TheHarvard Oriental Series is a book series founded in 1891 byCharles Rockwell Lanman andHenry Clarke Warren. Lanman served as its inaugural editor (1891–1934) for the first 37 volumes. Other editors of the series includeWalter Eugene Clark (1934–1950, volumes 38–44),Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls (1950–1983, volumes 45–48) and Gary Tubb (1983–1990, volume 49).
Currently in its 93rd volume, the series is edited byMichael Witzel, theWales Professor of Sanskrit in the Department ofSanskrit andIndian Studies atHarvard University, and distributed by theHarvard University Press. A subseries,Harvard Oriental Series Opera Minora, "aims at the swift publication of important materials that cannot be included in the mainly text-oriented Harvard Oriental Series."
| Volume | Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1891 | Hendrik Kern | TheJataka-Mala |
| 2 | 1895 | Richard Garbe | Samkhya-Pravacana-Bhasya |
| 3 | 1896 | Henry Clarke Warren | Buddhism in Translations |
| 4 | 1901 | Sten Konow | Rajasekhara'sKarpuramanjari |
| 5 and 6 | 1904 | Arthur Anthony Macdonell | TheBṛhad-devatā attributed toŚaunaka[1][2] |
| 7 and 8 | 1905 | William Dwight Whitney | Atharva Veda Samhita |
| 9 | 1905 | Arthur William Ryder | Mrcchakatika byShudraka |
| 10 | 1906 | Maurice Bloomfield | A Vedic Concordance |
| 11 | 1908 | Johannes Hertel | ThePanchatantra of Purnabhadra[3] |
| 12 | 1912 | Johannes Hertel | ThePanchatantra of Purnabhadra[4] |
| 13 | 1912 | Johannes Hertel | ThePanchatantra of Purnabhadra[5] |
| 14 | 1915 | Johannes Hertel | ThePanchatantra (Tantrakhyayika)[6] |
| 15 | 1912 | Carl Cappeller | Kiratarjuniya ofBharavi |
| 16 | 1922 | Richard Pischel | Sakuntala ofKalidasa |
| 17 | 1914 | James Haughton Woods | The Yoga-System ofPatanjali |
| 18 and 19 | 1914 | Arthur Berriedale Keith | The Veda of theBlack Yajus School |
| 20 | 1916 | Maurice Bloomfield | Rig-Veda Repetitions |
| 21 | 1915 | Shripad Krishna Belvalkar | Rama's Later History or Uttara-Rama-Charita byBhavabhuti |
| 22 | NA | Shripad Krishna Belvalkar | Rama's Later History, Part 2 |
| 23 | NA | Shripad Krishna Belvalkar | Rama's Later History, Part 3 |
| 24 | 1916 | Maurice Bloomfield | Rig-Veda Repetitions, Parts 2 and 3 |
| 25 | 1920 | Arthur Berriedale Keith | Rigveda Brahmanas |
| 26 and 27 | 1926 | Franklin Edgerton | Vikrama's Adventures |
| 28 and 29 and 30 | 1921 | Eugene Watson Burlingame | Buddhist Legends |
| 31 and 32 | 1925 | Arthur Berriedale Keith | The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads |
| 33 and 34 and 35 | 1951 | Karl Friedrich Geldner | DerRig-Veda |
| 36 | 1957 | Karl Friedrich Geldner | DerRig-Veda |
| 37 | 1932 | Robert Chalmers | Buddha's Teachings |
| 38 and 39 | 1944 | Franklin Edgerton | TheBhagavad Gita |
| 40 | 1951 | Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls | Navya-Nyāya Logic |
| 41 | 1950 | Henry Clarke Warren &Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi | Visuddhimagga ofBuddhaghosa |
| 42 | 1957 | D. D. Kosambi and V. V. Gokhale | Subhasitaratnakosa byVidyakara |
| 43 | 1958 | W. Norman Brown | Saundaryalahari ofSankaracarya |
| 44 | 1965 | Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls | Vidyakara's Subhasitaratnakosa |
| 45 | 1965 | Richard Nelson Frye | The Histories ofNishapur |
| 46 | 1968 | Bimal Krishna Matilal | Navya-Nyāya Philosophy |
| 47 | 1968 | Hattori Masaaki | Dignaga'sPramanasamuccaya |
| 48 | 1978 | David Pingree | TheYavanajataka of Sphujidhvaja |
| 49 | 1990 | Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls,Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson andM. V. Patwardhan | The Dhvanyaloka ofAnandavardhana |
| 50 | 1994 | Barend A. van Nooten andGary Holland | Rig Veda |
| 51 | 1996 | Gurinder Singh Mann | The Goindval Pothis |
| 52 | 1997 | Madhav Deshpande | Saunakiya Caturadhyayika |
| 53 | 1998 | V. Raghavan | The Srngaraprakasa ofBhoja, Part 1 |
| 54 | NA | NA | The Srngaraprakasa ofBhoja, Part 2 |
| 55 | 1998 | Gregory G. Maskarinec | Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts, I |
| 56 | 1999 | Edward C. Dimock Jr. | Caitanya Caritamrta ofKrsnadasa Kaviraja |
| 57 | Example | B. R. Sharma | TheSamaveda Samhita, Volume 1 |
| 58 | NA | B. R. Sharma | TheSamaveda Samhita, Volume 2 |
| 59 | NA | B. R. Sharma | TheSamaveda Samhita, Volume 3 |
| 60 | 2002 | Olle Qvarnström | The Yogasastra ofHemacandra |
| 61 | 2002 | Madhav Deshpande | Saunakiya Atharvaveda |
| 62 | 2003 | Iravatham Mahadevan | Early Tamil Epigraphy |
| 63 | 2003 | Karl Friedrich Geldner | Rig-Veda |
| 64 | 2008 | Kurtis R. Schaeffer andLeonard van der Kuijp | An Early Tibetan Survey of Buddhist Literature |
| 65 | 2004 | Michael Witzel | Katha Aranyaka |
| 66 | 2008 | Marco Franceschini | A New Vedic Concordance |
| 67 | 2007 | Todd T. Lewis andSubarna Man Tuladhar | Sugatasaurabha byChittadhar Hridaya |
| 68 | 2008 | Gregory G. Maskarinec | Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts, II |
| 69 | 2008 | Karen H. Ebert andMartin Gaenszle | Rai Mythology |
| 70 | 2008 | Malcolm David Eckel | Bhaviveka and His Buddhist Opponents |
| 71 | 2008 | Lawrence J. McCrea | The Teleology of Poetics in MedievalKashmir |
| 72 | 2010 | Dragomir Dimitrov | The Bhaiksuki Manuscript of the Candralamkara |
| 73 | 2009 | Patrick Olivelle | Vishnu Smriti |
| 74 | 2012 | Lorenz G. Löffler | Ethnographic Notes on the Mru and Khumi of the Chittagong and Arakan Hill Tracts: A Contribution to our Knowledge of South and Southeast Asian Indigenous Peoples mainly based on field research in the Southern Chittagong Hill Tracts |
| 75 | 2013 | Ulrich Timme Kragh | The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners: The Buddhist Yogācārabhūmi Treatise and Its Adaptation in India, East Asia, and Tibet |
| 76 | 2013 | Jeanne Hein andV.S. Rajam | The Earliest Missionary Grammar of Tamil:Fr. Henriques' Arte da Lingua Malabar: Translation, History, and Analysis |
| 77 | 2015 | David Brick | Brahmanical Theories of the Gift: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Dānakānda of the Krtyakalpataru |
| 78 | 2015 | Olle Qvarnström | Bhāviveka onSāmkhya andVedānta: The Sāmkhya and Vedānta Chapters of the Madhyamakahrdayakārikā and Tarkajvālā |
| 79 | 2015 | Tarun Chhabra | The Toda Landscape: Explorations in Cultural Ecology |
| 80 | 2015 | Georg Buddruss andAlmuth Degener | Materialien zur Prasun-Sprache des Afghanischen Hindukusch, Teil I: Texte und Glossar |
| 81 | 2016 | Jonathan A. Silk | Materials Toward the Study ofVasubandhu’s Viṁśikā (I): Sanskrit and Tibetan Critical Editions of the Verses and Autocommentary; An English Translation and Annotations |
| 82 | 2016 | Maho Iuchi | An Early Text on the History of Rwa sgreng Monastery: The Rgyal ba’i dben gnas rwa sgreng gi bshad pa nyi ma’i ’od zer of ’Brom Shes rab me lce |
| 83 | 2016 | John Stratton Hawley | Into Sūr’s Ocean: Poetry, Context, and Commentary |
| 84 | 2016 | Buddruss, Georg and Degener, Almuth | Materialien zur Prasun-Sprache des Afghanischen Hindukusch, Teil II: Grammatik |
| 85 | 2018 | Kṣemendra,Sahaja Bhaṭṭa, andMichael Witzel | Lokaprakāśa by Kṣemendra with the commentary of Sahaja Bhaṭṭa, Volume 1 |
| 86 and 87 | 2018 | Simon Strickland | Materials for the Study ofGurung Pe, volumes I-II |
| 88 | 2019 | Jana Fortier | A Comparative Dictionary of Raute and Rawat: Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Central Himalayas |
| 89 | 2018 | Arthur McKeown | Guardian of a Dying Flame:Śāriputra (c. 1335–1426) and the End of Late Indian Buddhism |
| 90 | 2018 | Kṣemendra,Sahaja Bhaṭṭa, andMichael Witzel | Lokaprakāśa by Kṣemendra with the commentary of Sahaja Bhaṭṭa, Volume 2 |
| 91 | 2019 | Howard Resnick | Vaikhānasa-mantra-praśna V-VIII : (Daivikacatuṣṭayam) |
| 92 | 2018 | Michael Witzel | The Two Oldest Veda Manuscripts: Facsimile Edition of Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā 1–20 (Saṃhitā- and Padapāṭha) from Nepal and Western Tibet (c. 1150 CE) |
| 93 | 2018 | Martin Gaenszle | Ritual Speech in the Himalayas: Oral Texts and Their Contexts |
| Volume | Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1996 | edited byEnrica Garzilli | Translating, Translations, Translators : From India to the West |
| 2 | 1997 | edited byMichael Witzel | Inside the Texts, Beyond the Texts : New Approaches to the Study of the Vedas : Proceedings of the International Vedic Workshop, Harvard University, June 1989 |
| 3 | 1999 | edited byJohannes Bronkhorst andMadhav M. Deshpande | 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 |
| 4 | 2002 | Alexander Lubotsky | Atharaveda-paippalada, Kanda Five : Text, Translation, Commentary |
| 5 | 2007 | Mohan Prasad Khanal andTheodore Riccardi, Jr. | Archaeological Excavations in the Kathmandu Valley : a Report on the 1984–85 and 1988-89 Seasons at Dumakhal |
| 6 | 2010 | Carlos A. Lopez | Atharvaveda-paippalada : Kāṇḍas Thirteen and Fourteen |
| 7 | 2011 | Toshiki Osada andMichael Witzel | 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 |
| 8 | 2012 | Toshiki Osada | Language Atlas of South Asia : Indus Project, Research Institute for Humanities and Nature, Kyoto |
| 9 | 2016 | edited byJan E. M. Houben,Julieta Rotaru &Michael Witzel | Vedic Śākhās : Past, Present, Future : Proceeding of the Fifth International Vedic Workshop, Bucharest 2011 |
| 10 | [volume 10 not yet published] | ||
| 11 | 2019 | Nawaraj Chaulagain | Hindu Kingship Rituals: Power Relation and Historical Evolution |
| 12 | 2020 | Amruta Chintaman Natu | Georg Bühler's Contribution toIndology |