Harry Falk is a retired professor of
Indology at the
Freie Universität in
Berlin.[1][2] He has also been Director of the Institute of Indian Philology and Art History at the Free University in Berlin. He is a noted Indologist.[3][4]
Kushan era
He realized that the astrological Sanskrit-Text Yavanajātaka (79,15) defined the era of the Kushans, i.e. of Kaniṣka I, as śaka 149, that is AD 227. This he linked to the long-established practice of the “dropped hundreds”, which allowed to include contemporary data from the Chinese annals Hou Hanshu. The start of the Kushan era was so defined in AD 127.[5] In addition it became apparent that the Kushan era was used with dropped hundreds up to the fifth century under Gupta rule in Western India.[6][7]
Works
Quellen des Pañcatantra (Freiburger Beiträge zur Indologie) (German Edition, 1978)
ISBN978-3447019569
Bruderschaft und Würfelspiel: Untersuchungen zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des vedischen Opfers (German Edition, 1986)
ISBN978-3925270000
Schrift im alten Indien: Ein Forschungsbericht mit Anmerkungen (ScriptOralia, German Edition, 1993)
ISBN978-3823342717
Asokan Sites and Artefacts: A Source-Book with Bibliography Mainz 2006
ISBN978-3805337120
The tidal waves of Indian history in "Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE" (Oxford University Press 2006)[8]
Foreign terms in Sanskrit in "The Idea of Writing: Play and Complexity (Brill, 2010)[9]
Harisyenalekhapañcasika: Fifty Selected Papers on Indian Epigraphy and Chronology, 2014
ISBN978-3944312040