Enquiry with regard to colour symbolism in Hindu Traditions

Wed Nov 3 10:53:07 UTC 2010

I *thought* that it was something in Dutch, or perhaps Latin ...

Jonathan
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Anna A. Slaczka <annamisia at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Are you thinking of: Dharma and society : a comparative study of the theory
> and the ideal of Varna ("natural class") and the phenomena of caste and
> class by Mees (1935)? I have no idea if it says anything about varna as
> colour.
>
> Beste,
>
> Anna Slaczka
> The Rijksmuseum
> Amsterdam
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 11/3/10, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > From: Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Enquiry with regard to colour symbolism in Hindu
> Traditions
> > To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> > Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 9:23 AM
> > Klaus is right and my memory was
> > faulty; Huizinga indeed wrote on the
> > vidusaka. But I still believe that some Dutch scholar wrote
> > a thesis on
> > varna as color--Arlo, do you know?
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Klaus Karttunen <
> klaus.karttunen at helsinki.fi
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Jonathan and others.
> > >
> > > According to my notes Huizingas diss. was not on
> > colours, but  *De
> > > vidûsaka in het Indisch tooneel.* 155 p. Groningen
> > 1897.
> > > Other discussions of colours include:
> > > FILLIOZAT, Jean: "Classement des couleurs et des
> > lumières en sanscrit", *Problèmes
> > > de la couleur.* P. 1957, 303-308 (*Laghuprabandha*
> > 185-190).
> > > GRÖNBOLD, Günter: "Die Farbensymbolik in der
> > buddhistischen Ikonographie",
> > > *As.St./Ét.as.* 32, 1978, 117-122.
> > > HOPKINS, Edward Washburn: “Words for Color in the
> > Rig-Veda”, *AJPh* 4,
> > > 1883, 166-191.
> > > SIVAPRIYANANDA: "Colour symbolism and the
> > ‘tri-guṇa’ concept", *JOIB*38:1-2, 1988, 33-41.
> > >
> > > Note further:
> > > SCHWENTNER, Ernst: diss. *Eine sprachgeschichtliche
> > Untersuchung über den
> > > Gebrauch und die Bedeutung der altgermanischen
> > Farbenzeichnungen.* 1915.
> > > SOLTA, G. R.: "Zum expressiven Charakter der
> > indogermanischen
> > > Farbenbezeichnungen", *AnzÖstAW* 87, 1950, 40-52.
> > > TIFFOU, Étienne & Yves-Ch. MORIN: “Étude sur
> > les couleurs bourouchaski”, *
> > > JA* 270, 1982, 363-383.
> > > WOOD, Francis Asbury: *Color-names and their
> > congeners.* 1902
> > > (Indo-European).
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Klaus
> > >
> > > Klaus Karttunen
> > > Professor of South Asian and Indoeuropean Studies
> > > Asian and African Studies, Department of World
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> > > Klaus.Karttunen at helsinki.fi
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 8:26 PM, Jonathan Silk wrote:
> > >
> > > I do not have the reference to hand, but the famous
> > Huizinga (known as a
> > > historian of Europe) wrote a thesis on varṇa in the
> > sense of color,
> > > unfortunately in Dutch. Perhaps a translation project
> > some day...
> > >
> > > jonathan
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Christophe Vielle
> > <
> > > christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > References in the Indology list-archives s.v.
> > "colours"
> > >
> > > http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?S1=indology
> > >
> > > (colours and 4 yugas, 4 var.nas, 9 rasas, etc.)
> > >
> > > Best wishes,
> > >
> > > Christophe Vielle
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Am 01.11.2010 um 16:53 schrieb James Hegarty:
> > >
> > >
> > >  An undergraduate student recently asked me about
> > colour symbolism in
> > >
> > > Hindu Traditions.
> > >
> > >
> > > I realised very quickly that I knew very little about
> > this.
> > >
> > >
> > > Can anyone suggest readings (primary and secondary) on
> > this topic?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Here are two theses:
> > >
> > >
> > > Jain, Narendra Kumar: Indian Colour Symbolism. Berlin,
> > 1978
> > >
> > > Berlin, Techn. Univ., Diss., 1977
> > >
> > >
> > > Slavik, Jan: Dance of Colours: Basic Patterns of
> > Colour Symbolism in
> > >
> > > MahÇyÇna Buddhism. Göteborg: Göteborgs
> > Etnografiska Museum, 1994.
> > >
> > > (Etnologiska studier, v. 41). ISBN 9187484080
> > >
> > >
> > > University of Göteborg, Ph. D. Thesis, 1994
> > >
> > >
> > > Besides these, many publications on iconography deal
> > also with religious
> > >
> > > symbolism and will give lots of references in this
> > respect.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hope it helps
> > >
> > > Peter Wyzlic
> > >
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> > J. Silk
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J. Silk
Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden
Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
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