–414.
  32. On the localisation of Vedic texts and schools (Materials on Vedic Śākhās, 7). In: G. Pollet (ed.), India and the Ancient world. History, Trade and Culture before A.D. 650. P. H. L. Eggermont Jubilee Volume. [Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. 25]. Leuven 1987: 173–213. On the localisation of Vedic texts and schools; map 1: tribesabout On the localisation of Vedic texts and schools); map 2
  33. JB palpulani. The structure of a Brāhmaṇa tale. In: R. K. Sharma; Mandan Mishra; C. R. Swaminathan (Editorial board), Dr. B. R. Sharma felicitation volume. [Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha]. Tirupati 1986: 189–216.
  34. The Coronation Rituals of Nepal. With special reference to the coronation of King Birendra (1975). In: Niels Gutschow and Axel Michaels (eds.), Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley. Proceedings of an International Conference in Lübeck, June 1985. [Nepalica. 4]. Sankt Augustin 1987: 417–467.
  35. The case of the shattered head. In: Heidrun Brückner (ed.), Festschrift für Wilhelm Rau zur Vollendung des 60. Lebensjahres dargebracht von Schülern, Freunden und Kollegen. Reinbek 1987 (=) StII 13/14 (1987): 363–415.
  36. Tracing the Vedic dialects. In: Colette Caillat (ed.), Dialectes dans les littératures indo-aryennes. Actes du Colloque International organisé par UA 1058 sous les auspices du C.N.R.S avec le soutien du Collège de France, de la Fondation Hugot du Collège de France, de l’Université de Paris III, du Ministre des Affaires Etrangères, Paris (Fondation Hugot) 16–18 Septembre 1986. [Collège de France, Institut de Civilisation Indienne]. Paris 1989: 97–265.
  37. The Realm of the Kurus: Origins and Development of the First State in India. In: Nihon Minami Ajia Gakkai Zenkoku Taikai, Hokoku Yoshi (Summaries of the Congress of the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies). Tokyo 1989: 1–4.
  38. Kumano.kara Woruga.made. (“From Kumano to the Volga”) Zinbun, Annals of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 36 (1990): 4–5. [In Japanese].
  39. Ushi.wo meguru Indojin.no kagae (“On the concept of the sacredness of the Cow in India”) Has 1991, No.1, The Association of Humanities and Sciences, Kobe Gakuin University, 1991, No. 1: 9–20. [In Japanese].
  40. On Indian Historical Writing: The role of the Vaṃśāvalīs. Journal of the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies 2 (1990): 1–57. On Indian historical writing: The case of the Vamsavalis
  41. Notes on Vedic dialects, 1. Zinbun, Annals of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 67 (1991): 31–70.
  42. The Vedic Literature. In: Steven Rosen (ed.), Vaisnavism. Contemporary Scholars Discuss the Gaudîya Tradition. New York 1992: 19–26.
  43. Meaningful ritual. Structure, development and interpretation of the Tantric Agnihotra ritual of Nepal. Ritual, State and History in South Asia. In: A. W. van den Hoek, D. H. A. Kolff, M. S. Oort (eds.), Essays in honour of J. C. Heesterman. Leiden 1992: 774–827.
  44. Toward a History of the Brahmins, JAOS 113.2 (1993): 264–268.
  45. Nepalese Hydronomy: Towards a history of settlement in the Himalayas. In: Gérard Toffin (ed.), Nepal, past and present. Proceedings of the Franco-German conference Arc-et-Senans, June 1990. Paris 1993: 217–266.
  46. The Brahmins of Kashmir. In: Y. Ikari (ed.), A Study of the Nīlamata Purāṇa – Aspects of Hinduism in Ancient Kashmir. Kyoto 1994: 237–294.
  47. Kashmiri manuscripts and pronunciation. In: Y. Ikari (ed.), Studies on the Nīlamata-Purāna. Kyoto 1995: 1–53.
  48. The Kashmiri Brahmins. In: Y. Ikari (ed.), Studies on the Nīlamata-Puraṇa. Kyoto 1995: 211–268. The Kashmiri Brahmins
  49. Looking for the heavenly casket. EJVS 1.2 (1995): 2–12.
  50. Early Indian History: Linguistic and Textual Parameters. In: G. Erdosy (ed.), The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity. [Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, ed. Albrecht Wezler and Michael Witzel. 1]. Berlin/New York 1995: 85–125. [Not corrected].
  51. Tantra and Dharma Teachers from Kashmir in Nepal. IJTS 2.1 (1996).
  52. Editorials, EJVS 1.1 (May 1995): 1.
  53. Editorials, EJVS 1.2 (June 1995): 1.
  54. Ṛgvedic history: poets, chiefains and politics. In: G. Erdosy (ed.), The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity. [Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, ed. Albrecht Wezler and Michael Witzel. 1]. Berlin/New York 1995: 307–352. [Not corrected].
  55. Early Sanskritization. Origins and Development of the Kuru State. EJVS 1.4 (Dec. 1995): 1–26.
  56. [Reprint of No. 54:] Early Sanskritization. Origins and Development of the Kuru State. Journal of the Indological Society of Southern Africa (Dec. 1996): 1–35.
  57. Little Dowry, No Satī. The Lot of Women in the Vedic Period. Journal of South Asia Women Studies 2.4 (1996), 159–170.
  58. How to enter the Vedic mind? Strategies in Translating a Brāhmṇa text. In: Enrica Garzilli (ed.), Translating, Translations, Translators. From India to the West. [HOS, Opera Minora. 1]. Cambridge, MA 1996: 163–176.
  59. On the Archetype of Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya. IIJ 29 (1986), pp. 249-259.
  60. Looking for the heavenly casket. In: Hanns-Peter Schmidt (ed.), Veda-vyākaraṇa-vyākhyāna: Festschrift Paul Thieme zum 90. Geburtstag am 18. März 1995 dargebracht von Schülern, Freunden und Kollegen. Reinbek 1996 (=) StII 20 (1996): 531–544. [Expanded version of no. 48].
  61. Introduction. In: A. Lubotsky, M. S. Oort and M. Witzel (eds.), F. B. J. Kuiper, Selected Writings on Indian Linguistics and Philology. Amsterdam-Atlanta 1997: ix–xxvi.
  62. Early Sanskritization. Origins and development of the Kuru State. In: B. Kölver (ed.), Recht, Staat und Verwaltung im klassischen Indien. The State, the Law, and Administration in Classical India. München 1997: 27–52.
  63. Saramā and the Paṇis. Origins of Prosimetric Exchange in Archaic India. In: Joseph Harris and Karl Reichl (eds.), Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse. Cambridge 1997: 397–409.
  64. Macrocosm, Mesocosm, and Microcosm. The persistant nature of ‘Hindu’ beliefs and symbolical forms. In: S. Mittal (ed.), IJHS Symposium on Robert Levy’s MESOCOSM (=) International Journal of Hindu Studies 1.3 (Dec. 1998): 501–539
  65. [Reprint of no. 56:] Little Dowry. The Lot of Women in the Vedic Period. In: Enrica Garzilli (ed.): Asiatica Association 1997: 159–169.
  66. The Development of the Vedic Canon and its Schools: the Social and Political Milieu. (Materials on Vedic Śākhās, 8). In: Michael Witzel (ed.), Inside the Texts, Beyond the Texts. New Approaches to the Study of the Vedas. Proceeding of the International Vedic Workshop, Harvard University, June 1989. [HOS. Opera Minora. 2]. Cambridge 1997: 257–345. . The Development of the Vedic Canon and its Schools: The Social and Political Milieu. (Materials on Vedic Sakhas 8)
  67. Introduction. In: Michael Witzel (ed.), Inside the Texts, Beyond the Texts. New Approaches to the Study of the Vedas. Proceeding of the International Vedic Workshop, Harvard University, June 1989. [HOS. Opera Minora. 2]. Cambridge 1997: 1–2. .) Introduction. In: Inside the texts, Beyond the Texts. New Approaches to the Study of the Vedas
  68. Classical Studies and Indology. In: H. Nakatani (ed.), Reconstitution of Clas- sical Studies. Special Issue: A Report on the First Symposium towards a Reconstitution of Classical Studies, No. 3. 3/11 (Heisei 11, 1999): 16–36. <http:// www.classics.jp/RCS/index.html>: 古典学の再構築]. Tokyo: National Institute of Informatics: 2001.
  69. Aryan and non-Aryan Names in Vedic India. Data for the linguistic situation, c. 1900–500 B.C. In: J. Bronkhorst & M. Deshpande (eds.), Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia: Evidence, Interpretation and Ideology. Proceedings of the International Seminar on Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25–27 October 1996. [HOS, Opera Minora. 3]. Cambridge 1999: 337–404. . Aryan and non-Aryan Names in Vedic India. Data for the linguistic situation, c. 1900-500 B.C.
  70. Substrate Languages in Old Indo-Aryan (Ṛgvedic, Middle, and Late Vedic). EJVS 5.1 (Aug. 1999): 1–67.
  71. Editor’s Note. EJV1999: 747–748.
  72. {Zusammen mit/ S. Farmer}S 5.2 (1999): 1–2.
  73. Sapta ṛṣayaḥ – The Big Dipper (ursa maior). In: H. Nakatani (ed.), Reconstitution of Classical Studies. 古典学の再構築 研究ノートから No. 4. 4/11 (Heisei 11) Tokyo: National Institute of Informatics : 1999: 36. <hp://www.classics. jp/RCS/index.html>.
  74. The Pleiades and the Bears viewed from inside the Vedic Texts. EJVS 5.2 (Dec. 1999): 17–26.
  75. Jaimini, Mīmāṃā. In: Großes Werklexikon der Philosophie, ed. Franco Volpi. Stuttgart  
  76. Horseplay in Harappa. The Indus Valley  Decipherment Hoax.
     Frontline [Chennai]  Vol. 17 :: No. 19, Oct. 13, 2000, 4-1 https://safarmer.com/fsw2.pdf  —  Horseplay in Harappa: The Indus Valley Decipherment Hoax.
  77. Die sprachliche Situation Nordindiens in vedischer Zit. In: B. Forssman & Robert Plath (eds.), Indoarisch, Iranisch, und die Indogermanistik, Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellsellschaft 1997 in Erlangen. Wiesbaden 2000: 543–579.
  78. Prajātantu. In: Ryutaro Tsuchiyama and Albrecht Wezler (eds.), Harānandalaharī. Volume in Honour of Professor Minoru Hara on his Seventieth Birthday. Reinbek 2000: 457–480.
  79. The Home of the Aryans. In: A. Hintze & E. Tichy (eds.), Anusantatyai. Festschrift für Johanna Narten zum 70. Geburtstag. [MSS, Beihefte. NF 19]. Dettelbach 2000: 283–338. . The Home of the Aryans. 
  80. [zusammen mit/together with] Le Lien Thi, Another interpretation of the inscription found from Da Noi (An Giang). In: The New Discoveries in Archaeology of the Year 2000, Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology, National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities of Vietnam, Institute of Archaeology, 61, Phan Chu Trinh, Hanoi, Vietnam: Science Publishing House, 2000: 775–777 [in Vietnamese].
  81. Autochthonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old In- dian and Iranian Texts. EJVS 7.3 (May 25, 2001): 1–93.
  82. [Reprint of no. 68:] Substrate Languages in Old Indo-Aryan (Ṛgvedic, Middle, and Late Vedic), International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics 30.2 (2001): 1–94 [Proofs not seen by the author].
  83. Addendum to EJVS 7.3, notes 45–46. EJVS 7.4 (July 2001): 1–2.
  84. A first link between the Ṛgvedic Panjab and Mesopotamia: śimbala/śalmali, and GIŠgišimmar? In: Klaus Karttunen and Petteri Koskikallio (eds.), Vidyārṇava-vandanam. Essays in Honour of Asko Parpola. [Studia Orientalia, published by the Finnish Or. Soc. 94]. Helsinki 2001: 497–508.
  85. Sanskrit. In: J. Garry and C. Rubino (eds.), Facts About the World’s Languages: an Encyclopedia of the World’s Major Languages, Past and Present. New York /Dublin 2001: 611–622.
  86. Medieval Veda Tradition as Reflected in Nepalese Manuscripts. JNRC 12 (2001): 255–299.
  87. Out of India: Classical values for Today and Tomorrow. In: H. Nakatani (ed.), Reconstitution of Classical Studies. Special Issue: A Report on a Symposium towards a Reconstitution of Classical Studies, Tokyo: National Institute of In- formatics, 2001. <hp://www.classics.jp/RCS/index.html>: 古典学の再構築]
  88. The Numeral System of Jarawa Andamanese. MT VII (2002): 265–272.
  89. Canon and Continuing Innovation: Indian Approaches to the Classics. In: H. Nakatani (ed.), Classics as a Basis of Creativity. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on the Reconstitution of Classical Studies (ISRCS) Sept. 22–23, Kyoto, 2002, Tokyo: National Institute of Informatics, 2002: 46–55. <hp://www.classics.jp/RCS/index.html>: 古典学の再構築]
  90. [zusammen mit/together with] A. Griffiths, K. B. Upadhyaya, A list of Paippalāda-Atharvavedin settlements according to field-notes by Michael Witzel (1983) and Arlo Griffiths (1998–99, 1999, 2000–01, 2002) with the assistance of Kunja Bihari Upadhyaya. In: A. Ghosh (ed.), Ātharvaṇá: a collection of essays on the Atharva-Veda with special reference to its Paippalâda tradition. Kolkata 2002: 167–179.
  91. Vedas and Upanisads. In: Gavin Flood (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. Oxford/Malden, MA 2002: 68–101.
  92. [zusammen mit/together with] G. Possehl, Vedic. In: P. N. Peregrine and M. Ember (eds.), Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 8: South and Southwest Asia. Published in conjunction with the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University. New York 2003: 391–396.
  93. [zusammen mit/together with] S. W. Jamison, Vedic Hinduism. In: A. Sharma (ed.), The Study of Hinduism. Columbia, SC 2003: 65–113. Vedic Hinduism
  94. The Home of the Aryans. Reprint of no. 75 in: Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān, vol. 2, No. 2, Autumn and Winter 2002–2003 [Tehran: Iran University Press; <www.iup.ir>, published in Oct. 2003] 5–59.
  95. Yājñavalkya as ritualist and philosopher, and his personal language. In: S. Adhami (ed.), Paitimana. Essays in Iranian, Indo-European, and Indian Studies in Honor of Hanns-Peter Schmidt. Volumes I & II. Costa Mesa CA 2003: 103–143.
  96. The Ṛgvedic Religious System and its Central Asian and Hindukush Antecedents. In: A. Griffiths & J. E. M. Houben (eds.), The Vedas: Texts, Language and Ritual. Groningen 2004: 581–636.
  97. Early Linguistic Relationships between Central Asia and South Asia. Tsushin, Tokyo Gaikokugo Daigaku 112 (2004): 74–75.
  98. [zusammen mit/together with Steve Farmer and Richard Sproat], The Collapse of the Indus-Script thesis: The Myth of a Litterate Harappan Civilization, EJVS 11.2 (Dec. 13, 2004): 19–57. Discussion in SCIENCE MAGAZINE  306, Dec. 17., 2004, 2026-2029
  99. Central Asian Roots and Acculturation in South Asia: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence from Western Central Asia, the Hindukush and Northwestern South Asia for Early Indo-Aryan Language and Religion. In: T. Osada (ed.), Linguistics, Archaeology and the Human Past. Kyoto 2004: 87–211.
  100. Indocentrism: Autochthonous visions of ancient India. In: Edwin F. Bryant and Laurie L. Patton (eds.), The Indo-Aryan Controversy: evidence and inference in Indian history. London 2005: 341–404.
  101. The Vedas and the Epics: Some Comparative Notes on Persons, Lineages, Geography, and Grammar. In:P.Koskikallio(ed.), Epics, Khilas, and Purāṇas. Continuities and Ruptures. Proceedings of the third Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas. September 2002. Zagreb 2005: 21–80.
  102.  Notes on Vedic Dialects (2.) In: G. Schweiger (ed.), Indogermanica. Festschrift Gert Klingenschmitt. Indische, iranische und indogermanische Studien dem verehrten Jubilar dargebracht zu seinem fünfundsechzigsten Geburtstag. Taimering 2005: 733–743.
  103. Brāhmaṇas. In: S. Wolpert (ed.), Encyclopedia of India. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006, Vol. 1: 162–165.
  104. Hinduism. In: Sṇ. Wolpert (ed.), Encyclopedia of India. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006, Vol. 2: 188–194.
  105. Languages and scripts. In: S. Wolpert (ed.), Encyclopedia of India. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006, Vol. 3: 50–56.
  106. Rāma’s Realm Indocentric Rewritings of Early South Asian Archaeology and History. In: G. Fagan (ed.), Archaeological fantasies: how pseudoaraeology misrepresents the past and misleads the public. London/New York 2006: 203–232.
  107. South Asian agricultural vocabulary. In: T. Osada (ed.), Proceedings of the Pre-Symposium of RHIN and 7th ESCA Harvard-Kyoto Round Table. Published by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN). Kyoto 2006: 96–120.
  108. Loan words in western Central Asia. Indicators of substrate populations, migrations, and trade relations. In: V. Mair (ed.), Contact and Exhange in the Ancient World. Honolulu 2006: 158–190.
  109. Brahmanical Reactions to Foreign Influences and to Social and Religious Change. In: P. Olivelle (ed.), Between the Empires. Society in India between 300 BCE and 400 CE. Oxford 2006: 457–499.
  110. [zusammen mit/together with] Lê Th.İ Liên, Góp thêm thông tin từ các mảnh vàng cuả Gò 6B (Cát Tiên, Lâm Đồng), NPHMVKCH năm 2007, NXB Từ Điển Bá Khoa, Tr. 685–687.
  111. [zusammen mit/together with] Lê Th.İ Liên (Viện Khảo Cổ Học), (Đại học Harvard, Hoa Kỳ) Góp phần nghiên cứu về các hiện vật kim loại vàng ở Cát Tiên-Lâm Đồng Hội nghị khoa học Cát Tiên lần thứ 3. (A contribution to the study of gold artifacts found from Cat Tien Lam Dong province, Vietnam). Đà Lạt, Lâm Đồng 10–12, 2008.
  112. The Kashmiri Pandits: Their Early History. In: Aparna Rao (ed.), The Valley of Kashmir. The Making and Unmaking of a Composite Culture? Foreword and Introductory Essay by T. N. Madan. New Delhi 2008: 37–95.
  113. Female Rishis and Philosophers in the Veda? (Paper read at a Conf. in Milano, Oct. 18–19, 2002 «Understanding Indian Women: Love, History and Studies»). Journal of South Asia Women Studies 11.1 (2009).
  114. [zusammen mit/together with] Kamala Visweswaran, Nandini Manjrekar, Dipta Bhog, and Uma Chakravarti, Hindutva View of History. Rewriting Textbooks in India and the United States. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (10th Anniversary edition) (2009): 101–112.
  115. Ṛṣis. In: Knut A. Jacobsen (ed.), Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism. [Handbuch der Orientalistik. Zweite Abteilung, Indien]. Leiden 2009, <http://dx.doi. org/10.1163/2212-5019_BEH_COM_1030320> (Online 2008).
  116. Vedic Gods. In: Knut A. Jacobsen (ed.), Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism. [Handbuder Orientalistik. Zweite Abteilung, Indien]. Leiden 2009 (Online 2008), <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2212-5019_BEH_COM_1030010>.
  117. [zusammen mit/together with] S. Farmer, W. Zaumen, R. Sproat, Simulating the evolution of political-religious extremism: implications for international policy decisions. The Cultural Modeling Research Group [CMRG], 2008, 2009.) <htpts://www.safarmer.com/simulations.version.3.0.pdf>.
  118. The linguistic history of some Indian domestic plants. Indian Academy of Sciences. Journal of Biosciences 34.6 (2009): 829–833.
  119. Moving Targets? Texts, language, archaeology, and history in the Late Vedic and early Buddhist periods. IIJ 52 (2009): 287–310.
  120. Kalpasūtras. In: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Berlin 2009: 603.
  121. Gandhāra and the formation of the Vedic and Zoroastrian canons. In: Florin Rotaru (ed.), Traveaux de symposium international. Le Livre. La Roumanie. L’Europe. Troisième édition, 20 à 24 Septembre 2010. Tome III. La troisième section: Études euro- et afro-asiatiques. Bucarest 2011: 490–532.
  122. Origin and Development of Language in South Asia: Phylogeny VS Epigenetics? In: Vidyanand Nanjundiah (ed.), Evolutionary Thinking: Beyond Biology. Indian Academy of Sciences. Bengaluru, 2011: 42–101.
  123. Rückwärts gewandte Propheten. In: Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (ed.), Weist der Fundamentalismus die Wissenschaft in die Schranken? Bibel, Koran und Veda als letzter Maßstab der Erkenntnis? Zukunftsfragen der Gesellschaft. Vorträge des Symposiums vom 24. Februar 2012. [Akademie der Wissenchaften und der Literatur, Mainz. Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse 2012, Nr. 5]. Stuttgart 2012: 14–45.
  124. Poetics and Pronunciation. In: Jared S. Klein and Kazuhiko Yoshida (ed.), Indic Across the Millennia: from the Rigveda to Modern Indo-Aryan. 14th World Sanskrit conference, Kyoto, Japan, September 1st–5th, 2009. Proceedings of the Linguistic Section. Bremen 2012: 227–237.
  125. Iranian migration. In: Daniel Potts (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran. Oxford 2013: 422–441.
  126.  [zusammen mit/together with] Lê Th.İ Liên, Bàn về văn khắc Brahmi và tiếu tượng Hindu giáo thể hiện trên các mảnh vàng phát hiện ở Cát Tiên – Lâm Đồng (“Discussion on Brahmi inscriptions and Hindu iconography presented on the gold plaques found from Cat Tien – Lam Dong”), in Vietnam Review of Indian and Asian Studies 12.13 (2013): 27–36.
  127. Abstract: Three subsequent, major developments in Vedic thought and religion. In: Kokusai Toho Gakusha Kaigi (ed.), Transactions of the International Conference of Eastern Studies, May 25 and June 2, 2012. [Transactions of the International Conference of Eastern Studies. 57]. 2012. Tokyo 2013: 85–86.
  128. Mitanni Indo-Aryan Mazda and the Date of the Ṛgveda. In: D.N. Jha (ed.), The Complex Heritage of Early India. Essays in Memory of R. S. Sharma. New Delhi 2014: 73–96.
  129.  Ershi shiji de xifang wenxianxue – yi yinduxue wei zhongxin de heigu. (“Phi-lology in the 19th and 20th centuries, with special reference to Indology”). In: Gujing lunheng. Disquisitions on the Past and Present 26 (June 2014): 116–150. [In Chinese.]
  130. Textual criticism in Indology and in European philology during the 19th and 20th centuries. EJVS 21.3 (2014): 9–90.
  131. The Central Asian substrate in Old Iranian. MT XX (2015): 149–178.
  132. The Vedas. In: Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford 2015. DOI: 10.1093/ OBO/9780195399318-0146.
  133. Agnihotra Rituals in Nepal. In: Richard K. Payne and Michael Witzel (eds.), Homa Variations. The study of ritual change across the Longue Durée. New York 2016: 371–406.
  134.  On the Current Situation of Vedic Śākhās. (Materials on Vedic Śākhās, 9). In: Jan E. M. Houben, Julieta Rotaru and Michael Witzel (eds.), Vedic Śākhās. Past, Present, Future. Proceedings of the Fifth International Vedic Workshop. Bucharest 2011. [HOS, Opera Minora. 9]. Cambridge 2016: 1–94.
  135. Kashmiri Brahmins under the Kārkoṭa, Utpala and Lohara Dynasties, 625–1151 CE. In: Eli Franco and Isabelle Ratié (eds.), Around Abhinavagupta. Aspects of the Intellectual History of Kashmir from the Ninth to the Eleventh Century. Berlin 2016: 609–644.
  136.  Preface. In: Gautam V. Vajracharya, Nepalese Seasons. Rain and Ritual. New York 2016: 8–9.
  137. A Prosopography of the Śaunakīya Atharvaveda Families of Gujarat As Seen in their Late Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts. In: Joel P. Brereton (ed.), The Vedas in Indian Culture and History. Proceedings of the Fourth International Vedic Workshop (Austin, Texas 2007). Florence 2016: 333–382.
  138.  [zusammen mit/together with] N. Yanchevskaya, Time and Space in Ancient India: Pre-philosophical Period. In: Shyam Wuppuluri, Giancarlo Ghirardi (eds.), Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding. Cham 2017: 23–42.
  139. Bis heute rätselhaft. «Schrift» und Sprache der Indus-Kultur. Antike Welt. Zeitschrift für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte. Sonderband (2017): 6–8.
  140. Introduction (From Harvard, with love), In: P. Vinod Bhattathiripad, Shrikant Bahulkar (eds.), Living Traditions of Vedas. New Delhi 2019: 13–17.
  141. Beyond the Flight of the Falcon: Early ‘Aryans’ within and outside India. In: Kumkum Roy and Naina Dayal (eds.), Questioning Paradigms Constructing Histories. A Festschrift for Romila Thapar. New Delhi 2019: 276–294.
  142. Beyond the Flight of the Falcon: Early ‘Aryans’ within and outside India. In: R. Thapar et al., Which Of Us Are Aryans? Rethinking the Concept of our Origins. New Delhi 2019: 1–29.
  143. Early ‘Aryans’ and their neighbors outside and inside India. Journal of Biosciences 44 (article number 58) (2019) <https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-019- 9881-7>.
  144. Zu den vedischen Akzent-Systemen. In: Norbert Oettinger, Stefan Schaffner und Thomas Steer (eds.), “Denken Sie einfach!” Gedenkschrift für Karl Hoffmann. [MSS. Beiheft Neue Folge. 30]. Dettelbach 2020: 255ff.
  145. Vedic Accentuation Systems during the Middle Ages. In: Renate Söhnen und Frank Köhler (eds.), Präzision und Phantasie: Paul Thiemes Methodik und ihr Einfluss auf die Indologie. Düren 2022: 61–86.
  146. After Meluhha, the Melange. Outlook, March 2022 <https://www.after-meluhha-the-melange/300465>.
  147. The mythological data in the Nivids of the Ṛgveda Khilas. Medhóta śrávaḥ I.  Felicitation Volume in Honour of Mislav Ježic on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Ed. Ivan Adrijanic et al. Zagreb : Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts 2023, 79-91
  148. Tibet viewed from Kashmir. Some notes on the relationship of Kashmir with Ladakh and  other parts of Tibet. History of Tibet. Essays in Honor of Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp. Ed. Kurtis Schaeffer, Jue Liang, William A. Mcgrath. Wisdom Publications New York 2023. 267-279
  149. Indra among the Kalasha. Roots of Peristan. The pre-Islamic Cultures of the Hindukush/Karakorum. Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary Conference ISMEO, Rome, Palazzo Baleani, 5-7 October, 2022. Part II, edited by Alberto M. Cacopardo & Augusto S. Cacopardo. Roma: ISMEO 2023, 859-874
  150. A Multireligious and Multicultural Kashmir under Sultan Zain ul-Abidin, 1418–1470 CE. Pushing the Boundaries of South Asian History. Essays in Honour of Dwijendra Narayan Jha. Ed. Jaya S. Tyagi, Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, Amar Farooqui. Primus Books New Delhi 2024, 181-190.

Forthcoming: 

Notes on Atharvaveda tradition, Śaunaka and Paippalāda. Ed. Oliver Hellwing et  al.

Notes on the Atharvaveda traditions and open issues in their editions. Zurich.

“When the lake drained away”: The 600 Nāgas of Kashmir.  GS N. Allen,  ed. J. d’Huy

K.F. Geldner. Vedic Philology in the Twentieth Century. International Webinar in honour of Ganesh U. Thite. Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd May 2023, ed Ionut Moise.

The Aryan Problem: The Indo-Europeans and Indo-Aryans (Chapter II); The Early Vedic Cosmology, Religion and Ritual (Chapter IV). In: K. M. Shrimali (ed.), A Comprehensive History of India.

III.2 Aufsätze zur vergleichenden Mythologie/Articles on Comparative Mythology

  1. Comparison and Reconstruction: Language and Mythology. MT VI (2001): 45–62 = <http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/Comp_Myth.pdf>
  2. [zusammen mit/together with] S. Farmer, J. B. Henderson, Neurobiology, Layered Texts, and Correlative Cosmologies: A Cross-Cultural Framework for Premodern History. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 72 (2002): 48–90. Neurobiology, Layered Texts, and Correlative Cosmologies: A Cross-Cultural Framework for Premodern History
  3. [zusammen mit/together with] S. Farmer, J. B. Henderson, P. Robinson, Computer Models of the Evolution of Premodern Religious, Philosophical and Cosmological Systems. – Companion piece to No. 2 [Online only: <http:// www.safarmer.com/simulations.pdf
  4. Vala and Iwato. The Myth of the Hidden Sun in India, Japan and beyond. EJVS 12.1 (March 1, 2005): 1–69.
  5. Creation myths. In: T. Osada (ed.), Proceedings of the Pre-Symposium of RHIN and 7th ESCA Harvard-Kyoto Round Table. Published by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN). Kyoto 2006: 284–318.
  6. Out of Africa: The Journey of the Oldest Tales of Humankind. In: Generalized Science of Humanity Series I (Tokyo 2006): 21–65 <http://www.classics.jp/ GSH/book/gshvol_1.pdf>.
  7. Slaying the dragon across Eurasia. In: John D. Bengtson (ed.), In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory. Essays in the four fields of anthropology. In honor of Harold Crane Fleming. Amsterdam/Philadelphia 2008: 263–286.
  8. Releasing the Sun at Midwinter and Slaying the Dragon at Midsummer: A Laurasian Myth Complex. Cosmos. The Journal of the Traditional Cosmology Society, 23 (2007) [2009]: 203–244.
  9. Chuo Ajia Shinwa to Nihon Shinwa (“Central Asian mythology and Japanese Mythology”), Annual Report of the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University. Heisei 21 = Sept. 2009: 85–96. [In Japanese].
  10. Pan-Gaean Flood Myths: Gondwana myths – and beyond. In: Wim M. J. van Binsbergen and Eric Venbrux (eds.), New Perspectives on Myth. Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Ravenstein (The Netherlands) 19–21 August 2008. [PIP- TraCS. No. 5]. Haarlem 2010: 225–242.
  11. Shamanism in Northern and Southern Asia: Their distinctive methods of change of consciousness. Social Sciences Information/Information sur les sciences sociales 50.1 (March 2011): 39–61.
  12. Primordial brother and sister marriage, the Great Flood, and local origins. A worldwide historical and comparative study. In: Situations, Contents, Perspectives. Proceedings of the International Conference on Brother-and-Sister-Marriage Myth and Belief Folklore: Investigation and Research of the Human Ancestor Temple of Yi People in Kaiyuan. 形态.语境.视野 : 兄妹婚神话与信 仰民俗暨云南省开远市彝族人祖庙考察与研究国际学术研讨会论文集 国 现 论丛. Kunming, Yunnan Yunnan da xue u ban she; 昆明 : 云南大学出版社2011: 16–29. ISBN: 9787548206903.
  13. [with Suma Anand] Visiting Deities of the Hopi, Newar and Marind-anim: A Comparative Study of Seasonal Myths and Rituals in Horticultural Societies. Cosmos 28 (2012): 19–55.
  14. Marching East, with a detour: The cases of Jimmu, Videgha Māthava and Moses. In: Klaus Antoni, David Weiß (eds.), Sources of Mythology. Ancient and Contemporary Myths. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology (15–17 May 2013, Tübingen). [Religionswissenschaft: Forschung und Wissenschaft. Bd. 12]. Wien 2014: 280.
  15. Shinwa no de Afurika 21–seiki no shūkyō. (African myth in 21st century religion. In: Inoue Nobutaka (ed.), 21–seiki no shūkyō kenkyū: nōkagaku, shinka seibutsugaku to shūkyōgaku no seen. Tōkyō 2014: 85–122. [In Japanese.]
  16. Water in Mythology, Daedalus 144.3 (2015): 18–26.
  17. Die Laurasiatische Mythologie und ihr Gegenüber. In: Gerhard Bosinski, Harald Strohm und W. Fink (eds.), Höhlen, Kultplätze, Sakrale Kunst. Kunst der Urgeschichte im Spiegel sprachdokumentierter Religionen. Paderborn 2016: 77–107.
  18. [zusammen mit/together with] Gregory Haynes, Of Dice and Divination. Comparative mythology 2.1 (2016): 1–26.
  19. Ymir in India, China – and Beyond. In: Pernille Hermann; Stephen A. Mitchell and Jens Peter Schjødt (eds.), Old Norse Mythology in Comparative Perspective. [Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature. No. 3]. Cambridge, MA 2017: 363–380.
  20. Vedic and Asian Mythology. In: P. V. Bhattatiripad and S. Bahulkar (eds.), Living Traditions of Vedas. New Delhi 2019, 555–600.

IV. Besprechungen /Reviews

  1. Review of: D. Maue, Brhadārayakopaniṣad. Giessen 1976. ZDMG 130 (1980): 613–616.
  2. Review of: J. Gonda, The Mantras of the Agnyupasthāna and the Sautrāmanī. Amsterdam 1980. Kratylos XXVI (1981/2): 80–85.
  3. Review of S. V. Ganapati, Sāma Veda. Delhi: Motilal 1982. ZDMG 136 (1986): 149.
  4. Review: Swati Datta (neé Sen Gupta), Migrant Brahmanas in Northern India. Their Serrlement and General Impact c. A.D. 475–1030. Delhi (Motilal Banarsidass) 1989, XV, 270. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 35.4 (1992): 364–366.
  5. Review: Heinz Bechert (ed.), Zur Schulzugehörigkeit von Werken der Hinayana-Literatur. Zweiter Teil (Symposien zur Buddhismusforschung, III, 2). Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, Dritte Folge, No. 154. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht. 1987: 301–434. JAOS (1991): 581–583.
  6. Review article: Alfred Hillbrandt, Kleine Schriften, ed. R. P. Das. Wiesbaden (Steiner) 1987. JAOS 112.4 (1992): 611–618.
  7. Review article: Swati Datta (neé Sen Gupta), Migrant Brahmanas in Northern India. Their Serrlement and General Impact c. A.D. 475–1030. Delhi (Motilal Banarsidass) 1989, XV, 270. JAOS 114 (1994): 264–268.
  8. Comments on Srinivasan, MT V (1999 [August 2000]): 119–140 [on: L. A. Srinivasan, An Enquiry about Sumerian Words, MT (MT) V: 109–118].
  9. Sāvadhānapatra (1). Little Words with Profound Meaning. Review of Dr. Madhusudan Mishra, From Indus to Sanskrit, (Part One). Delhi: Yugank Publishers 1996. EJVS 7.1 (March 2001): 1–6.
  10. WESTWARD HO! The incredible Wanderlust of the Ṛgvedic Tribes Exposed by S. Talageri. (Saavadhaanapattra no. 2). Review of: Shrikant G. Talageri, TheRigveda. A historical analysis. New Delhi 2000, EJVS 7.2 (Mar 31, 2001): 1–29.
  11. Ein Fremdling im Ṛgveda. Review article of: N. Kazanas, Indigenous Indo-Aryans and the Rigveda (2002). Journal of Indo-European Studies 31.1–2 (2003): 107–185.
  12. Myths and Consequences. Review of: Stefan Arvidsson, Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science. (Chicago University Press 2006). Science 317 (28 September 2007): 1868–1869.  Full Text: 

V. Nachrufe/Obituaries

  1. Karl Hoffmann (1915–1996). IIJ 40.3 (1997): 245–253.
  2. Obituary F. B. J. Kuiper 1907–2003. EJVS 11.1 (2004): 1–17.
  3. F. B. J. Kuiper (1907–2003). IIJ 47.3–4 (2004): 173–191.
  4. 4. Reminiscences of Frits Staal and the Agnicayana. In: G. Thompson and R. K. Payne (eds.), On Meanings and Mantras: Essays in Honor of Frits Staal. Moraga, CA 2016: 601–622.

VI. Sonstiges / Various

  1. The Languages of Harappa (Early linguistic data and the Indus civilization). [Was to be printed in the aborted volume by J. M. Kenoyer, Proceedings of the conference on the Indus civilization, Madison 1998]. Online: <https://fid- 4sa-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/120/1/LanguagesHarappa_1998.pdf>. The Languages of Harappa (Early linguistic data and the Indus civilization)
  2. Report on the Vedic Workshop at Kozhikode and Field Trip. In: P. V. Bhattatiripad and S. Bahulkar (eds.), Living Traditions of Vedas. New Delhi 2019, 13–18.
  3. Afghan Hindu Kush: Where Eurasian Sub-Continent Gene Flows Converge. PLOS ONE (October 18, 2013). <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0076748>
  4. Memories of a Hindu Nepal: Accounts of a Personal Journey. Swadharma. Harvard’s Hinduism Journal I (May 2006): 18–24.

VII. Newspapers and Journals

  1.  [zusammen mit/together with] S. Farmer, Horseplay in Harappa. The Indus Valley Decipherment Hoax. Frontline [Chennai] 17.19 (Oct. 13, 2000): 4–14. https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/article30159584.ece
  2. [zusammen mit/together with] S. Farmer, (Follow up): New Evidence on the ‘Piltdown Horse’ Hoax. Frontline 17.23 (November 11–24, 2000): 126–129. https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/article30255419.ece — New evidence on the ‘Piltdown Horse’ hoax,
  3. Horseplay in Harappa. The Indus Valley Decipherment Hoax. In: Sunil Roy. Maulobadî itihâser mûlyayan Harappâ savyatâ ârya nâ anârya. Kolkatâ 2002: 105–128.
  4. Harappâ meṃ ashva ka nâtak. Sindhu sabhyatâ kî lipi ko pârh lene kâ dhonga. In: Hindutva aur itihâs. Sindhu sabhyatā ke âryakarana kî koshish. [Yeh Samay 7] New Delhi: Sahmat 2000: 34–57. Horseplay in Harappa.
  5. A Bushy Tail: The Piltdown Horse. Wild guesses, fantasy as fact, outright fraud-that’s the staple of revisionist ‘Hindu’ historians. OUTLOOK Magazine 2000. <https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/a-bushy-tail-the- piltdown-horse/210366>
  6. Sanskrit Education: Bowing Our Heads To Tradition? Looking backwards, inwards or finding one’s roots – the why, what and how (and how not) to teach Sanskrit. OUTLOOK Magazine Jul 9, 2001. <htps://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/sanskrit-education-bowing-our-heads-to-tradition/212581>
  7. The HINDU, Open Page: 1/29/02: Indus Civilisation and Vedic society.
  8. The Hindu, Open Page: 3/5/02: Harappan horse myths and the sciences.
  9. The Hindu, Open page: 5/21/02: Horses, logic and evidence.
  10. The Hindu, Open page: 6/25/02: A maritime Rigveda? – How not to read ancient texts.
  11. 8/6/02 The Hindu: Philology vanished: Frawley’s Rigveda — I.
  12. 8/13/02 The Hindu: Philology vanished: Frawley’s Rigveda — II.
  13. 12/4/02 The Hindu: Rewriting History.
  14. 2/11/2003 The Hindu: Ecology, rhetoric or dumbing down? — I.
  15. 2/18/2003 The Hindu: Ecology, rhetoric or dumbing down? –II.
  16. 4/1/2003 The Hindu: ‘Paradigm shift’ in history? — I.
  17. 4/8/2003 The Hindu: ‘Paradigm shift’ in history? — II.
  18. The Hindu (Madras, India), Leader page: Vandalism and preservation, Jan. 12, 2004.