Some publications

[Jan Houben]

Dear friends,
A few recent and less recent publications from France which have not yet
been announced on this list as far as I could see:

Vasundhara Filliozat: Le Raamaaya.na -- L'épopée illustrée par les
sculptures des temples de Hampi -- morceaux choisis et commentés. Palaiseau:
Editions Aagamaat, 2007. (Pictures of a Raama-temple of Hampi explained with
selections from the Vaalmiiki-Raamaaya.na analysed and explained for the
level of advanced sanskrit students.)
André Couture: La vision de Maarka.n.deya et la manifestation du lotus -
Histoires anciennes tirées du Hariva.m;sa (éd cr., Appendice I, no. 41).
Introduction, traduction annotée et texte sanskrit. Préface de
Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat.
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences historiques et philologiques: II
Hautes Etudes Orientales, 43, Extrème-orient 7. Genève: Librairy Droz S.A.,
2007

J. Jamison, The Rig Veda Between Two Worlds : Le Rgveda entre deux monde.
Quatre conférences au Collège de France en mai 2004. Publications de
l'Institut de Civilisation Indienne, fasc. 74, Paris, 2007, 172 p. In
English, summary in French.
Véronique Bouiller et Claudine Le Blanc (textes réunis par): L'usage des
héros: Traditions narratives et affirmations indentitaires dans le monde
indien. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Historiques et
Philologiques, tome 343. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, 2006.

Patrick Gautier Dalché: Du Yorkshire à l'Inde: une « Géographie » urbaine et
maritime de la fin du XIIe siècle (Roger de Howden?)
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences historiques et philologiques: V
Hautes Etudes Médiévales et Modernes, 89. Genève: Librairy Droz S.A., 2005
Note: Three 12th century latin texts are published in this book: Expositio
mappe mundi (EMM), Liber nautarum, and De viis maris; only a few pages of
EMM -- which apparently describes a big world map largely corresponding with
the famous 13th century "Hereford map" (S. Westrem, Turnhout 2001) --
actually deal with India: see p. 147ff:
52. Paulo inferius, inter Gangem flumen et Caucasum, Gangarides Indie
populus a Gange flumine dicitur, super quod habitat.
53. Item ad austrum: decies septies centena et .l. milia passuum longitudo
Indie tenet, teste Solino.
54. Ibi stat monoculus cum uno pede et baculo, cuius titulus est: Solinus.
Monoculi sunt in India singulis cruribus singulari pernicitate qui, ubi se
defendi uelint a calore, resupinati plantarum suarum magnitudine
inumbrantur.
55. Item alius titulus Indie: Quinque milia ciuitatum in India fuisse
creduntur et diuersissime gentes monstruoso uultu, ritu et habitu uario plus
quam credi potest, gemmarum et metallorum affuentia cum periculo totius
generis bestiarum, que omnia plus legenda sunt quam pingenda.
...
78. Ad orientem huius montis Polibrota ciuitas quam inhabitat Prasia gens
Indie ualidissima. Quarum rex DC milia peditum et equitum triginta et
enlefantorum VIII milia habuit cotidie ad stipendium.
79. Hinc ad austrum supra mare est mons Sephar contra insulam Taprobanam.
...
[The text does not seem to offer much that is substantially new for those
familiar with Klaus Karttunen's India and the Hellenistic World (Helsinki
1997), but it testifies to the persistence of ancient beliefs and how they
were integrated into other, more recently empirically obtained
informations.]

Jan Houben