[INDOLOGY] debt

[Jonathan Silk]

thank you Eli--it seems like Malamoud's Debts and Debtors _is_ an English
version of the 4th number of Puruṣārtha....


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Franco <franco at uni-leipzig.de> wrote:

> Dear Jonathan,
> See Malamoud, Debts and Debtors. There is also a special issue of
> purushaartha on this topic.
> Best, Eli
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 21.05.2013, at 12:32, "Walser, Joseph" <Joseph.Walser at tufts.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Your student should probably check out Gregory Schopen's article "Dead
> monks and bad debts: Some provisions of a Buddhist Monastic inheritance
> law" in _Buddhist Monks and Business Matters_. I don't think the buddhists
> who wrote the vinayas were in a position to declare a jubilee year. That
> would be the perogative of the king.
> >
> > Other than that, I seem to recall the issue of debts only coming up in
> the Yajnavalkya and Katyayana smrtis, though it might be in Manu as well. I
> don't have them with me at the moment, but could find references if need be.
> >
> > Hope this is of some help.
> >
> >
> >
> > -j
> >
> >
> >
> > Joseph Walser
> >
> > Associate Professor
> >
> > Department of Religion
> >
> > Tufts University
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: INDOLOGY [indology-bounces at list.indology.info] on behalf of
> Jonathan Silk [kauzeya at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 6:15 AM
> > To: Indology
> > Subject: [INDOLOGY] debt
> >
> > dear Colleagues,
> >
> > I've been asked whether (tout court) Buddhism or Hinduism have any clear
> attitudes toward debt. I understand the question not to refer to spiritual
> debt, but to monetary debt, and the origins of the questions to probably be
> whether we find things comparable to the idea of the Jubilee, or the
> Biblical necessity to release Hebrew slaves after 7 years of service (the
> origin of the Sabbatical, by the way!), and the like (at least as far as I
> know, there is no such provision in pre-modern India for manumission).
> > Any advice would be most welcome, thanks!
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
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J. Silk
Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden
Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
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