From somadevah at AOL.COM Sat Oct 1 17:50:57 2005 From: somadevah at AOL.COM (somadeva vasudeva) Date: Sat, 01 Oct 05 10:50:57 -0700 Subject: Supernormal Powers in Ancient Indian Traditions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076850.23782.13210944729085008979.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Brad Clough, Numerous siddhis are described in most "saiva revealed scriptures, and there exist early exegetical works treating this topic too. There exist schemes of classification too, such as uttama-, madhyama-, and adhamasiddhi. The frequently encountered list of eight "yogic" siddhis (a.nimaadaya.h) is usually taught under the name a.s.tagu.na, for succinct definitions of these see K.semaraaja's Svacchandatantroddyota to 10.1073. See also Kira.natantra 58.52--60, Paraakhyatantra 14.93--96 (recently published with a complete annotated translation By D. Goodall in Pondicherry). Besides these "well-known" siddhis "saiva scriptures teach a vast number of more specific attainments, a complete listing of types and sources might be of little use if the context is not taken into account. Quite a bit of the material is readily available in print in the KSTS and the IFP/EFEO series from Pondicherry (including translations). Somadeva Vasudeva >> >> -----Mensaje original----- >> De: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk]En nombre de bclough >> Enviado el: Viernes, 30 de Septiembre de 2005 11:56 a.m. >> Para: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk >> Asunto: Supernormal Powers in Ancient Indian Traditions >> >> >> Dear Colleagues, >> >> (Apologies to RISA subscribers for cross-listing) >> >> I am working on the topic of supernormal powers ("divine" ear and >> eye, knowledge of others' thoughts, memory of past lives, and other >> siddhis/rddhis) in Indian Buddhism, and would like to situate my work >> in the larger context of ancient Indian religions, and so I am >> looking for early Jain and Hindu treatments. I am aware of the Yoga >> Sutra chapter (and commentaries on it) on vibhutis, but am interested >> in other treatments as well. I am more interested in systematic >> discussions, but sustained narratives (from the epics, for example) >> of yogins and tapasvins displaying such powers would be worth >> considering as well. Any suggested references would be most >> appreciated! >> >> Brad Clough >> >> The American University in Cairo >> bclough at aucegypt.edu >> >> > ______________________________________________________________________ > ___ > ?Encuentra trabajo ya! Tenemos miles de vacantes. > www.trabajahoy.com > From arganis at TODITO.COM Sat Oct 1 14:06:50 2005 From: arganis at TODITO.COM (Horacio Francisco Arganis Juarez) Date: Sat, 01 Oct 05 14:06:50 +0000 Subject: Supernormal Powers in Ancient Indian Traditions Message-ID: <161227076848.23782.8836905409544594714.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Brad Clough: You can found many thing like that in the Eleven Canto or Book of Bhagavata-purana, were Sri Krishna V?sudeva, explanaind to his disciple the Siddhis and Chamanism from Mercie Eliade too. With my best wishes Prfr. Horacio F. Arganis J. IEFAC and IBCH Saltillo, Coah North Mexico. > You may find very useful my Sanskrit Mahakavya "Ramapratapa-caritam"(2 vols) with Hindi and English translation and a long introduction, available at Chaukhamba Sanskrit Prakashan, Bunglow Road, Delhi-7. Ths Mahakavya deals with the life and teachings of Ramaprata who was a great sanskrit scholar of the twentieth century and a great Raja-yogi. He had several spritual powers such as Vaak-siddhi( all his words became truth) and Divya Drsti(divine transcental perception) which were experienced by thousands and thousands of persons. An Italian translation of this mahakavya "Vita Di Un Saggio(has been published in Milan (L#Oca Del Cairo) in 2005. > You have selected an excellent topic and I wish you all success. > Rasik Vihari joshi > > > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk]En nombre de bclough > Enviado el: Viernes, 30 de Septiembre de 2005 11:56 a.m. > Para: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk > Asunto: Supernormal Powers in Ancient Indian Traditions > > > Dear Colleagues, > > (Apologies to RISA subscribers for cross-listing) > > I am working on the topic of supernormal powers ("divine" ear and > eye, knowledge of others' thoughts, memory of past lives, and other > siddhis/rddhis) in Indian Buddhism, and would like to situate my work > in the larger context of ancient Indian religions, and so I am > looking for early Jain and Hindu treatments. I am aware of the Yoga > Sutra chapter (and commentaries on it) on vibhutis, but am interested > in other treatments as well. I am more interested in systematic > discussions, but sustained narratives (from the epics, for example) > of yogins and tapasvins displaying such powers would be worth > considering as well. Any suggested references would be most > appreciated! > > Brad Clough > > The American University in Cairo > bclough at aucegypt.edu > _________________________________________________________________________ ?Encuentra trabajo ya! Tenemos miles de vacantes. www.trabajahoy.com From jneuss at ARCOR.DE Sun Oct 2 11:14:38 2005 From: jneuss at ARCOR.DE (JN) Date: Sun, 02 Oct 05 13:14:38 +0200 Subject: Tagore - A Passion Play In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076853.23782.6499366756718044505.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Colleagues, could any body please help me with bibliographic details about Rabindranath Tagore's novel "A Passion Play" (orginal title "choker bali")? I am somehow unable to find out in which anthology it (the English translation) has been published. It is not available in any online catalogue I have access to. Thanks in advance for your help and apologies for possible cross-postings. ________________________ Juergen Neuss Freie Universit?t Berlin Institut fuer Indische Philologie und Kunstgeschichte Koenigin-Luise-Str. 34 a 14195 Berlin (Germany) From plamen at ORIENTALIA.ORG Sun Oct 2 22:54:52 2005 From: plamen at ORIENTALIA.ORG (Plamen Gradinarov) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 05 01:54:52 +0300 Subject: Indian Logic Forum opens today Message-ID: <161227076859.23782.13867511560192466719.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Indian Logic Forum officially opens today at http://nyaya.darsana.org As previously announced, ILF opens today with 30 founding members having expressed their support for the idea. The list of all founding members is published at http://www.darsana.org/experts.html and will function henceforth as a db-driven Registrar for Nyaya Scholars and Experts. 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And thanks Dominik for asking :-) Plamen From r.mahoney at ICONZ.CO.NZ Sun Oct 2 19:34:02 2005 From: r.mahoney at ICONZ.CO.NZ (Richard MAHONEY) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 05 08:34:02 +1300 Subject: Tagore - A Passion Play [Chokher bali] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076856.23782.2614040645886733670.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 00:14, JN wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > could any body please help me with bibliographic details about > Rabindranath Tagore's novel "A Passion Play" (orginal title "choker > bali")? I am somehow unable to find out in which anthology it (the English > translation) has been published. It is not available in any online > catalogue I have access to. > Thanks in advance for your help and apologies for possible cross-postings. > You should be able to find details by following this link: http://itec.indica-et-buddhica.org:81/catalogus/bibliothecae.cat?target=uk-copac&syntax=sutrs&element=F&number=15&proxy=localhost%3A9000&map%28All+Fields%29=%40attr+1%3D1016&map%28Title%29=%40attr+1%3D4+%40attr+4%3D1&map%28Author%29=%40attr+1%3D1003&map%28URL%29=%40attr+gils+2%3D2021&map%28Editor%29=%40attr+1%3D1020&map%28Subject%29=%40attr+1%3D21&map%28Publisher%29=%40attr+1%3D1018&map%28Anywhere%29=%40attr+1%3D1035&map%28Author-Title-Subject%29=%40attr+1%3D1036&map%28ISBN%29=%40attr+1%3D7&map%28ISSN%29=%40attr+1%3D8&map%28Date%29=%40attr+1%3D30&map%28Abstract%29=%40attr+1%3D62&map%28Note%29=%40attr+1%3D63&start=1&field1=subject&op1=and&term1=&field2=all+fields&term2=tagore&op2=and&field3=all+fields&term3=Chokher+bali&op3=and&field4=all+fields&term4=&op4=and&field5=all+fields&term5=&piggyback=0&timeout=30&action=search (Please input as a single line) The main page can be found by following a link from: http://proliant.indica-et-buddhica.org/?q=taxonomy/term/30 Best, Richard -- Richard MAHONEY | internet: indica-et-buddhica.org Littledene | telephone / telefax (man.): ++64 3 312 1699 Bay Road | cellular: ++64 25 829 986 OXFORD, NZ | e-mail: r.mahoney[use"@"]iconz.co.nz From Peter.Bisschop at ED.AC.UK Mon Oct 3 09:16:04 2005 From: Peter.Bisschop at ED.AC.UK (Peter Bisschop) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 05 10:16:04 +0100 Subject: Supernormal Powers in Ancient Indian Traditions In-Reply-To: <7C334612-F236-43D8-87BC-53D707A88696@aol.com> Message-ID: <161227076862.23782.2593638449103472537.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Paa"supatasuutra 1.21--1.26 teaches another set of eight siddhis: duuradar"sana, duura"srava.na, duuramanana, duuravij~naana, sarvaj~natva, manojavitva and vikara.nadharmitva (or vikara.natva according to Kau.n.dinya's Pa~ncaarthabhaa.sya ad loc.). Paa"supatasuutra 1.27--1.37 continues with another list of characteristics of the siddha. In his commentary on Paa"supatasuutra 2.12 Kau.n.dinya also mentions the list of eight "yogic" siddhis (a.nimaadaya.h). For a discussion of these different sets of siddhis see the article by Minoru Hara: `Paa"supata and Yoga: Paa"supata-Suutra 2.12 and Yoga-Suutra 3.37', re-published in: Minoru Hara, Paa"supata Studies (Vienna 2002), pp. 33--46. > The frequently encountered list of eight "yogic" siddhis > (a.nimaadaya.h) is usually taught under the name a.s.tagu.na, for > succinct definitions of these see K.semaraaja's Svacchandatantroddyota > to 10.1073. > See also Kira.natantra 58.52--60, Paraakhyatantra 14.93--96 (recently > published with a complete annotated translation By D. Goodall in > Pondicherry). --- Peter Bisschop Asian Studies 7/8 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW United Kingdom e-mail: Peter.Bisschop at ed.ac.uk phone: +(0)131 650 4174 From silk at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Mon Oct 3 20:55:36 2005 From: silk at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Silk) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 05 13:55:36 -0700 Subject: Etymologies of Zaakya (was: Oak and the Tribe of the Buddha) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076873.23782.3880039886192836933.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Re: Matthew Kapstein's observation on the connection of Zaakya with zak: Vinayak udrakavastu (Derge Kanjur 6, 'dul ba, da 202a5-b4; sTog Kanjur 6, 'dul ba, tha 299b6-300b1), not very poetically: Then the Blessed One spoke to the young brahmin ?mra saying: "Young brahmin, long ago there appeared a king named ?k v?ku Suj?ta, and King ?k v?ku Suj?ta had four sons: Ulk?mukha, Karakar??, Hastikaniya?sa, and N?pura." Having been banished by King ?k v?ku Suj?ta because of some offence, they led their own full sisters and went to another land, and arriving there, in due order they came before too very long to the abode of Kapila on the bank of the river Bhag?rath? in the region of the Himalaya. And they dwelt there having built huts from branches and leaves of trees. Then, avoiding their full sisters, they cohabited with their agnatic half-sisters.Then remaing there [for some time], sons and daughters were born. Then at some later time King ?k v?ku Suj?ta recalled his beloved sons, and spoke to his ministers, saying: "Peasants, where are my sons?" "Lord, thanks to some transgression, they were banished, and taking their own full sisters, they went to another land, and arriving there, in due order [they settled] on the bank of the river Bhag?rath? in the region of the Himalaya, where they dwell having given birth to sons and daughters." Then King ?k v?ku Suj?ta spoke to his minsters saying: "Peasants, were my sons able to do alright?" "Lord, they were able." Then King ?k v?ku Suj?ta was pleased, and stretching out his right hand he uttered a joyous proclamation: "Well, my sons were capable!" Because a distinguished person stated "Well, my sons were capable," they are famous under the name ??kya, the Able Ones. -- Jonathan Silk Department of Asian Languages & Cultures Center for Buddhist Studies UCLA 290 Royce Hall Box 951540 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540 phone: (310)206-8235 fax: (310)825-8808 silk at humnet.ucla.edu From e.demichelis at DIVINITY.CAM.AC.UK Mon Oct 3 14:52:57 2005 From: e.demichelis at DIVINITY.CAM.AC.UK (Elizabeth De Michelis) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 05 14:52:57 +0000 Subject: Tagore - A Passion Play In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076865.23782.1399474825686300085.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Juergen Neuss William Radice is a Tagore expert and may be able to help with Tagore queries. His email is William Radice (I am copying this to him - with greetings!) Best regards Elizabeth De Michelis --On Sunday, October 2, 2005 1:14 pm +0200 JN wrote: Dear Colleagues, could any body please help me with bibliographic details about Rabindranath Tagore's novel "A Passion Play" (orginal title "choker bali")? I am somehow unable to find out in which anthology it (the English translation) has been published. It is not available in any online catalogue I have access to. Thanks in advance for your help and apologies for possible cross-postings. ________________________ Juergen Neuss Freie Universit?t Berlin Institut fuer Indische Philologie und Kunstgeschichte Koenigin-Luise-Str. 34 a 14195 Berlin (Germany) [admin note: date changed from Sat, 3 Jan 1970 16:14:14 +0100] From athr at LOC.GOV Mon Oct 3 18:52:58 2005 From: athr at LOC.GOV (Allen W Thrasher) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 05 14:52:58 -0400 Subject: Tagore - A Passion Play [Chokher bali] Message-ID: <161227076868.23782.2168734666092326381.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> There are a recent Penguin India translation and Hindi movie (on DVD), which should be available commercially. The following records are off OCLC, luckily without too much garbage. Allen Thrasher Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian South Asia Team, Asian Division Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150 101 Independence Ave., S.E. 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Among these four develops a forbidden attraction. 500 __ a Special features: Digitally re-mastered from the original film. 650 _0 a Man-woman relationships z India v Drama. 650 _0 a Widows z India v Drama. 655 _0 a Feature films. 655 _0 a Romance drama. 700 1_ a Mohta, Shrikant. 700 1_ a Soni, Mahendra. 700 1_ a Ghosh, Rituparno. 700 1_ a Chatterjee, Prasenjit. 700 1_ a Raychoudburi, Tota. 700 1_ a Rai, Aishwariya. 700 1_ a Sen, Raima, d 1979- 700 1_ a Chakravarti, Lily. 700 1_ a Raichaudhuri, Suchita. 700 1_ a Mukhopadhjee, Aveek. 700 1_ a Mitra, Arghyakamal. 700 1_ a Misra, Debajyoti. 700 1_ a Tagore, Rabindranath, d 1861-1941. t Cokhera b?ali. l Hindi 710 2_ a Eagle International (Firm) 710 2_ a Shree Venkatesh Films. 710 2_ a Eagle Video (Firm) 710 2_ a Shemaroo Video (Firm) 994 __ a Z0 b LNN 948 __ h NO HOLDINGS IN LNN - 1 OTHER HOLDINGS From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Mon Oct 3 20:26:41 2005 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 05 15:26:41 -0500 Subject: Oak and the Tribe of the Buddha In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076871.23782.16233144673198676147.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> In re Jonathan's remarks on etymology and incest: Tibetan sources do of course repeat the tradition that the Shaakyas maintain incetuous relations with their sisters. They sometimes add -- and here I'm not certain if they are following an Indian source or being inventive -- that this explains the derivation of Shaakya from the root shak, "to be able," for they proved themselves able to perpetuate their race under circumstances in which only the "forbidden deed" (mi rung ba'i las) was possible. Matthew Kapstein From silk at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Tue Oct 4 01:09:43 2005 From: silk at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Silk) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 05 18:09:43 -0700 Subject: Oak and the Tribe of the Buddha In-Reply-To: <003f01c5c87d$369ca570$2930cece@charlie> Message-ID: <161227076879.23782.7285566427009356129.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> In response to J Kirk's doubt: >Is it sure that the "sisters" in question were sisters of the same >lineal descent as the brothers? I refer to my own earlier posting, in which I pointed out that at least the Mulasarvastivada Vinaya version in Skt explicitly distinguishes between svakasvakaa bhaginii and vaimaat.rkaa bhaginii. I don't think it gets much clearer than this. One thing that I have found interesting in my collection and analysis of these stories is precisely this point, that from a legal point of view, as well as a more or less commonsensical one, there isn't a whole lot of difference between a full and half sister. I beliee that the original version has the brothers marry full sisters, an arrangement which was later softened. but why, if the softening doesn't really do much? As far as I have been able to discover, this story (cycle, if you will) has absolutely nothing to do with the legends of cross-cousin marriage of the Buddha, etc etc. (Incidentally, it has been suggested that the 'intrusion,' if this is what it is, of these patterns into the life story of the Buddha owes it origins not to Dravidian influence, as argued most forcefully by Trautman (and others), but perhaps to Iranian influences. I am not qualified to comment on this suggestion. JAS -- Jonathan Silk Department of Asian Languages & Cultures Center for Buddhist Studies Director of South & Southeast Asian Languages Program UCLA 290 Royce Hall Box 951540 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540 phone: (310)206-8235 fax: (310)825-8808 silk at humnet.ucla.edu From jkirk at SPRO.NET Tue Oct 4 00:47:35 2005 From: jkirk at SPRO.NET (jkirk) Date: Mon, 03 Oct 05 18:47:35 -0600 Subject: Oak and the Tribe of the Buddha Message-ID: <161227076876.23782.6538189787222948721.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Is it sure that the "sisters" in question were sisters of the same lineal descent as the brothers? The term "sister" is sometimes not very precise when translating local kinships. I note from J. Silk's message that there must be a term for "full sisters" and "agnatic half-sisters" ....these latter could be daughters of a different mother same father; or, father's brother's daughters would be agnatic sisters (parallel cousins). Northern Indian kinship forbids consanguineal marriage within 7 generations on the male side and 5 on the female side. But an article from The Hindu asserts that "Buddhism allows first cousin marriages..." although which first cousins is not specified.( http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/seta/2002/10/24/stories/2002102400040200.htm ) I ask because there are and were kinship systems in India where uncles married their own sister's daughters (several Brahmin castes in south India), -- a way of sort of "marrying a sister" without doing it -- or their mother's brother's (maternal uncle's) daughters (cross-cousins. Parallel cousin spouses among Hindus are usually if not entirely taboo. These of course would not be referred to as agnatic.) Nur Yalman among others has written a lot on these preferential marriage choices. Granted, the ones he studied were not from northern India. However, the presence of some types of "sister-marriage" in the hills is conceivable. >???From The Hindu (same article): "A foreigner with no knowledge of Indian society would conclude that marriages in India are made not in heaven, but in newspaper inserts. Yet, such ads are not the usual manner of fixing marriages in much of India. They are but recent introduction, hardly 50 years old, used in case there is need for a greater choice; they are used if and only if the long-practised tradition of arranging marriages within the extended family or the sub-community is not to be followed. Even today, in many communities in India (and Pakistan and Sri Lanka), the first preference is to look within the family. Intra-community and consanguineous marriages are still more common and it has been so for centuries. Much of India, particularly South India, has practised endogamy or marriages within the community for centuries. In many communities, preference has been given to uncle-niece marriages, and between cousins (mother's brother's child, father's sister's child). The Tamil wife calls her husband "Athan" (father's sister's son) regardless; and the very word for mother-in-law is "Mamiyar" (respectful way of addressing mother's brother's wife). A recent study had shown that of the 100,000 children studied, 34 per cent were born to consanguineously related parents, and 18 per cent of these were uncle-niece marriages. In Pondicherry, the number of consanguineous marriages was as high as 55 per cent, 25 years ago." Perhaps the texts citing so-called incestuous relations might be questionable as to the kin relationships of the partners in question. Joanna ================ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Kapstein" To: Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Oak and the Tribe of the Buddha > In re Jonathan's remarks on etymology and incest: > > Tibetan sources do of course repeat the tradition > that the Shaakyas maintain incetuous relations > with their sisters. They sometimes add -- and here > I'm not certain if they are following an Indian > source or being inventive -- that this explains > the derivation of Shaakya from the root shak, "to be able," > for they proved themselves able to perpetuate their race > under circumstances in which only the "forbidden deed" > (mi rung ba'i las) was possible. > > Matthew Kapstein From a.passi at ALMA.UNIBO.IT Tue Oct 4 10:15:10 2005 From: a.passi at ALMA.UNIBO.IT (Alex Passi) Date: Tue, 04 Oct 05 12:15:10 +0200 Subject: Etymologies of Zaakya (was: Oak and the Tribe of the Buddha) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076881.23782.11179977276860136071.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> This is quite interesting. Iksvaku's statement that the princes were "able" makes more sense if a pun was present in the earliest version, though I'm not quite sure if it contained all three elements, the 'Saaka grove (apparently not mentioned in the Sarvastivada/Kanjur version), the sakaahi bhaginiihi expression found in the Pali Canon (impossible in the Skt version), and Iksvaku's utterance on the princes being 'saakya, i.e. "capable", which of course the Pali transposes as sakya. The Pali gerundive of the equivalent of Skt. 'sak- is based on a stem sakk- (see sakka & sakku.neyya), so there too the point of Iksvaku's pun would be lost. There is material to suggest an earlier MIA level of the story, in which the three (two?) words were based on similar stems. Furthermore: could it be that that the MSV Sanskrit version introduced the distinction between half sisters and full sisters to give sense to Iksvaku's utterance that the princes were "able" (because they survived in the forest, and, avoiding full incest, found a way to insure the continuation of their lineage), once the pun on the 'saaka trees got "lost in translation"? I am aware that this is highly speculative. Alex Passi Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Orientali University of Bologna. From aklujkar at INTERCHANGE.UBC.CA Wed Oct 5 02:04:53 2005 From: aklujkar at INTERCHANGE.UBC.CA (Ashok Aklujkar) Date: Tue, 04 Oct 05 19:04:53 -0700 Subject: Citation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076889.23782.13436630587635267618.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Rivista degli Studi Orientali, volume LXXV, Fasc. 1-4 (2001), pp. 157-187 ashok aklujkar On 04-10-2005 18:46, "Alfred Hiltebeitel" wrote: > Could anyone help me with the citation for Minoru Hara's article > titled "The Hindu Concept of Friendship: A Note on Sanskrit praNaya." > It would be much appreciated. > > Alf Hiltebeitel > Professor of Religion and Human Sciences > Department of Religion > 2106 G Street, NW > George Washington University > Washington DC 20052 From beitel at GWU.EDU Wed Oct 5 01:46:49 2005 From: beitel at GWU.EDU (Alfred Hiltebeitel) Date: Tue, 04 Oct 05 21:46:49 -0400 Subject: Citation Message-ID: <161227076884.23782.6729604841351166164.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Could anyone help me with the citation for Minoru Hara's article titled "The Hindu Concept of Friendship: A Note on Sanskrit praNaya." It would be much appreciated. Alf Hiltebeitel Professor of Religion and Human Sciences Department of Religion 2106 G Street, NW George Washington University Washington DC 20052 From beitel at GWU.EDU Wed Oct 5 12:24:51 2005 From: beitel at GWU.EDU (Alfred Hiltebeitel) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 05 08:24:51 -0400 Subject: Citation Message-ID: <161227076892.23782.13980959655220373139.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Thanks to Adam Bowles and Ashok Aklujkar. Alf Hiltebeitel Professor of Religion and Human Sciences Department of Religion 2106 G Street, NW George Washington University Washington DC 20052 ----- Original Message ----- From: Adam Bowles Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2005 10:01 pm Subject: Re: Citation > Rivista degli studi orientali, 2002, vol.75, no.1-4, pp.157-187. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alfred > Hiltebeitel > Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:47 AM > To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk > Subject: Citation > > Could anyone help me with the citation for Minoru Hara's article > titled "The Hindu Concept of Friendship: A Note on Sanskrit > praNaya." > It would be much appreciated. > > Alf Hiltebeitel > Professor of Religion and Human Sciences > Department of Religion > 2106 G Street, NW > George Washington University > Washington DC 20052 > From A.Bowles at LATROBE.EDU.AU Wed Oct 5 02:01:13 2005 From: A.Bowles at LATROBE.EDU.AU (Adam Bowles) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 05 12:01:13 +1000 Subject: Citation Message-ID: <161227076887.23782.9146346712971430336.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Rivista degli studi orientali, 2002, vol.75, no.1-4, pp.157-187. -----Original Message----- From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alfred Hiltebeitel Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:47 AM To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Subject: Citation Could anyone help me with the citation for Minoru Hara's article titled "The Hindu Concept of Friendship: A Note on Sanskrit praNaya." It would be much appreciated. Alf Hiltebeitel Professor of Religion and Human Sciences Department of Religion 2106 G Street, NW George Washington University Washington DC 20052 From Palaniappa at AOL.COM Wed Oct 5 16:22:50 2005 From: Palaniappa at AOL.COM (Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 05 12:22:50 -0400 Subject: Ittagi in Karnataka Message-ID: <161227076894.23782.17328326646888805336.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Indologists, I am interested in the etymology of the place name iTTagi in Karnataka. In a 7th-8th century inscription, it is called iTTage. Did the name have anything to do with Sanskrit iSTakA? Thanks in advance Regards S. Palaniappan From r.mahoney at ICONZ.CO.NZ Wed Oct 5 20:00:49 2005 From: r.mahoney at ICONZ.CO.NZ (Richard MAHONEY) Date: Thu, 06 Oct 05 09:00:49 +1300 Subject: Indica-et-Buddhica.org (IeB): site update / new content Message-ID: <161227076896.23782.17120049426357804291.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> [To H-Buddhism subscribers, I apologise for cross posting] Dear Colleagues, The static IeB web site has been migrated to a dynamic content management system on a new platform. This should improve site navigation, searching, response and availability. New material has also been added. Notably RSS news aggregation for related material and IeB Lexica. Lexica is a web interface to a collection of Sanskrit, Tibetan and English dictionaries and word lists, including Sanskrit-Tibetan Terminology based on the `Yog?c?rabh?mi' and `Mah?vyutpatti', and `Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary'. At this point the site as a whole consists of: 1/. Repositorium: a content management platform providing a repository or archive for texts, materials and lexica pertinent to the study of Indian Buddhism, and to Indology and Buddhology in general. http://indica-et-buddhica.org/ 2/. Catalogus Bibliothecarum: a virtual union catalogue providing centralised access to library servers with significant Indological and Buddhological collections. http://indica-et-buddhica.org/?q=node/21 3/. Lexica: a web interface giving access to definitions from a collection of Sanskrit-Tibetan, Sanskrit-English and English-English dictionaries and word lists. http://indica-et-buddhica.org/?q=taxonomy/term/32 4/. Scriptio: a publishing platform used for flagging changes to the web site. http://indica-et-buddhica.org/?q=taxonomy/term/26 5/. Mechanisma: a groupware suite for coordinating group activities and sharing information and documents. http://indica-et-buddhica.org/?q=taxonomy/term/28 Best regards, Richard MAHONEY -- Richard MAHONEY | internet: indica-et-buddhica.org Littledene | telephone / telefax (man.): ++64 3 312 1699 Bay Road | cellular: ++64 25 829 986 OXFORD, NZ | e-mail: r.mahoney[use"@"]iconz.co.nz From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Thu Oct 6 22:42:37 2005 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Thu, 06 Oct 05 17:42:37 -0500 Subject: address query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076899.23782.92470821707663304.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I will be grateful to anyone who might send me the current e-mail address of Stuart Macgregor. Please respond off-list. with thanks, Matthew Kapstein From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Fri Oct 7 23:17:45 2005 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Fri, 07 Oct 05 18:17:45 -0500 Subject: address of Stuart Mcgregor In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076901.23782.3999216676309722780.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> > I will be grateful to anyone who might send me the > current e-mail address of Stuart Mcgregor. > > Please respond off-list. > > with thanks, > Matthew Kapstein > > From veerankp at SIFY.COM Sat Oct 8 11:17:08 2005 From: veerankp at SIFY.COM (NKP veera) Date: Sat, 08 Oct 05 17:17:08 +0600 Subject: eternal upward movement in jainism Message-ID: <161227076903.23782.9287923486016568514.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> sorry if my previous mail is already circulated Vaarttika com. On BS shankarabhaa.sya states that Santatamuurdhvagamana?siilo hi jiiva.h (Anantakrishnashastri edition p.594) Atha mok.sa.h?nigatanikhilakle?satadvaasanasya anaavara.naj~naanasya sukhaiktaanansya aatmano?lokaakaa?sade?saavasthaanam ityeke Apare tu --- uurdhvagamana?siilo hi jiivo dharmaadharmaastikayena baddhas tadvimokaad uurdhva.m gacchatyeva/ sa mok?sa ityuucire (p.595) Sarvadar"sanasa.mgraha quotes this type of Mukti twice. Once in jainamata and second time in nyayamata. tathaa karmarahita aatmaa asa.mgatvaad uurdhva.m gacchati (SDS. P.33, Aandashram Ed. fourth reprint 1977). pa~njaraan muktasya "sukasyeva aatmana.h satatordhvagamana.m muktir iti cet tadaa vaktavya.m (SDS.p.95). where it is stated in jain texts? thanks in advance veeranarayana Pandurangi Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha Tirupati From plamen at ORIENTALIA.ORG Sun Oct 9 06:36:39 2005 From: plamen at ORIENTALIA.ORG (Plamen Gradinarov) Date: Sun, 09 Oct 05 09:36:39 +0300 Subject: Oak and the Tribe of the Buddha Message-ID: <161227076905.23782.9630322563155464528.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dr. Ambedkar writes in his Patana: "Sidhartha Gautam Buddha belongs to Shakya Gana of Adivasis having totem of the tree of Salai and Gautam means a bull which was his totem." http://www.ambedkar.org/patana/patana8.htm What is Salai? Thank you From a.passi at ALMA.UNIBO.IT Sun Oct 9 08:22:05 2005 From: a.passi at ALMA.UNIBO.IT (Alex Passi) Date: Sun, 09 Oct 05 10:22:05 +0200 Subject: Oak and the Tribe of the Buddha In-Reply-To: <000c01c5cc9b$e35ac0e0$9ab7fea9@skknet.net> Message-ID: <161227076907.23782.7298162644383013514.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> On 09/10/2005, at 8:36 AM, Plamen Gradinarov wrote: Dr. Ambedkar writes in his Patana: "Sidhartha Gautam Buddha belongs to Shakya Gana of Adivasis having totem of the tree of Salai and Gautam means a bull which was his totem." http://www.ambedkar.org/patana/patana8.htm What is Salai? Thank you The Salai is apparently the incense tree, Boswellia Serrata, also known as Dhup or Salar. I wonder if Dr. Ambedkar here is confusing it with the 'Saal tree, Shorea Robusta, which appears in Buddhist lore as the tree upon which Maya rested when she gave birth to the Bodhisattva, as well as the tree(s) under which the Buddha passed into Parinirvana. Neither is the same as the 'Saaka or teak tree, Tectona Grandis, apart from the fact that both Shorea and Tectona are valuable timber trees. Alex Passi From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Mon Oct 10 15:34:37 2005 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 05 10:34:37 -0500 Subject: to colleagues at Cambridge U. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076910.23782.3612999688189208866.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> > I will be grateful to anyone who might send me the > current e-mail address of Stuart Macgregor. > > Please respond off-list. > > with thanks, > Matthew Kapstein > > From drdavis at WISC.EDU Mon Oct 10 17:34:59 2005 From: drdavis at WISC.EDU (Donald R. Davis, Jr.) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 05 12:34:59 -0500 Subject: eternal upward movement in jainism Message-ID: <161227076913.23782.18253330250219075095.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> You may find Umaasvati's Tattvaarthasuutra 10.5-6 and its commentaries to be helpful. 10.5 tadanantaram uurdhvam gacchaty aa lokaantaat 10.6 puurvaprayogaad asangatvaad bandhacchedaat tathaagatipariNaamaac ca tadgatiH Best, Don Davis Dept of Languages & Cultures of Asia University of Wisconsin ----- Original Message ----- From: "NKP veera" To: Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 6:17 AM Subject: eternal upward movement in jainism > sorry if my previous mail is already circulated > > Vaarttika com. On BS shankarabhaa.sya states that > > > Santatamuurdhvagamana"siilo hi jiiva.h (Anantakrishnashastri edition > p.594) > > Atha mok.sa.h-nigatanikhilakle"satadvaasanasya anaavara.naj~naanasya > sukhaiktaanansya aatmano'lokaakaa"sade"saavasthaanam ityeke > Apare tu --- uurdhvagamana"siilo hi jiivo dharmaadharmaastikayena baddhas > tadvimokaad uurdhva.m gacchatyeva/ sa mok"sa ityuucire (p.595) > > Sarvadar"sanasa.mgraha quotes this type of Mukti twice. Once in jainamata > and second time in nyayamata. > tathaa karmarahita aatmaa asa.mgatvaad uurdhva.m gacchati (SDS. P.33, > Aandashram Ed. fourth reprint 1977). > pa~njaraan muktasya "sukasyeva aatmana.h satatordhvagamana.m muktir iti > cet tadaa vaktavya.m (SDS.p.95). > > where it is stated in jain texts? > > thanks in advance > > veeranarayana Pandurangi > Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha Tirupati > From arganis at TODITO.COM Fri Oct 14 23:43:00 2005 From: arganis at TODITO.COM (Horacio Francisco Arganis Juarez) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 05 23:43:00 +0000 Subject: is it a new movement in India? Message-ID: <161227076916.23782.14646503936306732505.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Professors: Accept a coordial greeting. I havea interrogateand I hope your can help me with your professional experience. How can you categorize the movement of the Sisters from Calcutta, been founded by the Mother Teresa? Because they use elements characteristic of the bengali religius culture regional. Ne., the white sari that is the uniform of the women widows that when they are consecrated to the religion in the asramas or monasteries to an advanced age. The name matajis, is also an employee in the Hindu traditions for the womens, especially those that saints are considered. They use the rosary in similar form to the japa-mala rosaries that use the devote of Krishna in the school of the Gaudiya-vaisnavism pf Bengala. In short, would they be rotted denomine new religious movement or how? Prfr. Horacio F. Arganis J. U A de C IEFAC IBCH. _________________________________________________________________________ ?Encuentra trabajo ya! Tenemos miles de vacantes. www.trabajahoy.com From jpo at UTS.CC.UTEXAS.EDU Wed Oct 19 14:40:42 2005 From: jpo at UTS.CC.UTEXAS.EDU (Patrick Olivelle) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 05 08:40:42 -0600 Subject: teaching the Arthasastra In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076925.23782.8262389326322793429.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Allen: the only good and accurate translation is by Kangle. His three-volume work originally published by the University of Bombay has recently been reprintd by Motilal. Try to keep him from the Penguin translation by Rangarajan, who has not training in the field (his degree was in Physics and he was a foreign service officer) and has also mutilated the text by shifting passages around. Patrick >Can anyone suggest which translation of the Arthasastra would be >best for a professor of political science to add to a general >graduate level course on political theory, and also which background >material to recommend both for him to learn about the book and to >commend to his students? His training is solely in Western poltical >thought. > >This is posted on both H-Asia and Indology. > > >Thanks, > >Allen Thrasher > >Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian >South Asia Team, Asian Division >Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150 >101 Independence Ave., S.E. >Washington, DC 20540-4810 >tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov >The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the >Library of Congress. From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Wed Oct 19 13:42:23 2005 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 05 08:42:23 -0500 Subject: teaching the Arthasastra In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076922.23782.2758634209182948185.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Probably Rangarajan's trans. in the Penguin Classics series is the best for non-Indologists, though many within the field consider his rearrangements of the text unwarranted. J. Duncan Derrett's article on "Social and Political Thought and Institutions," in Basham's _A Cultural History of India_ makes a useful general introduction to the domain on behalf of the general reader. Hartmut Scharfe, _Investigations in Kautilya's Manual of Political Science_, 2nd ed. 1993, is useful for probing more deeply, and Kangle's ed. and trans. remains the best version overall. Zimmer's discussion in _Philosophies of India_ is of course quite dated, but it makes a good read, introduces aspects of the ancient Indian political ethos accurately enough, and so may be recommended to arouse student interest, though this perhaps applies more to undergrads than to graduate students. Matthew Kapstein From athr at LOC.GOV Wed Oct 19 13:09:33 2005 From: athr at LOC.GOV (Allen W Thrasher) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 05 09:09:33 -0400 Subject: teaching the Arthasastra Message-ID: <161227076919.23782.10880981300816059750.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Can anyone suggest which translation of the Arthasastra would be best for a professor of political science to add to a general graduate level course on political theory, and also which background material to recommend both for him to learn about the book and to commend to his students? His training is solely in Western poltical thought. This is posted on both H-Asia and Indology. Thanks, Allen Thrasher Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian South Asia Team, Asian Division Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20540-4810 tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress. From lmfosse at CHELLO.NO Wed Oct 19 14:04:52 2005 From: lmfosse at CHELLO.NO (lmfosse at CHELLO.NO) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 05 16:04:52 +0200 Subject: teaching the Arthasastra Message-ID: <161227076928.23782.8398010726108693567.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Hello Allen, I am teaching the Arthashastra this semester. Kangle's translation is best. Here is the reading list I have given my student: Obligatory material Hartmut Scharfe: Investigations in Kautalya?s Manual of Political Science. Harrassowitz Verlag 1993. s. 102-251, 275-293) (167 sider) Lars Martin Fosse: The Crux of Chronology in Sanskrit Literature. Statistics and Indology. A Study of Method. Oslo 1997. (side 73-82). J. Heesterman: Kautilya and the Ancient Indian State. I: The Inner Conflict of Tradition. s. 128-141 (13 sider) Patrick Olivelle: Manu and the Arthashastra. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 32: 281-291, 2004. (10 sider) Maria Schetelich: Die mandala-Theorie in Artha- und Nitisastra. I: Recht, Staat und Verwaltung im klassischen Indien. Herausgegeben von Bernard K?lver. M?nchen 1997, s. 211-237. (26 sider) Eva Ritschl: ?berlegungen zu atavi und anderen Gruppen der Anarya-Bev?lkerung im alten Indian nach Sanskritquellen. I: Recht, Staat und Verwaltung im klassischen Indien. Herausgegeben von Bernard K?lver. M?nchen 1997, s. 245-253. (8 sider) J. Duncan M. Derrett: Rajadharma. The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 4, 1976, s. 597-609. (12 sider) Thomas R. Trautmann: A Metrical Original for the Kautiliya Arthasastra?. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 88, No. 2, 1968, 347-349. (2 sider) George Modelski: Kautilya: Foreign Policy and International System in the Ancient Hindu World. The American Political Science Review, Vol. 58, No. 3, 1964, 549-560. (11 sider). Tilsammen: 258 sider Other material: John W. Spellman: Political Theory of Ancient India. A Study of Kingship from th earliest times to circa A.D. 300. Oxford 1964. Bernhardt Breloer: Kautilya-Studien (1927-34) Sten Konow: Kautilya Studies, 1945. Friedrich Wilhelm: Politische Polemiken im Staatslehrbuch Kautilyas. Wiesbaden 1960. Paul Hacker: Anvikshiki, WZKSO 2, 1958. (See also Kleine Schriften). Otto Stein: Megasthenes und Kautilya. Wien, 1921 P. V. Kane: History of Dharmashastra. Poona 1968. (Chap. 14, big section on the Arthashastra, more than a 100 pages). Harry Falk: Die Pr?fung der Beamten im Arthashastra, Wiener Zeitschrift f?r die Kunde S?dasiens, bind. 30, 1986. p. 65ff. Trautmann's statistical study of the AS is probably too off-beat for a professor of politics. Lars Martin > > fra: Allen W Thrasher > dato: 2005/10/19 on PM 03:09:33 MEST > til: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk > emne: teaching the Arthasastra > > Can anyone suggest which translation of the Arthasastra would be best for a professor of political science to add to a general graduate level course on political theory, and also which background material to recommend both for him to learn about the book and to commend to his students? His training is solely in Western poltical thought. > > This is posted on both H-Asia and Indology. > > > Thanks, > > Allen Thrasher > > Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian > South Asia Team, Asian Division > Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150 > 101 Independence Ave., S.E. > Washington, DC 20540-4810 > tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov > The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress. > From athr at LOC.GOV Thu Oct 20 14:03:26 2005 From: athr at LOC.GOV (Allen W Thrasher) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 05 10:03:26 -0400 Subject: history of Kavyamala series Message-ID: <161227076931.23782.15738818391184124644.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Has anyone published a history of the Kavyamala series, or does anyone on the list feel confident they understand it? I am trying to put together the information for the sake of correcting my library's cataloging of it (and possibly some of other libraries' records on OCLC). There is an article on the series by Albrecht Weber drawing the attention of Western indologists to it, which unfortunately was published in the middle of the series: Weber, Albrecht. Ueber [sic] die K*vyam*l*. Giornale della Societ? Asiatica Italiana 7 (1893, 158-172. It appears to me that the basic story is this. It was first published by Niranaya Sagar Press as a monthly. 1886-19?? , each issue containing parts of larger works and/or complete short works. The larger works were promptly republished each separately in a monographic series of the same name, numbered 1-95 (1886-1913). The shorter works were likewise promptly published in compilations called gucchakas (title page mostly identical to that of the monthly, except for numbering), v. 1-14 (1886-1911). A 2nd ed. and a 3rd, revised, ed. were published by Nirnaya Sagar. Various publishers later at varioius dates republished items from the monographic series. The Gucchaka series was reprinted 1988 by Chowkhamba Bharati Akadami. The OCLC records are confusing and I suspect in some cases erroneous. Shaw and Quaraishi's Bibliography of South Asia Periodicals and the BL catalog show no copy of the initial monthly version. There is an article on the series by Albrecht Weber drawing the attention of Western indologists to it, which unfortunately was published in the middle of the series: Weber, Albrecht. Ueber [sic] die K*vyam*l*. Giornale della Societ? Asiatica Italiana 7 (1893, 158-172. I am particularly interested in any person on the list or their institution has a really complete set of the initial monthly. LC has nos. 1-156 (microfiched and then bound and microfiched), plus 157 and 200 (April 1900) (the last mislaid at the time 1-156 was dealt with). But issue 200 has works that end in the middle of the text and with no colophon, thus incomplete, and a publisher both committed and thriving like NSP would have to reason to terminate the project in this way. I would like to know when the monthly ended and perhaps even to acquire microfilm or photocopies of the missing issues, since I think the format has some historical importance for the history of Skt. publishing. BY THE WAY, LET ME TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ENCOURAGE SOMEONE TO STUDY, OR ENCOURAGE TO STUDY, OR ORDER A GRAD STUDENT TO STUDY, THE HISTORY OF SANSKRIT PUBLISHING. It clearly was important not only to our world but even commercially. As I recall when Jim Nye of Chicago was first taking over Maureen Patterson's Sanskrit Series Project, the decision was made to confine it to the one thousand most important _series_. Skt. publishing was clearly not a tiny niche market. It would also be interesting to see how it got into an international market, since it seems (at least to me) that of S. Asian publishing only those in English and in Sanskrit got into international commerce until very recently. (Including Pali and Prakrit with Sanskrit, of course.) Maybe some of the extant old publishers could be persuaded to open their archives. Allen Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian South Asia Team, Asian Division Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20540-4810 tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress. From don8 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU Thu Oct 20 23:28:11 2005 From: don8 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU (Wendy Doniger) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 05 18:28:11 -0500 Subject: INDOLOGY Digest - 15 Oct 2005 to 19 Oct 2005 (#2005-67) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076935.23782.1373658479978629546.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> please unsubsrcribe me from this list. On Oct 19, 2005, at 6:00 PM, INDOLOGY automatic digest system wrote: > > From: INDOLOGY automatic digest system > Date: October 19, 2005 6:00:22 PM CDT > To: INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK > Subject: INDOLOGY Digest - 15 Oct 2005 to 19 Oct 2005 (#2005-67) > Reply-To: Indology > > > There are 4 messages totalling 180 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. teaching the Arthasastra (4) > > > > From: Allen W Thrasher > Date: October 19, 2005 8:09:33 AM CDT > Subject: teaching the Arthasastra > > > Can anyone suggest which translation of the Arthasastra would be > best for a professor of political science to add to a general > graduate level course on political theory, and also which > background material to recommend both for him to learn about the > book and to commend to his students? His training is solely in > Western poltical thought. > > This is posted on both H-Asia and Indology. > > > Thanks, > > Allen Thrasher > > Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian > South Asia Team, Asian Division > Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150 > 101 Independence Ave., S.E. > Washington, DC 20540-4810 > tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov > The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the > Library of Congress. > > > > From: Matthew Kapstein > Date: October 19, 2005 8:42:23 AM CDT > Subject: Re: teaching the Arthasastra > > > Probably Rangarajan's trans. in the Penguin Classics > series is the best for non-Indologists, though many > within the field consider his rearrangements of > the text unwarranted. J. Duncan Derrett's article > on "Social and Political Thought and Institutions," > in Basham's _A Cultural History of India_ makes a > useful general introduction to the domain on behalf > of the general reader. Hartmut Scharfe, _Investigations in > Kautilya's Manual of Political Science_, 2nd ed. 1993, > is useful for probing more deeply, and Kangle's ed. and trans. > remains the best version overall. Zimmer's discussion in > _Philosophies of India_ is of course quite dated, but it makes > a good read, introduces aspects of the ancient Indian political > ethos accurately enough, and so may be recommended to arouse > student interest, though this perhaps applies more to undergrads > than to graduate students. > > Matthew Kapstein > > > > From: Patrick Olivelle > Date: October 19, 2005 9:40:42 AM CDT > Subject: Re: teaching the Arthasastra > > > Allen: the only good and accurate translation is by Kangle. His > three-volume work originally published by the University of Bombay > has recently been reprintd by Motilal. Try to keep him from the > Penguin translation by Rangarajan, who has not training in the > field (his degree was in Physics and he was a foreign service > officer) and has also mutilated the text by shifting passages around. > > Patrick > > > > > >> Can anyone suggest which translation of the Arthasastra would be >> best for a professor of political science to add to a general >> graduate level course on political theory, and also which >> background material to recommend both for him to learn about the >> book and to commend to his students? His training is solely in >> Western poltical thought. >> >> This is posted on both H-Asia and Indology. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Allen Thrasher >> >> Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian >> South Asia Team, Asian Division >> Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150 >> 101 Independence Ave., S.E. >> Washington, DC 20540-4810 >> tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov >> The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the >> Library of Congress. >> >> >> > > From: lmfosse at CHELLO.NO > Date: October 19, 2005 9:04:52 AM CDT > Subject: Re: teaching the Arthasastra > > > Hello Allen, > > I am teaching the Arthashastra this semester. Kangle's translation > is best. Here is the reading list I have given my student: > > Obligatory material > > Hartmut Scharfe: Investigations in Kautalya?s Manual of Political > Science. Harrassowitz Verlag 1993. s. 102-251, 275-293) (167 sider) > > Lars Martin Fosse: The Crux of Chronology in Sanskrit Literature. > Statistics and Indology. A Study of Method. Oslo 1997. (side 73-82). > > J. Heesterman: Kautilya and the Ancient Indian State. I: The Inner > Conflict of Tradition. s. 128-141 (13 sider) > > Patrick Olivelle: Manu and the Arthashastra. Journal of Indian > Philosophy, 32: 281-291, 2004. (10 sider) > > Maria Schetelich: Die mandala-Theorie in Artha- und Nitisastra. I: > Recht, Staat und Verwaltung im klassischen Indien. Herausgegeben > von Bernard K?lver. M?nchen 1997, s. 211-237. (26 sider) > > Eva Ritschl: ?berlegungen zu atavi und anderen Gruppen der Anarya- > Bev?lkerung im alten Indian nach Sanskritquellen. I: Recht, Staat > und Verwaltung im klassischen Indien. Herausgegeben von Bernard > K?lver. M?nchen 1997, s. 245-253. (8 sider) > > J. Duncan M. Derrett: Rajadharma. The Journal of Asian Studies, > Vol. 35, No. 4, 1976, s. 597-609. (12 sider) > > Thomas R. Trautmann: A Metrical Original for the Kautiliya > Arthasastra?. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 88, > No. 2, 1968, 347-349. (2 sider) > > George Modelski: Kautilya: Foreign Policy and International System > in the Ancient Hindu World. The American Political Science Review, > Vol. 58, No. 3, 1964, 549-560. (11 sider). Tilsammen: 258 sider > > Other material: > > John W. Spellman: Political Theory of Ancient India. A Study of > Kingship from th earliest times to circa A.D. 300. Oxford 1964. > > Bernhardt Breloer: Kautilya-Studien (1927-34) > > Sten Konow: Kautilya Studies, 1945. > > Friedrich Wilhelm: Politische Polemiken im Staatslehrbuch > Kautilyas. Wiesbaden 1960. > > Paul Hacker: Anvikshiki, WZKSO 2, 1958. (See also Kleine Schriften). > > Otto Stein: Megasthenes und Kautilya. Wien, 1921 > > P. V. Kane: History of Dharmashastra. Poona 1968. (Chap. 14, big > section on the Arthashastra, more than a 100 pages). > > Harry Falk: Die Pr?fung der Beamten im Arthashastra, Wiener > Zeitschrift f?r die Kunde S?dasiens, bind. 30, 1986. p. 65ff. > > Trautmann's statistical study of the AS is probably too off-beat > for a professor of politics. > > Lars Martin > > >> >> fra: Allen W Thrasher >> dato: 2005/10/19 on PM 03:09:33 MEST >> til: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk >> emne: teaching the Arthasastra >> >> Can anyone suggest which translation of the Arthasastra would be >> best for a professor of political science to add to a general >> graduate level course on political theory, and also which >> background material to recommend both for him to learn about the >> book and to commend to his students? His training is solely in >> Western poltical thought. >> >> This is posted on both H-Asia and Indology. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Allen Thrasher >> >> Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian >> South Asia Team, Asian Division >> Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150 >> 101 Independence Ave., S.E. >> Washington, DC 20540-4810 >> tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov >> The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the >> Library of Congress. >> >> >> > From gruenen at MAIL.SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE Fri Oct 21 14:24:01 2005 From: gruenen at MAIL.SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE (gruenendahl) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 05 14:24:01 +0000 Subject: history of Kavyamala series In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076938.23782.15038912326492787216.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Sorry, but a short answer is all I have time for at the moment: This library has complete sets of both Kavyamala series, which are not directly related to one another, as far as I am aware. Let's call them the short and the long series. Here are to links which should list them both in our OPAC: The short series: http://goopc4.sub.uni- goettingen.de:8080/DB=1/SET=2/TTL=1/FAM?PPN=145566331 The long series: http://goopc4.sub.uni- goettingen.de:8080/DB=1/SET=5/TTL=97/FAM?PPN=129837423 (please remove line breaks) Apart from that, we have a complete set of the original wrappers of all fascicles of the long series, which may be helpful for anyone trying to reconstruct the history of their publication. I don't know of any study of the Kavyamala apart from Weber's short article, which gives some useful hints for users. 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From athr at LOC.GOV Fri Oct 21 22:33:14 2005 From: athr at LOC.GOV (Allen W Thrasher) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 05 18:33:14 -0400 Subject: teaching the Arthasastra Message-ID: <161227076944.23782.7860819619601683480.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Many thanks to Matthew Kapstein, Patrick Olivelle, and Lars Martin Fosse for the quick and helpful responses. The professor is primarily trained in a Great Books tradition rather than quantitative or sociological, and, while not a follower of Leo Strauss, would be inclined to think that one should at least assume at first that every aspect of a text including its arrangement is planned and carefully meant. This would be a disrecommendation for the Penguin trans., in addition to the criticisms already given. I will however add a warning about what Steve Farmer would call the layered quality of many Indian texts. Gratefully, Allen Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian South Asia Team, Asian Division Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20540-4810 tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress. From Axel.Michaels at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Sun Oct 23 17:37:23 2005 From: Axel.Michaels at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (Axel Michaels) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 05 19:37:23 +0200 Subject: New Publications Message-ID: <161227076946.23782.18196237592391636632.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Colleagues, we would like to announce the publication of the first volumes in the new Series ETHNO-INDOLGOY: HEIDELBERG STUDIES IN SOUTH ASIAN RITUALS Edited by Axel Michaels Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden For more details and oder forms see below and http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/IND/aktuelles/sonstiges/reiheEthnoIndology.html. Volume 1 WORDS AND DEEDS ? HINDU AND BUDDHIST RITUALS IN SOUTH ASIA Edited by J?rg Gengnagel, Ute H?sken, Srilata Raman. 2005, 299 p., ISBN 3-447-05152-3 Volume 2 RELIGION AND THE STATE: INITIATING THE MONARCH IN SHAIVISM AND THE BUDDHIST WAY OF MANTRAS Alexis Sanderson forthcoming, ca. 190 p. Volume 3 HANDLING DEATH ? THE DYNAMICS OF DEATH AND ANCESTOR RITUALS AMONG THE NEWARS OF BHAKTAPUR, NEPAL Niels Gutschow, Axel Michaels 2005, 216 p., ISBN 3-447-05160-4 Volume 4 VISUALIZING SPACE IN BANARAS: IMAGES, MAPS, AND THE PRACTICE OF REPRESENTATION Edited by Martin Gaenszle, J?rg Gengnagel 2006, ca. 350 p., ISBN 3-447-05187-6 ---------------------------------------- Contents of Vols. 1 and 2-4 Volume 1 WORDS AND DEEDS ? HINDU AND BUDDHIST RITUALS IN SOUTH ASIA Edited by J?rg Gengnagel, Ute H?sken, Srilata Raman. Axel Michaels General Preface to the ?Heidelberg Studies in South Asian Rituals? J?rg Gengnagel, Ute H?sken, Srilata Raman Editors? Preface G?rard Colas Rites Among Vaikh?nasas and Related Matters: Some Methodological Issues Axel Michaels Samkalpa: The Beginnings of a Ritual J?rg Gengnagel K???kha??okta: On Texts and Processions in V?r??as? Srilata Raman Sam??raya?a in ?r?vai??avism Marion Rastelli Unaltered Ritual in Transformed Religion. The p?j? According to Ahirbudhnyasa?hit? 28 and the Nityagrantha Ute H?sken Sa?sk?ras in Theory and Practice Alexander von Rospatt The Transformation of the Monastic Ordination (pravrajy?) Into a Rite of Passage in Newar Buddhism Oliver Freiberger Ressurection from the Dead? The Br?hma?ical Rite of Renunciation and Its Irreversibility Karin Steiner Proposal for a Multi-Perspective Approach to ?rauta Ritual Monika Horstmann Why Ritual? An Eighteenth-Century Debate Volume 3 HANDLING DEATH ? THE DYNAMICS OF DEATH AND ANCESTOR RITUALS AMONG THE NEWARS OF BHAKTAPUR, NEPAL Niels Gutschow, Axel Michaels Foreword Introduction Part I: Bhaktapur ? The Urban Fabric, Rituals and Ritual Specialists Bhaktapur - a Newar Town in theKathmandu Valley Priests and Purity Specialists in Death Rituals Calendriical Rituals of Death and Renewal Personal Death and Ancestor Rituals Part II: Laty? ? The Ritual of Joining the Ancestors (sapi???kara?a) The Social Background Description of the Laty? Ritual The Ritual Handbooks Part III: Conclusion ? The Dynamics of Newar Death Rituals Textuality and Contextuality Pollution and Purification Embodiment and tactility Deification and Pacification Memory and Mourning Continuity and Change The Uncertainty of Death References Glossary Index DVD Handling Death Volume 4 VISUALIZING SPACE IN BANARAS: IMAGES, MAPS, AND THE PRACTICE OF REPRESENTATION Edited by Martin Gaenszle, J?rg Gengnagel I. Sacred Topography Hans Bakker The Avimuktakshetra in V?r?nas? Its Origin and Early Development Ravi S. Singh and Rana P. B. Singh Goddesses in K??? (V?r?nas?): Spatial Patterns and Symbolic Orders Annette Wilke The Banars? Navadurg? Cycle and its Spatial Orientation Sunthar Visuvalingam and Elizabeth Chalier?Visuvalingam Bhairava in Banaras Negotiating Sacred Space and Religious Identity II. Maps Axel Michaels Mapping the Religious and Religious Maps: Aspects of Transcendence and Translocality in Two Maps of Varanasi J?rg Gengnagel Maps and Processions in Banaras: The Debate Concerning the Pa?cakro??y?tr? Sumathi Ramaswamy Enshrining the Map of India: Cartography, Nationalism, and the Politics of Deity in Varanasi III. Images Niels Gutschow Panoramas of Banaras Joachim K. Bautze Examples of Unlicensed Copies and Versions of Views from Benares: Their Authorship and Identification Sandria B. Freitag Visualizing Cities by Modern Citizens: Banaras Compared to Jaipur and Lucknow IV. Social Practice And Everyday Life Nita Kumar The Space of the Child: The Nation, the Neighbourhood, and the Home Stefan Sch?tte The Social Landscape of the Washermen in Banaras Martin Gaenszle (In Collaboration with Nutan Dhar Sharma) Nepali Places: Appropriations of Space in Banaras Vasudha Dalmia Visions of a New Banaras in the Early Twentieth Century From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Mon Oct 24 14:16:07 2005 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 05 09:16:07 -0500 Subject: rupees past In-Reply-To: <435CC74B.31461.AD2C75@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de> Message-ID: <161227076952.23782.7959897979897701331.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Would any of you have some information on the exchange rate for the rupee in about 1900? If, in addition to the rupee to pounds and/or dollar rates, there are estimates of values in current rupees, i.e., the inflation index, that would be useful to me as well. with thanks, Matthew Kapstein From gruenen at MAIL.SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE Mon Oct 24 11:36:43 2005 From: gruenen at MAIL.SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE (gruenendahl) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 05 11:36:43 +0000 Subject: history of Kavyamala series In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076949.23782.2560931685027795060.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Here is an addition to my short notice on the history of the Kavyamala: The term "Kavyamala" actually designates three things at the same time: - the Kavyamala JOURNAL - and the two Kavyamala SERIES ("long" and "short") put together from the dissected parts of the journal. Let's begin with the monthly journal of 100 pages per issue. It amounts to 237 issues published between 1894 and 1924. Each issue contained two kinds of material: 1. Laghukavyani, i.e. shorter works (stotras etc.) in a continous pagination spaning over several short works (this section of the journal was discontinued in 1906). 2. fascicles of larger works (kavya, nataka etc.), with separate work-by- work paginations. Let me take up Weber's example (see his article, pp. 160f.) and expand it a bit. The contents of issue no. 77 are as follows (spare me the diacritics): 1. Avatarakavi's Isvarasataka This went into vol. 9 of the SHORT Kavyamala SERIES, where it forms part 2 comprising pp. 33-40 of the volume. To expand the example a bit further: part 1, pp. 25-31 of that same vol. 9 of the short SERIES was published in issue no. 76 of the Kavyamala JOURNAL; these two texts included, vol. 9 of the short SERIES contains 11 short works altogether, amounting to 159 pages. 2. Venkatesakavi's Srinivasavilasacampu, pp. 73-80; this is a fascicle of Vol. 33 of the LONG Kavyamala SERIES containing the entire text of that work 3. Purusottamakavi's Visnubhaktikalpalata, pp.33-40; this is a fascicle of Vol. 31 of the LONG Kavyamala SERIES giving the entire text of that work. 4. Krsnananda's Sahrdayananda, pp. 33-40; this is a fascicle of Vol. 32 of the LONG Kavyamala SERIES. 5. Viranandi's Candraprabhacarita, pp. 129-136; this is a fascicle of Vol. 30 of the LONG Kavyamala SERIES. ... etc. (for the rest of the fascicles contained in issue No. 77 of the JOURNAL see Weber). This example shows, the BOTH SERIES were published simultaniously in the JOURNAL. The journal did not have a life of its own, it was ment to be dissected into the various fascicles and then bound into the respective volumes of the two SERIES. The difference between the two SERIES is that the volumes of the short one contain several works, while the volumes of the long one only contain one work. The reconstruction of the JOURNAL requires the wrappers of the original issues (see my previous message). As for the two SERIES, there is a table of contents in Prana Natha / Chaudhuri's catalogue of "Sanskrit Books" of the India Office Library, section 2, pp.1318-1322. For bibliograhic details see: http://goopc4.sub.uni- goettingen.de:8080/DB=1/SET=1/TTL=1/FAM?PPN=13671479X Regards Reinhold Gr?nendahl ******************************************************************** Dr. Reinhold Gruenendahl Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Fachreferat sued- und suedostasiatische Philologien (Dept. of Indology) 37070 G?ttingen, Germany Tel (+49) (0)5 51 / 39 52 83 Fax (+49) (0)5 51 / 39 23 61 gruenen at mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de FACH-INFORMATIONEN INDOLOGIE, GOETTINGEN: http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/fiindolo.htm In English: http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/fiindole.htm GRETIL - Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm From athr at LOC.GOV Mon Oct 24 20:36:52 2005 From: athr at LOC.GOV (Allen W Thrasher) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 05 16:36:52 -0400 Subject: rupees past Message-ID: <161227076954.23782.15148292992195437513.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I can't find anything online that far back, but the fee-based service Global Financial Data claims to have data going back to 1590, and for India going back to 1812. Maybe UC subscribes. My library doesn't. Google searches for Historical Exchange Rates (India) yield various free sites govermental and private and the discovery that "historical" in such contexts means going back at the very most to the 1970s, and usually only a few years. To save you looking, this site takes India back to 1922 but not earlier: Economic History Services . There must be some standard reference book on this for all countries, but I can't find a search strategy to come up with it. If no one else posts anything promptly I'll ask my colleagues in the Business Reading Room. Allen Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian South Asia Team, Asian Division Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20540-4810 tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress. >>> mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU 10/24/05 10:16 AM >>> Would any of you have some information on the exchange rate for the rupee in about 1900? If, in addition to the rupee to pounds and/or dollar rates, there are estimates of values in current rupees, i.e., the inflation index, that would be useful to me as well. with thanks, Matthew Kapstein From hwtull at MSN.COM Mon Oct 24 21:23:50 2005 From: hwtull at MSN.COM (Herman Tull) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 05 17:23:50 -0400 Subject: rupees past Message-ID: <161227076957.23782.17679831413340925185.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Just a guess...did contemporary newspapers list some of these rates? The New York Times archive is available through a subscription service that is probably available at most major U.S. universities. Herman Tull ----- Original Message ----- From: Allen W Thrasher To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 4:36 PM Subject: Re: rupees past I can't find anything online that far back, but the fee-based service Global Financial Data claims to have data going back to 1590, and for India going back to 1812. Maybe UC subscribes. My library doesn't. > Google searches for Historical Exchange Rates (India) yield various free sites govermental and private and the discovery that "historical" in such contexts means going back at the very most to the 1970s, and usually only a few years. To save you looking, this site takes India back to 1922 but not earlier: Economic History Services >. There must be some standard reference book on this for all countries, but I can't find a search strategy to come up with it. If no one else posts anything promptly I'll ask my colleagues in the Business Reading Room. Allen Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian South Asia Team, Asian Division Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20540-4810 tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress. >>> mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU 10/24/05 10:16 AM >>> Would any of you have some information on the exchange rate for the rupee in about 1900? If, in addition to the rupee to pounds and/or dollar rates, there are estimates of values in current rupees, i.e., the inflation index, that would be useful to me as well. with thanks, Matthew Kapstein From m_orelskaya at YAHOO.COM Tue Oct 25 02:18:31 2005 From: m_orelskaya at YAHOO.COM (marina orelskaya) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 05 19:18:31 -0700 Subject: rupees past In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076959.23782.428640905030411939.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> May be, there is some info in Ambedkar's paper on history of rupee. It's available here: http://www.ambedkar.org/ambcd/28B.%20Problem%20of%20Rupee%20CHAPTER%20I.htm Best, Marina Orelskaya > mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU > 10/24/05 10:16 AM >>> > Would any of you have some information on > the exchange rate for the rupee in about 1900? > If, in addition to the rupee to pounds and/or > dollar rates, > there are estimates of values in current rupees, > i.e., > the inflation index, that would be useful to me as > well. > > with thanks, > Matthew Kapstein > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Tue Oct 25 07:25:43 2005 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 05 02:25:43 -0500 Subject: rupees past In-Reply-To: <20051025021831.49489.qmail@web30710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <161227076962.23782.18362907397331921504.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Thanks to Allen Thrasher, Hermann Tull and Marina Orelskaya for your responses. Marina's suggest to consult Ambedkar's book is particularly helpful, as it includes much data on trade and commodity values. This is especially useful in relation to the particular problem that motivated my query: how to interpret late-19th and early-20th c. reports on Tibetan economy and trade, which the agents of the Raj always reported in approximate rupee valuations. Matthew Kapstein From magier at COLUMBIA.EDU Tue Oct 25 16:53:07 2005 From: magier at COLUMBIA.EDU (David Magier) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 05 12:53:07 -0400 Subject: musicological query Message-ID: <161227076964.23782.5549380568971063752.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Colleagues, a scholar is doing research which requires trying to pinpoint the approximate date of composition of the song "O Rangasayee", by Tyagaraja. Would anyone possibly have a pointer to a source for answering this question? Many thanks, David Magier South/Southeast Asia Librarian Columbia Univ. Libraries From bb145 at COLUMBIA.EDU Tue Oct 25 17:29:34 2005 From: bb145 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Bindu Bhat) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 05 13:29:34 -0400 Subject: musicological query In-Reply-To: <685D18B03B7565C9F54C88E5@dyn-iab-165-73.dyn.columbia.edu> Message-ID: <161227076966.23782.17921338606538735011.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> David, Thyagaraja's dates are: 1767-1847 I am not certain about this particular composition's time. But certainly it was between 1767-1847. Bindu --On 25 ??????? 2005 12:53 -0400 David Magier wrote: > Colleagues, > a scholar is doing research which requires trying to pinpoint the > approximate date of composition of the song "O Rangasayee", by Tyagaraja. > Would anyone possibly have a pointer to a source for answering this > question? > > Many thanks, > David Magier > South/Southeast Asia Librarian > Columbia Univ. Libraries From bb145 at COLUMBIA.EDU Tue Oct 25 17:35:21 2005 From: bb145 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Bindu Bhat) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 05 13:35:21 -0400 Subject: musicological query In-Reply-To: <685D18B03B7565C9F54C88E5@dyn-iab-165-73.dyn.columbia.edu> Message-ID: <161227076969.23782.11931790734879853398.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> To add to my previous response, please, look at the following book: Compositions of Tyagaraja / Compiled and edited by T.K. Govinda Rao. -- Chennai : Ganamandir Publications, 1995 and 1999 editions. Bindu --On 25 ??????? 2005 12:53 -0400 David Magier wrote: > Colleagues, > a scholar is doing research which requires trying to pinpoint the > approximate date of composition of the song "O Rangasayee", by Tyagaraja. > Would anyone possibly have a pointer to a source for answering this > question? > > Many thanks, > David Magier > South/Southeast Asia Librarian > Columbia Univ. Libraries From athr at LOC.GOV Tue Oct 25 20:51:22 2005 From: athr at LOC.GOV (Allen W Thrasher) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 05 16:51:22 -0400 Subject: rupees past Message-ID: <161227076971.23782.5361416457780674247.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Matthew, I sent off a request to our Business Reference's email because in addition to assisting you I wanted to find out if there was indeed a general historical reference book on historical currency exchange rates. In the meantime I found what may be a useful subject heading or two: Money--India--history Foreign exchange--India--history On LOC's catalog the second doesn't get any books the first doesn't hit, but you should try both (or Boolean OR) on your own library's database in case it has something on the subjects we don't have. Your institution will have most of these, I am sure. You can also search on the same headings with the omission of India. Also, I think I may have found the mother of reference books on the subject, Jurgen Schneider et al, Wahrungen der Welt, Frankfurt: F. Steiner, 1991- (not yet complete), LCCN 92149206. (Umlauts omitted.) Bd. 4 is on Asian and Austral rates in the 19th c. and Bd. 5 on the same in the 20th. Finally, you might try, with no guarantees on my part, Derek Howard Alcroft, Exchange rate regimes of the twentieth century, 1998, LCCN 98021063. If you look at the record for it on the LOC catalog you will find a link to a long and appreciative review on H-Asia. It seems to focus on the period after the 20s rather and have little on the pre-WWI era. But it has lots of tables. I found Alcroft via the additional subject heading Foreign exchange rates--History. A search on Foreign exchange rates--India (and its subdivisions) doesn't get much that sounds to me to serve your purpose, unless perhaps there is an article in S. Murty, ed., "India's international trade and rupee exchange rate." If it has tables the catalog record ought to say so, but perhaps what the record calls "ill." are really tables. I have not been able to examine any of these. Allen Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian South Asia Team, Asian Division Library of Congress, Jefferson Building 150 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20540-4810 tel. 202-707-3732; fax 202-707-1724; athr at loc.gov The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress. From bb145 at COLUMBIA.EDU Tue Oct 25 21:19:00 2005 From: bb145 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Bindu Bhat) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 05 17:19:00 -0400 Subject: rupees past In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076973.23782.5403859550637155047.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> --On 24 ??????? 2005 09:16 -0500 Matthew Kapstein wrote: > Would any of you have some information on > the exchange rate for the rupee in about 1900? > If, in addition to the rupee to pounds and/or dollar rates, > there are estimates of values in current rupees, i.e., > the inflation index, that would be useful to me as well. > > with thanks, > Matthew Kapstein From bb145 at COLUMBIA.EDU Tue Oct 25 21:39:30 2005 From: bb145 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Bindu Bhat) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 05 17:39:30 -0400 Subject: rupees past In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076976.23782.17469511954179006181.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Matthew, Certain daily newspapers from that time period would have covered such information. I vaguely remember seeing it in one of the newspapers on the front page. I know that Amrit Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), The Times of India (Bombay), and The Hindu (Madras) were published during that time period and may have such information. Her Majesty's Office also used to publish such data. None of this information is specific but I think if you have access to the newspapers, you will find what you are looking for. Hope this is helpful. Bindu --On 24 ??????? 2005 09:16 -0500 Matthew Kapstein wrote: > Would any of you have some information on > the exchange rate for the rupee in about 1900? > If, in addition to the rupee to pounds and/or dollar rates, > there are estimates of values in current rupees, i.e., > the inflation index, that would be useful to me as well. > > with thanks, > Matthew Kapstein From nlpdept at YAHOO.CO.IN Wed Oct 26 08:57:40 2005 From: nlpdept at YAHOO.CO.IN (Srinivasa Varakhedi) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 05 09:57:40 +0100 Subject: New Title in Indology In-Reply-To: <001001c5d7f8$6d4dbe80$f5cbce81@sfb619> Message-ID: <161227076979.23782.1438535229179068298.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear learned members, I am happy to introduce to you a new title in the filed of Indology by my friend and scholar of philosophy Dr. Sundar Sarukkai, who has affiliation with National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc, Bangalore. Hope, this book could be of interest of some of you. Title: "Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science" Author: Sundar Sarukkai, NIAS, Bangalore, India. Publication: 2005. ISBN: 81-87586-22-2 Distributor: Motilal Banarsidass, http://www.mlbd.com Hardback pp. xiii + 268 Price: Rs. 450. This book introduces the reader to Indian logic, epistemology and some aspects of philosophy of language in the Indian traditions as well as themes in philosophy of science. The author argues why and how rational traditions of Indian philosophy yield new concepts and categories for modern contemporary thought, particularly philosophy of science. Indian rational traditions such as Indian logic, drawn from both Buddhist and Ny?ya philosophies, are not only relevant for philosophy of science but are also intrinsically concerned with scientific methodology. Relationships between these traditions and modern Western philosophy are also explored thereby suggesting how Indian philosophy can engage with contemporary philosophy of science. Regards, Shrivara Shrinivasa Varkhedi, Dept. of Shabdabodha and Language Technology Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha deemed University Tirupati, India. --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. From magier at COLUMBIA.EDU Wed Oct 26 15:11:18 2005 From: magier at COLUMBIA.EDU (David Magier) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 05 11:11:18 -0400 Subject: Tyagaraja query Message-ID: <161227076981.23782.12300435696624774711.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Many thanks to all those who generously helped resolve the query on date of composition of Tyagaraja's "O Rangasayi". Here is a synopsis of what we learned: a) From Prof. Harold Powers (Princeton): "According to Professor Sambamurthy's biography, Tyagaraja was invited to Kanchipuram in 1834, and as a consequence of urging by disciples and other admirers, he extended the visit into a pilgrimage to a number of other places (including Madras). It may be (now according to M.S. Ramaswamy Aiyar's biography) that on his eventual return to Tiruvaiyar he veered a bit westward to have darshan of the deity at Srirangam. In any case, "O Rangasayi" is sung to the deity there. If the pilgramage to Srirangam was part of that Grand Tour he made starting in 1834 in Kanchi, one might suppose that "O Rangasayi" was first sung in 1834-1835. But there are many stories about Tyagaraja's compositions, and only a few compositions can be satisfactorily ascribed even to a particular period of his life -- and that almost entirely on the basis of suppositions regarding a hypothetical progression from one particular attitude towards devotion to another. One is therefore mightily tempted to use the invitation from Kanchipuram, for which there is a dated letter of invitation, as a linchpin date for compositions sung to deities outside of Tanjor district." ---------------- | The biographies Prof. Powers refers to are: | | Sambamoorthy, P. | Great musicians. Madras: Indian Music Pub. House. 1985 [2nd ed.] | | and | | Ramaswami Aiyar, M.S. | Thiagaraja, a great musician saint, 1759-1847: with Sargam notation. | New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. 2003 Reprint. | |[DM] ------------- b) From Prof. Indira Viswanathan Peterson (Mt. Holyoke College): "Dear Harry, You beat me to the reply. I completely agree with you. I would dismiss all the stories about "stages of bhakti" guiding his compositions, and I would indeed think of the Kanchipuram invitation and the grand pilgrimage as the possible occasion for the composition of O Rangashayee, which is indeed dedicated to Ranganatha at Srirangam, near Trichy. If we go with this possibility, we could also place "raju vedale jutaamu raare kasturi ranga" in Todi raga (a krti that very clearly invites the listener to view Rangaraja on the banks of the Kaveri in Srirangam -- kaveri tiramu nanu..rangapurini..srivelayu..etc). during the same pilgrimage." c) From Prof. William Jackson (Indiana University): "I would agree with P. Sambamoorthy that O Rangasayi shows signs of being a composition from the later period of Tyagaraja's life. Sambamoorthy says these later compositions "are characterized by mature music and mature ideas in the sahitya. These are highly polished and delicately chiselled pieces." He write this on p. 258 of his book Great Composers, Book II Tyagaraja, seconf edition, Madras: The Indian Music Publishing House, 1970." ---------- Thanks all. Great example of efficient scholarly communication to answer research questions! David Magier Director of Area Studies From Axel.Michaels at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Wed Oct 26 17:25:13 2005 From: Axel.Michaels at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (Axel Michaels) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 05 19:25:13 +0200 Subject: Hamsa Message-ID: <161227076811.23782.11882273898634946676.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> For hamsa, see also Paul Thieme's brilliant study "Kranich und Reiher im Sanskrit", in: Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik, Vol. 1 (1975), 3-36. Best AM Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels Head, Dept. of Classical Indology South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 330 D-69120 Heidelberg Tel. +49-6221-548917 / Fax +49-6221-546338 www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/IND/index.html www.ritualdynamik.uni-hd.de From cln at SAS.UPENN.EDU Thu Oct 27 16:42:07 2005 From: cln at SAS.UPENN.EDU (Christian Lee Novetzke) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 05 12:42:07 -0400 Subject: Tenure-track position in South Indian Studies at Penn Message-ID: <161227076983.23782.5293304763475272898.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Hi All, Please see the announcement below of a job opportunity at Penn. Inquiries should go to Professor Behl directly. Apologies for multiple postings. Yours, Christian The Department of South Asia Studies (SASt) at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in the area of South Indian Studies. Qualified candidates will have expert knowledge of one or more South Indian languages, and also demonstrable competence in a discipline of specialization. A successful candidate must be able to teach broad undergraduate courses, and to instruct graduate students conducting original work in South Indian languages and contexts. Applications will be reviewed starting November 30, 2005. Applicants are encouraged to apply by January 7, 2006. Complete dossiers, including an updated curriculum vitae, sample publications, and a statement of research interests should be sent to: Professor Aditya Behl, Chair, Department of South Asia Studies, 820, Williams Hall, 255, South 36th Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Candidates should also arrange for three confidential letters of reference to be sent to the above address. The University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply. From cln at SAS.UPENN.EDU Thu Oct 27 16:42:11 2005 From: cln at SAS.UPENN.EDU (Christian Lee Novetzke) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 05 12:42:11 -0400 Subject: Two-year teaching post-doctoral fellowship in South Asian cinema at Penn Message-ID: <161227076986.23782.4627294490265044472.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Hi All, Please see the announcement below of a postdoc opportunity at Penn. Inquiries should go to Professor Behl directly. Apologies for multiple postings. Yours, Christian ________________________ The Department of South Asia Studies (SASt) at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a two-year teaching post-doctoral fellowship in South Asian cinema. The successful candidate will be expected to teach two courses per semester on South Asian cinema and film studies. The topic, region, and language of specialization are open, but competence in at least one South Asian language is required. Applications will be reviewed starting November 30, 2005. Applicants are encouraged to apply by January 7, 2006. Complete dossiers, including an updated curriculum vitae, sample publications, and a statement of research interests should be sent to: Professor Aditya Behl, Chair, Department of South Asia Studies, 820, Williams Hall, 255, South 36th Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Candidates should also arrange for three confidential letters of reference to be sent to the above address. The University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply. From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Fri Oct 28 12:41:32 2005 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 05 07:41:32 -0500 Subject: Candelas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227076988.23782.12570105679521296824.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Indology list members, I would be grateful for any recommendations regarding what you think to be the best and most valuable work on the history and culture of the Candela dynasty. However, I'm not looking for lists of references such as can be generated using RLG, WorldCat, etc., and which I know some of you would generously take time to provide. The most thorough work I've located so far seems to be Kes'avaca.mdra Mis'ra, *ca.mdel aur unkaa raajatvakaal* (Varanasi: Naagariipracaari.nii sabhaa, 1999), though I've not yet had time to read this in detail. Informed critical assessments of this work would be most welcome. Matthew Kapstein Chicago and Paris From wedemeyer at UCHICAGO.EDU Fri Oct 28 16:51:27 2005 From: wedemeyer at UCHICAGO.EDU (Christian K. Wedemeyer) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 05 11:51:27 -0500 Subject: Book reviewers sought Message-ID: <161227076990.23782.15756333933499077647.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Friends, I have in recent years been given the responsibility for assigning reviewers to books on South Asian religions for the Journal of Religion (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JR/home.html). We hope to increase the number of South Asian reviews in the coming years, and I am thus always on the lookout for new reviewers. This is a great gig for recent PhDs and/or ABDs who want to add to their publications; though, of course, more senior scholars who would like to do service to the field are also very welcome. (Note that we do not assign reviews to graduate students before they have completed their exams and become "ABD.") So, if you (or your students) are interested, please do (or have them) send me a letter to that effect, including a cv and stating in which general and specific areas you (or they) would like to review books. With many thanks, Christian Wedemeyer P.S. "South Asia" is meant to be fairly broadly construed here, so if you have specialization in South-East or Central Asia, do please mention this. -- Christian K. Wedemeyer Assistant Professor of the History of Religions The University of Chicago Divinity School 1025 East 58th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 USA (773) 702-8265 (phone) (773) 702-8223 (fax) From ersand at HUM.KU.DK Sat Oct 29 08:53:08 2005 From: ersand at HUM.KU.DK (Erik Reenberg Sand) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 05 10:53:08 +0200 Subject: Book reviewers sought Message-ID: <161227076993.23782.3367661308042444000.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Christian, I would be happy to contribute with a review now and then. I do not have an English CV at hand and do not have the time to produce one since I am on my way to India for a month. However, I will say the following few words about myself. Present job: Associate professor with specialisation in Indian religions at the Section of History of Religions, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Artillerivej 86, DK-2300, Copenhagen S. (since 1992). Main research interests: Vedic and Hindu-traditions (especially ritual, pilgrimage and sacred space), religion and law, as well as religion and politics. For recent publications, please see http://www2.adm.ku.dk/kub/puf_www0.publikationer. Otherwise, you may refer to Bruce Lincoln who is probably sitting next to you. Regards Erik Reenberg Sand Chairman, Section of History of Religions -----Original Message----- From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Christian K. Wedemeyer Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 6:51 PM To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Subject: Book reviewers sought Dear Friends, I have in recent years been given the responsibility for assigning reviewers to books on South Asian religions for the Journal of Religion (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JR/home.html). We hope to increase the number of South Asian reviews in the coming years, and I am thus always on the lookout for new reviewers. This is a great gig for recent PhDs and/or ABDs who want to add to their publications; though, of course, more senior scholars who would like to do service to the field are also very welcome. (Note that we do not assign reviews to graduate students before they have completed their exams and become "ABD.") So, if you (or your students) are interested, please do (or have them) send me a letter to that effect, including a cv and stating in which general and specific areas you (or they) would like to review books. With many thanks, Christian Wedemeyer P.S. "South Asia" is meant to be fairly broadly construed here, so if you have specialization in South-East or Central Asia, do please mention this. -- Christian K. Wedemeyer Assistant Professor of the History of Religions The University of Chicago Divinity School 1025 East 58th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 USA (773) 702-8265 (phone) (773) 702-8223 (fax) From arganis at TODITO.COM Sat Oct 29 12:22:51 2005 From: arganis at TODITO.COM (Horacio Francisco Arganis Juarez) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 05 12:22:51 +0000 Subject: Invitation Message-ID: <161227076995.23782.16291749597198976548.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> IEFAC Convocation The Institute of Philosophical Studies A. C., it is allowed to invite to all the investigators and scholars of social sciences to participate in : 1? International Encounter, Philosophy of the Religion in a Globalizade Postmodern World Saltillo, Coah. Mexico. March 30-31, 2006. 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Space open to suggest symposia. There will be translators . Inform: Horacio Francisco Arganis Ju?rez Coordinader: arganis at todito.com (844) 417-7-56 _________________________________________________________________________ ?Encuentra trabajo ya! Tenemos miles de vacantes. www.trabajahoy.com From ersand at HUM.KU.DK Sat Oct 29 20:13:05 2005 From: ersand at HUM.KU.DK (Erik Reenberg Sand) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 05 22:13:05 +0200 Subject: Book reviewers sought Message-ID: <161227076998.23782.11608482121831359722.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear list members, I am sorry that by mistake I posted my answer to Christian on the list! Regards Erik -----Original Message----- From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Christian K. Wedemeyer Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 6:51 PM To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Subject: Book reviewers sought Dear Friends, I have in recent years been given the responsibility for assigning reviewers to books on South Asian religions for the Journal of Religion (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JR/home.html). We hope to increase the number of South Asian reviews in the coming years, and I am thus always on the lookout for new reviewers. This is a great gig for recent PhDs and/or ABDs who want to add to their publications; though, of course, more senior scholars who would like to do service to the field are also very welcome. (Note that we do not assign reviews to graduate students before they have completed their exams and become "ABD.") So, if you (or your students) are interested, please do (or have them) send me a letter to that effect, including a cv and stating in which general and specific areas you (or they) would like to review books. With many thanks, Christian Wedemeyer P.S. "South Asia" is meant to be fairly broadly construed here, so if you have specialization in South-East or Central Asia, do please mention this. -- Christian K. Wedemeyer Assistant Professor of the History of Religions The University of Chicago Divinity School 1025 East 58th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 USA (773) 702-8265 (phone) (773) 702-8223 (fax)