From theodor at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL  Wed Sep  1 05:43:00 2010
From: theodor at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL (Ithamar Theodor)
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 10 08:43:00 +0300
Subject: CFP - Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion
Message-ID: <161227090245.23782.2651805663968184523.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Edited Volume in the Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and
Religion

We are pleased to announce the launching of a volume in the Comparative Studies
of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion. Please consider submitting an
essay for this volume. Here are some examples of possible titles:

*Brahman and Dao
*Wuwei and the Bhagavad Gita?s notion of nonaction
*Senses, mind and the grasping of reality
*Consciousness and attention
*The inner and external worlds
*Layers of virtue and dharma
*Yoga and Daoist practices
*Chinese and Indian mythology
*Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine

 Naturally scholars grounded in Indian thought may have only a basic
acquaintance with Chinese thought, whereas scholars grounded in Chinese thought
may have only a basic acquaintance with Indian thought. However, this is a
pioneering volume aimed at building bridges between these two great cultures
and complex systems of thought, and as such, we would hope to balance the
volume with about half of the chapters written by scholars whose main area of
scholarship is grounded in Chinese thought, and the other half written by
scholars whose main area of scholarship is grounded in Indian thought.

We would also hope to balance the volume between Hinduism and Buddhism, as well
as Confucianism and Daoism, but let us first receive proposals and then
estimate the direction this volume is going. The chapters should be relatively
short, and not exceed 5000 words.

 Please send us proposals of about 150 words.

 Sincerely yours,

Ithamar Theodor
Department of Religious and Cultural Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
theodor at orange.net.il
Author of Exploring the Bhagavad Gita; Philosophy, Structure and Meaning,
Ashgate, 2010

Zhihua Yao
Department of Philosophy
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
zyao at cuhk.edu.hk
Author of The Buddhist Theory of self-Cognition, Routledge, 2005.



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From drdavis at WISC.EDU  Thu Sep  2 01:35:21 2010
From: drdavis at WISC.EDU (Donald R. Davis, Jr.)
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 10 20:35:21 -0500
Subject: K=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F6lver?= Article
Message-ID: <161227090247.23782.12820224313606204855.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Colleagues,

I cannot recall the details of an article by Bernhard K?lver dealing 
with the settlement of Brahmins in the Nepal region and the connection 
of that settlement with the integration of the state there.  Could 
anyone kindly jog my memory?

Thanks,

Don Davis
Dept of Languages & Cultures of Asia
University of Wisconsin-Madison




From christophe.vielle at UCLOUVAIN.BE  Thu Sep  2 11:55:54 2010
From: christophe.vielle at UCLOUVAIN.BE (Christophe Vielle)
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 10 13:55:54 +0200
Subject: Fwd: Re: [INDOLOGY] searchable indices?
Message-ID: <161227090250.23782.15773439462798993728.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Maybe through the SUB G?ttingen (whole) web-site 
(google powered) search function:
http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/subgoettingen?hl=en&q=
it is easier, especially for word-sequences,
Try for example: tat tvam asi

>Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:39:22 +0200
>From: Michael Slouber <mjslouber at BERKELEY.EDU>
>Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] searchable indices?
>
>
>That is helpful, but not ideal.  Offline we can 
>do all kinds of useful searching with plain text 
>files, but Google seems to index only by word, 
>which it judges by spaces or period marks.  So 
>your search does not actually turn up all of the 
>cases of ?c?rya, only the ones where it is 
>followed by a space or period. 
>
>
>
>On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
>
>>  Actually, one can search GRETIL in situ by using a Google Search of the
>>  following type:
>>
>  >   - site:http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/ ?c?rya
>>
>>  Running the above search gave me this
>> 
>>result<http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.sub.uni-goettingen.de%2Febene_1%2F+%C4%81c%C4%81rya&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8>
>>  .
>>
>>  The "site:" prefix tells Google to restrict its search to a particular web
>>  site.  So the above searches for "?c?rya" anywhere on the Goettingen site /
>>  ebene_1
>>
>>  D
>>
>>  Dr Dominik Wujastyk
>>  Institut f?r S?dasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
>>  Universit?t Wien
>>  Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 2, Eingang 2.1
>>  A-1090 Vienna
>>  Austria
>>  --
>>  Long-term email address: wujastyk at gmail.com
>>  PGP key: http://wujastyk.net/pgp.html
>>  --
>>  Sign-up to Dropbox using the following link and get 2.25 gigabytes of
>>  storage free.
>>  https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTIzNzI2MTY5
>>
>>
>>  On 23 August 2010 22:48, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  You can download 
>>>GRETIL<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm>and 
>>>search it locally on your hard disk.
>>>
>>>  SARIT <http://sarit.indology.info> is a searchable collection of online
>>>  Skt texts that includes the Brahmapurana.
>>>
>>>  Best,
>>>
>>>  Dominik Wujastyk
>>>
>>>


-- 
http://www.uclouvain.be/christophe.vielle
http://belgianindology.blogs.lalibre.be/




From gruenen at SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE  Thu Sep  2 16:52:24 2010
From: gruenen at SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE (Gruenendahl, Reinhold)
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 10 18:52:24 +0200
Subject: GRETIL update #375
Message-ID: <161227090252.23782.8518461266943283643.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

GRETIL is pleased to be able to report the following addition(s) to its
collection:

Arcata: Hetubindutika [alternative version]
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#ArcHetub2> 


Asanga: Mahayanasutralankara
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#AsMahSu> 


Candaragomin: Sisyalekha
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#CandgSisyal> 


Davuldena Jnanesvara Mahasthavira: Yasodharacarita
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#DavYaso> 


Kamalasila: Vajracchedikatika
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#KamVajcht> 


Kurma-Purana, Part 2
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#KurmaP>
(revised)


Nagarjuna: Yuktisastikarika [alternative version]
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#NagYsk2> 


Satasahasrika Prajnaparamita, II.2
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#SatsPP_II_1> 


Vasubandhu: Bodhicittotpadasutrasastra
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#VasBodhicit> 


Vasubandhu: Vimsatika vijnaptimatratasiddhi
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#VasVimsvij> 


Yasomitra: Sphutartha Abhidharmakosavyakhya
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#YasSphut> 

 

__________________________________________________________________________ 

"GRETIL is intended as a cumulative register of the numerous download sites
for electronic texts in Indian languages." (from the 2001 "mission
statement") 

GRETIL - Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages: 

http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm




From drdavis at WISC.EDU  Fri Sep  3 01:10:59 2010
From: drdavis at WISC.EDU (Donald R. Davis, Jr.)
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 10 20:10:59 -0500
Subject: K=?windows-1252?Q?=F6lver?= Article Located
Message-ID: <161227090254.23782.839550505155203359.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear All,

I finally remembered the information for the K?lver article I was 
looking for. Thanks to those of you who tried to help me privately. The 
details are:

K?lver, Bernhard. 1985. ?Erstarkende Staatsgewalt und Hinduisierung: 
Neues Material aus Nepal.? In H. Kulke and D. Rothermund (eds.), 
Regionale Tradition in S?dasien. eds. H. Kulke and D. Rothermund. 
Beitr?ge zur S?dasienforschung Bd. 104. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 
115-128.

Best, Don




From peter_scharf at BROWN.EDU  Mon Sep  6 21:03:19 2010
From: peter_scharf at BROWN.EDU (Peter Scharf)
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 10 17:03:19 -0400
Subject: Semantics/India
In-Reply-To: <eceac9c01001290452na1c2e69pbe4cf08329866dd7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <161227090259.23782.16370270875253767883.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Jan,
	I hope this email finds you and Saraju well and happy.

	Are you going to the 4th International Sanskrit Computational  
Linguistics Symposium at JNU 10-12 December?  To the South Asian  
Linguistics Association Conference in Mysore 8-10 January?  Will you  
be in India anytime between 10 December and 24 January?  I'm planning  
my trip this winter to make circuit from Delhi to Hyderabad, Chennai,  
Pondichery, Mysore, Pune, and Mumbai between 9 December and 24  
January.  I hope our paths cross.  Please let me know your plans this  
winter.

	Have you finalized your paper form the 14th WSC in Kyoto about  
Semantics in Panini where you argued that Paninian derivation begins  
with speech forms already in view?  I would be interested in reading  
your full explanation of this argument.  Would you please send me a  
copy?  Or of something else you've written explaining your argument in  
greater detail?

	Thanks.
	Yours,
	Peter

*********************************************************
Peter M. Scharf                           (401) 863-2720 office
Department of Classics             (401) 863-2123 dept.
Brown University
PO Box 1856                               (401) 863-7484 fax
Providence, RI 02912                Scharf at brown.edu
http://www.research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10044
http://sanskritlibrary.org/
*********************************************************




From peter_scharf at BROWN.EDU  Mon Sep  6 21:06:27 2010
From: peter_scharf at BROWN.EDU (Peter Scharf)
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 10 17:06:27 -0400
Subject: apology
Message-ID: <161227090261.23782.16837176084712643996.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Sorry, I didn't mean to send that last message to the list.
Peter

*********************************************************
Peter M. Scharf                           (401) 863-2720 office
Department of Classics             (401) 863-2123 dept.
Brown University
PO Box 1856                               (401) 863-7484 fax
Providence, RI 02912                Scharf at brown.edu
http://www.research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10044
http://sanskritlibrary.org/
*********************************************************




From gthomgt at COMCAST.NET  Mon Sep  6 20:54:24 2010
From: gthomgt at COMCAST.NET (gthomgt at COMCAST.NET)
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 10 20:54:24 +0000
Subject: A.B. Keith article in JRAS 1907
In-Reply-To: <712989864.244394.1283802744319.JavaMail.root@sz0152a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net>
Message-ID: <161227090257.23782.10847788390576480995.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear List, 

My access to JSTOR currently? isn't working.? I would like to download an article by Keith which appears to deal with the development of Vedic Shakhas.? I am interested in particular in the development of the Mandukeyas, for a festschrift paper that I am trying to write, with a deadline hanging over my head. 

Does anyone have a pdf of this article, or can anyone easily & readily get it [without much trouble!]?? I would of course be most grateful for your help. 

And if anyone else has any insights into the obscure origins of the Mandukeyas, I would like to hear about them. 

Best wishes to all, 

George Thompson 




From gthomgt at COMCAST.NET  Tue Sep  7 01:57:25 2010
From: gthomgt at COMCAST.NET (gthomgt at COMCAST.NET)
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 10 01:57:25 +0000
Subject: A.B. Keith article in JRAS 1907
In-Reply-To: <904838006.260437.1283823958455.JavaMail.root@sz0152a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net>
Message-ID: <161227090264.23782.11540113140095909826.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear List, 

I have gotten several very quick?offlist replies -- for which I am grateful to all of you--?asking for more information.? I can refer to Macdonell? & Keirh, Vedic Index, s.v.?maa.n.duukeya which cites Scheftelowitz, Die Apokryphen des Rgveda, which?I have, but which is not very specific, so not very helpful.? The Vedic Index article is typically elliptical of them, giving no title to the original article.? Vedic Studies was aimed at a very closed club even then as it still is now. 

Scheftelowiitz cites Weber, Ind. St. III.253, which I also do not have acess to.? ? 



But I have had access to Madhav Deshpande's very helpful discussion of the Mandukeyas in his classic essay on Retroflexion?in the RV, as well as his notes on the Mandukeyas in his HOS?book on the AV pratisakhas, which I have at hand?as well.? But I want more than these references given ?by him, if any more are available. 

I think that RV 7.103 is a very interesting hymn, because it has been so much commented on by modern scholars, whereas it is completely ignored by later Vedic tradition - except for its first stanza, which was intended to link it with Parjanya mythology, with which, I think, it has nothing to do. 

George Thompson 




From gthomgt at COMCAST.NET  Tue Sep  7 19:24:31 2010
From: gthomgt at COMCAST.NET (gthomgt at COMCAST.NET)
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 10 19:24:31 +0000
Subject: A.B. Keith article in JRAS 1907
In-Reply-To: <1593250197.304054.1283886722308.JavaMail.root@sz0152a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net>
Message-ID: <161227090266.23782.18280371746458745797.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear List, 

The Keith article turns out to be a review of Scheftelowitz's *Die Apokryphen des Rgveda.*? Once again I would like to thank the VERY many list members who took the trouble to search for this unnamed article and those several who managed to find it and send it to me.? The list has proven once again to be a valuable resource and its members have shown once again how generous they can be. 

Perhaps I may be permitted to repeat my request for any more literature on or insights?into the development of the Mandukeyas.? 

Now I can turn my attention to Keith's review article. 

Best wishes, 

George Thompson




From gthomgt at COMCAST.NET  Tue Sep  7 19:42:45 2010
From: gthomgt at COMCAST.NET (gthomgt at COMCAST.NET)
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 10 19:42:45 +0000
Subject: A.B. Keith article in JRAS 1907
In-Reply-To: <1416108309.306701.1283888491433.JavaMail.root@sz0152a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net>
Message-ID: <161227090269.23782.9572954559816181001.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Others may find useful this website, pointed out to me by Stefan Baums: 

the volume of JRAS that you need has been scanned by Google and is 
freely available through the HathiTrust Digital Library: 

?? http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3797817 

All best, 
Stefan Baums 

-- 
Dr. Stefan Baums 
Group in Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley 
Graduate School of Literature, Bukkyo University 




From wujastyk at GMAIL.COM  Tue Sep  7 22:47:48 2010
From: wujastyk at GMAIL.COM (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 10 00:47:48 +0200
Subject: Sanskrit position at Columbia
In-Reply-To: <7902FB70-EA8F-436D-A77A-6864529058A0@columbia.edu>
Message-ID: <161227090271.23782.509613584442517310.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

----- Forwarded message from RAPS at columbia.edu -----

    Date: 7 Sep 2010 15:00:09 -0500
    From: RAPS at columbia.edu
   Subject: RAPS search no. 0001570 is open

  The following position has been opened and posted in RAPS:

  Title:  Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit/Lecturer in Sanskrit
  Requisition Number:  0001570
  Department:  Middle Eastern, South Asian, African Studies (345)

 The direct link for this position is <
https://academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=53624>




From tcoleman at COLORADOCOLLEGE.EDU  Wed Sep  8 20:43:27 2010
From: tcoleman at COLORADOCOLLEGE.EDU (Tracy Coleman)
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 10 14:43:27 -0600
Subject: Men and Masculinity in Hinduism & Buddhism
Message-ID: <161227090273.23782.17252241009143342122.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Indologists--

I will be teaching a new course this year entitled "Holy Men, Manly Men:
Gods, Buddhas and Gurus in South Asia," a title that could alternatively
refer to "heroic" men or to "yogis."  I intend to explore the connections
between masculinity and divinity, and men and religious power more
generally.

I am therefore seeking your suggestions for readings, including course
texts and/or articles; monographs and edited volumes to order for our
library (for use in student research papers); and any related articles
that may be helpful for students' research on specific topics, including
iconography.

For course texts, so far I plan to use Olivelle's recent translation of
the Buddhacarita, along with John Power's _A Bull of a Man_.  I may use
Bryant's translation of Bhagavata Purana X.  I'd like to treat the
Sanskrit epics, or at least the Ramayana, perhaps using a single volume
from the Clay Sanskrit Library, supplemented by other readings, possibly
treating contemporary images/uses of Rama.  I'd also like to look at a
significant guru or yogi figure (Ramakrishna, for example, or another
figure who has been studied from different perspectives).  But I'm sure
there are many more possibilities that you all know about as well.  I also
plan to explore iconographic traditions.

My students are undergraduate, but very smart, and all will have a
prerequisite of introductory Hinduism or/and Buddhism.  I can't ask them
to pay exorbitant prices for course texts, but I can order such texts (if
highly relevant) for the library for student research.

I am especially seeking references to critical studies that treat men,
masculinity, and male sexuality specifically, since their is so much more
in gender studies focused on women.

I look forward to whatever you may recommend, and I thank you in advance
for you help.

Tracy Coleman
Department of Religion
Colorado College




From SamuelG at CARDIFF.AC.UK  Thu Sep  9 01:23:23 2010
From: SamuelG at CARDIFF.AC.UK (Geoffrey Samuel)
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 10 02:23:23 +0100
Subject: Men and Masculinity in Hinduism & Buddhism
In-Reply-To: <INDOLOGY%201009090001066005.34B7@LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK>
Message-ID: <161227090276.23782.8259132335417298560.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Tracy

There are some extended discussions of masculinity in my Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indian Religions to the Thirteenth Century? (Cambridge University Press, 2008). See Chapter 8 in particular.

David Gordon White's new book Sinister Yogis (University of Chicago 2009) may be relevant as well, in particular in relation to the early construction of yoga in the Mahabharata etc as closely connected with warriorship.

Best wishes

Geoffrey

School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, Humanities Bldg, Colum Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EU. 
Research Group on the Body, Health and Religion (BAHAR), 10 Museum Place, Cardiff CF10 3BG. 
Tel. +44 29 2087 0558, 2087 0546.
BAHAR: http://www.bodyhealthreligion.org.uk/BAHAR/

-----Indology <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote: -----
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: ? ?Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:43:27 -0600
From: ? ?Tracy Coleman <tcoleman at COLORADOCOLLEGE.EDU>
Subject: Men and Masculinity in Hinduism & Buddhism

Indologists--

I will be teaching a new course this year entitled "Holy Men, Manly Men:
Gods, Buddhas and Gurus in South Asia," a title that could alternatively
refer to "heroic" men or to "yogis." ?I intend to explore the =
connections
between masculinity and divinity, and men and religious power more
generally.

I am therefore seeking your suggestions for readings, including course
texts and/or articles; monographs and edited volumes to order for our
library (for use in student research papers); and any related articles
that may be helpful for students' research on specific topics, including
iconography.

For course texts, so far I plan to use Olivelle's recent translation of
the Buddhacarita, along with John Power's _A Bull of a Man_. ?I may use
Bryant's translation of Bhagavata Purana X. ?I'd like to treat the
Sanskrit epics, or at least the Ramayana, perhaps using a single volume
from the Clay Sanskrit Library, supplemented by other readings, possibly
treating contemporary images/uses of Rama. ?I'd also like to look at a
significant guru or yogi figure (Ramakrishna, for example, or another
figure who has been studied from different perspectives). ?But I'm sure
there are many more possibilities that you all know about as well. ?I =
also
plan to explore iconographic traditions.

My students are undergraduate, but very smart, and all will have a
prerequisite of introductory Hinduism or/and Buddhism. ?I can't ask them
to pay exorbitant prices for course texts, but I can order such texts =
(if
highly relevant) for the library for student research.

I am especially seeking references to critical studies that treat men,
masculinity, and male sexuality specifically, since their is so much =
more
in gender studies focused on women.

I look forward to whatever you may recommend, and I thank you in advance
for you help.

Tracy Coleman
Department of Religion
Colorado College

------------------------------




From hellwig7 at GMX.DE  Sat Sep 11 08:38:20 2010
From: hellwig7 at GMX.DE (Oliver Hellwig)
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 10 09:38:20 +0100
Subject: New version of DCS
Message-ID: <161227090278.23782.16941624893606892064.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear colleagues,

a new version of the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit has been released at
http://kjc-fs-cluster.kjc.uni-heidelberg.de/dcs/index.php.

New features/texts:
- 6th Book of the Mahabharata complete
- Bigram search: The program automatically locates bigrams that contain a
given word and occur with a user-defined frequency. This feature is useful,
for example, to detect typical phrases or to study the semantic fields of
verbs (have a look at the Google research page at
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-are-belong-to-you.html
for further inspiration). To access bigrams, ...
	- Search for a word in the dictionary or the query page, e.g. manu.
	- On the detail page of the word, click the link "n-grams" (6th line from
the top). The bigrams are displayed.
	- A detailed explanation can be found at
http://kjc-fs-cluster.kjc.uni-heidelberg.de/dcs/index.php?contents=help_ngrams.
- The site contains a list that includes references to the secondary
literature found in the word meanings; refer to
http://kjc-fs-cluster.kjc.uni-heidelberg.de/dcs/index.php?contents=help_xt_references.

Comments and ideas for improvement are highly welcome!

Best regards,

Oliver Hellwig
--------------------
PD Dr. Oliver Hellwig
S?dasien-Institut, Universit?t Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 330, 69120 Heidelberg
Germany




From wujastyk at GMAIL.COM  Sat Sep 11 13:13:44 2010
From: wujastyk at GMAIL.COM (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 10 15:13:44 +0200
Subject: Fwd: Study Guide India...
In-Reply-To: <4C8A44CC.9050703@knowledge-must.com>
Message-ID: <161227090281.23782.11094796925484774722.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

News reaches me of a new, free guidebook for international students thinking
of studying in India, or already on their way there.  This INDOLOGY forum
doesn't carry advertisements from publishers, but in this case the
publication is non-commercial, and is released under a Creative Commons
license.  Students can just download it and read it.  I've read it, and it's
good.  Recommended.

Best,
Dominik


Dear Dominik,

I am Daniel Ratheiser from Knowledge Must. I would like to inform you about
the publication of our new guide book ?Study in India - A Guide by Knowledge
Must?, which is available for free download from our website at
www.knowledge-must.com/guidebooks.

We made it a point to cover all important aspects of studying as a foreigner
in India. Life for international students will be so much easier once they
figured out the logistical requirements and the Indian cultural environment.
In addition to answering the most pressing questions, the guide features
valuable insights ranging from logistics such as visa procedures and
accommodation arrangements to cultural background information and
inspiration for how to spend one's leisure time.

We make this guidebook available to everybody for free individual,
non-commercial usage. Please share it with others in your network. You are
also able to offer it for download on your website, if you choose to do so.

In case you have any further questions, I am always happy to answer them.

Best regards,
Daniel

Email:          daniel.ratheiser at knowledge-must.com
Website:        www.knowledge-must.com




From wujastyk at GMAIL.COM  Sat Sep 11 13:17:49 2010
From: wujastyk at GMAIL.COM (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 10 15:17:49 +0200
Subject: Roodbergen honoured
Message-ID: <161227090283.23782.9536153974840561297.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

http://news.indiainfo.com/octogenarian-dutchman-in-love-with-sanskrit-1610038.html




From slaje at T-ONLINE.DE  Mon Sep 13 14:50:47 2010
From: slaje at T-ONLINE.DE (Walter Slaje)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 10 16:50:47 +0200
Subject: Publication Announcement
Message-ID: <161227090286.23782.4894157798444928653.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Hermann Jacobi, Zur indischen Poetik und ?sthetik. Herausgegeben von Andreas Pohlus. (Geisteskultur Indiens. 15. Klassiker der Indologie). (Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis) Aachen: Shaker 2010. pp. 540. ISBN: 978-3-8322-9118-1 Price: 44.80 EUR Hardbound

http://www.shaker.de/de/content/catalogue/index.asp?lang=de&ID=8&ISBN=978-3-8322-9118-1.
Hermann Georg Jacobi (*1. Februar 1850 in K?ln; ? 19. Oktober 1937 in Bonn) war von 1889 ? 1922 als Nachfolger von Theodor Aufrecht ordentlicher Professor f?r Sanskrit und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft an der Universit?t Bonn. Einen Schwerpunkt seiner Forschungen bildete die indische Poetik (Ala?k?ra??stra), ihre Themen und ihre Chronologie. Seine ?bersetzungen des Dhvany?loka des ?nandavardhana und des Ala?k?rasarvasva des Ruyyaka erschlossen zwei ihrer Schl?sselwerke und pr?gten die Wiedergabe ihrer termini technici in der deutschen Sprache.

Anders als bei der von Hans Losch 1969 publizierten Sammlung werden hier alle einschl?gigen in verschiedenen Zeitschriften verstreut erschienenen Studien und ?bersetzungen Jacobis vollst?ndig zug?nglich gemacht. Hinzu kommt der Besprechungsaufsatz ?Eine indische ?sthetik? des Philosophen Adolf Dyroff zur ?nandavardhana-?bersetzung Jacobis. Zum besseren Verst?ndnis seiner Kontroverse mit Carl Bernheimer ?ber die vakrokti sind zudem auch Bernheimers Beitr?ge mit in die Sammlung aufgenommen worden.

Um die Aufs?tze und ?bersetzungen leichter erschlie?en zu k?nnen, hat der Herausgeber einen Index erstellt, der neben Namen, Sachen und technischen Termini auch die von Jacobi besprochenen Texte und Textstellen enth?lt.


Walter Slaje
------------------------------
Prof. Dr. Walter Slaje
Hermann-L?ns-Str. 1
D-99425 Weimar
(Germany)
www.indologie.uni-halle.de

Ego ex animi mei sententia spondeo ac polliceor
studia humanitatis impigro labore culturum et provecturum
non sordidi lucri causa nec ad vanam captandam gloriam,
sed quo magis veritas propagetur et lux eius, qua salus
humani generis continetur, clarius effulgeat.
Vindobonae, die XXI. mensis Novembris MCMLXXXIII.




From james_fitzgerald at BROWN.EDU  Wed Sep 15 10:59:20 2010
From: james_fitzgerald at BROWN.EDU (Fitzgerald, James)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 10 06:59:20 -0400
Subject: Brown University Religious Studies: Position in Religions of              South Asia, Hindu Traditions, Hindi & Sanskrit expertise
Message-ID: <161227090288.23782.7552489259506784449.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear colleagues, please take note of this opening and circulate it to
well-qualified candidates.

BROWN UNIVERSITY's Department of Religious Studies invites applications for
an open rank position to begin July 1, 2011, in the area of Religions of
South Asia, with special expertise in the Hindu traditions. The Department
is seeking a scholar who is engaged with the wider fields of Religious
Studies and Asian Studies, including relevant theoretical approaches, and
who is prepared to teach at undergraduate and graduate levels. Preference
will be given to candidates who have a research competence in literary
Hindi, knowledge of Sanskrit, and the ability to teach broad courses that
embrace the entire history of the Hindu tradition and its interactions with
other South Asian religions. The Ph.D. must be in hand before July 1, 2011.

Candidates should send a letter of application (addressing qualifications,
research, and teaching interests), a curriculum vitae, and (in hard copy
only) one representative writing sample or scholarly publication to the
search committee. In addition, applicants at the rank of assistant professor
should arrange to have three letters of reference and graduate transcripts
sent. Senior applicants should send the names of at least five scholars whom
the committee may contact. Priority will be given to applications received
by October 15, 2010. Please send all hard copy materials to Professor Janine
Sawada, Chair, South Asian Religions Search Committee, Department of
Religious Studies, Box 1927, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912-1927.
General inquiries and electronic materials should be addressed to Nicole
Vadnais, RS Department Manager, by email (Nicole_Vadnais at brown.edu). Brown
University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.



James Fitzgerald
Das Professor of Sanskrit
Acting Chair
Department of Classics
Brown University




From gruenen at SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE  Thu Sep 16 15:33:29 2010
From: gruenen at SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE (Gruenendahl, Reinhold)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 10 17:33:29 +0200
Subject: GRETIL update #376
Message-ID: <161227090291.23782.4748275604315866163.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

GRETIL is pleased to be able to report the following addition(s) to its
collection:

 

Jayatirtha: Nyayasudha, Adhyaya 3, Padas 1 and 2
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#JayNysu> 

 

__________________________________________________________________________ 

"GRETIL is intended as a cumulative register of the numerous download sites
for electronic texts in Indian languages." (from the 2001 "mission
statement") 

GRETIL - Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages: 

http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm




From axel.michaels at YAHOO.DE  Sat Sep 18 07:26:54 2010
From: axel.michaels at YAHOO.DE (Axel Michaels)
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 10 07:26:54 +0000
Subject: Manusmrti
Message-ID: <161227090293.23782.6390946030716648214.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Just published: first translation of Manusmrti from Sanskrit into German: 

Manusmrti - Manus Gesetzbuch. Aus dem Sanskrit ?bersetzt und herausgegeben von 
Axel Michaels unter Mitarbeit von Anand Mishra. Berlin: Verlag der 
Weltreligionen, 2010, 427 pp. - 35,- Euro

See also: 
http://www.verlagderweltreligionen.de/suche.cfm?suche=axel+Michaels&x=0&y=0
 
Greetings,
Axel Michaels





From palaniappa at AOL.COM  Sun Sep 19 01:36:08 2010
From: palaniappa at AOL.COM (Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan)
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 10 20:36:08 -0500
Subject: Akam 113
Message-ID: <161227090296.23782.3689183662705586434.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Indologists,

In the Classical Tamil poem Akan????u (Akam) 113, consider the following line.

 e??ap p??a? nal n???u umpar (Akam. 113.17)

The word 'e??a' has been interpreted by the commentators variously as meaning 'not attacking those fleeing the battle' or 'not fleeing from the battle'. I think what we seem to have here is a negative adjectival participial form of the causative 'e?u' 'to make music, to play the lute', offering a simple and direct meaning of 'not making music'. The poet is cleverly using the same device we find in v???p p?rpp?? (Akam.24.1) where v??? 'non-sacrificing' is used in a similar fashion. Thus P??a?, the king or chieftain, is a p??a? who does not make music. Thus the poet signifies the dynastic name which later came to be called 'b??a'. We also find such usages involving homonyms such as porunar (por?ap porunar 'non-fighting porunar') in Classical tamil texts. 

If this is correct, then what we have here is an indication that the earlier form of the dynastic name 'b??a' was most probably 'p??a?'. Such voicing of initial voiceless consonants could have arisen as in DEDR 4124 Ta. p??ai Te. b??a or as a result of re-interpretation of the word 'p??a-' found in the compound Perump??a- (as in Perump??app??i, the region lying across the Tamil-Telugu border land) the Sanskrit equivalent of which would be B?hadb??a which is found in the T?lagunda pillar inscription of 5th century CE (EI 8, p.32). The voiced pronunciation of 'p' as 'b' after the nasal 'm' could have given rise to such interpretation. (There does not seem to be a Telugu cognate of DEDR 4068 Ta. p??a?). 

The B??a dynasty later claimed an origin from the puranic asura Mah?bali through his son B??a. This connection is also indicated in the Ma?im?kalai 19.54. (Does any other Indian dynasty claim descent from Bali?)

A question arises as to whether 'B??a' could not be the original and that the Tamil text simply devoiced 'b' to 'p'. If 'b' were the original, the Tamil form would usually end up being 'v' as indeed Cilappatik?ram 6.54 referring to the puranic 'B??a' as 'V??a?' shows. The Cengam herostones of 6th century refer to the B??a king as 'Perump???araicar'. From 7th century, the form ''V??ak? Araicaru' is seen more and more but 'we also see 'Perump??atiyaraicar' in the 8th century. Thus if the word-initial sound is 'b', it seems to be rendered by Tamil 'v', while medial 'b' is rendered as Tamil 'p' since medially original Tamil 'p' would also sound as  'b'. In such a scenario, the name 'p??a?' in Akam. 113 with an initial 'p' instead of 'v' should most probably indicate that the original form was 'p??a?'. 

If that is correct, then we have the sound variation p-* > b- > v- in the names attested over time.

A related discussion is found in Iravatham Mahadevan's "Early Tamil Epigraphy," p. 629. However, Dr. E. Subbarayalu feels that 'p??ar???ra' mentioned in "Lokavibh?ga' may be different from Perump??app??i.

I would appreciate comments from the Indologists.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Palaniappan




From palaniappa at AOL.COM  Sun Sep 19 12:35:04 2010
From: palaniappa at AOL.COM (Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 10 07:35:04 -0500
Subject: Halasya Mahatmya Query
Message-ID: <161227090299.23782.13456281620908454777.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

In his article, "The "Periya Puran?am" Frieze at Ta?ra?curam: Episodes in the Lives of the Tamil S?aiva Saints",  Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 42, No. 2, In Honour of Thomas Burrow (1979), pp. 268-289, J. R. Marr says on p.281, "He made a number of royal journeys on pilgrimage, and in Maturai met the musician Pattira??r, referredto both in P[eriyapur??am] and Tiruvilai[y??al Pur??am] as P??an?r Pattira??r. This does not stop ??umuka n?valar, C. K. Cuppirama?iya Mutaliy?r and Ve?ka?ac?mi N????r referring to this devotee as P??apattirar, perhaps based on Skt. B??abhadra.

I would appreciate if anybody with access to Sanskrit H?l?sya M?h?tmya could check if the name B??abhadra occurs in the episode dealing with ?iva selling firewood in Madurai and give the reference.

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Palaniappan 




From slindqui at MAIL.SMU.EDU  Sun Sep 19 20:08:55 2010
From: slindqui at MAIL.SMU.EDU (Steven Lindquist)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 10 15:08:55 -0500
Subject: South Indian music conference
Message-ID: <161227090301.23782.13462396204100995069.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Please pardon any cross-posting.

Best,

Steven

--
Steven Lindquist, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies 
Southern Methodist University
Homepage: http://faculty.smu.edu/slindqui
--

SMU ANNUAL SOUTH ASIA CONFERENCE

>From Yal to Vinai:
South Indian Classical Music Before the 19th Century

Date: Sat., Oct. 9th, 2010
Time: 9:30am-4:30pm
Place: McCord Auditorium (Dallas Hall, 3rd. floor)

This event is free and open to the public.  A free lunch is provided, so please RSVP to music at sarii.org.

Presenters include:
Dr. N. Ramanathan
Professor of Indian Music (Retd.), University of Madras

Dr. Sr. Magaret Bastin
Principal, Kalai Kaviri College of Fine Arts

Dr. Matthew Allen
Jane E. Ruby Professor of Music, Wheaton College

Dr. S. Palaniappan, President, SARII

Dr. Lakshmi Subramanian
Professor of History, Center for Studies in Social Sciences (Calcutta)

Sponsored by the South Asia Research and Information Institute (Dallas), the Asian Studies Program, and the Department of Religious Studies at SMU

More information available at: 
www.smu.edu/asianstudies/events 
www.sarii.org




From hopeforageneration at GMAIL.COM  Mon Sep 20 05:45:45 2010
From: hopeforageneration at GMAIL.COM (patrick mccartney)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 10 15:45:45 +1000
Subject: question
Message-ID: <161227090303.23782.8771859371995283328.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear List,

I would like to know whether anyone has ever seen r?mau or s?tau used to
describe both R?ma & S?t??

Like for instance when pitarau is used to describe m?t? & pitara.

All the best,

-- 
Patrick McCartney -
39 Arabana Street
Aranda
ACT
Australia 2614

SKYPE:  cranky-mechanic

?? ????? ???????
tava hRdayaM anugaccha
Follow your heart




From wc3 at SOAS.AC.UK  Mon Sep 20 15:16:55 2010
From: wc3 at SOAS.AC.UK (Whitney Cox)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 10 16:16:55 +0100
Subject: Workshop in Cambridge
Message-ID: <161227090306.23782.12708966636385074340.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Forwarded to the list on behalf of the workshop organisers:

Dear list members,

The second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS2) will
be held at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of
Cambridge, from the 23rd ? 24th September.

Please find the programme at http://iigrs.byethost17.com/programme, and
contact us directly at iigrsuk at googlemail.com should you be interested in
attending.

With best wishes,
IIGRS Organizing Committee

-- 


Dr. Whitney Cox
Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia,
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG




From acerulli at AYA.YALE.EDU  Wed Sep 22 10:26:33 2010
From: acerulli at AYA.YALE.EDU (A.Cerulli)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 10 06:26:33 -0400
Subject: Malayalam text Jyotsnika sought
In-Reply-To: <EE211A44-FBC4-4689-B7FD-8CEA2965E473@berkeley.edu>
Message-ID: <161227090311.23782.14356060198728603242.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Michael,

The *Jy?tsnik? *is available online in the Kyoto archive of Sanskrit texts,
available through Professor Michio Yano's website: http://1l2.us/5j

Best,
Anthony Cerulli



On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Michael Slouber <mjslouber at berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Dear scholars,
>
> Might someone have a digital copy of the Malayalam text on vi?avaidya
> called Jyotsnik? they would be willing to share off-list?  It is quite rare
> and I am unable to get it by interlibrary loan or online.  If someone on the
> list has a paper copy of an edition, or even a manuscript, I would be happy
> to pay for a reproduction of it.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Michael Slouber
> PhD Candidate
> UC Berkeley




From mjslouber at BERKELEY.EDU  Wed Sep 22 08:37:57 2010
From: mjslouber at BERKELEY.EDU (Michael Slouber)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 10 10:37:57 +0200
Subject: Malayalam text Jyotsnika sought
Message-ID: <161227090308.23782.5228606146723728128.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear scholars,

Might someone have a digital copy of the Malayalam text on vi?avaidya called Jyotsnik? they would be willing to share off-list?  It is quite rare and I am unable to get it by interlibrary loan or online.  If someone on the list has a paper copy of an edition, or even a manuscript, I would be happy to pay for a reproduction of it. 

Thank you,

Michael Slouber
PhD Candidate 
UC Berkeley   




From wujastyk at GMAIL.COM  Wed Sep 22 13:58:07 2010
From: wujastyk at GMAIL.COM (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 10 15:58:07 +0200
Subject: Malayalam text Jyotsnika sought
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinkvbZxoQoU5CyvUUWvs_G=ZMvcQyP2-bbbhnUU@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <161227090313.23782.16131159759510807085.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

And the text and tr. were published as a book by Dr Madhu.  I have a copy.
I'm sure he would be delighted if you wrote to him and asked to purchase a
copy.  His email is  <madhusukrutham at gmail.com>.

Dominik


On 22 September 2010 12:26, A.Cerulli <acerulli at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> Michael,
>
> The *Jy?tsnik? *is available online in the Kyoto archive of Sanskrit texts,
> available through Professor Michio Yano's website: http://1l2.us/5j
>
> Best,
> Anthony Cerulli
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Michael Slouber <mjslouber at berkeley.edu
> >wrote:
>
> > Dear scholars,
> >
> > Might someone have a digital copy of the Malayalam text on vi?avaidya
> > called Jyotsnik? they would be willing to share off-list?  It is quite
> rare
> > and I am unable to get it by interlibrary loan or online.  If someone on
> the
> > list has a paper copy of an edition, or even a manuscript, I would be
> happy
> > to pay for a reproduction of it.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Michael Slouber
> > PhD Candidate
> > UC Berkeley
>




From mccomas.taylor at ANU.EDU.AU  Thu Sep 23 00:22:09 2010
From: mccomas.taylor at ANU.EDU.AU (McComas Taylor)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 10 10:22:09 +1000
Subject: Student project:Abhij=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=B1=C4=81na=C5=9Bakuntalam?=
Message-ID: <161227090316.23782.15234368579482806042.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Colleague

Two fine 3rd year students at the ANU have produced a wonderful 
stop-animation of a snippet of  Abhij??na?akuntalam

Please see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2yHWMS62O0

I am sure they would love to hear from you:

Annie McCarthy <u4916730 at anu.edu.au>

and

Patrick McCartney  <hopeforageneration at gmail.com>

Yours

McComas Taylor


-- 
===============================
Dr McComas Taylor
Head, South Asia Program
College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University
ACTON ACT 0200

Tel: +61 2 6125 3179
Fax: +61 2 6125 8326

Email: mccomas.taylor at anu.edu.au
http://tinyurl.com/38cj94n
Location: Room E4.24 Baldessin Precinct Building 




From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU  Fri Sep 24 14:06:14 2010
From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 10 09:06:14 -0500
Subject: Experience with "Critical" edition of Kanjur and Tanjur
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimDMT+HG+kFcN2+dBfdhDYMcoW9DWw7Qz-0+JDh@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <161227090321.23782.17168215658738469662.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Hi Jonathan,

I've found it best to consider it as a collation,
rather than a critical edition. It is useful
primarily in that it records - fairly well in my
experience - the variants in the different editions
it uses. But if one were preparing a critical edition,
one might wish to cross-check.

as ever,
Matthew

Matthew T. Kapstein
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies
The University of Chicago Divinity School
Directeur d'?tudes
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris




From ph2046 at COLUMBIA.EDU  Fri Sep 24 14:36:40 2010
From: ph2046 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Paul G. Hackett)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 10 10:36:40 -0400
Subject: Experience with "Critical" edition of Kanjur and Tanjur
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimDMT+HG+kFcN2+dBfdhDYMcoW9DWw7Qz-0+JDh@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <161227090323.23782.6032367040020489659.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Jonathan,

    My experience with the Comparative (dpe bsdur ma) recension is  
that the quality is mixed.  The Bstan-'gyur, which was done first,  
seems to have more errors in it than the Bka'-'gyur.  In particular,  
if you look closely at the texts in the Bstan-'gyur, one of the first  
things that you'll notice are some inconsistencies with the endnotes  
... that is, for example, there will be pages with seven endnote  
markers, but only six corresponding endnotes, or vise versa.  There  
are, as well, the occasional inevitable typographic errors.  I have  
noticed some, and have talked with Gen Lozang Jamspal, who has  
identified several as well.
    In general, the editors appear to concentrated on content  
differences between texts in the different recensions and less so any  
stylistic differences (presence or absence of _shad_s, etc.).
    I think it is still a worthwhile collection to acquire, as they  
have clearly taken great pains to identify the, at times, substantial  
differences between some texts, and made a point of separating out  
radically different translations of texts that have been conflated in  
other catalogs.
     One thing to be aware of, however, is that there are serious  
errors in the tables of contents to some of the volumes such as  
duplicated numbering, mis-pagination, etc. (FYI, I have compiled a  
corrected catalog for this collection, which will be published shortly).

    On the whole, I would recommend it certainly as a starting place  
for anyone hoping to do their own critical editing of a text.

regards,

Paul Hackett
Assoc. Editor, Tengyur Translation Initiative
Columbia University


Quoting Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at gmail.com>:

> dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm wondering if some of you who have had a chance to actually look into the
> editions of the Kanjur and Tanjur published by the China Tibetology
> Publishing House would be willing to share your opinion of these volumes. I
> do not expect them to be critical, but I wonder if they are good enough to
> be useful, or if in fact one is just as well off, if not better, simply
> going to a xylograph (such as Derge).
> I have the memory, from having seen a volume from the Tanjur years ago, that
> they have not internally analyzed the texts, even by paragraphing. Is this
> correct?
> What sort of argument could one make for purchasing a set?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jonathan Silk
> --
> J. Silk
> Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden
> Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
> Johan Huizinga Building, Room 1.37
> Doelensteeg 16
> 2311 VL Leiden
> The Netherlands
>
>




From kauzeya at GMAIL.COM  Fri Sep 24 13:38:04 2010
From: kauzeya at GMAIL.COM (Jonathan Silk)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 10 15:38:04 +0200
Subject: Experience with "Critical" edition of Kanjur and Tanjur
Message-ID: <161227090318.23782.2304904567792115976.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

dear Colleagues,

I'm wondering if some of you who have had a chance to actually look into the
editions of the Kanjur and Tanjur published by the China Tibetology
Publishing House would be willing to share your opinion of these volumes. I
do not expect them to be critical, but I wonder if they are good enough to
be useful, or if in fact one is just as well off, if not better, simply
going to a xylograph (such as Derge).
I have the memory, from having seen a volume from the Tanjur years ago, that
they have not internally analyzed the texts, even by paragraphing. Is this
correct?
What sort of argument could one make for purchasing a set?

Many thanks,

Jonathan Silk
-- 
J. Silk
Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden
Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
Johan Huizinga Building, Room 1.37
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
The Netherlands




From utkragh at HUM.KU.DK  Sat Sep 25 17:30:43 2010
From: utkragh at HUM.KU.DK (Ulrich T. Kragh)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 10 19:30:43 +0200
Subject: Experience with "Critical" edition of Kanjur and Tanjur
In-Reply-To: <20100924090614.ABL58462@mstore02.uchicago.edu>
Message-ID: <161227090326.23782.5794722258571109084.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

- Dear list, it seems that the message I sent yesterday to the list did not go through, so here I try again.

Jonathan Silk wrote:
>I'm wondering if some of you who have had a chance to actually look into the
>editions of the Kanjur and Tanjur published by the China Tibetology
>Publishing House would be willing to share your opinion of these volumes.

Reply:
I have worked with the bstan 'gyur dpe bsdur ma (i.e., "Tanjur critical edition") published by Krung go'i bod kyi shes rig dpe skrun khang (???????), Beijing, 1998. I have used it for my work on several different shorter passages from Tantric as well as Madhyamaka texts. I compared the pertinent passages against the original xylographs of Peking, Derge and Narthang, but not of the Cone edition, which was not available to me at that time. I could see that the edition itself presented in the body-text was an exact copy of the Derge edition. All variant readings from the Peking and Narthang editions that I could check were registered correctly in the apparatus. I did not see any missing variant readings. It is not a "critical" edition per se, because it does not attempt to weigh the variants against each and choose the superior reading. I have therefore referred to it as a "comparative edition". Yet, it seems to me that it did a good job of providing all reading variants correctly. I believe it is superior to use this edition rather than relying only on a single xylograph or manuscript, but for more serious text-work, I would still check all passages in the original texts. Even when checking against the original manuscripts, it was helpful to use the Dpe bsdur ma, because it sometimes help me to spot variant readings that my own eyes otherwise overlooked. I seem to remember that it did not include punctuation variants, i.e., the use of shad (danda). 

Nevertheless, the Dpe bsdur ma edition has two serious short-comings. The worst short-coming is that it does not register the page or folio numbers of the original texts in the edition. This makes it really hard to go from the Dpe bsdur ma edition back into the original texts, since this requires locating the passage in the original help without any help from the side of the edition. The second short-coming is that the authors did not include the Golden Manuscript Tanjur and their Tanjur variants are therefore incomplete, as they only included four of the five existing Tanjur versions.

I do not have any experience with their Kanjur edition.

Sincerely,
Dr. Ulrich Timme Kragh
Independent scholar, Leiden.



From gruenen at SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE  Mon Sep 27 16:54:39 2010
From: gruenen at SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE (Gruenendahl, Reinhold)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 10 18:54:39 +0200
Subject: GRETIL update #377
Message-ID: <161227090328.23782.9587611964623166219.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

GRETIL is pleased to be able to report the following addition(s) to its
collection:

 

Jayatirtha: Nyayasudha, Adhyaya 3, Pada 3
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm#JayNysu> 

 

__________________________________________________________________________ 

"GRETIL is intended as a cumulative register of the numerous download sites
for electronic texts in Indian languages." (from the 2001 "mission
statement") 

GRETIL - Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages: 

http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm




From fritsstaal at BERKELEY.EDU  Tue Sep 28 17:17:16 2010
From: fritsstaal at BERKELEY.EDU (FRITS STAAL)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 10 10:17:16 -0700
Subject: Publication Announcement
In-Reply-To: <OF089ECF70.03D0C677-ON852576E2.00007F23-852577AC.00561C91@notes.cc.sunysb.edu>
Message-ID: <161227090333.23782.2795159781982448021.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I have not seen this book but it may contain some counter-poison to
"Discovering the Vedas: Origins, Mantras, Rituals, Insights."

>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am very pleased to announce the publication of my book:
>
> Nicholson, Andrew J.  Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in
> Indian
> Intellectual History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
> < http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14986-0/unifying-hinduism >
>
> Anyone who wishes to receive a 30% discount on the $45 cover price can
> enter the discount code "NICUN" at checkout on the Columbia University
> Press website.
>
> With best regards,
> Andrew
> ______________________________________________
> Andrew J. Nicholson
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
> Stony Brook University
> Stony Brook, NY 11794-5343 USA
> Tel: (631) 632-4030  Fax: (631) 632-4098
>
>
>
> Nicholson, Andrew J.  Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in
> Indian
> Intellectual History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
>
> Book Description:
>
> Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of
> belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British
> imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective:
> although
> a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has
> its
> roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to
> seventeenth centuries. During this time, thinkers treated the
> philosophies
> of Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga, along with the worshippers of Visnu, Siva,
> and Sakti, as belonging to a single system of belief and practice.
> Instead
> of seeing such groups as separate and contradictory, they re-envisioned
> them as separate rivers leading to the ocean of Brahman, the ultimate
> reality.
>
> Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early
> modern
> traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati,
> Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as
> the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the
> way
> for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda,
> Radhakrishnan,
> and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions
> belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also
> critiques
> the way in which Eurocentric concepts?like monism and dualism, idealism
> and
> realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy?have come to
> dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy.
>
> Reviews:
>
> "Unifying Hinduism does much more than deal with the philosophy of
> Vijnanabhiksu, it questions in an intelligent and constructive manner how
> Indian philosophy has been studied in modern scholarship?-and ways in
> which
> it has been done wrong." ? Johannes Bronkhorst, University of Lausanne,
> Switzerland
>
> "Andrew J. Nicholson's courageous and challenging thesis is that
> processes
> of unification were at work in early modern India, particularly in the
> attempt by Vedanta philosophers to create hierarchies of philosophical
> schools, and these processes 'made possible the world religion later
> known
> by the name Hinduism.' Unifying Hinduism is a fluent, eminently readable,
> and absorbing study of a period in Indian intellectual history that fully
> deserves the attention it is now receiving." ? Jonardon Ganeri,
> University
> of Sussex


Frits Staal

www.fritsstaalberkeley.com




From andrew.nicholson at STONYBROOK.EDU  Tue Sep 28 15:40:34 2010
From: andrew.nicholson at STONYBROOK.EDU (Andrew Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 10 11:40:34 -0400
Subject: Publication Announcement
Message-ID: <161227090331.23782.17925659805489693794.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>



Dear Colleagues,

I am very pleased to announce the publication of my book:

Nicholson, Andrew J.  Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian
Intellectual History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
< http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14986-0/unifying-hinduism >

Anyone who wishes to receive a 30% discount on the $45 cover price can
enter the discount code "NICUN" at checkout on the Columbia University
Press website.

With best regards,
Andrew
______________________________________________
Andrew J. Nicholson
Assistant Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5343 USA
Tel: (631) 632-4030  Fax: (631) 632-4098



Nicholson, Andrew J.  Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian
Intellectual History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

Book Description:

Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of
belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British
imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although
a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its
roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to
seventeenth centuries. During this time, thinkers treated the philosophies
of Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga, along with the worshippers of Visnu, Siva,
and Sakti, as belonging to a single system of belief and practice. Instead
of seeing such groups as separate and contradictory, they re-envisioned
them as separate rivers leading to the ocean of Brahman, the ultimate
reality.

Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern
traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati,
Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as
the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the way
for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan,
and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions
belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also critiques
the way in which Eurocentric concepts?like monism and dualism, idealism and
realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy?have come to
dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy.

Reviews:

"Unifying Hinduism does much more than deal with the philosophy of
Vijnanabhiksu, it questions in an intelligent and constructive manner how
Indian philosophy has been studied in modern scholarship?-and ways in which
it has been done wrong." ? Johannes Bronkhorst, University of Lausanne,
Switzerland

"Andrew J. Nicholson's courageous and challenging thesis is that processes
of unification were at work in early modern India, particularly in the
attempt by Vedanta philosophers to create hierarchies of philosophical
schools, and these processes 'made possible the world religion later known
by the name Hinduism.' Unifying Hinduism is a fluent, eminently readable,
and absorbing study of a period in Indian intellectual history that fully
deserves the attention it is now receiving." ? Jonardon Ganeri, University
of Sussex




From palaniappa at AOL.COM  Thu Sep 30 04:22:46 2010
From: palaniappa at AOL.COM (Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 10 23:22:46 -0500
Subject: OtuvArs and Zaiva Agamas
Message-ID: <161227090336.23782.11230898463678402606.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Indologists,

Tamil uvaccars are known as a non-brahmin caste in modern times. But medieval inscriptions show that uvaccar represented merely an occupational category and both brahmins and non-brahmins have received uvaccakkANi. I have a question in connection with a similar group involved in Zaiva temples. What do the zaiva Agamas say about the caste of those who sing the tEvAram hymns in the Zaiva temples? What are the dates of these Agamas?

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Palaniappan




From phmaas at ARCOR.DE  Thu Sep 30 18:23:30 2010
From: phmaas at ARCOR.DE (Philipp Maas)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 10 20:23:30 +0200
Subject: New publication on textual criticism etc.
Message-ID: <161227090338.23782.4988855858687919776.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Members of the Indology list,

I am pleased to announce the publication of a double volume of the Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies:

J?rgen Hanneder and Philipp A. Maas (guest eds.), Text Genealogy, Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique = Wiener Zeitschrift f?r die Kunde S?dasiens 52-53 (2009-2010).

ISSN 0084-0084 Print Edition
ISSN 1728-3124 Online Edition
ISBN 978-3-7001-6852-2 Print Edition
ISBN 978-3-7001-6926-0 Online Edition
Wiener Zeitschrift f?r die Kunde S?dasiens 52-53  doi: 10.1553/wzks2009-2010
2010, 358 pp., 22,5x15cm, paper back ?  58,00
http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/6852-2?frames=yes

With best regards,

Philipp Maas


Contents:

J?rgen Hanneder: Introduction

Reinhold Gr?nendahl: Post-philological Gestures - "Deconstructing" Textual Criticism

Wendy J. Phillips-Rodriguez - Christopher J. Howe - Heather F. Windram: Some Considerations about Bifurcation in Diagrams Representing the Written Transmission of the Mahabharata

Pascale Haag: Problems of Textual Transmission in Grammatical Literature: The pratyahara Section of the Kasikavrtti

Philipp A. Maas: Computer Aided Stemmatics - The Case of Fifty-Two Text Versions of Carakasamhita Vimanasthana 8.67-157

Christina Pecchia: Transmission-specific (In)utility, or Dealing with Contamination: Samples from the Textual Tradition of the Carakasamhita

Birgit Kellner: Towards a Critical Edition of Dharmakirti's Pramanavarttika

Yasutaka Muroya: A Study on the Marginalia in Some Nyayama?jari Manuscripts: The Reconstruction of a Lost Portion of the Nyayama?jari- granthibhanga

Anna Aurelia Esposito: Some Aspects of Textual Criticism Concerning the Keralite Drama Manuscripts

Stanislav Jager: Editing Rajanaka Ratnakantha's Suryastutirahasya and Ratnasataka

Takahiro Kato: Bhaskara's Brahmasutrabhasya - An Unpublished Edition by J.A.B. van Buitenen