From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL  Thu Apr  2 09:13:08 1992
From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 92 10:13:08 +0100
Subject: responses about PostScript Indic fonts
Message-ID: <161227015287.23782.16193499695984108695.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


I just thought you would like to hear the responses I have had
to my query about the availability of PostScript Indic fonts.
 
None.
 
:-(
 
Dominik
 





From rapus at EDU.TTU.TTACS1  Tue Apr  7 21:55:00 1992
From: rapus at EDU.TTU.TTACS1 (tamhane, pushkar)
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 15:55:00 -0600
Subject: responses about PostScript Indic fonts
Message-ID: <161227015288.23782.14045312802491267987.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

 

Yes! I am interested.
Pushkar.
 





From pms3s at EDU.VIRGINIA.CLAS.FARADAY  Thu Apr  9 17:11:25 1992
From: pms3s at EDU.VIRGINIA.CLAS.FARADAY (Peter M. Scharf)
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 13:11:25 -0400
Subject: responses about PostScript Indic fonts
Message-ID: <161227015290.23782.16997335788248249068.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


Dominik,
It is quite a lot to ask for free fonts.  There is little support
available to develop them.  If one is willing to buy them that is
another matter.
Jerome Bauer at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a
diacritic font for multiple language use (South Asian languages)
called South Asia Times.  I don't know his e-mail address but he
may be reached by writing:
         Department of Oriental Studies
         847 Williams Hall
         University of Pennsylvania
         Philadelphia, PA 19104
Last I knew he was developing a Devanagari font too.  Both would
be laser fonts.
Peter Scharf





From JBRONKHO at CH.UNIL.ULYS  Mon Apr 13 11:50:40 1992
From: JBRONKHO at CH.UNIL.ULYS (JBRONKHO at CH.UNIL.ULYS)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 11:50:40 +0000
Subject: addresses
Message-ID: <161227015292.23782.15626627288859317409.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


Could someone help me finding the postal addresses of the following
scholars? Fax numbers and e-mail addresses will be welcome, too.
Rafaele Torella
V. Lysenko
H. Marui
K. Miyamoto
H. Narain (BHU)
M. Nozawa
Thanks.
Johannes Bronkhorst





From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL  Thu Apr 16 16:58:37 1992
From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 17:58:37 +0100
Subject: A.s.taadhyaayii and Buddhacarita available from the INDOLOGY              listserv
Message-ID: <161227015294.23782.8475276237396179008.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


The listserv software that we use for this INDOLOGY group also
has some functions that enables it to store files for retrieval
by INDOLOGY members.  If you send the message "help" to
the address "listserv at liverpool.ac.uk", you will get some initial
documentation that will tell you what to do next to get a full
description of the listserv's file-server functions.
 
Anyway.  Chris Wooff, who kindly runs the Liverpool end of this
group, has generously agreed to allow some files to be made available
to INDOLOGY members in this manner.
 
I have now sent Chris two files:
 
  o  the A.s.taadhyaayii of Paa.nini (suutrapaa.tha) and
  o  the Buddhacarita of A"svagho.sa (trascribed by Peter Schreiner).
 
The files are in the form of uuencoded ZIP files, and will probably be
sent to you in chunks that have to be concatenated before unpacking.
 
To find out what the files are called, send the message
"index indology" to the address "listserv at liverpool.ac.uk".
 
To retrieve a file, send the message "get <filename> <filetype> indology".
For example, if part two of the Buddhacarita is called buca2.uue, send
the message "get buca2 uue indology".
 
The "index" and "get" commands have many extra features and options.
Get the listserv documentation to find out about them.  Infortunately,
these documents are written in IBMspeak, and are unnecessarily hard
to understand for mere mortals.
 





From rmm16 at UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHOENIX  Sat Apr 25 17:36:03 1992
From: rmm16 at UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHOENIX (Richard Marsden)
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 92 17:36:03 +0000
Subject: Keralan Cosmology/Maths Cont.
Message-ID: <161227015296.23782.828554608417945575.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


This morning, I received a reply from Ramachandran R. Pappadi (who my original
query was for). I quote the relevant part of the letter:
 
"It was nice of you to have posted my query in the bulletin board. Pingree's
book referred to by Mr. K.G.Zysk is not available here but maybe I can get it
through a book seller.
The long message of Dr. Dominik Wujastyk is interesting. Dr. K.V. Sarma is
known to me personally and infact it was with him I had first discussed my
project two years ago. We have in Thiruvananthapuram a manuscripts library
(University of Kerala) where the MSS referred to by Dr. Sarma in his book of
1972 are available.. Some other old texts are available with the Theosophical
Society's library at Adayar, Madras (probably you have heard of Mme. Blavatsky
and her 'The Secret Doctrine'.) A hunt to get more MSS is already on. But the
works of Hayashi, T et al and Gold & Pingree are not available to me. Do you
think I can write to Dr. Dominik Wujastyk for copies? Or is there any other
source from where I can obtain copies on payment? Or can I write to Mr. Michio
Yano?
What Dr. Wujastyk says about the reaction to C.M.Whish's 1832 paper before the
Royal Asiatic Society is true. But his contention that what survived is meagre
is, I am afraid, not reasonable. Numerically it may be so, but by content it is
sufficient to demonstrate their significance. It is probably wrong to search
for any cosmology in their works in the way we understand the term now. Their
idea of cosmos or the model they used to explain the difference between the
predicted and observed planetary & stellar positions cannot be drawn without
relating it to the then prevailing knowledge and the way of interpreting such
knowledge. Hence any attempt to look for a cosmology per se in any Indian work
is fatuitous if it is done without defining the Indian paradigms.
Mr. Michio Yano's observation about a passage in 'Kalakriya' is thankfully
taken note of. I have often found it difficult to visualise the full meaning of
the verses. Their metaphors and euphemisms yield different meanings now.
Without the knowledge of a proper history of knowledge in India and without
relating it to the texts under study an approach to understand the latter, I am
afraid, will continue to yield nebulous results.
I am grateful to them all for the valuable information.
..
But please remember that my interest is ... in demonstrating that knowledge of
the cosmos grew in India as everywhere else in the world it did and Keralite
astronomers had made significant contributions to widen the horizon. I would
also like to show that the methods adopted by them are indicative or a novel
way of approaching truth. The burden of my proposed book is to be that. "
 
 
Dr. Dominik Wujastyk, and Mr. Michio Yano, is it okay for Ramachandran to write
to you?
If anyone else has any information,sources,etc. which may be of use to
Ramachandran, please send details. If necessary, I could pass his address on.
 
Richard Marsden.
(rmm16 at phx.cam.ac.uk)





From QQ43 at UK.AC.LIVERPOOL  Mon Apr 27 14:14:12 1992
From: QQ43 at UK.AC.LIVERPOOL (Chris Wooff)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 14:14:12 +0000
Subject: posting request
Message-ID: <161227015297.23782.6862154196663380261.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

 
 

************************** Original message *****************************
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1992 07:36 EST
From: DELAHUNT at EDU.NYU.ACFcluster
Subject: posting request
To: qq43 at uk.ac.liverpool
X-VMS-To: IN%"qq43 at liverpool.ac.uk"
 
Dear Chris,
 
I am a recent subscriber to INDOLOGY.  If appropriate, would you mind posting
the following query to the list?  Thank you. -- R. Scott deLahunta
 
 
 
*****************************************
 
Can anyone on this discussion list illuminate for me contemporary roles and
representations of the Vidusaka (clown of Sanskrit drama)?  For example - I
know that the Vidusaka is a central character in the Kutiyattam of Kerala, but
wonder if he can be found as a character in any of the shadow puppetry of
Southern India?  In addition, I would like to know if iconic representations
exist of the Vidusaka (similar to the ones which exist for Semar, clown of
Indonesian Wayang Kulit).
 
I am currently a graduate student at NYU and writing a paper on the Vidusaka.
I have found plenty of history (natyasastra, etc.) and dramatic analysis of
this character, but little of current socio-cultural significance.
 
Please respond to me directly, thank you.
 
******************************************
R. Scott deLahunta
79 Clinton St., #17
New York, NY 10002
212-533-8019 (h)
212-998-7364 (w)
Internet: in%"delahunt at acfcluster.nyu.edu"
Bitnet: bitnet%"delahunt at nyuacf"
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From ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL  Wed Apr 29 18:49:03 1992
From: ucgadkw at UK.AC.UCL (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 19:49:03 +0100
Subject: It's official! The new Spalding Professor
Message-ID: <161227015299.23782.7322789732554776806.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

 

Alexis Sanderson has been elected Spalding Professor of
Eastern Religions and Ethics at All Souls College, Oxford.
 
The former Spalding professors were S. Radhakrishnan, R. C. Zaehner
and B. K. Matilal.
 
Alexis Sanderson, formerly Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit at Wolfson
College, Oxford, has taught Sanskrit at Oxford since 1974 (when
Anne-Marie Gaston, Geoff Bottomly and I were his first students).
Widely read in kaavya, vyaakarana and other "saastras, he has
specialized in particular in the history of tantric literature and
religion; few scholars inside or outside India could rival his
knowledge of tantric texts and traditions.  In recent years, Alexis has
recovered much early tantric material of great historical
importance from the fund of tantric manuscripts discovered by
the German-Nepal microfilming project.
 
Alexis has three books on aspects of the history and interpretation of
tantra forthcoming with the SUNY press.
 
Dominik
 





From CXEV at CA.MCGILL.MUSICA  Thu Apr 30 13:34:45 1992
From: CXEV at CA.MCGILL.MUSICA (Richard P Hayes)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 08:34:45 -0500
Subject: The truth about Gandhi, at last!
Message-ID: <161227015301.23782.10961961337908617717.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>


Dear colleagues,
 
Owing to the notoriously short attention span of Canadians, our
academic year ends in mid-April, and we are now in the midst of the
examination period. This is the time of year in which we learn all
sorts of new and interesting things about the subjects we have been
teaching for the past semester.
 
On an essay on Islam, one of my first-year students wrote: "Mahatma
Gandhi was a very strick [sic] Muslim, who was assasanated [even more
sic] by a fundamentalist on his way home from the pilgrimage to Mecca."
(On the topic of the Hajj, another student wrote that the pilgrimage is
required of all Muslims except those who die before they have a chance
to go. It's good to know that the rule has a few reasonable
exceptions.)
 
Those of you who live and work in the civilized part of the world may
not be aware of the interesting approach to higher learning we have
here in North America, where the operating principle seems to be that
people teach best what they know least about. And so it is that I have
been assigned for the past four years to teach a course on Islam, a
subject on which I did not get even the most minimal training in my
years of following courses in Sanskrit language and Indian Buddhist
philosophy. After all, I suppose it would be a bit foolish to let
Islam be taught by one of the ten or so highly qualified Islamicists
in our Islamic Studies Institute here.
 
I should not be surprised to be approached by the dean one day and
asked "Here, you have a bit of knowledge of Panini. Would you mind
teaching a course in entomology?" We might then learn that Gandhi was
not a strick Muslim at all, but a species of lepidopteron (or was he
only a Chinese philosopher, dreaming he was a butterfly?)!
 
Richard Hayes
Somewhere in Canada, I think