From soni at STAFF.UNI-MARBURG.DE Tue Jan 1 00:22:36 2013 From: soni at STAFF.UNI-MARBURG.DE (Jayandra Soni) Date: Tue, 01 Jan 13 01:22:36 +0100 Subject: The E-Messenger again Message-ID: <161227098410.23782.15708743376863006498.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> To Readers and Lovers of Sanskrit, It is a great pleasure to release the next issue of Viduu, Vidyud-duutah, the E-Messnger with a special stanza on the occasion of this the first day of the New Year. It is hoped, again, that you will enjoy it in your tight schedule during a tea or coffee break. With best wishes, Jay Soni ------------------------------ Jayandra Soni, Ph.Dd. (BHU and McMaster) Secretary General, International Association of Sanskrit Studies http://www.sanskritassociation.org/ Email: jayandra.soni at sanskritassociation.org Cc: soni at staff.uni-marburg.de -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Hindu Devotional Ordeals and their Shamanic Parallels by Francesco Brighenty > ============ > Michael Witzel > witzel at fas.harvard.edu > > Wales Prof. of Sanskrit & > Director of Graduate Studies, > Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University > 1 Bow Street, > Cambridge MA 02138, USA > > phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, 496 8570, fax 617 - 496 8571; > my direct line: 617- 496 2990 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jhakgirish at YAHOO.COM Thu Jan 3 11:20:55 2013 From: jhakgirish at YAHOO.COM (girish jha) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 13 03:20:55 -0800 Subject: Vacaspatimisra's Tattvasamiksa comm. on Mandanamisra's Brahmasiddhi Message-ID: <161227098430.23782.11639652490637751516.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear colleagues, Could any of you take some pains to inform me of the availability of the book mentioned above.I came to know that? Dr Diwakar Acharya has edited it which was published by Nepal Research Centre,Kathmandu in 2006.I tried several times via e-mail but all in vain. I would be highly grateful if any person could help me find it. Regards, sincerely Girish K.Jha Dept of Sanskrit Patna University Patna 800 005 INDIA Phone: +91-612- 9931490815 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Thu Jan 3 13:01:19 2013 From: witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Michael Witzel) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 13 08:01:19 -0500 Subject: new EJVS issue by Francesco Brighenti Message-ID: <161227098433.23782.17213094139216804764.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear All, I am sorry for misspelling Francesco Brighenti's name in the announcement sent yesterday night. I am prone to spelling mistakes, and my spellcheck -- and I -- didn't catch it... So again: Hindu Devotional Ordeals and their Shamanic Parallels by Francesco Brighenti EJVS Vol. 19 (2012) Issue 4 A good New Year to All! Michael =================== From: "Witzel, Michael" Subject: New EJVS issue: F. Brightenty on Ordeals Date: January 2, 2013 11:07:53 PM EST To: Indology , "INDOLOGY at yahoogroups.com" , Informationsaustausch der deutschsprachigen Indologie , "Indo-Eurasian_research at yahoogroups.com" , "indo_iranian at yahoogroups.com" Cc: "Witzel, Michael" , "ejvs at Yahoogroups.com" Just as the year was coming to an end, we finalized another issue of EJVS and are happy to announce: Vol. 19 (2012) Issue 4 This paper deals with the many forms of ordeals found in South Asia and their Vedic and Shamanic connections. Hindu Devotional Ordeals and their Shamanic Parallels by Francesco Brighenty > ============ > Michael Witzel > witzel at fas.harvard.edu > > Wales Prof. of Sanskrit & > Director of Graduate Studies, > Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University > 1 Bow Street, > Cambridge MA 02138, USA > > phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, 496 8570, fax 617 - 496 8571; > my direct line: 617- 496 2990 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karp at UW.EDU.PL Thu Jan 3 10:39:35 2013 From: karp at UW.EDU.PL (Artur Karp) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 13 11:39:35 +0100 Subject: New EJVS issue: F. Brightenty on Ordeals In-Reply-To: <2E423CFC-C9AD-4FCC-9EEC-41B0C41CB560@fas.harvard.edu> Message-ID: <161227098425.23782.14541512659253701359.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> A highly interesting and thought-provoking paper. Thanks. One remark, though. The Author skips "the discussion of judicial ordeals" (p. 105); however, the inventory of judicial ordeals is not limited to two types (fn. 3). It is much richer - and such ordeals, especially those ending religious disputes would take on dramatic forms (cf. Giovanii Verardi's "Hardships and Downfall of Buddhism in India", Manohar, New Delhi 2011). In what way were they following the ordeal "formats" described in the paper? Artur Karp Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit and Pali (ret.) South Asian Studies Dept. University of Warsaw Poland PS. I have always thought that only Slavic family names (such as Szczesniakiewicz) would cause problems in remembering their pronunciation and spelling. But - Francesco Brighenti's name? A. From vglyssenko at YANDEX.RU Thu Jan 3 11:08:40 2013 From: vglyssenko at YANDEX.RU (Viktoria Lyssenko) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 13 15:08:40 +0400 Subject: Shree Narayana Mishra passed away Message-ID: <161227098427.23782.16810974790741156355.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear colleagues, I have just found out that my teacher Shree Narayan Mishra, Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit, Benares Hindu University passed away six months ago in Varanasi. What a great loss for India and for many European Indologists, whom he helped to understand Sanskrit texts! He was a real connoisseur of Indian philosophy. Although he was primarily a nayayika, we had read Buddhist and Advaita texts and he always impressed me with his profound knowledge.This year I was going to read Shantarakshita Tattva samgraha (Chapter on Pratyaksha) with him, I called him, as always to report my arrival and he was no more... I do not know what to do - tickets were bought, hotel booked in Varanasi, I got a leave from my work. But to whom and where could I go? Could anybody suggest me an English-speaking pandit (my Hindi is not good enough ) with whom I could read philosophical Sanskrit texts on perception? Preferably in Varanasi... I have to leave for India in a week. With hope, Victoria From slindqui at MAIL.SMU.EDU Sat Jan 5 01:42:46 2013 From: slindqui at MAIL.SMU.EDU (Lindquist, Steven) Date: Sat, 05 Jan 13 01:42:46 +0000 Subject: podcast on Mithras Message-ID: <161227098437.23782.7472084447058242091.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Please excuse the x-post. This very recent podcast (below) on Mithras from BBC 4 may be of interest to you all. It is available on iTunes for free or by streaming directly from BBC 4. Cheers! s STEVEN LINDQUIST, PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, RELIGIOUS STUDIES DIRECTOR, ASIAN STUDIES ____________________ Southern Methodist University PO Box 750202 | Dallas | TX | 75275 http://faculty.smu.edu/slindqui Podcast: In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg Episode: The Cult of Mithras Duration: 43 minutes First broadcast: Thursday 27 December 2012 With: Greg Woolf Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews Almut Hintze Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS, University of London John North Acting Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. More details at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pg5nt From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Sun Jan 6 10:29:28 2013 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Sun, 06 Jan 13 10:29:28 +0000 Subject: Avadanna-kalpalataa Message-ID: <161227098440.23782.3022855715862034465.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> New years greeting to all! Does anyone know of a good, complete scan of S.C. Das's Sanskrit-Tibetan ed. of K.semendra's Avadaana-kalpalataa? The version available in the Digital Library of India, is incomplete, disordered, with many broken pages as well. best to all, Matthew Matthew Kapstein Directeur d'?tudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, The University of Chicago ________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Sun Jan 6 20:10:32 2013 From: witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Witzel, Michael) Date: Sun, 06 Jan 13 15:10:32 -0500 Subject: 6th Internat. Vedic Workshop, Kerala, Jan.2014 Message-ID: <161227098443.23782.18211466527588764320.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear All, Exactly one year from now, we will continue with our tradition of holding Vedic workshops (1989-). This time in the ideal location of Kerala, whose great Vedic traditions were brought to our attention by the work of the late Frits Staal, especially through his help in organizing the 1975 Agnicayana (J.F. Staal, Agni 1983). We will meet in Kozhikode (Cochin), and we will organize several excursions to nearby locations of traditional Veda teaching and rituals. Please note that Kozhikode has easy, direct airline connections to international destinations. For details please see below, and: < http://www.ivw2014.org> Hope seeing you then! Michael Witzel (for the committee members) ======================= INVITATION Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original research results to the International Vedic Workshop 2014. ===================================================== Call for Papers ===================================================== The 6th International Vedic Workshop Venue: Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala State, India Dates: 7th ? 10th, January, 2014 Workshop Website: http://www.ivw2014.org ===================================================== Dear colleagues: The 6th International Vedic Workshop will be held from January 7-10, 2014. The workshop focuses on the Vedas and Vedic studies. The prospective audience constitutes scholars of the Vedas and Vedic traditions, traditional scholars (Vaidikas, ritualists, and also scholars of Mimamsa), practitioners of Veda, Sanskrit scholars, etc. The workshop committee calls for papers and proposals in, or related to, the following areas: Vedic texts and rituals Scholarly interpretation of Vedic texts Traditional performance of Vedic texts. Vedic traditions of Kerala: recitation, texts, commentaries, and rituals, and their applications in Srauta, Grhya, Tantra etc. General Vedic traditions of other parts of India and Nepal, and recent transplants into the West Important dates Call for papers: 10th January, 2013 Abstract submission opening date: 1st March, 2013 Abstract submission closing date: 1st September, 2013 Date of declaration of review results: 15th October, 2013 Camera ready full paper submission date: 1st November, 2013 Submission Types 1. Short briefing papers: A short briefing paper contains a research briefing on one of the areas mentioned above. Such papers will be presented by the author in a round table discussion format at the workshop. These papers need not be extensive. Typical length is about 1500-2000 words. 2. Research papers: Through such a paper, a research question or an argument is posed and subsequently verified / studied. Empirical work (quantitative or qualitative) is necessary. Research papers will be presented by the authors in a regular workshop session. These papers should be scholarly as well as informative. Typical length is about 5000-6000 words. All reviewed and accepted research papers will be considered for publication in the International Vedic Workshop proceedings. 3. Case Studies: Case studies are typically descriptions of a given situation of an application of Veda. Names of organizations / actors can be kept anonymous to maintain confidentiality. Case studies will be presented by the authors at the workshop. Typical length is about 5000-6000 words. All reviewed and accepted case studies will be considered for publication in the International Vedic Workshop proceedings. 4. Student Scholar Track: Up to six papers from Ph D scholars will be selected for the Student Scholar Track. Of the six papers, one will be selected for the Student Scholar Award. The primary author must necessarily be a Ph D scholar and must be present at the workshop. The primary author must email Prof. Shrikant Bahulkar, (shrikant.bahulkar at gmail.com ) and specify that they wish their submitted paper to be considered for the Student Scholar track. All reviewed and accepted student papers will be considered for publication in the International Vedic Workshop proceedings. All research papers and case studies will be peer reviewed by the international workshop committee. Additional information about paper submission can be found at http://www.ivw2014.org/Paper_submition.html Registration information is posted at http://www.ivw2014.org/Registration.HTML The Chair of the workshop is Prof. Michael Witzel (Harvard University , USA). Email: witzel at fas.harvard.edu For any other information on the workshop, you may visit http://www.ivw2014.org or contact the local workshop co-ordinator, Dr. P. Vinod Bhattathiripad (Chief Co-ordinator, www.namboothiri.com) Thanks and looking forward to meet you at the workshop The International Vedic Workshop 2014 Committee Members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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International Journal of Jaina Studies (Online) Vol. 8, No. 1 (2012) 1-47. http://www.soas.ac.uk/research/publications/journals/ijjs/file79746.pdf Elena Karatchkova. "The Temple of Sa?gh? Jh??th?r?mj? 'Jain on the Outside ? Hindu Inside'" International Journal of Jaina Studies (Online) Vol. 8, No. 2 (2012) 1-25 http://www.soas.ac.uk/research/publications/journals/ijjs/file80964.pdf -- Dr Peter Fl?gel Chair, Centre of Jaina Studies Department of the Study of Religions Faculty of Arts and Humanities School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1H OXG Tel.: (+44-20) 7898 4776 E-mail: pf8 at soas.ac.uk http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Apart from the brilliant translation of the Gita Govinda by Lee Siegel, and a few stray verses here and there, I can't think of any others that I have read at least. Many thanks Venetia -- Venetia Kotamraju +91 997230 5440 www.rasalabooks.com www.venetiaansell.wordpress.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wujastyk at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 9 12:48:58 2013 From: wujastyk at GMAIL.COM (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 13 13:48:58 +0100 Subject: 2006 BBC program on Indian mathematics Message-ID: <161227098465.23782.4269666358942825699.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0038xb0 Indian Mathematics > Availability:over a year left to play Duration: 45 minutesFirst broadcast:Thursday > 14 December 2006 > > Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the contribution Indian mathematicians > have made to our understanding of the subject. Mathematics from the Indian > subcontinent has provided foundations for much of our modern thinking on > the subject. They were thought to be the first to use zero as a number. Our > modern numerals have their roots there too. And mathematicians in the area > that is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were grappling with concepts > such as infinity centuries before Europe got to grips with it. There?s even > a suggestion that Indian mathematicians discovered Pythagoras? theorem > before Pythagoras. > > Some of these advances have their basis in early religious texts which > describe the geometry necessary for building falcon-shaped altars of > precise dimensions. Astronomical calculations used to decide the dates of > religious festivals also encouraged these mathematical developments. > > So how were these advances passed on to the rest of the world? And why was > the contribution of mathematicians from this area ignored by Europe for > centuries? > With George Gheverghese Joseph, Honorary Reader in Mathematics Education > at Manchester University; Colva Roney-Dougal, Lecturer in Pure Mathematics > at the University of St Andrews; Dennis Almeida, Lecturer in Mathematics > Education at Exeter University and the Open University. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From je374 at MSSTATE.EDU Thu Jan 10 17:31:09 2013 From: je374 at MSSTATE.EDU (Jonathan Edelmann) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 13 11:31:09 -0600 Subject: International Journal of Hindu Studies - Hindu Theology Section Message-ID: <161227098475.23782.12032303860097732658.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Indologists, I am the new section editor for Hindu Theology in the _International Journal of Hindu Studies_. This section publishes constructive evaluations and creative (re)interpretations of any Hindu tradition, text or thinker, in manners both critical and sympathetic. It also encourages new perspectives on non-Hindu thought developed from Hindu philosophical and theological perspectives, and seeks to facilitate communities of interpreters of the Hindu traditions. We are writing to ask you to prepare an essay for the Hindu Theology section. The IJHS is a peer reviewed journal with seventeen years of history, and it is committed to a rapid response (three months or less). Sincerely, Jonathan Edelmann Asst Prof of Religion, Mississippi State University Completed articles and correspondence regarding material for possible publication and editorial matters should be submitted to the Editor, Sushil Mittal at mittalsx at jmu.edu. Completed articles and correspondence regarding material for possible publication in the Hindu Theology Section should be submitted to the Section Editor, Jonathan Edelmann at je374 at msstate.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chris_gibbons at ME.COM Thu Jan 10 02:33:15 2013 From: chris_gibbons at ME.COM (CHRISTOPHER GIBBONS) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 13 12:33:15 +1000 Subject: translations with shabdalamkara In-Reply-To: <50ED0E9A.9080607@gmail.com> Message-ID: <161227098468.23782.2865166019144006435.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Hi Venetia, regarding attempts to capture the acoustics of an original in translation, Isabelle Onians' translation of the 7th ucchvasa of the Dazakumaracarita -- the Mantraguptacaritam (chapter 12 in the Clay Library ed.) -- is worth a mention. The translation follows the original Sanskrit in not using labials: p, b, m; so as to reproduce the effect of the original wherein "Matragupta's lips have so been ravished with biting kisses that he is constrained to tell his story without allowing his battered lips to touch." (from p. 21 of Isabelle's introduction, which includes a wonderful note on the challenges involved in translating). Cheers, Chris On 09/01/2013, at 4:30 PM, Balogh D?niel wrote: > Hello Venetia, > since you explicitly mention other languages, I can't resist "pushing" the Hungarian translation of the Gitagovinda. It's the work of one of our senior Indologists, J?zsef Vekerdi (still with us and probably still angry at the poet for much of what he's done to the text), and one of the best Hungarian poets of the second half of the last century, S?ndor We?res (departed quite a while ago). The result is nothing short of breathtaking, though I guess nobody but us Hungarians can appreciate it. If interested, the full text is available (without the authors' consent, as far as I know) online: http://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/dzsajadeva.html > The point is that it's a metrically perfect translation (well, 99.5% perfect - unlike English, Hungarian is not based on stress accent, so poetry measured by syllable weight works in this language) that can be recited just like the original (indeed, there is an anecdote that someone once recited this to an Indian audience and listeners said, ah, could that be the Gita Govinda in your language?), also duplicating most of the rhyme and assonance. The reason for Vekerdi's anger is of course that We?res was occasionally quite free in his treatment of the meaning, but then, I believe much of the original Gitagovinda isn't about the precise meaning either... > Best, > Daniel > > 2013.01.09. 6:26 keltez?ssel, Venetia Kotamraju ?rta: >> Dear List, >> A very happy new year to all. >> Has anyone come across translations which try to convey the shabdalamkara found in a particular Sanskrit verse or poem in English (or other languages). Apart from the brilliant translation of the Gita Govinda by Lee Siegel, and a few stray verses here and there, I can't think of any others that I have read at least. >> Many thanks >> Venetia >> >> -- >> Venetia Kotamraju >> +91 997230 5440 >> www.rasalabooks.com >> www.venetiaansell.wordpress.com > PhD Candidate School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics Faculty of Arts The University of Queensland Email: s4297473 at student.uq.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michaels.axel at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Thu Jan 10 15:54:07 2013 From: michaels.axel at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Axel Michaels) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 13 16:54:07 +0100 Subject: PhD Programm in Transcultural Studies (open also for Indologists) Message-ID: <161227098471.23782.3710229997842435614.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> The Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies welcomes applications for eight doctoral scholarships. The application system is now open until March 15, 2013. The programme offers a monthly scholarship of 1.200 Euro. It further supports scholarship holders in framing their research through advanced courses and individual supervision and mentoring. The scholarships start in the winter term 2013/14 and are granted for two years with the possibility of an extension for an additional year. Half of them are reserved for young scholars from Asia. Applicants are expected to propose a doctoral project contributing to the general research framework of the Cluster of Excellence ?Asia and Europe in a Global Context. The Dynamics of Transculturality?. They must hold an M.A. or equivalent in a discipline of the humanities or social sciences with an above-average grade. Applications, including a CV, a letter of intention, a project proposal, a schedule for the dissertation, and recommendations are accepted until March 15, 2013, via the Online Application System. After an initial evaluation and selection, applicants will be asked to get in contact with possible supervisors at the Cluster of Excellence to discuss their project proposal. The most promising applicants will be invited to present their projects to the selection committee in Heidelberg. Subsequently the scholarship holders will be selected. For more information on the scholarships visit the website of the Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies or read the full call for applications (PDF). For further questions send an e-mail to: application-gpts at asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de. Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels Acting Director Excellence Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Sprecher des SFB 619 ("Ritualdynamik") Universit?t Heidelberg, S?dasien-Institut, Im Neuenheimer Feld 330, D-69120 Heidelberg Tel. +49-6221-548917 / Fax +49-6221-546338 http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/ -- www.ritualdynamik.uni-hd.de -- http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/IND/index.html Emails: sek-michaels at uni-heidelberg.de (SAI office) -- Axel.Michaels at urz.uni-heidelberg.de (official and personal) -- michaels at asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de (Cluster mail) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Everything must be sacrificed for that one sentiment, UNIVERSALITY. 6.Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world. 7. Every aspiration must go on till it engulfed the whole of humanity. 8.'The second great idea the world is waiting to receive from the Upanishad is the solidarity of the Universe. 9. Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is ONENESS. 10.While referring to Buddha, Swamiji uttered" Shakya Muni... was the fulfillment,the logical conclusion, logical development of the Religion the Hindus. Looking forward to further enlightment on the above. ALAKENDU DAS Post-Graduate,Indology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pf8 at SOAS.AC.UK Sat Jan 12 10:43:24 2013 From: pf8 at SOAS.AC.UK (Peter Flugel) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 13 10:43:24 +0000 Subject: Jaina Logic, Conference at SOAS 21-22 March, All Welcome! Message-ID: <161227098483.23782.1035240135720241300.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> *JAINA LOGIC* *15th Jaina Studies Workshop at SOAS* * * *The 13th Annual Jain Lecture* Thursday, 21st March 2013 18.00-19.30 SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre Piotr Balcerowicz, University of Warsaw (Poland) *Jaina Logic and Epistemology. Is This How it All Began?* 19.30 Reception Brunei Gallery Suite *Workshop* Friday, 22nd March 2011, SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre 9.00 Tea and Coffee *First Session: Jain perspectivism* 9.15 Johannes Bronkhorst, University of Lausanne (Switzerland) *Anek?ntav?da, the Central Philosophy of ?j?vikism?* 9.45 Masahiro Ueda, Kyoto University (Japan) *Nik?epa in Akala?ka?s Works* 10.15 Peter Fl?gel, SOAS *Prolegomena to a Phenomenology of Jaina Time-Consciousness* 10.45 Tea & Coffee *Second Session: Jain theory of pram??a* 11.15 Dharmchand Jain, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur (India) *An Appraisal of Jaina Epistemology and Logic * 11.45 Olle Qvarnstr?m, University of Lund (Sweden) *Haribhadras?ri on S??khya: Jain Criticism of S??khya Epistemology* 12.15 Marie-H?l?ne Gorisse, University of Ghent (Belgium) *Jain Theory of Inference in the Par?k??mukham* 12.45 Group Photo 13.00 Lunch: Brunei Gallery Suite *Third Session: Jain theory of nayas* 14.00 Anne Clavel, University of Lyon (France) *Arthanayas and ?abdanayas: A Structural Analysis* 14.30 * *Shahid Rahman, Universit? de Lille (France) *On Kinds, Jain View-Points and the Constructions of their Predicates: Remarks on a Theory of Content * * * 15.00 * *Tea & Coffee** *Fourth Session: Jain theory of saptabha?g?* * * 15.30 Fujinaga, Shin, Miyakonojo (Japan)** *Origin and Value of Saptabha?g?* 16.00 Fabien Schang, Universit? de Lorraine, Nancy (France)** *A One-valued Logic for Non-One-Sidedness * * * 16.30 Brief Break * * *Fifth Session: Oher lights on Jain epistemology* 16.40 Jayandra Soni, Innsbruck (Austria) *Prabh?candra?s Status in and Contribution to the History of Jaina Philosophical* *Speculation* 17.10 Himal Trikha, University of Vienna (Austria) *Katha?cit and other Key Terms of Jain Perspectivism in Vidy?nandin's Satya??sanapar?k??* 17.40 Andrew More, Yale University (USA) *The Logic of Legitimation of Jain Lay Life in S?yaga?a?ga 2.2 and the Uvav?iya* 18.10 Final Remarks * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -- Dr Peter Fl?gel Chair, Centre of Jaina Studies Department of the Study of Religions Faculty of Arts and Humanities School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1H OXG Tel.: (+44-20) 7898 4776 E-mail: pf8 at soas.ac.uk http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kellner at ASIA-EUROPE.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Sat Jan 12 21:22:35 2013 From: kellner at ASIA-EUROPE.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (Birgit Kellner) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 13 22:22:35 +0100 Subject: Call for Papers: Conference "Putative Purities. Transcultural Dimensions of Master Narratives in Religion" Heidelberg 2-4 July, 2013 Message-ID: <161227098488.23782.10413088311027257043.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear colleagues, (apologies for cross-posting) The research group "Negotiating Religion in a Transcultural Framework" in Heidelberg invites abstracts for the interdisciplinary conference "Putative Purities. Transcultural Dimensions of Master Narratives in Religion", Heidelberg 2-4 July, 2013. Please send abstracts to Carolin Matjeka (cmatjeka at goodlemail) until 28 February, 2013, and kindly forward this call for papers to potentially interested colleagues. -- Call for Papers: Putative Purities. Transcultural Dimensions of Master Narratives in Religion" Heidelberg 2-4 July, 2013 ---- Master narratives provide collectivities with a coherent vision of their history and a sense of homogeneity. They are continually reiterated and stabilized constructions which tend to mask particularity and bias behind universalized representations of objective truth. Especially in postmodern and postcolonial critique, master narratives have been problematized in view of their homogenizing as well as exclusionary potential. But beyond such critique, master narratives also offer a fruitful avenue to investigate dynamics involved in, and issuing from, intense cultural contact, and the possibilities of representing, performing and materializing cultural alterity in their framework. With a view towards transcultural dimensions involved in establishing, supporting and subverting master narratives, this conference places a special focus on religion: on narratives which support, challenge or displace religious identities, on their own or possibly also in synergy with other forms of collective identity (culture, race, nation). The conference ?Putative Purities? is conceptualized and organized by the research group ?Negotiating Religion in a Transcultural Framework? (MC3) of the Cluster of Excellence ?Asia and Europe in a Global Context ? the Dynamics of Transulturality? of the University of Heidelberg. Within the above framework, we invite contributions on historical as well as contemporary aspects of master narratives, without regional restriction. Questions we envisage as fruitful starting-points for framing our inquiry include: - Could transcultural elements ? such as the arrival of religious ideas from foreign lands ? be integrated into master narratives religious groups? Or did cultural alterity have to be assimilated following a logic of cultural and ethnic purity? - How are transcultural elements and their presence negotiated in the process of the making of a master narrative? Are they blank spaces, omitted, left out, glossed over? - How can the appropriation of foreign elements be related to the regimes of meaning-making which a group creates or perpetuates? - Is there a difference regarding how transcultural elements can be done or performed, and how they can be told in such constitutive narratives? - How are master narratives formed and solidified in cultural contact zones with a particularly high degree and intensity of cultural exchange? - Are particular forms of transcultural dynamics disturbing interferences in an emerging emphasis on homogeneity? - Is the possibility to narrate transculturality related to the scale of narrative ? are more locally confined narrative constructions of group identity more open to accommodating transcultural elements than master narratives of larger (national) significance? - By what means are master narratives made, by what strategies solidified? - How are master narratives perpetuated and solidified through academic discourse and scholarly practice? Although master narratives are typically understood as texts ? as stories which are reproduced in writing or telling ?, we also encourage contributions on praxeology and materiality, on the actualization of such narratives in artistic and ritual performance and their expression through buildings, sacred objects or images. Please send abstracts to Carolin Matjeka (cmatjeka at goodlemail) until 28 February, 2013. Conference conceptualisation and organisation: Dr. Anna Andreeva (Japanese Studies) PD Dr. Antje Fluechter (Early Modern History) Prof. Dr. Birgit Kellner (Buddhist Studies, South Asia/Tibet) Mag. J?rgen Schaflechner (Social and Cultural Anthropology, South Asia) Dr. Davide Torri (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Himalayas) -- -------- Prof. Dr. Birgit Kellner Chair in Buddhist Studies Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context - the Dynamics of Transculturality" University of Heidelberg Karl Jaspers Centre Vossstra?e 2, Building 4400 D-69115 Heidelberg Phone: +49(0)6221 - 54 4301 Fax: +49(0)6221 - 54 4012 http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/home.html From manufrancis at GMAIL.COM Sun Jan 13 20:24:39 2013 From: manufrancis at GMAIL.COM (Manu Francis) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 13 21:24:39 +0100 Subject: Workshop-cum-conference "Archaeology of Bhakti", Pondicherry, July 31st to August 13th 2013 Message-ID: <161227098496.23782.422786939695829369.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear List, Please find attached to this message the announcement for the second workshop-cum-conference "Archaeology of Bhakti" organised from July 31st to August 13th 2013 in the EFEO centre at Pondicherry by Val?rie Gillet (EFEO, Pondicherry), Charlotte Schmid (EFEO, Paris) and myself. A dedicated webpage is under construction on the EFEO website, but registration is already open. Please circulate the information. Best wishes. Emmanuel Francis Val?rie Gillet Emmanuel Francis -- Emmanuel Francis Charg? de recherche CNRS, Centre d'?tude de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (UMR 8564, EHESS-CNRS, Paris) Associate member, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture (SFB 950, Universit?t Hamburg) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ArchaeologyofBhakti2013.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 410291 bytes Desc: not available URL: From info at BARKHUIS.NL Mon Jan 14 07:55:27 2013 From: info at BARKHUIS.NL (Roelf Barkhuis) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 13 08:55:27 +0100 Subject: eJIM - eJournal of Indian Medicine - Vol 5, No 2 (2012) Message-ID: <161227098503.23782.13512557758911853410.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Indologists, eJIM - the eJournal of Indian Medicine has just published its latest issue at http://bjournals.ub.rug.nl/ejim. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Roelf Barkhuis Journal Manager eJIM - eJournal of Indian Medicine Vol 5, No 2 (2012) Table of Contents http://bjournals.ub.rug.nl/ejim/issue/view/39 Articles -------- >???From mouth fresheners to erotic perfumes: The evolving socio-cultural significance of nutmeg, mace and cloves in South Asia (37-97) Thomas J. Zumbroich Mah?devadeva?s Hikmatprak??a ? A Sanskrit treatise on Y?n?n? medicine, Part I: text and commentary of Section I with an annotated English translation (99-134) Jan Meulenbeld Mah?devadeva?s Hikmatprak??a ? A Sanskrit treatise on Y?n?n? medicine, Part II: Text and commentary of selected verses from Section II with an annotated English translation (135-294) Jan Meulenbeld -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From manufrancis at GMAIL.COM Mon Jan 14 11:30:30 2013 From: manufrancis at GMAIL.COM (Manu Francis) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 13 12:30:30 +0100 Subject: Workshop-cum-conference "Archaeology of Bhakti", Pondicherry, July 31st to August 13th 2013 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098510.23782.5683014982645907182.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear List, A mistake (among the joint signers) has unfortunately crept into my previous message. I should have written the following: Dear List, Please find attached to this message the announcement for the second workshop-cum-conference "Archaeology of Bhakti" organised from July 31st to August 13th 2013 in the EFEO centre at Pondicherry by Val?rie Gillet (EFEO, Pondicherry), Charlotte Schmid (EFEO, Paris) and myself. A dedicated webpage is under construction on the EFEO website, but registration is already open. Please circulate the information. Best wishes. Emmanuel Francis (CNRS, CEIAS, Paris) Val?rie Gillet (EFEO, Pondicherry) Charlotte Schmid (EFEO, Paris) On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Manu Francis wrote: > Dear List, > > Please find attached to this message the announcement for the second > workshop-cum-conference "Archaeology of Bhakti" organised from July > 31st to August 13th 2013 in the EFEO centre at Pondicherry by Val?rie > Gillet (EFEO, Pondicherry), Charlotte Schmid (EFEO, Paris) and myself. > A dedicated webpage is under construction on the EFEO website, but > registration is already open. > Please circulate the information. > > Best wishes. > > Emmanuel Francis > Val?rie Gillet > Emmanuel Francis > > -- > Emmanuel Francis > Charg? de recherche CNRS, Centre d'?tude de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud > (UMR 8564, EHESS-CNRS, Paris) > Associate member, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture (SFB 950, > Universit?t Hamburg) -- Emmanuel Francis Charg? de recherche CNRS, Centre d'?tude de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (UMR 8564, EHESS-CNRS, Paris) Associate member, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture (SFB 950, Universit?t Hamburg) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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George Thompson From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Mon Jan 14 16:51:21 2013 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 13 16:51:21 +0000 Subject: article search Message-ID: <161227098516.23782.2068799686858731017.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear colleagues, Might any of you have a pdf of the late Bimal Matilal's contribution to the IB Horner Festschrift; it concerns Uddyotakara's criticisms of Buddhist "idealism"? with thanks in advance, Matthew Matthew Kapstein Directeur d'?tudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, The University of Chicago From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Mon Jan 14 20:01:20 2013 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 13 20:01:20 +0000 Subject: article search In-Reply-To: <82C3E42590D939418C74DD76B97DDED077D64D@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu> Message-ID: <161227098518.23782.13899450188759918567.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Thanks to Stefan Baums and Deepak Sarma for kindly sending me the Matilal article. Matthew Matthew Kapstein Directeur d'?tudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, The University of Chicago ________________________________________ From: Indology [INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] on behalf of Matthew Kapstein [mkapstei at uchicago.edu] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 10:51 AM To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] article search Dear colleagues, Might any of you have a pdf of the late Bimal Matilal's contribution to the IB Horner Festschrift; it concerns Uddyotakara's criticisms of Buddhist "idealism"? with thanks in advance, Matthew Matthew Kapstein Directeur d'?tudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, The University of Chicago From psdmccartney at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 15 05:31:38 2013 From: psdmccartney at GMAIL.COM (patrick mccartney) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 13 11:01:38 +0530 Subject: Phd thesis search In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098524.23782.403641001585781562.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Colleagues, I would appreciate any assistance in locating a copy of Dr Stephen Glick's PhD thesis from 1982 on the guru disciple relationship. The title is 'An analysis of the change process in the guru-disciple relationship'. So far I have only managed to find a sample copy of a few pages. Thanks. Patrick McCartney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rospatt at BERKELEY.EDU Tue Jan 15 22:00:23 2013 From: rospatt at BERKELEY.EDU (Alexander von Rospatt) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 13 14:00:23 -0800 Subject: Summer NEH Seminar - Understanding Buddhism through its Classic Texts Message-ID: <161227098527.23782.7472568067569182988.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Please take note of the following NEH summer seminar that I am posting on behalf of Jack Petranker, Director of the Managalam Research Center in Berkeley. All queries should be directed directly to Jack Petranker . Kind regards, Alexander von Rospatt (Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies University of California, Berkeley) This summer, Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages will be hosting a four-week NEH Summer Seminar, ?Understanding Buddhism through its Classic Texts.? The program will be held from July 8-August 2, 2013 in Berkeley, CA. It will be led by Professors Luis G?mez (emeritus, University of Michigan) and Parimal Patil (Harvard). The deadline for applications is March 4, 2013. Successful applicants will receive a $3,300 stipend through the NEH to defray the costs of attending the program (travel, housing, etc.) No tuition is charged for the program itself. Since the program requires no knowledge of the canonical languages, it should have broad appeal across a variety of disciplines, including religious studies, Asian studies, art history, area studies, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. However, Drs. G?mez and Patil will arrange special sessions for any participants who do know one or more canonical languages. The program is open to faculty teaching at the undergraduate level, and two positions are reserved for graduate students who plan an academic career. More details can be found athttp://www.mangalamresearch.org/programs/neh-summer-seminar-2013/. For questions, please contact Samra Girma, samrag at mangalamresearch.org. We would appreciate your calling the program to the attention of colleagues who use or might wish to use Buddhist texts in their courses. Hard copies of fliers announcing the program can be mailed on request. With regards, Jack Petranker, Director Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages jackp at mangalamresearch.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more details, please see http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/stimw/ Please ensure that your proposal reaches Jackie Hirst (jacqueline.hirst at manchester.ac.uk) by Fri 22 Feb 2013. With many thanks Jackie Hirst Dr Jacqueline Suthren Hirst Senior Lecturer in South Asian Studies Religions and Theology Samuel Alexander Building University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL UK jacqueline.hirst at manchester.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Wed Jan 16 15:06:44 2013 From: witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Witzel, Michael) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 13 10:06:44 -0500 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?New_EJVS_issue:_J.Rotaru_on_the_AV_=C5=9A=C4=81nty______________udakavidhi?= Message-ID: <161227098534.23782.15996192352881410347.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear All, we are pleased to announce the first issue of our Jubilee Volume, EJVS 20 (http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/) The ??ntyudakavidhi in the Atharvavedic Tradition by Julieta Rotaru see: Best wishes, M. Witzel > ============ > Michael Witzel > witzel at fas.harvard.edu > > Wales Prof. of Sanskrit & > Director of Graduate Studies, > Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University > 1 Bow Street, > Cambridge MA 02138, USA > > phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, fax 617 - 496 8571; > my direct line: 617- 496 2990 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark.allon at SYDNEY.EDU.AU Thu Jan 17 03:52:16 2013 From: mark.allon at SYDNEY.EDU.AU (Mark Allon) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 13 03:52:16 +0000 Subject: Lecturer in East Asian Buddhism @ University of Sydney Message-ID: <161227098537.23782.3927680439776434450.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear list members, Some of you may be interested in the following position in East Asian Buddhism (Lecturer in East Asian Buddhism (2052/1212)): LECTURER IN EAST ASIAN BUDDHISM FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURE REFERENCE NO. 2052/1212 ? Join a comprehensive and diverse School of Languages and Cultures ? Be part of an innovative Buddhist Studies program ? Competitive remuneration package on offer The University of Sydney is Australia's first university and has an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. It employs over 7500 permanent staff supporting over 49,000 students. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has a proud history and a tradition of intellectual rigour. It offers one of the most comprehensive and diverse ranges of humanities and social science studies in the Asia Pacific region. It has a vibrant research and teaching environment. The School of Languages and Cultures in the Faculty offers the widest range of undergraduate and postgraduate language studies in Australia. It is a centre for Asian, Middle Eastern, and European studies. Its academics are committed to excellence in teaching and to research in languages and their social and cultural contexts. The Buddhist Studies program is an independent program that sits within the School and draws its staff from several different departments. This is an innovative program covering the full spectrum of Buddhist thought, culture, and practice, as well as language studies. From 2013 the program will offer an undergraduate major in Buddhist Studies, with courses giving students a rich and coherent understanding of Buddhism, covering areas including textual analysis, history, cultural and political context, thought, praxis, contemporary Buddhist manifestations, and artistic expressions. The program has one of the largest postgraduate research programs in SLC. The program was recently expanded through the addition of an East Asian Buddhism teaching and research curricula, developed in response to widespread growing interest in Buddhism from an East Asian focus, particularly Chinese Buddhism. We are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in East Asian Buddhism with a specialisation in Chinese Buddhism to drive the teaching and research excellence of the program as it expands to become one of the leading institutions providing the most comprehensive Buddhist Studies program. In this role you will: ? teach both junior and senior undergraduate units ? supervise postgraduate research students in the field ? undertake administration and curriculum development ? pursue an active research program. To succeed in this position you will need: ? to be PhD qualified in Buddhist Studies with a specialisation in Chinese Buddhism, though other areas of East Asian Buddhism are welcome ? the ability to teach into language and non-language programs, that is, Classical and/or Buddhist Chinese and Chinese Buddhist thought and practice ? experience in, and commitment to, teaching using Chinese language materials (and ideally, Sanskrit, Pali and Tibetan materials) ? experience in taking responsibility for and coordinating units of study in Chinese and Buddhist studies and a willingness to engage in group/collaborative teaching ? a proven research and publication record in the field of Chinese Buddhism ? the capacity to teach and supervise students from various cultural backgrounds ? the ability and willingness to contribute to School and Faculty administrative activities. All applications must be submitted via the University of Sydney careers website. Visit sydney.edu.au/positions and search by the reference number for more information and to apply. CLOSING DATE: 3 March 2013 (11:30pm Sydney time) The University is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to equity, diversity and social inclusion. Applications from equity target groups and women are encouraged. ? The University of Sydney Regards Mark Allon University of Sydney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arlogriffiths at HOTMAIL.COM Thu Jan 17 10:00:45 2013 From: arlogriffiths at HOTMAIL.COM (Arlo Griffiths) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 13 10:00:45 +0000 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Re:_[INDOL_OGY]_New_E_JVS_issue:__J.Rotaru__on_the_AV______________=C5=9A=C4=81nty_udak_avidhi?= In-Reply-To: <2E1AC4D6-2528-400B-A441-7E45C0329F8F@fas.harvard.edu> Message-ID: <161227098540.23782.12113309943334512594.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> In the interest of bibliographic clarity, it may be pointed out that this issue of EJVS comprises what seems to be a virtually unmodified second edition of an article that has been published a few years ago. Rotaru, Julieta 2009 The ??ntyudakavidhi in the Atharvavedic Tradition. In: Shripad G. Bhat, Shilpa Sumant and Ambarish Vasant Khare (eds.), ?r?nidhi?. Prof. Shrikant Shankar Bahulkar's Gratitude Volume, Pune: Sa?vidy? Institute of Cultural Studies, 162?204. In any case like this, it seems to me a minimal requirement of scholarly transparency that editors and authors make sure that it is stated clearly that another publication with exactly the same title exists elsewhere, and state explicitly how the two pieces with the same title relate to each other. On an indirectly related note, I have just seen this fully online journal: . It seems very well done, and might constitute a model to be striven after for Indological electronic journals. Has anyone among us already attempted anything in this direction? Arlo Griffiths EFEO/Jakarta Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:06:44 -0500 From: witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Subject: [INDOLOGY] New EJVS issue: J.Rotaru on the AV ??nty udakavidhi To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Dear All, we are pleased to announce the first issue of our Jubilee Volume, EJVS 20 (http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/) The ??ntyudakavidhi in the Atharvavedic TraditionbyJulieta Rotaru see: Best wishes,M. Witzel ============Michael Witzelwitzel at fas.harvard.eduWales Prof. of Sanskrit &Director of Graduate Studies,Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University1 Bow Street,Cambridge MA 02138, USAphone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, fax 617 - 496 8571;my direct line: 617- 496 2990 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kellner at ASIA-EUROPE.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Thu Jan 17 10:19:32 2013 From: kellner at ASIA-EUROPE.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (Birgit Kellner) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 13 11:19:32 +0100 Subject: 5th International Dharmak=?UTF-8?Q?=C4=ABrti?= Conference: He idelberg, 25-29 August 2014 - First Circular Message-ID: <161227098543.23782.4294098373107016000.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that the well-established tradition of International Dharmak?rti Conferences ? Ky?to (1982), Vienna (1989), Hiroshima (1997) and, again, Vienna (2005) ? will be continued with the Fifth International Dharmak?rti Conference in Heidelberg from 25-29 August, 2014. The conference is aimed to showcase current research on all aspects of Buddhist epistemology and logic in India, China or Tibet from a historical, philological and/or philosophical perspective. Papers may also address aspects of the relationship of Buddhist pram??a to other currents of thought within Buddhism or in the respectively pertinent broader intellectual environment. The conference is scheduled for the week immediately after the IABS conference in Vienna (August 18-23), to facilitate participation in both conferences for scholars from overseas. To receive further circulars for the Dharmak?rti conference in the future, please subscribe to the conference mailing-list at this website: https://listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/wa?A0=IDHC5HEIDELBERG (Click "subscribe" on the right-hand side.) Participants of the last conference who already received the first circular are already subscribed to the list. An online registration system for the conference will be made available by 31 July 2013. With best regards, Birgit Kellner -- -------- Prof. Dr. Birgit Kellner Chair in Buddhist Studies Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context - - the Dynamics of Transculturality" University of Heidelberg Karl Jaspers Centre Vossstra?e 2, Building 4400 D-69115 Heidelberg Phone: +49(0)6221 - 54 4301 Fax: +49(0)6221 - 54 4012 http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/home.html From gruenen at SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE Thu Jan 17 11:26:24 2013 From: gruenen at SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE (Gruenendahl, Reinhold) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 13 11:26:24 +0000 Subject: GRETIL update #408 Message-ID: <161227098547.23782.2595514212558115564.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> GRETIL is pleased to be able to report the following addition(s) to its collection: Amoghapasahrdayasutra: http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.htm#Amoghpas Kumaralata: Kalpanamanditika: http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.htm#KumarKalp Mahavadanasutra: http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.htm#Mahavadanasutra Patanjali: Yogasutra: http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.htm#PatYogs Patanjali: Yogasutra, with Bhasya: http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.htm#PatYogsBhasya Minor correction in: Abhinavagupta: Paramarthasara, with Yogaraja's commentary: http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.htm#AbhParCYog __________________________________________________________________________ "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://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.htm From kellner at ASIA-EUROPE.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Thu Jan 17 11:19:31 2013 From: kellner at ASIA-EUROPE.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (Kellner, Birgit) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 13 12:19:31 +0100 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?AW:_[INDOLOGY]_[INDOL_OGY]_New_E_JVS_issue:___J.Rotaru__on_the_AV______________=C5=9A=C4=81nty_udak_avidhi?= In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098545.23782.2167746301740955405.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Arlo, in technical terms, the journal HAU uses a now very common and widespread open source and free software system called Open Journal System. In Heidelberg it's for instance used for the Journal of Transcultural Studies (http://transculturalstudies.org/) and for the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ojs/index.php/jiabs/index). The system has many options and therefore there is some learning curve involved, but I would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone interested in publishing a journal online (or bringing archives of a journal online). Some university libraries now run their own installations, thus removing the need for journal editors or publishers to install and configure software and take care of maintenance. With best regards, Birgit ________________________________________ Von: Indology [INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] im Auftrag von Arlo Griffiths [arlogriffiths at HOTMAIL.COM] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2013 11:00 An: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Betreff: Re: [INDOLOGY] [INDOL OGY] New E JVS issue: J.Rotaru on the AV ??nty udak avidhi In the interest of bibliographic clarity, it may be pointed out that this issue of EJVS comprises what seems to be a virtually unmodified second edition of an article that has been published a few years ago. Rotaru, Julieta 2009 The ??ntyudakavidhi in the Atharvavedic Tradition. In: Shripad G. Bhat, Shilpa Sumant and Ambarish Vasant Khare (eds.), ?r?nidhi?. Prof. Shrikant Shankar Bahulkar's Gratitude Volume, Pune: Sa?vidy? Institute of Cultural Studies, 162?204. In any case like this, it seems to me a minimal requirement of scholarly transparency that editors and authors make sure that it is stated clearly that another publication with exactly the same title exists elsewhere, and state explicitly how the two pieces with the same title relate to each other. On an indirectly related note, I have just seen this fully online journal: . It seems very well done, and might constitute a model to be striven after for Indological electronic journals. Has anyone among us already attempted anything in this direction? Arlo Griffiths EFEO/Jakarta ________________________________ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:06:44 -0500 From: witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Subject: [INDOLOGY] New EJVS issue: J.Rotaru on the AV ??nty udakavidhi To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Dear All, we are pleased to announce the first issue of our Jubilee Volume, EJVS 20 (http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/) The ??ntyudakavidhi in the Atharvavedic Tradition by Julieta Rotaru see: Best wishes, M. Witzel ============ Michael Witzel witzel at fas.harvard.edu > Wales Prof. of Sanskrit & Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University 1 Bow Street, Cambridge MA 02138, USA phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, fax 617 - 496 8571; my direct line: 617- 496 2990 From christophe.vielle at UCLOUVAIN.BE Thu Jan 17 13:34:01 2013 From: christophe.vielle at UCLOUVAIN.BE (Christophe Vielle) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 13 14:34:01 +0100 Subject: Galanga, Ginger and Ajowan Message-ID: <161227098549.23782.8962531597739489271.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Interesting case-study of modern ayurvedic nomenclature by Francis Zimmermann recently published on his web-site: http://ehess.tessitures.org/malayalam/jardins-depices/galanga-gingembre-et-ajowan-1.html http://ehess.tessitures.org/malayalam/jardins-depices/galanga-gingembre-et-ajowan-2.html http://ehess.tessitures.org/malayalam/jardins-depices/galanga-gingembre-et-ajowan-3.html It is in French, but as an introduction, two extracts of his Discours des rem?des au pays des ?pices (1989) are translated into English: http://ehess.tessitures.org/malayalam/jardins-depices/types-of-gardens.html http://ehess.tessitures.org/malayalam/jardins-depices/spices-a-tentative-definition.html ??????????????????? 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RG From kauzeya at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 17 15:08:09 2013 From: kauzeya at GMAIL.COM (Jonathan Silk) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 13 16:08:09 +0100 Subject: GRETIL update #408 - a belated acknowledgement In-Reply-To: <044C4CE033BD474EBE2ACACE8E4B1D94147B6925@UM-excdag-a02.um.gwdg.de> Message-ID: <161227098554.23782.14311538045407127522.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Hear Hear!! Endless thanks Klaus!! (And to Reinhold as well, let us not forget to mention!) On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Gruenendahl, Reinhold < gruenen at sub.uni-goettingen.de> wrote: > Only too late I realized that with this last update the number of texts > Klaus Wille contributed to GRETIL now exeeds 100 (his editorial work on > files from other sources not included). Although Klaus himself probably > would not find this an occasion worth mentioning, I'd like to thank him on > behalf of all GRETIL users for his exemplary and selfless service to the > Indological community. > > RG > -- J. 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Many thanks, Tatiana Oranskaia Prof. Dr. Tatiana Oranskaia Abteilung f?r Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets Universit?t Hamburg / Department of Culture and History of India and Tibet, University of Hamburg, Alsterterrasse 1, 1. Et./1st Floor, 20354 Hamburg, Deutschland / Germany Tel./Phone: +49 40 42838 33-87/-85 Fax: +49 40 42838 6944 tatiana.oranskaia at uni-hamburg.de http://www.uni-hamburg.de/Wiss/FB/10/IndienS/index.html Dr. Will Tuladhar-Douglas schrieb: > Gentle list members, > > Would anyone happen to have a PDF of Dumont, L. 1983, ?The debt to > ancestors and the category of sapinda?, in /Debts and Debtors/. New > Delhi: Vikas Publishing House/, /pp. 1-20 ? I am some ways away from > any library just now. > > Many thanks, > > -WBTD. > > - - -- --- ----- -------- ------------- > Will Tuladhar-Douglas > Anthropology ? Environments ? Religions > Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Nepal, 2011-13 > Visiting Scientist, ICIMOD > tending.to/garden > -- From w.t.douglas at ABDN.AC.UK Fri Jan 18 10:48:22 2013 From: w.t.douglas at ABDN.AC.UK (Dr. Will Tuladhar-Douglas) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 13 16:33:22 +0545 Subject: Seeking a PDF of Dumont 1983 Message-ID: <161227098570.23782.17200243051557790797.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Gentle list members, Would anyone happen to have a PDF of Dumont, L. 1983, ?The debt to ancestors and the category of sapinda?, in Debts and Debtors. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, pp. 1-20 ? I am some ways away from any library just now. Many thanks, -WBTD. - - -- --- ----- -------- ------------- Will Tuladhar-Douglas Anthropology ? Environments ? Religions Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Nepal, 2011-13 Visiting Scientist, ICIMOD tending.to/garden -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Joseph.Walser at TUFTS.EDU Fri Jan 18 20:54:31 2013 From: Joseph.Walser at TUFTS.EDU (Walser, Joseph) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 13 20:54:31 +0000 Subject: PDF of Ma=?utf-8?Q?=CC=84navagr=CC=A3hyasu=CC=84tra=3F?= Message-ID: <161227098575.23782.17344427793038556835.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Does anyone out there have a PDF of Mark Jan Dresden's dissertation, "Ma?navagr?hyasu?tra : a vedic manual of domestic rites" (Utrecht?) 1941? I can't get it through interlibrary loan. Thanks! -j Publisher: Groningen : J.B. Wolter, 1941. Dissertation: Proef. Let. Utrecht, 1941. Joseph Walser Associate Professor Department of Religion Tufts University From hermantull at GMAIL.COM Sat Jan 19 19:44:31 2013 From: hermantull at GMAIL.COM (Herman Tull) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 13 14:44:31 -0500 Subject: number of Sanskrit mss. and number of texts Message-ID: <161227098577.23782.15493211086987593556.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Richard Gombrich writes (in his Boden inaugural, "In Being Sanskritic"): "Surviving Sanskrit literature is many times as large as Latin and Greek literature together. There may be as many as two million manuscripts extant..." Is this a "standard" figure; does anyone have any other sources that support this figure? (Or, larger or smaller figures.) Along with this question, is there an estimate of the number of distinct texts (not just mss.) composed in Sanskrit? Thanks, Herman -- Herman Tull Princeton, NJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I do not know anything much about his life, but for those who knew him I am herewith attaching his picture which I could somehow find in my computer. May he be at peace. Sincerely, Mrinal Kaul On 3 January 2013 12:08, Viktoria Lyssenko wrote: > Dear colleagues, I have just found out that my teacher Shree Narayan > Mishra, Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit, Benares Hindu University passed > away six months ago in Varanasi. What a great loss for India and for many > European Indologists, whom he helped to understand Sanskrit texts! He was a > real connoisseur of Indian philosophy. Although he was primarily a > nayayika, we had read Buddhist and Advaita texts and he always impressed > me with his profound knowledge.This year I was going to read > Shantarakshita Tattva samgraha (Chapter on Pratyaksha) with him, I called > him, as always to report my arrival and he was no more... I do not know > what to do - tickets were bought, hotel booked in Varanasi, I got a leave > from my work. But to whom and where could I go? > Could anybody suggest me an English-speaking pandit (my Hindi is not good > enough ) with whom I could read philosophical Sanskrit texts on perception? > Preferably in Varanasi... I have to leave for India in a week. > With hope, > Victoria > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: SrinarayanMisra.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 48125 bytes Desc: not available URL: From james.hartzell at GMAIL.COM Sun Jan 20 14:02:26 2013 From: james.hartzell at GMAIL.COM (James Hartzell) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 13 06:02:26 -0800 Subject: number of Sanskrit mss. and number of texts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098588.23782.2761277902867127055.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> the late David Pingree told me something similar, so there may be something more specific in his writings. He did mention that due curatorial problems, many of the mss mentioned in the late 19th century-early 20th century ms catalogues are no more. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Herman Tull wrote: > Richard Gombrich writes (in his Boden inaugural, "In Being Sanskritic"): > "Surviving Sanskrit literature is many times as large as Latin and Greek > literature together. There may be as many as two million manuscripts > extant..." > > Is this a "standard" figure; does anyone have any other sources that > support this figure? (Or, larger or smaller figures.) > > Along with this question, is there an estimate of the number of distinct > texts (not just mss.) composed in Sanskrit? > > Thanks, > > Herman > > -- > Herman Tull > Princeton, NJ > -- James Hartzell, PhD Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) The University of Trento, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From w.t.douglas at ABDN.AC.UK Sun Jan 20 03:13:04 2013 From: w.t.douglas at ABDN.AC.UK (Dr. Will Tuladhar-Douglas) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 13 08:58:04 +0545 Subject: Seeking a PDF of Dumont 1983 - thanks! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098585.23782.10947294821538220510.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Thanks to Tyler Neill, the PDF is now in hand. All the best, -WBTD. On 18 Jan 2013, at 16:33, Dr. Will Tuladhar-Douglas wrote: > Gentle list members, > > Would anyone happen to have a PDF of Dumont, L. 1983, ?The debt to ancestors and the category of sapinda?, in Debts and Debtors. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, pp. 1-20 ? I am some ways away from any library just now. > > Many thanks, > > -WBTD. > > - - -- --- ----- -------- ------------- > Will Tuladhar-Douglas > Anthropology ? Environments ? Religions > Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Nepal, 2011-13 > Visiting Scientist, ICIMOD > tending.to/garden > - - -- --- ----- -------- ------------- Will Tuladhar-Douglas Anthropology ? Environments ? Religions http://tending.to/garden -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From james.hartzell at GMAIL.COM Sun Jan 20 17:39:37 2013 From: james.hartzell at GMAIL.COM (James Hartzell) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 13 09:39:37 -0800 Subject: number of Sanskrit mss. and number of texts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098602.23782.15444613811763211326.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Perhaps someone might be able to add updated stats from the National Mission for Manuscripts efforts? Their survey page ( http://www.namami.org/nationalsurvey.htm) says: *The Survey So Far **? * The Mission began the National Survey in *2004- 05* as a Pilot Project in 3 states?*Orissa,* *Bihar* and *Uttar Pradesh* . A total of 53 districts were covered? 30 in Orissa, 13 in Uttar Pradesh and 10 in Bihar. In the Pilot Project itself, the Mission unearthed 6, 50, 000 manuscripts and about 35,000 repositories. Drawing upon the experience of the Pilot project, the next round of Survey in *2005-2006 * was held in *Delhi, Manipur, Karnataka* and *Assam* . In Delhi, about 85,000 manuscripts were found. The Survey in Manipur was extremely successful despite several pockets being inaccessible and about 10,000 manuscripts were located. Likewise, in Assam, about 42,000 manuscripts were discovered. Around 1,50,000 manuscripts were found in Karnataka. In *Gujarat*, the survey was initiated by the coordination of the Lalbhai Dalapatbhai Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad. In *2006-07*, the National Survey took place in *Himachal Pradesh, Haryana *and* Tamil Nadu*. The Manuscript Resource Centre in Himachal Pradesh, Himachal Academy of Arts, Languages and Culture acted as the coordinating body in the State. The National Survey was successful in locating approximately 20, 000 manuscripts across the State, with local scripts like Takri coming to the focus. The Survey also saw the school students getting involved in the awareness campaigns to promote the documentation and conservation of manuscripts. The Manuscript Resource Centre, Dept. of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit, Kurukshetra University was also active in organizing the Survey in the State of Haryana. The Survey has been successful in locating approximately 500 manuscripts. In *Rajasthan*, the Survey was initiated by the coordination of the Rajasthan State Archives. Out of total 33 Districts *19 Districts* are already surveyed and an amount of 7, 50,001 Manuscripts are identified. [image: 1] In *2007-08*, the Mission conducted National Survey of Manuscripts in all *18 *Districts of *Chhattisgarh* and in all *16 *Districts* *of *Arunachal Pradesh. *In Chhattishgarh, the Survey was conducted by the coordination of the Directorates of Archives and Museums, Chhattisgarh and in Arunachal Pradesh, it was conducted by the Coordination of* *Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Directorate of Research, (Culture, History, Archeology, Museum, Archives & Philosophy), Itanagar*.* [image: 1] In the financial year *2007-08* survey was initiated in the State of *Madhya Pradesh* by the coordination of the Directorates of Archives and Museums, Bhopal; in *Goa *by the Directorate of Archives & Archeology, (Govt. of Goa), Panaji and in the State of *Jammu & Kashmir* by the Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Leh. [image: 1] In *April 2012*, the Mission has completed the Survey work (which was initiated in the year 2007) in all *13* Districts of *Uttarakhand* by the coordination of the Uttaranchal Sanskrit Academy, Haridwar and started processing for the survey of *Sikkim* and *Mizoram* On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > As far as I know, nobody has counted how many Indian MSS have been > catalogued. However, it should be possible to do some kind of back-of-an-envelope > calculation for this, as follows. > > There's a publication by Madras University called the *New Catalogus > Catalogorum *(NCC)*. *Its current editor is the energetic Professor > Siniruddha Dash . The NCC is a digest of all > published MS catalogues. Well, not all, but most. At least, up to the > late 70s, and some later ones. So, in NCC you can look up an author or > the title of a Sanskrit or Prakrit work, and you'll get a list of the > known MSS of that work, culled from the published manuscript catalogues. > > The NCC isn't finished. Only nineteen volumes have been published, > bringing it up to the end of ma (?), 37th letter of the alphabet. There > are 8 more letters of the alphabet to go, so NCC is about 37/45x100=82% > done. Each volume is about 350 pages. Each page has about 50 MSS > mentioned (this is *very* rough! - per-page counts vary wildly). So each > volume mentions 17,500 catalogued MSS, and there are 19 vols, so that comes > out at 332,500 MSS mentioned so far. And that's 82%. So the total would > be 405,487. Say half a million. > > There are *lots* of rough edges to this figure. It's very, very crude. > But it does give one at least something to hold on to. Half a million > catalogued manuscripts out of a minimum total of 7,000,000. That's 7%. > > But if the Koba people have put their MSS into a database - which they're > doing at quite a rate, that could quite soon add 250,000 MSS to the total > catalogued. And there are other projects like that (though none so big, or > well-funded). So the total catalogued could be higher. Say it's double. > A million. That's 14% of the seven-million figure. But the seven-million > figure is probably very conservative. So we're still hovering in the > 5%-15% range, I'd say. > > Improvements to the above argument and result are welcomed! > > Best, > Dominik Wujastyk > -- James Hartzell, PhD Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) The University of Trento, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From je374 at MSSTATE.EDU Sun Jan 20 15:50:10 2013 From: je374 at MSSTATE.EDU (Jonathan Edelmann) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 13 09:50:10 -0600 Subject: number of Sanskrit mss. and number of texts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098591.23782.847005038023549205.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear All, David Pingree in "Indian Astronomy" _Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society_ (Vol 122 No 6, 1978) says there is about 10,000 separate texts dealing with the exact sciences in Sanskrit, and approximately 100,000 manuscripts. The distinction between separate texts and manuscripts seems important, and should probably factor into the evaluation. Sincerely, Jonathan Edelmann Jonathan B. Edelmann, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Religion Mississippi State University Department of Philosophy and Religion 449 Hardy Road Etheredge Hall Mississippi State 39762 Work Phone (662) 325-9363 University Website | Book | Email Address On Jan 20, 2013, at 8:02 AM, James Hartzell wrote: > the late David Pingree told me something similar, so there may be something more specific in his writings. He did mention that due curatorial problems, many of the mss mentioned in the late 19th century-early 20th century ms catalogues are no more. > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Herman Tull wrote: > Richard Gombrich writes (in his Boden inaugural, "In Being Sanskritic"): "Surviving Sanskrit literature is many times as large as Latin and Greek literature together. There may be as many as two million manuscripts extant..." > > Is this a "standard" figure; does anyone have any other sources that support this figure? (Or, larger or smaller figures.) > > Along with this question, is there an estimate of the number of distinct texts (not just mss.) composed in Sanskrit? > > Thanks, > > Herman > > -- > Herman Tull > Princeton, NJ > > > > -- > James Hartzell, PhD > Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) > The University of Trento, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wujastyk at GMAIL.COM Sun Jan 20 17:20:14 2013 From: wujastyk at GMAIL.COM (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 13 17:20:14 +0000 Subject: number of Sanskrit mss. and number of texts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098598.23782.2822178963175754442.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> As far as I know, nobody has counted how many Indian MSS have been catalogued. However, it should be possible to do some kind of back-of-an-envelope calculation for this, as follows. There's a publication by Madras University called the *New Catalogus Catalogorum *(NCC)*. *Its current editor is the energetic Professor Siniruddha Dash . The NCC is a digest of all published MS catalogues. Well, not all, but most. At least, up to the late 70s, and some later ones. So, in NCC you can look up an author or the title of a Sanskrit or Prakrit work, and you'll get a list of the known MSS of that work, culled from the published manuscript catalogues. The NCC isn't finished. Only nineteen volumes have been published, bringing it up to the end of ma (?), 37th letter of the alphabet. There are 8 more letters of the alphabet to go, so NCC is about 37/45x100=82% done. Each volume is about 350 pages. Each page has about 50 MSS mentioned (this is *very* rough! - per-page counts vary wildly). So each volume mentions 17,500 catalogued MSS, and there are 19 vols, so that comes out at 332,500 MSS mentioned so far. And that's 82%. So the total would be 405,487. Say half a million. There are *lots* of rough edges to this figure. It's very, very crude. But it does give one at least something to hold on to. Half a million catalogued manuscripts out of a minimum total of 7,000,000. That's 7%. But if the Koba people have put their MSS into a database - which they're doing at quite a rate, that could quite soon add 250,000 MSS to the total catalogued. And there are other projects like that (though none so big, or well-funded). So the total catalogued could be higher. Say it's double. A million. That's 14% of the seven-million figure. But the seven-million figure is probably very conservative. So we're still hovering in the 5%-15% range, I'd say. Improvements to the above argument and result are welcomed! Best, Dominik Wujastyk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Edelmann, Ph.D.* Assistant Professor of Religion > Mississippi State University Department of Philosophy and Religion > 449 Hardy Road Etheredge Hall > Mississippi State 39762 > Work Phone (662) 325-9363 > University Website > | Book > | Email Address > > > > On Jan 20, 2013, at 8:02 AM, James Hartzell wrote: > > the late David Pingree told me something similar, so there may be > something more specific in his writings. He did mention that due > curatorial problems, many of the mss mentioned in the late 19th > century-early 20th century ms catalogues are no more. > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Herman Tull wrote: > >> Richard Gombrich writes (in his Boden inaugural, "In Being Sanskritic"): >> "Surviving Sanskrit literature is many times as large as Latin and Greek >> literature together. There may be as many as two million manuscripts >> extant..." >> >> Is this a "standard" figure; does anyone have any other sources that >> support this figure? (Or, larger or smaller figures.) >> >> Along with this question, is there an estimate of the number of distinct >> texts (not just mss.) composed in Sanskrit? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Herman >> >> -- >> Herman Tull >> Princeton, NJ >> > > > > -- > James Hartzell, PhD > Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) > The University of Trento, Italy > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christophe.vielle at UCLOUVAIN.BE Mon Jan 21 17:07:06 2013 From: christophe.vielle at UCLOUVAIN.BE (Christophe Vielle) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 13 18:07:06 +0100 Subject: Search for an article by Tilmann Vetter Message-ID: <161227098605.23782.11836156397655988906.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear List, On behalf of Jean-Marie Verpoorten, I am looking for a copy of the following article by Tilmann Vetter: "Die Funktion von Zentrals?tzen der vedischen Offenbarung im System Sarvaj??tmans", in Gerhard Oberhammer (ed.): Offenbarung, geistige Realit?t des Menschen. Arbeitsdokumentation eines Symposiums zum Offenbarungsbegriff in Indien. Vienna: Publication of the De Nobili Research Library No. 2 1974 [http://www.istb.univie.ac.at/cgi-bin/sdn/sdn.cgi?detail=3 / http://d-nb.info/760401861/04 ], pp. 121-134 It is to be noted that a .pdf copy the article by F.X. D'Sa ("Offenbarung ohne einen Gott, Kum?rilas Theorie der Worterkenntnis") in the same volume is available at: http://isrpune.org/pdf/FXDSa_articles/1974_b_FXDSa_articles.pdf Thank you for your help, Christophe Vielle D?but du message r?exp?di? : > De : Jonathan Silk > Objet : [INDOLOGY] Sad announcement: Passing of Prof Tilmann Vetter (1937-2012) > Date : 20 d?cembre 2012 09:54:48 HNEC > ? : INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk > R?pondre ? : Jonathan Silk > > dear Friends, > > It is with great sadness and shock that I pass along the news that Prof Tilmann Vetter passed away this morning quite suddenly. The funeral will be private. If you would like to send messages to Mrs Vetter, I can collect them and convey them to her (please send them to me privately if they are intended for her, and not to the list). > > 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 ??????????????????? Christophe Vielle Louvain-la-Neuve Editor, Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain series - Last Indological issues: PIOL nos 53, 60 - Still available: Mah?praj??p?ramit???stra (vols 1-2-3-4-5), Asa?ga's Mah?y?nasa?graha, Vimalak?rtinirde?a, Lamotte's History of Indian Buddhism, etc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We have created a project blog (and twitter feed) not just because we are craven digital opportunists, but also because dialogue (such as one finds on this very list) is important to us and because we are painfully aware of the scale of the challenge we have set ourselves. We have already posted translations and comments on both specific papers and more general issues in Indology and we plan to post more. We will also post source material and other useful bits and bobs as the project proceeds. The twitter feed will be used to keep interested parties up to date with events and publications associated with the project. Please do subscribe to the blog, but, more than this, please offer comments and guidance! The blog may be found at http://storyofstoryinsouthasia.wordpress.com/. Twitter details are given on the blog. With All Best Wishes, James Hegarty Cardiff University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The translation follows the > original Sanskrit in not using labials: p, b, m; so as to reproduce > the effect of the original wherein "Matragupta's lips have so been > ravished with biting kisses that he is constrained to tell his story > without allowing his battered lips to touch." (from p. 21 of > Isabelle's introduction, which includes a wonderful note on the > challenges involved in translating). > Cheers, Chris > > On 09/01/2013, at 4:30 PM, Balogh D?niel wrote: > >> Hello Venetia, >> since you explicitly mention other languages, I can't resist >> "pushing" the Hungarian translation of the Gitagovinda. It's the work >> of one of our senior Indologists, J?zsef Vekerdi (still with us and >> probably still angry at the poet for much of what he's done to the >> text), and one of the best Hungarian poets of the second half of the >> last century, S?ndor We?res (departed quite a while ago). The result >> is nothing short of breathtaking, though I guess nobody but us >> Hungarians can appreciate it. If interested, the full text is >> available (without the authors' consent, as far as I know) online: >> http://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/dzsajadeva.html >> The point is that it's a metrically perfect translation (well, 99.5% >> perfect - unlike English, Hungarian is not based on stress accent, so >> poetry measured by syllable weight works in this language) that can >> be recited just like the original (indeed, there is an anecdote that >> someone once recited this to an Indian audience and listeners said, >> ah, could that be the Gita Govinda in your language?), also >> duplicating most of the rhyme and assonance. The reason for Vekerdi's >> anger is of course that We?res was occasionally quite free in his >> treatment of the meaning, but then, I believe much of the original >> Gitagovinda isn't about the precise meaning either... >> Best, >> Daniel >> >> 2013.01.09. 6:26 keltez?ssel, Venetia Kotamraju ?rta: >>> Dear List, >>> A very happy new year to all. >>> Has anyone come across translations which try to convey the >>> shabdalamkara found in a particular Sanskrit verse or poem in >>> English (or other languages). Apart from the brilliant translation >>> of the Gita Govinda by Lee Siegel, and a few stray verses here and >>> there, I can't think of any others that I have read at least. >>> Many thanks >>> Venetia >>> >>> -- >>> Venetia Kotamraju >>> +91 997230 5440 >>> www.rasalabooks.com >>> www.venetiaansell.wordpress.com >>> >> > > PhD Candidate > School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics > Faculty of Arts > The University of Queensland > Email: s4297473 at student.uq.edu.au > > > > -- ---------------------- Richard Salomon Department of Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington, Box 353521 Seattle WA 98195-3521 USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From glhart at BERKELEY.EDU Wed Jan 23 15:24:54 2013 From: glhart at BERKELEY.EDU (George Hart) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 13 07:24:54 -0800 Subject: Palm Leaf Fragment Attached to Funerary Papyrus In-Reply-To: <8619bcae1d4571aff2d7b281bd87f9f6@fabularasa.dk> Message-ID: <161227098629.23782.13239115881891460625.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> The language and script of the attachment are modern Tamil. George Hart On Jan 23, 2013, at 6:43 AM, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen wrote: > Dear list, > > McComas Taylor's posting of a mystery palm leaf manuscript reminded me of another mystery manuscript fragment which came to my attention recently. It is attached to one end of an Egyptian funerary papyrus (21st/22nd dynasty, 1075-716 BC) for sale at Sothesby's (no. 8918, lot 52): > > http://www.sothebys.com/de/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/antiquities-n08918/lot.52.lotnum.html > > The catalogue notes states: "A fragment of a Burmese Buddhist palm leaf manuscript is attached to the papyrus at right." However, a preliminary investigation has determined the script as Grantha, and the language as something other than Sanskrit (possibly Malayalam, though this is by no means certain). > > I have attached a document with enlarged images of the fragment, but since the images were screenshot from the webpage referred above, unfortunately the quality is quite poor. I have also attached Sothesby's own description of the item. > > I have not been able to determine just how the fragment is attached to the papyrus - and neither for what reason, whether by accident or not - but I would be most interested to hear any suggestions you might have. It has our Egyptologists here in Copenhagen baffled for sure! > > Kind regards, > Jacob > > Jacob Schmidt-Madsen > Assistant Teacher > Department of Indology > University of Copenhagen From jpo at UTS.CC.UTEXAS.EDU Wed Jan 23 13:49:53 2013 From: jpo at UTS.CC.UTEXAS.EDU (Patrick Olivelle) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 13 07:49:53 -0600 Subject: Mystery palm leaf MSS In-Reply-To: <7750f7d2f6b1.51005761@anu.edu.au> Message-ID: <161227098617.23782.7318165706398415835.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> McComas: Yes, it is Sinhala. My guess is that it is in verse, although I cannot be sure. Very well written. The first line goes: mindahamut satipiliveli. Patrick On Jan 23, 2013, at 4:34 AM, McComas Taylor wrote: > Dear colleagues > > This rather handsome palm-leaf MSS turned up in a tea-chest that belonged to an elderly deceased relative and had probably not been touched for 50 years or more. My guess is that it is Sinhala. I am hoping that one of you fine folk can read it or point me to someone who can. > > https://alliance.anu.edu.au/access/content/user/u3936301/mystery_palm_leaf.jpg > > With thanks in advance > > McComas > > -- > McComas Taylor, ANU University Education Scholar 2012-13 > Head, South Asia Program > ANU College of Asia and the Pacific > Tel: +61 2 6125 3179 > Location: Baldessin Precinct Building, 4.24 > Website: McComas Taylor > Courses: Learn about some of my courses: Sanskrit 1 | Indian Epics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I have attached a document with enlarged images of the fragment, but since the images were screenshot from the webpage referred above, unfortunately the quality is quite poor. I have also attached Sothesby's own description of the item. I have not been able to determine just how the fragment is attached to the papyrus - and neither for what reason, whether by accident or not - but I would be most interested to hear any suggestions you might have. It has our Egyptologists here in Copenhagen baffled for sure! Kind regards, Jacob Jacob Schmidt-Madsen Assistant Teacher Department of Indology University of Copenhagen -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PalmLeafonPapyrusSothesbysNo8918-52.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 47206 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It is attached to one end of an Egyptian funerary papyrus >> (21st/22nd dynasty, 1075-716 BC) for sale at Sothesby's (no. 8918, lot >> 52): >> >> >> http://www.sothebys.com/de/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/antiquities-n08918/lot.52.lotnum.html >> >> The catalogue notes states: "A fragment of a Burmese Buddhist palm >> leaf manuscript is attached to the papyrus at right." However, a >> preliminary investigation has determined the script as Grantha, and >> the language as something other than Sanskrit (possibly Malayalam, >> though this is by no means certain). >> >> I have attached a document with enlarged images of the fragment, but >> since the images were screenshot from the webpage referred above, >> unfortunately the quality is quite poor. I have also attached >> Sothesby's own description of the item. >> >> I have not been able to determine just how the fragment is attached >> to the papyrus - and neither for what reason, whether by accident or >> not - but I would be most interested to hear any suggestions you might >> have. It has our Egyptologists here in Copenhagen baffled for sure! >> >> Kind regards, >> Jacob >> >> Jacob Schmidt-Madsen >> Assistant Teacher >> Department of Indology >> University of Copenhagen> 8918-52).pdf> From manufrancis at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 23 18:58:12 2013 From: manufrancis at GMAIL.COM (Manu Francis) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 13 19:58:12 +0100 Subject: Workshop-cum-conference "Archaeology of Bhakti", Pondicherry, July 31st to August 13th 2013 Message-ID: <161227098634.23782.13615262548984776531.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear list, The webpages of the Workshop-cum-conference "Archaeology of Bhakti" organised in Pondicherry from July 31st to August 13th 2013 are ready. 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I am hoping that one of you fine folk can read it or point me to someone who can. https://alliance.anu.edu.au/access/content/user/u3936301/mystery_palm_leaf.jpg With thanks in advance McComas -- McComas Taylor, ANU University Education Scholar 2012-13 Head, South Asia Program ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Tel: +61 2 6125 3179 Location: Baldessin Precinct Building, 4.24 Website: McComas Taylor(http://arktos.anu.edu.au/chill/index.php/mct)Courses: Learn about some of my courses: Sanskrit 1(http://www.screenr.com/NSBs) | Indian Epics(http://screenr.com/uUBs) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(from the 2001 "mission statement") GRETIL - Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages: http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.htm From joerg.gengnagel at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Sat Jan 26 15:02:41 2013 From: joerg.gengnagel at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (Joerg Gengnagel) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 13 16:02:41 +0100 Subject: New Publication by Niels Gutschow and Axel Michaels Message-ID: <161227098648.23782.15056958210002761403.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear colleagues, there is another message forwarded on behalf of Axel Michaels, currently having difficulties to send mails to the list. J?rg Gengnagel *Niels Gutschow, Axel Michaels*with contributions by Manik Bajracharya, Christiane Brosius, and Tessa Pariyar: /Getting Married : Hindu and Buddhist Marriage Rituals Among the Newars of Bhaktapur and Patan, Nepal/ / Niels Gutschow ; Axel Michaels. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2012. - VI, 404 S. + 1 DVD. - (Ethno-Indology ; 12) ISBN 978-3-447-06663-1 EUR 78,00 *Description* /Getting Married/ is the third and final volume on Hindu and Buddhist life-cycle rituals among the Newars of the ancient city of Bhaktapur in Nepal. It combines extensive fieldwork and the edition and translation of relevant ritual handbooks. While /Handling Death/, the first volume, focussed on the dynamics of death and ancestor rituals, and /Growing Up/, the second volume, focussed on the rituals of childhood, adolescence and youth (especially the male and female initiation rituals), the present volume deals with a number of rituals related to marriage. After an introductory overview of studies on marriage rituals in Nepal the authors give some basic marriage rules of Hindu and Buddhist Newars, the social topography and hierarchy, the families of the marriage partners as well as the problems of endogamy and exogamy in Bhaktapur. They present a detailed description of Hindu and Buddhist marriage rituals among Newars (which are partly documented on the DVD included in this book) and come to relevant conclusions regarding life-cycle rituals in general and the place marriage rituals occupy in Newar society and Hinduism. Furthermore the texts used by Brahmin and Buddhist priests during these rituals are edited and translated and complemented by comprehensive Appendices including a list of elements of Newar rituals and mantras as well as a mantra and general index to all three volumes. The richly illustrated books have been highly appreciated by the scholarly community as a unique attempt to provide a comprehensive ethno-indological study of all major life-cycle rituals of a certain Hindu and Buddhist community. -- apl. Prof. Dr. J?rg Gengnagel South Asia Institute Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia (Classical Indology) Subproject B5 "Court Ritual in the Jaipur State" Research Group "Waterscapes in Transcultural Perspective" (Cluster "Asia and Europe") Im Neuenheimer Feld 330 D-69120 Heidelberg phone: +49(0)6221/54-8906 fax: +49(0)6221/54-8841 www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de www.ritualdynamik.uni-hd.de www.kashidarpana.uni-hd.de www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/interdisciplinary-research-groups/mc9-waterscapes.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However, some Buddhist societies (Tibetan, Newar, etc.) have adapted their marriage customs in such a way that Buddhism does play at least some role. I do not know of scholarship that has tried to look at this phenomenon from a comparative perspective, which would perhaps be an interesting topic for a collaborative research project. In any event, actual Buddhist marriage rituals are best explored by looking into the ethnographic literature concerning various Buddhist societies. I suspect that it many cases what you will find will resemble the following, from M. Spiro's great work on Burmese Buddhism, Buddhism and Society (p. 234): "The marriage ceremony is entirely secular. In itself it contains no Buddhist element. On the morning of the wedding day, however, monks are invited to the home of the bride... Usually.. they are asked to recite paritta to protect the prospective bride and groom from danger..." 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Please see the details at the following link: http://sanskritlibrary.org/tomcat/sl/BC?name=SyntaxParis/announce&context=~Events&title=Syntax Seminar Please pass the announcement on with reference to the above link privately and to relevant list-servers. Thank you. Yours, Peter ************************* Peter M. Scharf scharfpm7 at gmail.com ************************* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wedemeyer at UCHICAGO.EDU Sun Jan 27 23:07:35 2013 From: wedemeyer at UCHICAGO.EDU (Christian K. Wedemeyer) Date: Sun, 27 Jan 13 17:07:35 -0600 Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Indian History & Culture Oriental Institute University of Oxford -Faculty of Oriental Studies Message-ID: <161227098668.23782.10704282141687747446.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Postdoctoral Fellowship in Indian History & Culture Oriental Institute University of Oxford -Faculty of Oriental Studies Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford Grade 7: ?29,249 - ?35,938 p.a. The Faculty of Oriental Studies proposes to appoint a fixed-term Fellow from September 2013 for one year to conduct research within the field of the history and culture of India, c. 1600 to the present day, and to provide replacement teaching, examining and teaching-related administration during the sabbatical leave of the permanent postholder, Professor R O?Hanlon. This is a full-time post. 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Translated into English, they would fill approximately 300,000 pages in the octavo format. The latter collection contains some 5000 works that were translated between the end of the 8th and the beginning of the 14th centuries CE. Only a few of them were translated later, e.g., P??ini?s grammar. Translated into English, they would cover more than 400,000 pages. My free guess is that *not more than 25% of these texts have survived in their original language*. But even in these cases the translations, in particular those into Tibetan, are invaluable ancillary sources because they are quite often based on better manuscripts than those that have survived in the places mentioned above.? Kind regards, E. Ciurtin 2013/1/20 Dominik Wujastyk > As far as I know, nobody has counted how many Indian MSS have been > catalogued. However, it should be possible to do some kind of back-of-an-envelope > calculation for this, as follows. > > There's a publication by Madras University called the *New Catalogus > Catalogorum *(NCC)*. *Its current editor is the energetic Professor > Siniruddha Dash . The NCC is a digest of all > published MS catalogues. Well, not all, but most. At least, up to the > late 70s, and some later ones. So, in NCC you can look up an author or > the title of a Sanskrit or Prakrit work, and you'll get a list of the > known MSS of that work, culled from the published manuscript catalogues. > > The NCC isn't finished. Only nineteen volumes have been published, > bringing it up to the end of ma (?), 37th letter of the alphabet. There > are 8 more letters of the alphabet to go, so NCC is about 37/45x100=82% > done. Each volume is about 350 pages. Each page has about 50 MSS > mentioned (this is *very* rough! - per-page counts vary wildly). So each > volume mentions 17,500 catalogued MSS, and there are 19 vols, so that comes > out at 332,500 MSS mentioned so far. And that's 82%. So the total would > be 405,487. Say half a million. > > There are *lots* of rough edges to this figure. It's very, very crude. > But it does give one at least something to hold on to. Half a million > catalogued manuscripts out of a minimum total of 7,000,000. That's 7%. > > But if the Koba people have put their MSS into a database - which they're > doing at quite a rate, that could quite soon add 250,000 MSS to the total > catalogued. And there are other projects like that (though none so big, or > well-funded). So the total catalogued could be higher. Say it's double. > A million. That's 14% of the seven-million figure. But the seven-million > figure is probably very conservative. So we're still hovering in the > 5%-15% range, I'd say. > > Improvements to the above argument and result are welcomed! > > Best, > Dominik Wujastyk > -- Dr E. 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Jonathan Silk (I wonder if you even know who I am, since your mail did not even bother to contain a salutation by name, or for that matter any salutation at all) -----Original Message----- From: escijournals at gmail.com on behalf of Journal of South Asian Studies Sent: Sun 1/27/2013 11:32 PM To: south-asia2 at escijournals.net Subject: Editorial Board Invitation - JSAS *Request to serve on editorial/ review board of* *JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES* * * The purpose of this memorandum is to request you to serve on the Editorial/ Review Board of *Journal of South Asian Studies: An Open Access International Journal* for 2 years beginning February 15, 2013, and ending February 14, 2015. The particulars of the journal are as under: Journal Name: Journal of South Asian Studies Journal Portfolio: study area of modern South Asia pertaining to its politics, history, literature, arts, cultural and social studies, economy and security matters, and international affairs with linkage of immediate Asian regions. Publisher: eSci Journals Publishing (Intl.) Journal Website: *http://escijournals.net/JSAS* Publisher Website: *www.eSciJournals.net * * * Please send your consent along with your resume and online link to your profile (if available) to *info at eSciJournals.net* or *jsas at escijournals.net* **** Journal of South Asian Studies is an open access peer-reviewed international academic covering the study area of modern South Asia pertaining to its politics, history, literature, arts, cultural and social studies, economy and security matters, and international affairs with linkage of immediate Asian regions. Articles on theoretical, comparative studies and case studies, empirical analyses, commentaries and reviews concerning the growing strategic significance of modern South Asian region and its relevance with other Asian regions (Central Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, and Middle East) are accepted for publication. Each issue of South Asia gives an exclusive venue to ?Young dynamic social scientists?, graduate and post-graduate students, researchers, practitioners and general readers interested in South Asian politics. A special issue of the journal is published in the background of important events or developments or happenings in South Asian region or with collaboration of any world region/country according to its respective countries? contexts. As an editorial board member, I will expect you to encourage authors to submit manuscripts for publication. Although no minimum number of reviews is suggested, I expect that there would be approximately 3-4 manuscripts to review each year, which should take no more than 05-10 hours of your time. You will be expected to contribute to the quality of the journal, as well as making suggestions about its contents and appearance. You will only be required responding in electronic mail or by telephone regarding materials sent to you to review. Any review that you perform would be anonymous to the authors. *Asifa Jahangir,* *Managing Editor,* *Journal of South Asian Studies* *http://escijournals.net/JSAS * -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christophe.vielle at UCLOUVAIN.BE Mon Jan 28 10:44:34 2013 From: christophe.vielle at UCLOUVAIN.BE (Christophe Vielle) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 13 11:44:34 +0100 Subject: Monier-Williams on the Sanskrit Heritage Site Message-ID: <161227098675.23782.3005683750615749305.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> It should be noted that Huet's on-line dictionary can search now Monier-Williams dictionary: http://sanskrit.inria.fr/DICO/index.en.html For more information on Huet's various useful e-tools made available on his Sanskrit Heritage web-site, see http://sanskrit.inria.fr/index.fr.html Best wishes, Christophe Vielle From witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Mon Jan 28 17:00:48 2013 From: witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Michael Witzel) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 13 12:00:48 -0500 Subject: Open Access publishing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098685.23782.16432188116105165467.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> ..and Harvard (along with a few other US universities) has decided by faculty legislation, two or three years ago, that we all have to make our papers available online in the DASH program, see: http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/dash/mydash?t=1&gl=5&fl=3&fi=Any (sorry for the svastuti: some of my own recent papers): http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/1/search?query=witzel%2C+Michael&rpp=10&sort_by=0&order=DESC&submit=Go Cheers, Michael On Jan 28, 2013, at 10:46 AM, James Hartzell wrote: > The NIH in the US has something similar, but with a specific difference. As far as I understand, all research they fund can be published in the various journals, but some time thereafter is also posted, in a slightly different format, in the NIH public access system. > > "The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. To help advance science and improve human health, the Policy requires that these papers are accessible to the public on PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication." http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > I know this isn't indological, but I think it affects most professional academics, and it's an interesting sign of the future direction of publishing for most of us here on INDOLOGY. > > As of 1 April 2013, all publicly funded research in the United Kingdom must be published Open Access. Authors are mandated to keep their copyright, and must publish their research under a liberal Creative Commons license. > > The UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is included in this new policy, and it is the AHRC that funds most indological research in Britain, apart from that done by the small number of permanent university employees. > > The UK policy appears to apply to "research papers" published in peer-reviewed journals. The Austrian FWF, which is the national research funding body for Austria, has a similar all-encompassing Open Access policy for publications arising out of the research it funds, but in the FWF's case the policy extends also to mongraphs. I fail to see how this can possibly work, especially for books that might fall into the trade category. But it's a nice idea. > > The full UK government announcement can be read here > > Best, > Dominik > > > > -- > James Hartzell, PhD > Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) > The University of Trento, Italy > ============ > Michael Witzel > witzel at fas.harvard.edu > > Wales Prof. of Sanskrit & > Director of Graduate Studies, > Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University > 1 Bow Street, > Cambridge MA 02138, USA > > phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, fax 617 - 496 8571; > my direct line: 617- 496 2990 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lharring at BU.EDU Mon Jan 28 19:23:30 2013 From: lharring at BU.EDU (Laura Harrington) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 13 14:23:30 -0500 Subject: Mystery chapter of the Rudrayaamala Tantra Message-ID: <161227098691.23782.5661177737066925883.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I am trying to track down a text that is alluded to in a late eighteenth century essay by Henry Colebrooke as the ?Garland of Classes? (*Jaatimaala*). It is, in his words, a chapter of* Rudra-yaamala-tantra*. It is not clear from what *Rudra-yaamala-tantra* Colebrooke owned; a work by that name does not appear in his extant collection of manuscripts. Current scholarly consensus on the *Rudra-yaamala-tantra* suggests that, though routinely cited as an important text in the Kaula Tantric tradition, the ?original? text is lost. There is a version of a text with the same name has been published in a Sanskrit edition by the Vacasampati Press, Calcutta. However, it does not contain a *Jaatimaala* chapter. Can anybody shed light on the nature or whereabouts of this elusive chapter? Many thanks Laura Harrington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alanus1216 at YAHOO.COM Tue Jan 29 00:11:49 2013 From: alanus1216 at YAHOO.COM (Allen Thrasher) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 13 16:11:49 -0800 Subject: Phd thesis search In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098701.23782.7119595858919833115.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> UMI (University Microfilms International) makes available almost all U.S. doctoral dissertations, current and past.? Glick's (AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHANGE PROCESS IN THE GURU-DISCIPLE RELATIONSHIP. (VOLUMES I AND II) by GLICK, STEPHEN Ph.D., Temple University, 1983, 582 pages; AAT 8311643) is available in several formats (e.g. PDF download for $37) on UMI's site Dissertation Express < http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb >. Allen ________________________________ From: patrick mccartney To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:31 AM Subject: [INDOLOGY] Phd thesis search Dear Colleagues, I would appreciate any assistance in locating a copy of Dr Stephen Glick's PhD thesis from 1982 on the guru disciple relationship. The title is 'An analysis of the change process in the guru-disciple relationship'. So far I have only managed to find a sample copy of a few pages. Thanks. Patrick McCartney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From rrocher at SAS.UPENN.EDU Mon Jan 28 21:29:05 2013 From: rrocher at SAS.UPENN.EDU (Rosane Rocher) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 13 16:29:05 -0500 Subject: Mystery chapter of the Rudrayaamala Tantra In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098695.23782.14080811685091353319.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> You may wish to refer to p. 42 of Rosane Rocher and Ludo Rocher,///The Making of Western Indology: Henty Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company /(Routledge, 2012). // Best wishes, Rosane Rocher -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [INDOLOGY] Mystery chapter of the Rudrayaamala Tantra Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:23:30 -0500 From: Laura Harrington Reply-To: Laura Harrington To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk I am trying to track down a text that is alluded to in a late eighteenth century essay by Henry Colebrooke as the ?Garland of Classes? (/Jaatimaala/). It is, in his words, a chapter of/Rudra-yaamala-tantra/. It is not clear from what /Rudra-yaamala-tantra/ Colebrooke owned; a work by that name does not appear in his extant collection of manuscripts. Current scholarly consensus on the /Rudra-yaamala-tantra/ suggests that, though routinely cited as an important text in the Kaula Tantric tradition, the ?original? text is lost. There is a version of a text with the same name has been published in a Sanskrit edition by the Vacasampati Press, Calcutta. However, it does not contain a /Jaatimaala/chapter. Can anybody shed light on the nature or whereabouts of this elusive chapter? Many thanks Laura Harrington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wujastyk at GMAIL.COM Mon Jan 28 15:34:04 2013 From: wujastyk at GMAIL.COM (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 13 16:34:04 +0100 Subject: Open Access publishing Message-ID: <161227098678.23782.7923948200605455974.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I know this isn't indological, but I think it affects most professional academics, and it's an interesting sign of the future direction of publishing for most of us here on INDOLOGY. As of 1 April 2013, all publicly funded research in the United Kingdom must be published Open Access. Authors are mandated to keep their copyright, and must publish their research under a liberal Creative Commons license. The UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is included in this new policy, and it is the AHRC that funds most indological research in Britain, apart from that done by the small number of permanent university employees. The UK policy appears to apply to "research papers" published in peer-reviewed journals. The Austrian FWF, which is the national research funding body for Austria, has a similar all-encompassing Open Access policyfor publications arising out of the research it funds, but in the FWF's case the policy extends also to mongraphs. I fail to see how this can possibly work, especiallyfor books that might fall into the trade category. But it's a nice id ea. The full UK government announcement can be read here Best, Dominik -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From james.hartzell at GMAIL.COM Mon Jan 28 15:46:18 2013 From: james.hartzell at GMAIL.COM (James Hartzell) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 13 16:46:18 +0100 Subject: Open Access publishing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098681.23782.1349416469632873941.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> The NIH in the US has something similar, but with a specific difference. As far as I understand, all research they fund can be published in the various journals, but some time thereafter is also posted, in a slightly different format, in the NIH public access system. "The *NIH Public Access Policy *ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central *upon acceptance for publication*. To help advance science and improve human health, the Policy requires that these papers are accessible to the public on PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication." http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > I know this isn't indological, but I think it affects most professional > academics, and it's an interesting sign of the future direction of > publishing for most of us here on INDOLOGY. > > As of 1 April 2013, all publicly funded research in the United Kingdom > must be published Open Access. Authors are mandated to keep their copyright, > and must publish their research under a liberal Creative Commons > license. > > The UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is included in this > new policy, and it is the AHRC that funds most indological research in > Britain, apart from that done by the small number of permanent university > employees. > > The UK policy appears to apply to "research papers" published in > peer-reviewed journals. The Austrian FWF, which is the national research > funding body for Austria, has a similar all-encompassing Open Access > policy for publications > arising out of the research it funds, but in the FWF's case the policy > extends also to mongraphs. I fail to see how this can possibly work, > especially for books that might fall into the trade category. But it's a > nice idea. > > The full UK government announcement can be read here > > Best, > Dominik > -- James Hartzell, PhD Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) The University of Trento, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rrocher at SAS.UPENN.EDU Mon Jan 28 22:00:53 2013 From: rrocher at SAS.UPENN.EDU (Rosane Rocher) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 13 17:00:53 -0500 Subject: Mystery chapter of the Rudrayaamala Tantra In-Reply-To: <10D9FFD5-E618-4DAB-ABE2-9906EE4281B5@bu.edu> Message-ID: <161227098698.23782.3117471113433409091.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Alas, it has eluded us. Part of the /Rudray?malatantra /or not, we could not find it in Colebrooke's collection of Sanskrit manuscripts. RR -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Mystery chapter of the Rudrayaamala Tantra Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:37:33 -0500 From: Laura Harrington To: Rosane Rocher Dear Dr. Rocher, It is a privilege to hear from you; I am a great admirer of your work, including the Making of Western Indology. If memory serves, you suggest that the sources of the Jatimala have remained a vexed issue for Indologists. Am I wrong? Regrettably, I don't have The Making of Western Indology in front of me; the interlibrary library loan staff snatched it away. Many thanks Laura Harrington Sent from my iPad On Jan 28, 2013, at 4:29 PM, Rosane Rocher > wrote: > You may wish to refer to p. 42 of Rosane Rocher and Ludo Rocher,///The > Making of Western Indology: Henty Thomas Colebrooke and the East India > Company /(Routledge, 2012). // > > Best wishes, > Rosane Rocher > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [INDOLOGY] Mystery chapter of the Rudrayaamala Tantra > Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:23:30 -0500 > From: Laura Harrington > Reply-To: Laura Harrington > To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk > > > > I am trying to track down a text that is alluded to in a late > eighteenth century essay by Henry Colebrooke as the ?Garland of > Classes? (/Jaatimaala/). It is, in his words, a chapter > of/Rudra-yaamala-tantra/. > > It is not clear from what /Rudra-yaamala-tantra/ Colebrooke owned; a > work by that name does not appear in his extant collection of > manuscripts. Current scholarly consensus on the /Rudra-yaamala-tantra/ > suggests that, though routinely cited as an important text in the > Kaula Tantric tradition, the ?original? text is lost. There is a > version of a text with the same name has been published in a Sanskrit > edition by the Vacasampati Press, Calcutta. However, it does not > contain a /Jaatimaala/chapter. > > Can anybody shed light on the nature or whereabouts of this elusive > chapter? > > > Many thanks > > Laura Harrington > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(from the 2001 "mission statement") GRETIL - Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages: http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.htm From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Tue Jan 29 01:20:28 2013 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 13 01:20:28 +0000 Subject: BUDDHIST MARRIAGE RITUALS In-Reply-To: <1359418860.42438.YahooMailNeo@web163001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <161227098706.23782.1399067121240100655.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Allen, In the United States, at least, Japanese and Tibetan Buddhist priests have performed marriages for quite some time. I'm less clear about how Therav?da communities in the States have handled this. best, Matthew Matthew Kapstein Directeur d'?tudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, The University of Chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Moving Towards a Non-Dualistic Interpretation of Yoga: The Integration of Spirit (Purusha) and Matter (Prakriti) in the Yoga-Sutra ? Ian Whicher 4. Yoga-Sutras II.25 and the Conundrum of Kaivalya ? Frederick M. Smith 5. Yoga?s Theism: A New Way of Understanding God ? Gerald James Larson Part Two Issues in Interpreting the Vedanta Tradition 6. Advaita Vedanta Insights ? John Grimes 7. Shankara granthah katham otah protash ca? ? Vidyasankar Sundaresan 8. Appaya Dikshita on Avidyanivrtti: A Critique in Siddhantaleshasangraha ? Jonathan Duquette, K. Ramasubramanian 9. The Gaudiya Challenge to Advaita Vedanta and Classical Yoga: Re-figuring Models of Embodiment and Personhood ? Barbara A. Holdrege Part Three Issues of Continuity and Compatibility 10. Sankarsha-kanda: A Victim in Mimamsa Madhyama-vyayoga ? Ashok Aklujkar 11. Linguistic and Cosmic Powers: The Concept of Shakti in the Philosophies of Bhartrhari and Abhinavagupta ? Sthaneshwar Timalsina 12. Freedom in the Bhagavad-Gita: An Analysis of Buddhi and Sattva Categories ? P. Pratap Kumar Part Four Issues of Narrative, Philosophical Discourse and Grammar 13. Forging the Fate of Karna: Observations on the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata ? Edeltraud Harzer 14. Truth and Power in Sanskrit Philosophical Discourse ? David Peter Lawrence 15. Ramayana Notes III: The Past Active Participle ? John Brockington Part Five Issues of Brahmanical Intellectuals, Ascetics and Renunciants 16. Some Notes on the Difficulties in Defining Intellectual Opponents in the Mahabharata ? Gregory Bailey 17. Renunciation and Celebration: Ascetics in the Temple Life of Medieval Tamil Nadu ? Leslie C. Orr Part Six Issues in Contemporary Hinduism: Environment, Non-violence, Gender, Faith and Syncretism 18. Hinduism and the Environment: Then and Now ? Georges A. James 19. Earth, Water, and Dharmic Ecology: Perspectives from the Svadhyaya Practitioners ? Pankaj Jain 20. Technology, Violence, and Non-violence: A Gandhian Type of Response ? Carl Olson 21. Reviewing Hinduism: Religion, Violence, and Non-Violence ? Madhav M. Deshpande 22. The Role of Government Education in the Lives of Females in Rural Chhattisgarh ? Ramdas Lamb 23. On Being Hindu: Some Autobiographical Reflections ? Acharya Vidyasagar V.V. Raman 24. Ziyaratu Darshanam: A South Indian Pilgrimage Beyond the Boundaries ? Afsar Mohammad Contributors Appointments and Publications Index -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The students will gain insights into contemporary Kannada. They will acquire practical language skills and will learn to apply these in realistic everyday situations. Subject to personal effort, students should be able to speak basic conversational Kannada and read and write the Kannada script after their successful participation in the course. The course also offers an introduction to the history and culture of the Kannada-speaking areas of the Indian subcontinent. In the modern state of Karnataka, ancient living cultural and religious traditions, significant historical sites and modernity exist side by side. The state?s capital, Bangalore, a globalized IT-Boomtown is also called the "Silicon Valley of India", whereas the Unesco World Heritage site Hampi gives a great impression of the capital of the late medieval Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagara, the "City of Victory", whose kings ruled over vast parts of South India for around 300 years. Cultural and religious traditions include the Islamic culture of North Karnataka, Jainism and Hinduism. Among the many religious fairs and festivals throughout the year, the Mysore Dasara festivities are famous across borders. The course is taught by experts in Kannada language and culture: *Prof. Dr. Viveka Rai * B. A. Viveka Rai is retired Professor of Kannada Literature and Folklore at the University of Mangalore and a Guest Professor at the Chair of Indology, University of W?rzburg, teaching Kannada as well as courses on the culture of Karnataka. *Dr. Katrin Binder * Katrin Binder is an Indologist and professional performer of Yakshagana, a traditional theatre of Karnataka. She is currently teaching Kannada, Urdu and courses on Indian theatre and dance at the Chair of Indology, University of W?rzburg. The Kannada Winter School teaching programme is free of cost. Simple accommodation at the Bangalore venue of the course will also be provided free of cost for the participants. A small contribution will be asked for boarding. Participants have to organise and pay for their travel and other expenses themselves. Further details will be circulated to the participants after registration. *Please register until 4^th February 2013. * Contact: Sarah Merkle M.A., Lehrstuhl f?r Indologie, Universit?t W?rzburg Tel.: 0931-31-89924,email: sarah.merkle at uni-wuerzburg.de -- Please, use for further mails MY NEW EMAIL ADDRESSingo.strauch at unil.ch. Prof. Dr. Ingo Strauch Sanskrit et ?tudes Bouddhiques Universit? de Lausanne Anthropole 4118 CH-1015 Lausanne Phone ++41-(0)21-692-3005 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Christophe Vielle Louvain-la-Neuve -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hr at IVS.EDU Wed Jan 30 12:13:53 2013 From: hr at IVS.EDU (Howard Resnick) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 13 06:13:53 -0600 Subject: Madhva / Mbh In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098724.23782.16281196322768566023.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Thank you Robert for this valuable information. Perhaps you could explain a bit about the type and quality of evidence we have pointing to the correct state of the mulapatha and the corrupted state of the pracalitapatha. Many thanks, Howard Resnick On Jan 30, 2013, at 4:40 AM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: > On Jan 30, 2013, at 1:39 AM, CHRISTOPHER GIBBONS wrote: > >> Dear List, >> >> Is anyone aware of any work done on Madhva's Mbh commentary the Mah?bh?ratat?tparyanir?aya? >> >> Anything published on the work may prove useful to me. An initial internet search suggests at least the publication of a 2007 edition, possibly with an English introduction. Apologies if I've overlooked an obvious publication before sending this email! > > Please be aware of the m?lap??ha-pracalitap??ha controversy in the writings of Madhva: it seems that already rather early after Madhva, two redactions of his writings became current, one being picked up by Jayat?rtha, who lived two generations after Madhva (this is the so-called pracalitap??ha, which in places is corrupted), and another through Madhva's direct disciples (the m?lap??ha, which is correct). These two traditions are linked with caste distinctions within the M?dhva community: the m?lap??ha with the original Taulava M?dhvas (Madhva himself was a Taulava) and the pracalitap??ha with the De?astha M?dhvas (Jayat?rtha was a De?astha). > > For demographic reasons (the De?asthas are a majority), and due to Jayat?rtha's popularity as a commentator (his language is quite plain and clear), the pracalitap??ha has been reprinted numerous times, with uneven print quality. The best edition of Madhva's collected writings, by Banna?je Govind?c?rya, is based on the m?lap??ha (mainly on a manuscript by H??ike?at?rtha, a direct disciple of Madhva), which was printed some time in the 1970s, if I recall correctly. Govind?c?rya is at present working on a new edition of the Mah?bh?ratat?tparyanir?aya together with a new commentary (by himself) in Sanskrit. > > If you read Kannada (actually a must for those who work on Madhva, given the mass of secondary literature in that language), and if you give me a bit of time (I don't have immediate access to my personal library at the moment), I should be able to find a modern translation or two. > > Robert Zydenbos > > ----- > Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos > Institute of Indology and Tibetology > Department of Asian Studies > University of Munich > Germany > Tel. (+49-89-) 2180-5782 > Fax (+49-89-) 2180-5827 > Web http://zydenbos.userweb.mwn.de/ > > From chris_gibbons at ME.COM Wed Jan 30 00:39:53 2013 From: chris_gibbons at ME.COM (CHRISTOPHER GIBBONS) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 13 10:39:53 +1000 Subject: Madhva / Mbh Message-ID: <161227098718.23782.1339316610588139303.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear List, Is anyone aware of any work done on Madhva's Mbh commentary the Mah?bh?ratat?tparyanir?aya? Anything published on the work may prove useful to me. An initial internet search suggests at least the publication of a 2007 edition, possibly with an English introduction. Apologies if I've overlooked an obvious publication before sending this email! Thanks for any suggestions, Best, Chris PhD Candidate School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics Faculty of Arts The University of Queensland Email: s4297473 at student.uq.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please be aware of the m?lap??ha-pracalitap??ha controversy in the writings of Madhva: it seems that already rather early after Madhva, two redactions of his writings became current, one being picked up by Jayat?rtha, who lived two generations after Madhva (this is the so-called pracalitap??ha, which in places is corrupted), and another through Madhva's direct disciples (the m?lap??ha, which is correct). These two traditions are linked with caste distinctions within the M?dhva community: the m?lap??ha with the original Taulava M?dhvas (Madhva himself was a Taulava) and the pracalitap??ha with the De?astha M?dhvas (Jayat?rtha was a De?astha). For demographic reasons (the De?asthas are a majority), and due to Jayat?rtha's popularity as a commentator (his language is quite plain and clear), the pracalitap??ha has been reprinted numerous times, with uneven print quality. The best edition of Madhva's collected writings, by Banna?je Govind?c?rya, is based on the m?lap??ha (mainly on a manuscript by H??ike?at?rtha, a direct disciple of Madhva), which was printed some time in the 1970s, if I recall correctly. Govind?c?rya is at present working on a new edition of the Mah?bh?ratat?tparyanir?aya together with a new commentary (by himself) in Sanskrit. If you read Kannada (actually a must for those who work on Madhva, given the mass of secondary literature in that language), and if you give me a bit of time (I don't have immediate access to my personal library at the moment), I should be able to find a modern translation or two. Robert Zydenbos ----- Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos Institute of Indology and Tibetology Department of Asian Studies University of Munich Germany Tel. (+49-89-) 2180-5782 Fax (+49-89-) 2180-5827 Web http://zydenbos.userweb.mwn.de/ From dbhattacharya200498 at YAHOO.COM Wed Jan 30 03:42:35 2013 From: dbhattacharya200498 at YAHOO.COM (Dipak Bhattacharya) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 13 11:42:35 +0800 Subject: Madhva / Mbh In-Reply-To: <88076715-DCD7-4673-B86C-97A29C10E7C0@me.com> Message-ID: <161227098720.23782.9014306740653920146.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I am forwarding your message to some knowledgeable circles. Positive result, if any, shall be made known. Best DB ________________________________ From: CHRISTOPHER GIBBONS To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2013 6:09 AM Subject: [INDOLOGY] Madhva / Mbh Dear List, Is anyone aware of any work done on Madhva's Mbh commentary the Mah?bh?ratat?tparyanir?aya?? Anything published on the work may prove useful to me. An initial internet search suggests at least the publication of a 2007 edition, possibly with an English introduction.?Apologies if I've overlooked an obvious publication before sending this email! ? Thanks for any suggestions, Best,? Chris PhD Candidate School of History, Philosophy, Religion and?Classics Faculty of Arts The University of Queensland Email: s4297473 at student.uq.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From reimann at BERKELEY.EDU Wed Jan 30 22:35:10 2013 From: reimann at BERKELEY.EDU (Luis Gonzalez-Reimann) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 13 14:35:10 -0800 Subject: Madhva / Mbh In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098737.23782.11440616945204999053.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Chris, In the new issue of *Religions of South Asia (Volume 6 - Number 2 - 2012)*, this article is listed in the TOC: Problems and Perspectives in Interpreting the Texts of the Madhva Traditions / Michael Williams pp. 191-205. Luis Gonz?lez-Reimann _____ on 1/30/2013 2:40 AM Robert Zydenbos wrote: > On Jan 30, 2013, at 1:39 AM, CHRISTOPHER GIBBONS wrote: > >> Dear List, >> >> Is anyone aware of any work done on Madhva's Mbh commentary the Mah?bh?ratat?tparyanir?aya? >> >> Anything published on the work may prove useful to me. An initial internet search suggests at least the publication of a 2007 edition, possibly with an English introduction. Apologies if I've overlooked an obvious publication before sending this email! > Please be aware of the m?lap??ha-pracalitap??ha controversy in the writings of Madhva: it seems that already rather early after Madhva, two redactions of his writings became current, one being picked up by Jayat?rtha, who lived two generations after Madhva (this is the so-called pracalitap??ha, which in places is corrupted), and another through Madhva's direct disciples (the m?lap??ha, which is correct). These two traditions are linked with caste distinctions within the M?dhva community: the m?lap??ha with the original Taulava M?dhvas (Madhva himself was a Taulava) and the pracalitap??ha with the De?astha M?dhvas (Jayat?rtha was a De?astha). > > For demographic reasons (the De?asthas are a majority), and due to Jayat?rtha's popularity as a commentator (his language is quite plain and clear), the pracalitap??ha has been reprinted numerous times, with uneven print quality. The best edition of Madhva's collected writings, by Banna?je Govind?c?rya, is based on the m?lap??ha (mainly on a manuscript by H??ike?at?rtha, a direct disciple of Madhva), which was printed some time in the 1970s, if I recall correctly. Govind?c?rya is at present working on a new edition of the Mah?bh?ratat?tparyanir?aya together with a new commentary (by himself) in Sanskrit. > > If you read Kannada (actually a must for those who work on Madhva, given the mass of secondary literature in that language), and if you give me a bit of time (I don't have immediate access to my personal library at the moment), I should be able to find a modern translation or two. > > Robert Zydenbos > > ----- > Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos > Institute of Indology and Tibetology > Department of Asian Studies > University of Munich > Germany > Tel. (+49-89-) 2180-5782 > Fax (+49-89-) 2180-5827 > Web http://zydenbos.userweb.mwn.de/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best wishes, M.W. > ============ > Michael Witzel > witzel at fas.harvard.edu > > Wales Prof. of Sanskrit & > Director of Graduate Studies, > Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University > 1 Bow Street, > Cambridge MA 02138, USA > > phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, fax 617 - 496 8571; > my direct line: 617- 496 2990 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wujastyk at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 30 20:03:42 2013 From: wujastyk at GMAIL.COM (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 13 21:03:42 +0100 Subject: New journal launch and call for papers: History of Science in South Asia Message-ID: <161227098732.23782.14586330050006092387.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> [image: Inline images 2] We are pleased to announce the launch of a new international journal, entitled *History of Science in South Asia*. HSSA publishes high-quality academic research in the history of science, technology and medicine, with a focus on South Asia. The journal's founding editorial board consists of: - Dominik Wujastyk, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria - Kim Plofker, Union College, Schenectady, United States - Dhruv Raina, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India - Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, formerly Aligarh Muslim University, D?sseldorf, Germany - Fabrizio Speziale, Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle - CNRS, Paris, France - Michio Yano, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan You are warmly invited to submit research articles to the journal. Book publishers are invited to send copies of new publications for review. See below for the submission guidelines. For the journal's publishing model we have adopted the best and most up-to-date codes of practice: - The journal is internationally *peer-reviewed* and indexed. - The journal is Open Access. Articles can be *read at no charge*. - There will be *no article processing fee* for submissions made in the first two years of the journal's existence. - *Authors retain copyright* of their submissions. - Authors are required to publish their papers under a *Creative Commons license*, to facilitate wide dissemination. - Papers are published on the journal's website as soon as editorial tasks and typesetting are completed (rolling publication). - The journal is published *online and in print*. Print issues and print subscriptions to the journal are sold on demand. As you will see, the journal is free of charge both for readers and authors. This is made possible through the generous support of the publishers, the Sayahna Foundation (sayahna.org). After two years, any charges that may become necessary will be kept within reasonable bounds; several innovative business models are under active consideration, and it may continue to be possible to avoid article processing fees. Scope We take "South Asia" as an inclusive, non-political, socio-geographic term referring to the area from Afghanistan to Sri Lanka, from Pakistan to Bangladesh, and of course India. Research on the influences of South Asian cultures beyond these borders is also welcome, for example Nepalese or Tibetan influences on China, Sri Lankan influences on the Maldives, or Indian influences in South-East Asia. We take "science" to be broadly conceived, and to include all forms of rigorous intellectual activity that adopt at least to some extent a quantitative and empirical approach, as in the German "Die Wissenschaft," that covers most forms of academic scholarship. Theoretical discussions of the meaning of the history of science in the South Asian historical context are welcome. They should presuppose some familiarity with topics such as those raised in sources like Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy (2007), Latour, Laboratory Life (1979), Staal, Concepts of Science in Europe and Asia (1993), Shapin, "Science and the Modern World" (2007), Netz, The Shaping of Deduction (2003, cf. review by Latour), Pollock, "The Languages of Science in Early-Modern India" (in Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia, 2011), and similar reflective works that explore Global History, the interpretation of Modernities, and the general meaning of science in the pre-modern world. Submission guidelines Factual articles reporting discoveries, or interpretative revisions, are also welcome, as are editions and translations of science texts in the languages South Asia. Full submission guidelines are available on the HSSA website . Address The journal's website and email addresses are: - http://hssa.sayahna.org and - hssa at sayahna.org Postal address: - Krishna G S Editorial Support, History of Science in South Asia Sayahna JWRA 34, Jagathy Trivandrum 695014 Kerala, India Submission procedure We prefer authors to log in to the journal's website at - http://hssa.sayahna.org and follow the submission and upload procedure on the website. However, submissions can also be sent directly to - hssa at sayahna.org Please have a look at the new journal's website at http://hssa.sayahna.org, and register as a reader, author, or reviewer. -- Dr Dominik Wujastyk for the HSSA editorial board hssa at sayahna.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Jan On 18 December 2012 11:15, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > Users of INDOLOGY's SARIT service will notice that the front page of the > service changed today. Instead of being taken straight to "basic > search", the simple http://sarit.indology.info URL takes you to a SARIT > home page. From there you can choose "basic search" if you wish. Both > these pages - home page and basic search - were there before, it's just > that we've swapped them round, so that newcomers to SARIT get a bit more > initial help and explanation. In the near future we'll be editing the > home page to be even more helpful :-) > > Close observers will note that since the addition of the Southern *Mah? > bh?rata*, the library has grown by the addition of Bhart?hari's * > V?kyapad?ya* and Bhoja's *R?jam?rtta**??a* on the YS. (V?caspati's * > Tattvavai??rad?* was added last month.) The TEI header files give the > origins and change-histories of these e-editions. The Bhojav?tti is > interesting in that it's SARIT's first e-text that is a direct transcript > of a manuscript. > > The texts in SARIT are subject to a quiet but steady process of upgrade > and correction. For example, we are aware that there's a problem with the > display of the Bh??maparvan of the Mbh in its Devan?gar? version. We'll > be fixing this in the coming weeks, according to the time available. All > such updates and changes to the e-texts are handled through the SARIT Github > site , > https://github.com/paddymcall/SARIT, where the master XML versions of the > e-texts reside, and are under version control. Because the e-editions > are being gradually improved, it is important that when you cite them, > you include a date and version. Git makes it possible to retrieve any > past version of the e-texts, should that be required. But you do need > the date. > > Anybody who would like to get involved with editing, correcting and > improving the SARIT library e-editions is welcome to join in. Aknowledge of Sanskrit, XML, TEI and > Git is required. > > SARIT is always imperfect, and those of us working on SARIT are only too acutely > aware of it. But the above mechanisms offer a pathway for collaborating > in the process of improving and enriching the collection. > > Anyone may take the SARIT files and use them in accordance with the CC lic > ense that governs them. That means, you can do most things that you can > imagine, but you must give attribution to the copyright-holders and > sources of the texts, you can't do anything for commercial profit, and any > derived version of the files that you may produce must be covered by the > same CC license (the freedom propagates). The full details are in the > TEI headers of each file. > > As always, much gratitude is due to Patrick Mc Allisterfor his hard work and support in maintaining the INDOLOGY and SARIT > websites, and working on the e-editions. > > Best, > Dominik > > > > -- > Dr Dominik Wujastyk > Department of South Asia, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies > , > University of Vienna, > Spitalgasse 2-4, Courtyard 2, Entrance 2.1 > 1090 Vienna, Austria > and > Adjunct Professor, > Division of Health and Humanities, > St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, India. > Project | home page| > PGP > > > -- Prof. Dr. Jan E.M. Houben, Directeur d Etudes ? Sources et Histoire de la Tradition Sanskrite ? Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, SHP, A la Sorbonne,45-47, rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris -- France. JEMHouben at gmail.com www.jyotistoma.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wujastyk at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 31 19:34:32 2013 From: wujastyk at GMAIL.COM (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 13 20:34:32 +0100 Subject: SARIT's flawless flow into philology /// Re: [INDOLOGY] SARIT updates In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227098745.23782.11009568085143223111.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> On 31 January 2013 16:57, Jan E.M. Houben wrote: > > When the level of perfection is so high: > - at one place I saw "Rao" instead of "Rau" in connection with VP. > Thanks for spotting this. It's fixed. The raw XML file in "downloads" is updated, but the copy in the SARIT/Philologic system won't be updated for a couple of weeks. Incidentally, while I'm glad to help, in the long run the effort to update files and fix corrections is public. You may do this yourself, at the SARIT Github home, as described on the SARIT front page. It takes some computer-savvy, but SARIT is potentially a community project, at least in some key regards. If you feel like taking the Mahabharata and tagging all the geographical names, for example, feel free. You can then feed that updated file back into Github, and the new tagging will be there for all to benefit from. > - I regret that words remain improperly joined following devanagari > consonant-vowel mergers as in uktaH and evamuktaH which need to be searched > separately (wildcards possible but leads to other problems: cp. evamuktaH > and compounds with -muktaH). > Yes, this is a real question. In SARIT, we mostly host files that are in Devanagari-script style spacing. At Gave?ik?, Amba Kulkarni and her team demonstrate that such files can be algorithmically parsed and word-separations can be inserted automatically, and rather successfully. A future release of SARIT may incorporate this technology, which is Open-Access. We want, also, to run a Romanized and a Devanagari service side-by-side, so that we also serve our audience in India in an appropriate manner. There are technologies for all these things, and they work. But just at the present time, we have concentrated on building up the size of the corpus. In defence of the current situation, in my experience if one really masters the syntax of the Grep searching that SARIT supports, surprisingly sophisticated and precise searches can be achieved, even with Devanagari-style files. Best, Dominik -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: