Publication Announcement (Results of a Text-Related Kashmir Panel )

[Loriliai Biernacki]

Great news. I will have my library order it.
Best wishes,
Loriliai Biernacki
-- 
Prof. Biernacki
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Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Religious Studies
University of Colorado at Boulder
UCB 292
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On 4/11/12 5:41 PM, "Roland Steiner" <steiner at MAILER.UNI-MARBURG.DE> wrote:

>Just released:
>
>Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis, Volume 4:
>
>Steiner, Roland (ed.): Highland Philology. Results of a Text-Related
>Kashmir Panel at the 31st DOT, Marburg 2010. Halle (Saale):
>Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg 2012, pp. 201. ISBN
>978-3-86977-040-6 (Hardbound) 59,- EUR.
>
>http://www.universitaetsverlag-halle-wittenberg.de/english/new-books/highl
>and-philology.html
>
>The announced volume is a collection of textual studies on various
>features of the history and culture of Kashmir. It is mainly based on
>revised versions of lectures delivered at a “Kashmir panel” held on
>the 22nd of September 2010 at the 31st German Oriental Conference
>(Deutscher Orientalistentag = DOT) in Marburg.
>
>It deals with the transfer of India's sacred geography to the
>highlands of Kashmir in a miniaturized form (Walter Slaje), a
>previously unnoticed recording of an appearance of Halley's Comet in
>Kashmir by the poet-historian Śrīvara (Walter Slaje), the historical
>traces of vocal and instrumental music (saṅgīta) in Kashmir
>(Advaitavadini Kaul), as well as with the poetical figure bhāṣāśleṣa
>(simultaneous expression of different meanings in two or more
>languages) as a peculiarity of Kashmiri writers and critics (Michael
>Hahn). Further subjects are the formation of a specifically Kashmiri
>literary genre -- the Kashmiri kathā -- and the development of a
>special style connected to it (Luther Obrock), and the question, when,
>where and why did Bhaṭṭa Jayanta write his Nyāyamañjarī (Walter Slaje).
>
>The last four contributions are about different aspects of the
>Mokṣopāya/Yogavāsiṣṭha literature: John Shore’s lost translation of a
>Persian version of the so-called Laghuyogavāsiṣṭha which he already
>wrote in 1784 (Jürgen Hanneder), the special character of the fourth
>book (Sthitiprakaraṇa) of the Mokṣopāya (Roland Steiner), and the
>meaning of single words (araghaṭṭa, saṃsāracakra, kośakāra) used in
>the Mokṣopāya (Martin Straube). A reply to a review of a partial
>edition of Bhāskarakaṇṭha’s Mokṣopāyaṭīkā along with general remarks
>on the “indological culture of debate” (Jürgen Hanneder and Walter
>Slaje) completes the volume.
>
>Kind regards,
>Roland Steiner
>
>--
>Dr. Roland Steiner
>Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
>Seminar für Indologie
>Emil-Abderhalden-Str. 9
>D-06099 Halle (Saale)
>Tel.: +49-345-55-23656
>Fax.: +49-345-55-27211
>URL: http://www.indologie.uni-halle.de/
>E-Mail: roland.steiner at indologie.uni-halle.de