From vglyssenko at yandex.ru Sat Mar 1 11:38:14 2014 From: vglyssenko at yandex.ru (Viktoria Lysenko) Date: Sat, 01 Mar 14 15:38:14 +0400 Subject: [INDOLOGY] what is the best place in India for epistemological studies Message-ID: <196881393673894@web28g.yandex.ru> Dear colleagues, I have an opportunity to go to India to finalize my research project on the problem of nirvikalpaka-savikalpaka pratyaksha in Indian philosophy. In fact, I already translated a number of Buddhist and Brahmanical texts for an anthology of Sanskrit texts on perception in Russian. Now I have to make a proposition for Indian Embassy and to indicate the centre or institution where I want to stay and work and the names of Indian specialists with whom I want to corroborate on this subject. For many years I worked with late professor Sri Narayana Mishra in Varanasi, now I would like to find a place with good library and research facilities as well as with experts who could help me in my reseach. I read a book of Professor Rita Gupta on perception and would like to make her a key person of my fellowship but I could not find any references to her actual situation. I hope that she lives in India. Could anyone send me her e-mail? Any other suggestions concerning the place and the person or persons which I may refer to are welcome! I also will be grateful if you could suggest me Indian experts in cognitive sciences and philosophy of mind who live in India. I have head about National Institite for Advanced Studies in Bangalore, but on their site I could not find any information about these kind of studies... Thank you in advance Victoria http://eng.iph.ras.ru/lysenko.htm Victoria Lysenko, dr.hab.philos. Head, Department for Oriental philosophy studies Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Volkhonka, 14 Professor, Russian State University for Humanities Russia From dchakra at hotmail.de Sat Mar 1 17:08:08 2014 From: dchakra at hotmail.de (Dr. Debabrata Chakrabarti) Date: Sat, 01 Mar 14 22:38:08 +0530 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Letters of Moriz Winternitz (1863-1937)! Message-ID: Dear Friends,For your information the news below:Three letters written by Moriz Winternitz to Prof. Kshetres Chandra Chattopadhyay (1896-1974; Professor at Allahabad University, former Vice Chancellor Sampurnananda University in Benaras) were donated to the Director Allahabad Museum Dr. Rajesh Purohit on 25.2.2014 when the museum celebrated the birth anniversary of the Austrian Indologist. Donated by Prof. Mahesh Chandra Chattopadhyay (second from left), the eldest son of Kshetreschandra.From Left: Prof. Dr. Kamalesh Datt Tripathi, Prof. Dr. Mahesh Chandra Chattopadhyay, Dr. Rajesh Purohit and Dr. Debabrata Chakrabarti Moriz Winternitz 150th Birth Celebration Lecture was delivered by Debabrata Chakrabarti ?This body is like a musical instrument; what you hear depends upon how you play it.? ? Anandamayi Ma ?Inside every human being there exists a special heaven, whole and unbroken.? - Paracelsus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tlighthiser at gmail.com Sun Mar 2 15:14:47 2014 From: tlighthiser at gmail.com (Timothy P. Lighthiser) Date: Sun, 02 Mar 14 08:14:47 -0700 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Kuiper paper Message-ID: Hi! Does anyone have a pdf of the paper below? Kuiper, F.B.J. 1952. ``The three Sanskrit roots an?c- / an?j-.'' Va?k 2:36--99 Thank you! T. 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URL: From edbryant at rci.rutgers.edu Sun Mar 2 20:13:37 2014 From: edbryant at rci.rutgers.edu (edbryant at rci.rutgers.edu) Date: Sun, 02 Mar 14 15:13:37 -0500 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Shruti and non-literalism. Message-ID: <40e15cc85ba89c0a2a9257fe556f4a09.squirrel@webmail.rci.rutgers.edu> Greetings friends, Forgive any cross-listing, but I am looking for any references in pre-modern (i.e. pre-colonial) commentarial (or primary) sources pointing to acceptable non-literal ways of reading Sanskrit texts (Sruti and Smriti). I include the following possibilities, which are the only ones of which I am presently aware in this mode, to give some sense of that which I seek. If anyone can provide the exact references for these, or of any other similar expressions of non-literal hermeneutics, I would be very much obliged: 1) The later Mimamsas speak of the devas as being dative case holders, rather than actual entities. Anyone have a textual reference for where this is stated? 2) Madhva (who already in the 12c presaged the need for a criticial edition of the MhBh), speaks of 3 ways of reading itihasa, if I am not mistaken: as itihasa, from the perspective of siddhanta and.....if I recall correctly, as kavya. Does anyone have a reference for this? 3) Vallabha also speaks of 3 types of language in the Bhagavata: samadhi bhasa, laukika bhasa, and matantara bhass. Elsewhere he speaks of adhyatmika (spiritual), adhidaivika (emotional) and adhibautika (material) modes of reading the Bhagavata. Can anyone provide references here? These are just the references I have some recollection encountering, correctly or incorrectly, but I am hoping there will be other expressions of non-literal modes of exegesis. Any readings that bypass a focus on literal historicism, especially of Purana and itihasa (e.g. placing more stress on rasa or some such thing as the primary purpose of Purana and itihasa) - that the learned shastris on this list might know and be willing to share, would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Edwin Bryant. From je374 at msstate.edu Sun Mar 2 22:54:04 2014 From: je374 at msstate.edu (Jonathan Edelmann) Date: Sun, 02 Mar 14 16:54:04 -0600 Subject: [INDOLOGY] [RISA-L LIST] Shruti and non-literalism. In-Reply-To: <40e15cc85ba89c0a2a9257fe556f4a09.squirrel@webmail.rci.rutgers.edu> Message-ID: Dear Edwin, In the Gau??ya Vai??ava tradition there is an allowance to move from the primary meaning to a secondary (non-literal) meaning when the primary makes no sense; in this regard they follow K?vya, especially well known texts like Mamma?abha??a's K?vyaprak??a. For discussion, see J?va Gosv?min's auto-commentary on his Tattvasandarbha called the Sarvasa?v?din? (p.25 ff. of Hari D?sa ??str?'s edition). Vi?van?tha Cakravartin goes so far as to say that the Bh?gavata Pur??a was composed according to three types of meaning (e.g. v?cya, lak?ya and vya?gya, the latter two being "non-literal") in his S?r?rthadar?in? 1.1.1 (p.53 of K???a ?a?kara ??str?'s edition). I've got an article called, "When Stones Float and Mud Speaks," which examines J?va's views on ?r?ti passages that should be understood non-literally; it will be out in the J of Hindu Studies in a few months. Re Vallabha: He only alludes to the three types of language, bh???, in the 4th ma?gala of his Bh?gavata Pur??a commentary (p.65 of K???a ?a?kara ??str?'s edition), promising to show how they appear throughout the text. A more full examination is in his Tattv?thad?panibandha, especially verses 11-12. Sincerely, Jonathan Edelmann Mississippi State University On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 2:13 PM, wrote: > > > Greetings friends, > > Forgive any cross-listing, but I am looking for any references in > pre-modern (i.e. pre-colonial) commentarial (or primary) sources pointing > to acceptable non-literal ways of reading Sanskrit texts (Sruti and > Smriti). I include the following possibilities, which are the only ones > of which I am presently aware in this mode, to give some sense of that > which I seek. If anyone can provide the exact references for these, or of > any other similar expressions of non-literal hermeneutics, I would be very > much obliged: > > 1) The later Mimamsas speak of the devas as being dative case holders, > rather than actual entities. Anyone have a textual reference for where > this is stated? > > 2) Madhva (who already in the 12c presaged the need for a criticial > edition of the MhBh), speaks of 3 ways of reading itihasa, if I am not > mistaken: as itihasa, from the perspective of siddhanta and.....if I > recall correctly, as kavya. Does anyone have a reference for this? > > 3) Vallabha also speaks of 3 types of language in the Bhagavata: samadhi > bhasa, laukika bhasa, and matantara bhass. Elsewhere he speaks of > adhyatmika (spiritual), adhidaivika (emotional) and adhibautika (material) > modes of reading the Bhagavata. Can anyone provide references here? > > These are just the references I have some recollection encountering, > correctly or incorrectly, but I am hoping there will be other expressions > of non-literal modes of exegesis. Any readings that bypass a focus on > literal historicism, especially of Purana and itihasa (e.g. placing more > stress on rasa or some such thing as the primary purpose of Purana and > itihasa) - that the learned shastris on this list might know and be > willing to share, would be greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks. Edwin Bryant. > _______________________________________________ > RISA-L mailing list > RISA-L at lists.sandiego.edu > https://lists.sandiego.edu/mailman/listinfo/risa-l > -- *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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mkapstei at uchicago.edu Sun Mar 2 23:39:07 2014 From: mkapstei at uchicago.edu (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Sun, 02 Mar 14 23:39:07 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Shruti and non-literalism. In-Reply-To: <40e15cc85ba89c0a2a9257fe556f4a09.squirrel@webmail.rci.rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <82C3E42590D939418C74DD76B97DDED082E3F2@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu> There has been a fair amount of work on aspects of Buddhist hermeneutics that treat of analogous issues, in both tantric and non-tantric contexts. Don Lopez's edited vol. Buddhist Hermeneutics would be one place to begin, but there has been further relevant work since that was first published over twenty years ago. David S. Ruegg devoted considerable attention to the question and, more than most, explicitly relates the Buddhist developments to issues in non-Buddhist theories of language. Matthew Kapstein Directeur d'?tudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, The University of Chicago __________ From mark.allon at sydney.edu.au Mon Mar 3 00:14:12 2014 From: mark.allon at sydney.edu.au (Mark Allon) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 14 00:14:12 +0000 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?[INDOLOGY]_anukrama=E1=B9=87ik=C4=81?= Message-ID: <1A46C9B65B1156439124252D1E715E519863F489@ex-mbx-pro-06> Dear List Members, Could someone please point me in the direction of discussions of anukrama?ik?, ?tables of content,? ?indexes,? in Vedic or later Sanskrit literature (their origin, nature, function, where they occur, etc.). Regards Mark Allon University of Sydney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From laurie.patton at duke.edu Mon Mar 3 01:17:09 2014 From: laurie.patton at duke.edu (Prof Laurie Patton, Ph.D.) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 14 01:17:09 +0000 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Re:_[INDOLOGY]_anukrama=E1=B9=87ik=C4=81?= In-Reply-To: <1A46C9B65B1156439124252D1E715E519863F489@ex-mbx-pro-06> Message-ID: Hello Mark, Here are some starters. In my Myth as Argument: The Br?haddevata? as Canonical Commentary (Degruyter, 1996), I have a discussion on the genre of anukraman?i? as a commentarial strategy (pp. 30-35). The first chapter (pp.1-30) you might also find useful. The final chapter (pp.441-464) discusses the role of the index and encyclopedia as a genre, both in India and more broadly. You should also look at (and probably have already) Tokunaga, "The Texts and Legends of the Br?haddevata?." PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 1976, and A. A. MacDonnell's edition of the Ka?tya?yana Sarva?nukraman?i?, with Commentary of ?ad?guru?is?ya. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1886). Hope this is useful. Laurie Patton Durden Professor of Religions Dean, Arts & Sciences Duke University ________________________________ From: INDOLOGY [indology-bounces at list.indology.info] on behalf of Mark Allon [mark.allon at sydney.edu.au] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 7:14 PM To: indology at list.indology.info Subject: [INDOLOGY] anukrama?ik? Dear List Members, Could someone please point me in the direction of discussions of anukrama?ik?, ?tables of content,? ?indexes,? in Vedic or later Sanskrit literature (their origin, nature, function, where they occur, etc.). Regards Mark Allon University of Sydney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best DB On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Mark Allon wrote: > Dear List Members, > > > > Could someone please point me in the direction of discussions of > anukrama?ik?, ?tables of content,? ?indexes,? in Vedic or later Sanskrit > literature (their origin, nature, function, where they occur, etc.). > > > > Regards > > > > Mark Allon > > University of Sydney > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elisa.freschi at gmail.com Mon Mar 3 09:48:23 2014 From: elisa.freschi at gmail.com (elisa freschi) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 14 10:48:23 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Shruti and non-literalism. In-Reply-To: <40e15cc85ba89c0a2a9257fe556f4a09.squirrel@webmail.rci.rutgers.edu> Message-ID: Dear Edwin, concerning M?m??s?, the locus classicus is the devat?dhikara?a (PMS 9.1.9). There is an excellent article by F.X. Clooney about it (1988) and some thoughts on it can be read also here: https://www.academia.edu/6263852/Between_Theism_and_Atheism_a_journey_through_Visistadvaita_Vedanta_and_Mimamsa A further interesting reading is Robert Goldman's "How Fast Do Monkeys Fly? How Long Do Demons Sleep?" (discussing literality in the interpretation of R?m?ya?a's stories) in *Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici* 2006. You can download the file here: http://www.fupress.net/index.php/rss/issue/view/231 best wishes, elisa Dr. Elisa Freschi Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia Austrian Academy of Sciences Apostelgasse 23 1030 Vienna Austria Phone +43 1 51581 6433 Fax +43 1 51581 6410 http://elisafreschi.com http://oeaw.academia.edu/elisafreschi On 02/mar/2014, at 21:13, edbryant at rci.rutgers.edu wrote: > > > Greetings friends, > > Forgive any cross-listing, but I am looking for any references in > pre-modern (i.e. pre-colonial) commentarial (or primary) sources pointing > to acceptable non-literal ways of reading Sanskrit texts (Sruti and > Smriti). I include the following possibilities, which are the only ones > of which I am presently aware in this mode, to give some sense of that > which I seek. If anyone can provide the exact references for these, or of > any other similar expressions of non-literal hermeneutics, I would be very > much obliged: > > 1) The later Mimamsas speak of the devas as being dative case holders, > rather than actual entities. Anyone have a textual reference for where > this is stated? > > 2) Madhva (who already in the 12c presaged the need for a criticial > edition of the MhBh), speaks of 3 ways of reading itihasa, if I am not > mistaken: as itihasa, from the perspective of siddhanta and.....if I > recall correctly, as kavya. Does anyone have a reference for this? > > 3) Vallabha also speaks of 3 types of language in the Bhagavata: samadhi > bhasa, laukika bhasa, and matantara bhass. Elsewhere he speaks of > adhyatmika (spiritual), adhidaivika (emotional) and adhibautika (material) > modes of reading the Bhagavata. Can anyone provide references here? > > These are just the references I have some recollection encountering, > correctly or incorrectly, but I am hoping there will be other expressions > of non-literal modes of exegesis. Any readings that bypass a focus on > literal historicism, especially of Purana and itihasa (e.g. placing more > stress on rasa or some such thing as the primary purpose of Purana and > itihasa) - that the learned shastris on this list might know and be > willing to share, would be greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks. Edwin Bryant. > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zydenbos at uni-muenchen.de Mon Mar 3 12:31:00 2014 From: zydenbos at uni-muenchen.de (Robert Zydenbos) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 14 13:31:00 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] 'Joy of Sanskrit' electronic textbook now available In-Reply-To: <9fefdc34a3aa437bb2fcfaa54e7a957f@HKXPR06MB182.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: <53147604.3010201@uni-muenchen.de> McComas Taylor wrote: > Dear Colleagues > > I am delighted to announce that ANU Press has published/The Joy of > Sanskrit: A First-Year Syllabus for Tertiary Students, /written with my > colleague Grazia Scotellaro. [...] > > It is freely avaible in the public domain, and runs on Mac, iPads, > iPhones and Android systems. (Windows version is still to come). I downloaded the ebook and was considering putting it onto my own website for faster download for my students here in Germany -- but then I read the following, which seems to contradict what you write about the public domain: ----- All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ----- I suppose this is the real copyright status (which I can understand, seeing the amount of work that has gone into it). May we redistribute it through other websites, provided we get that permission? In any case I can put the Australian URL on my webpages. RZ -- 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 wujastyk at gmail.com Mon Mar 3 13:23:00 2014 From: wujastyk at gmail.com (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 14 14:23:00 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] 'Joy of Sanskrit' electronic textbook now available In-Reply-To: <53147604.3010201@uni-muenchen.de> Message-ID: May I suggest, McComas, that you have a look at CreativeCommons.org, and choose an appropriate license from there that suits what you want? It's the best way to be totally clear about how stuff gets - or doesn't get - shared. The CreativeCommons licenses are also based on solid legal grounds, so there's no ambiguity. For example, your statement that your book is in the Public Domain is probably not what you really mean, and may not even be true, even though you said it. I strongly recommend that you adopt a Creative Commons license. Did I say that already? :-) Best, Dominik -- Dr Dominik Wujastyk Department of South Asia, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies , University of Vienna On 3 March 2014 13:31, Robert Zydenbos wrote: > McComas Taylor wrote: > > Dear Colleagues >> >> I am delighted to announce that ANU Press has published/The Joy of >> Sanskrit: A First-Year Syllabus for Tertiary Students, /written with my >> colleague Grazia Scotellaro. [...] >> >> >> It is freely avaible in the public domain, and runs on Mac, iPads, >> iPhones and Android systems. (Windows version is still to come). >> > > I downloaded the ebook and was considering putting it onto my own website > for faster download for my students here in Germany -- but then I read the > following, which seems to contradict what you write about the public domain: > > ----- > All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored > in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, > electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior > permission of the publisher. > ----- > > I suppose this is the real copyright status (which I can understand, > seeing the amount of work that has gone into it). May we redistribute it > through other websites, provided we get that permission? In any case I can > put the Australian URL on my webpages. > > RZ > > -- > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The full list of unedited manuscripts (63) in the Muktabodha Digital Library is appended to this email. Harry Spier Manager, Muktabodha Digital Library Unedited Manuscripts in the Muktabodha Digital Library as of March 2, 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- a??umatk??yap?gama IFP transcript 1 agnik?ryapaddhati Manuscript no.: 781 Research Library J. and K. Govt. Shrinigar ?gamakalpalat? NGMCP a145/3 ??caryayogam?l? NGMCP 1-33 reel number B-114/19 ??varapratyabhij??kaumud? Research and Publications department, Jammu and Kashmir Government Srinagar manuscript no. 1089 ??varapratyabhij??vimar?in?vy?khy? IFP transcript 762 kalpav?k?a manuscript no. 1353 of the Oriental Research Library, University campus, Hazaratbal, Srinagar. k?kaca??e?var?mata NGMCP 3 - 118 reel number: A 211/8 k?l?nalatantra NGMCP Reel B157/27 manuscript No: 1-42 k?l?kalpalat? NGMCP 5-6521 reel number: B 120/9 k?llotara NGMCP Reel No. - B 118/7 manuscript no. 5-4632 k?llotara NGMCP Reel No. - B 118/7 manuscript no. 5-4632 k?llotara NGMCP Reel No. B 29/59 Manuscript No. pra - 89 ki?citatantra NGMCP manuscript 4-1867 <zaivatantra 199 ga Reel no: b 142/7 kulaprad?pa British Library, London: MS no. 1800 ???????? 134 kulas?ra NGMCP 3-251 reel number A 150/16 kulas?ra NGMCP 4-137/vi reel number: A 40/11 kul?nand?di NGMCP 1-1376/ v reel number A40/6 kriy?k?lagu?ottara NGMCP 3/392 reel number B 25/32 gurustutiratn?val? STAATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU BERLIN PREUSSISCHER KULTURBESITZ ORIENTABTEILUNG hs or. 11126 vollst. gorak?agu?ik? NGMCP 2120 reel number: A62/3 gorak?amudgara NGMCP 5-332 reel number: B24/6 gorak?ayoga??stram NGMCP 5-332 reel number: B24/44 candraj??n?gama BHU C4243 j??nas?ra BHU C4251 tattvaratn?val? NGMCP 1-1697-7/6 reel number: B 26/16 timirodhgh??atantra NGMCP access no. 5/690 reel no: A 1380/9 trida?a??maratantre siddhikaal?stotra NGMCP reel no. H 334/6 trida?a??mar?pratya?gir?vi?ayakan?n?tantra NGMCP reel no. B 173/22 manuscript no. 3-30 d?k??paddhati Manuscript no.: 2379 Research Library J. and K. Govt. Shrinigar d?k?ottara IFP Transcript T0017B from page 795 to end dvi?atik?lottara IFP transcript 176 niruttarav?da BHU C4247 nirva?atantra NGMCP reel c 24/2 manuscript 217b nirv??ayogottara BHU C4246 parame?var?matatantra NGMCP manuscript 5-5148 Reel no: B 133/3 para?ur?makalpas?tra IFP T0859 copied from D 4373 belonging to the GOML, Madras par?tri?ik?viv?ti Statsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz orientabteilung hs or. 11633 vollst. pi?gal?mata NGMCP 3-376/vi zaivatantra 113 pau?karav?tti IFP transcript 110 pr???gnihotra BHU C4257 pr?ya?cittasamuccaya NGMCP 5.2402 Reel B 427/2 brahmasandh?na BHU C. N. 4242 bh?vac???ma?i NGMCP 6/1748 reel number A 989/23 mantrako?a NGMCP 5-470 reel number: A 169/8 m?gendrapaddhati??k? 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Date: March 2, 2014 3:13:37 PM EST To: +++RISA ACADEMIC DISCUSSION LIST+++ > Cc: Indology > Greetings friends, Forgive any cross-listing, but I am looking for any references in pre-modern (i.e. pre-colonial) commentarial (or primary) sources pointing to acceptable non-literal ways of reading Sanskrit texts (Sruti and Smriti). I include the following possibilities, which are the only ones of which I am presently aware in this mode, to give some sense of that which I seek. If anyone can provide the exact references for these, or of any other similar expressions of non-literal hermeneutics, I would be very much obliged: 1) The later Mimamsas speak of the devas as being dative case holders, rather than actual entities. Anyone have a textual reference for where this is stated? 2) Madhva (who already in the 12c presaged the need for a criticial edition of the MhBh), speaks of 3 ways of reading itihasa, if I am not mistaken: as itihasa, from the perspective of siddhanta and.....if I recall correctly, as kavya. Does anyone have a reference for this? 3) Vallabha also speaks of 3 types of language in the Bhagavata: samadhi bhasa, laukika bhasa, and matantara bhass. Elsewhere he speaks of adhyatmika (spiritual), adhidaivika (emotional) and adhibautika (material) modes of reading the Bhagavata. Can anyone provide references here? These are just the references I have some recollection encountering, correctly or incorrectly, but I am hoping there will be other expressions of non-literal modes of exegesis. Any readings that bypass a focus on literal historicism, especially of Purana and itihasa (e.g. placing more stress on rasa or some such thing as the primary purpose of Purana and itihasa) - that the learned shastris on this list might know and be willing to share, would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Edwin Bryant. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From manufrancis at gmail.com Wed Mar 5 11:21:02 2014 From: manufrancis at gmail.com (Manu Francis) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 14 12:21:02 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Tamil Manuscript of Bobbili Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, As I have committed myself to write notices of Tamil MSS from the Cambridge University Library, I found among them a Tamil version of the famous battle of Bobbili (in a paper manuscript donated by Percy Macqueen). This Cambridge MS seems to contain an oral version committed to paper by Macqueen. I am aware, thanks to S. Subrahmanyam, of the existence of a printed Tamil version of the narrative: *Periya poppili raaja_n katai*. By Veeluur Ka_n_naiya Naayu.tu. Ce_n_nai Cuu.lai [i.e. Madras]: Veeluur Kuppucaami Mutaliyaar, 1907. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a copy of that book on the web (DLI, Internet Archives) or in a library in Paris. I would be very grateful if any of you having access to the Tamil printed version could compare the beginning and end of both versions, in order to confirm that we have here two different versions of the narrative. A digital copy of the first and last pages of the printed edition would be a great gift. I attach a file with my tentative reading of the incipit and explicit of the Cambridge MS as well as pictures of its first and last folios. With very best wishes. 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Are there enumerations of women's adornments, sixteen or otherwise, found in Sanskrit text? Your insight is much appreciated. Many thanks, Aimee Hamilton hamilton.aimee at gmail.com --- Aimee L. Hamilton, Ph.D. candidate Visiting Instructor, Pacific Lutheran University Religion Department http://plu.academia.edu/AimeeHamilton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shyamr at yorku.ca Fri Mar 7 18:58:09 2014 From: shyamr at yorku.ca (Shyam Ranganathan) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 14 13:58:09 -0500 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Evil, the Vedas and Upanishads Message-ID: <531A16C1.9000100@yorku.ca> Dear Indologists, Please excuse cross postings. I would be grateful for references to any work done on the idea of /EVIL /in the Vedas and Upanishads. I appreciate that there may not be a one to one correlation between the English "evil" and corresponding words in Vedic literature. "Evil" could range over ideas such as: ra-ks.asa or darkness/ignorance (e.g. Br.hada-ran.yaka Upanis.ad 1.3.28 --- tamaso ma- jyotir gamaya). In connection to this, anything about the demonification of asura-s (and the vindication of devas) would be welcome too. In this connection I am also especially curious about blood offerings to evil spirits in animal sacrifices (e.g., Aitareya Brahmana II.1.7) and possible Vedic criticisms of the practice. Thank you! Shyam Shyam Ranganathan Department of Philosophy York University, Toronto would include the idea of pathological agents, fault, and "darkness" construed as something bad. I would also be interested in any evidence of darkness treated as a good thing. I figure we find this in the later tradition (in the idea of Krishna for instance). Many thanks! Shyam Shyam Ranganathan Department of Philosophy York University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shyamr at yorku.ca Fri Mar 7 18:59:19 2014 From: shyamr at yorku.ca (Shyam Ranganathan) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 14 13:59:19 -0500 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Evil, the Vedas and Upanishads In-Reply-To: <531A16C1.9000100@yorku.ca> Message-ID: <531A1707.4040808@yorku.ca> sorry.... here's the message again, without the garble at the bottom. On 07/03/2014 1:58 PM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote: > Dear Indologists, > > Please excuse cross postings. > > I would be grateful for references to any work done on the idea of > /EVIL /in the Vedas and Upanishads. > > I appreciate that there may not be a one to one correlation between > the English "evil" and corresponding words in Vedic literature. > "Evil" could range over ideas such as: ra-ks.asa or > darkness/ignorance (e.g. Br.hada-ran.yaka Upanis.ad 1.3.28 --- tamaso > ma- jyotir gamaya). In connection to this, anything about the > demonification of asura-s (and the vindication of devas) would be > welcome too. > > In this connection I am also especially curious about blood offerings > to evil spirits in animal sacrifices (e.g., Aitareya Brahmana II.1.7) > and possible Vedic criticisms of the practice. > > Thank you! > Shyam > > Shyam Ranganathan > Department of Philosophy > York University, Toronto > > > > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rajam at earthlink.net Fri Mar 7 19:56:37 2014 From: rajam at earthlink.net (rajam) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 14 11:56:37 -0800 Subject: [INDOLOGY] 16 Wedding Adornments In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <9A50DD56-2AE1-401D-86D2-CE4989E69842@earthlink.net> It is deeply sad that most researchers look for evidences only in Sanskrit! That?s alright but not absolute. An enumeration of a woman?s ornaments ? yes, there is an enumeration in an earlier Tamil text called the Cilappatikaaram. If anyone would be interested, let me know and I?ll help them read through the text. Best, Rajam On Mar 5, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Aimee Hamilton wrote: > Dear Indology List, > > Joanna Kirkpatrick saw my request for aid on another listserve and was kind enough to direct me here. > > My efforts have been to trace a historical precedent for the phrase "solah shringar" that I see used in contemporary popular representations of Hindu women's adornment: magazines; wedding guidebooks; Internet. My greater effort is to show how Hindu wedding adornment in the U.S. uses wedding adornment as cultural capital and borrows from older adornment vernaculars. I'm looking for resources in English, Hindi, and Sanskrit as those are the languages I work in. In Hindi, I've seen solah ???g?r and various transliterations in English. I haven't come across a similar concept in Sanskrit, which would be phrased as some form of ?o?a?a ???g?ra. > > Are there enumerations of women's adornments, sixteen or otherwise, found in Sanskrit text? Your insight is much appreciated. > > Many thanks, > Aimee Hamilton > hamilton.aimee at gmail.com > --- > Aimee L. Hamilton, Ph.D. candidate > Visiting Instructor, Pacific Lutheran University > Religion Department > http://plu.academia.edu/AimeeHamilton > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ghezziem at tin.it Sat Mar 8 11:40:30 2014 From: ghezziem at tin.it (Daniela Rossella) Date: Sat, 08 Mar 14 12:40:30 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Carlo Della Casa Message-ID: <9473B085-037D-4232-BC8E-E10DE3E96828@tin.it> Dear all, my beloved Guru Professor Carlo Della Casa passed away this morning, in Turin. He was and Indologist, a linguist, a refined translator from Sanskrit: above all, a Great Man -- like a father, for me. Daniela Rossella piazza Buzzati, 5 43122 Parma 0521773854 3383198904 ghezziem at tin.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palaniappa at aol.com Sun Mar 9 07:18:07 2014 From: palaniappa at aol.com (palaniappa at aol.com) Date: Sun, 09 Mar 14 03:18:07 -0400 Subject: [INDOLOGY] lighting lamps and cooking meat in north Indian tradition In-Reply-To: <2A5A3B57-EFCB-4276-930C-3A0253E3B308@berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <8D1097EDAE9EC41-230C-1D96D@webmail-m132.sysops.aol.com> Dear George, In Akam. 64.5-6, wehave "neyka?i n??k?? ve?v?l" and in Akam. 123.9, we have"neyka?i ne?uv?l". There 'ney' is mentioned explicitly. But inAkam 113.15, the noun 'ney' is left out. I would be interested inseeing the variants, if any, in the manuscripts. Kali.115.7 mentionsthe girls of the pastoral community applying butter to the hair on someoccasions at least. Otherwise wefind Ku?u. 312.6 and Ku?i. 107 in which woman and man of the mountain regionapplying oil to the hair. So does Pu?. 279.9. In Akam 177.4, I would interpret 'ney' as oil. As for the word 'neymmiti',I suggest that the word stands for oil-cake commonly known as pi???kkuin Tamil, glossed by Tamil Lexicon as 'oil-cake made of the residue of oilseeds'. The word itself could be from neymmikuti > neymm?ti interpretedas 'residue after oil'. The change of -m?ti > -miti could bedue to metrical reasons. The commentators' explanations are not convincing whenthey say the food balls are trampled on. Oil-cake seems to be a common fooditem for horses. See http://www.elsenburg.com/info/els/063/063e.html. Regards, Palaniappan -----Original Message----- From: George Hart To: Palaniappa Sent: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 1:19 pm Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] lighting lamps and cooking meat in north Indian tradition Dear Palaniappan, In Akam 113, line 15, we have ka?aiyirum curu?ai ka?i k?? ne?u v?l, which seems to mean ?long spear with a heavy (dense) ferrule and oiled shaft.? It is notable that ka?i is used for ?oiled,? though of course that doesn?t mean they didn?t use ghee. I?m also a bit puzzled by horses eating paddy mixed with ghee (Akam 400) ? you?d think they would not have exactly thrived. There?s also Akam 177.4, where ?ney? is used to oil a woman?s hair ? have you ever heard of this? George On Feb 22, 2014, at 7:10 AM, Palaniappa at aol.com wrote: Dear Indologists, When one reads the glosses provided by traditional and modern commentators of Classical Tamil texts, one would come away with the impression that except in the coastal areas, people cooked meat in ghee, and lit lamps with ghee. Although in medieval times ghee from cow's milk and goat's milk were used to light lamps in temples, I do not think most people used ghee to light lamps. After all, in Tamil we call castor oil as vi?akke??ai (lamp oil) and coconut oil as ve?icce??ai (brightness oil). Similarly, for frying and deep-frying meat items, the commentators leave the term 'ney' unexplained giving the impression that they were cooked in ghee. As expected translators of the poems, translate all these instances as meat items have been cooked in ghee! (One would also see all the spears and arrows in the armory being smeared with ghee too!) According to a culinary expert, traditionally meat items are cooked in oil in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. I would appreciate if someone can provide information on what Indo-Aryan texts say about the different uses of ghee and oil for cooking and lighting. Thanks in advance Regards, Palaniappan _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY at list.indology.info http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hahn.m at t-online.de Sun Mar 9 12:48:08 2014 From: hahn.m at t-online.de (Michael Hahn) Date: Sun, 09 Mar 14 13:48:08 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] A brief introduction into the Indian metrical system for the use of students. Message-ID: <20140309134804.09B8.CF0E9E7@t-online.de> Dear all (specially the instructors of Sanskrit) I would like to inform you that I have just uploaded to www.academia.edu a very modest paper (unpublished), "A brief introduction into the Indian metrical system for the use of students," that attempts at summarizing on just six pages the very essentials of classical Sanskrit metrics. On its last page you will find a list of the 25 most common Sanskrit metres that saves the student the trouble to go through the long list in Apte's dictionary. Several colleagues found this draft (originally prepared for classes at UC Berkeley) helpful. That is the reason why I have decided to make it generally accessible. Any criticism will be greatly appreciated. Michael Hahn --- Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn Ritterstr. 14 D-35287 Amoeneburg Tel. +49-6422-938963 Fax: +49-6422-938967 E-mail: hahn.m at t-online.de URL: staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~hahnm From malhar at iitb.ac.in Sun Mar 9 13:57:23 2014 From: malhar at iitb.ac.in (Malhar Arvind Kulkarni) Date: Sun, 09 Mar 14 19:27:23 +0530 Subject: [INDOLOGY] A brief introduction into the Indian metrical system for the use of students. In-Reply-To: <20140309134804.09B8.CF0E9E7@t-online.de> Message-ID: Dear All, As a related development, I request you all to visit the following link which hosts the Meter Identification Tool: http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/mitweb/ We would be glad to receive feedback. with regards. Malhar Kulkarni. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076. > Dear all > (specially the instructors of Sanskrit) > > I would like to inform you that I have just uploaded to www.academia.edu > a very modest paper (unpublished), "A brief introduction into the Indian > metrical system for the use of students," that attempts at summarizing on > just six pages the very essentials of classical Sanskrit metrics. On its > last page you will find a list of the 25 most common Sanskrit metres > that saves the student the trouble to go through the long list in Apte's > dictionary. Several colleagues found this draft (originally prepared for > classes at UC Berkeley) helpful. That is the reason why I have decided > to make it generally accessible. Any criticism will be greatly > appreciated. > > Michael Hahn > > > --- > Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn > Ritterstr. 14 > D-35287 Amoeneburg > Tel. +49-6422-938963 > Fax: +49-6422-938967 > E-mail: hahn.m at t-online.de > URL: staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~hahnm > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > From wujastyk at gmail.com Sun Mar 9 15:26:37 2014 From: wujastyk at gmail.com (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Sun, 09 Mar 14 16:26:37 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Lecturer in Hindi-Urdu Language and South Asian Studies Message-ID: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIH268/ *University of Toronto** -Department of Historical Studies and the Department of Language Studies* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hahn.m at t-online.de Sun Mar 9 16:05:21 2014 From: hahn.m at t-online.de (Michael Hahn) Date: Sun, 09 Mar 14 17:05:21 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Meter identifying tool --- The actual usage and funcrion of metres Message-ID: <20140309170519.09C3.CF0E9E7@t-online.de> Many thanks to Prof. Kulkarni's hint of the valuable meter identifying tool, which greatly facilitates the task of the inexperienced student. In this connection I would like to mention my observations regarding the actual use of metres in classical Sanskrit literature. There are two comprehensive collections and statistics of metres occurring in Sanskrit literature: one by K?hnau (based on Stenzler's collections), one by H. D. Velankar. For the bibliographical details see my paper A030 on www.academia.edu. From these papers we can see that not many more than 100 metres do actually occur in serious Sanskrit texts (the higher figure is some 130 metres). These 100 metres can roughly be divided into two halves of 50 each with 50 of them being used very, very rarely. The remaining 50 metres can again be split into two halves of 25 comparatively rare metres and 25 frequently used metres which every student of Sanskrit literature should know. They are the content of page 6 of my "Brief introduction ..." These figures contrast highly with what theory teaches. The most comprehensive index of Sanskrit and Prakrit metres that can be found in H. D. Velankar's (a really great scholar and metrician) wonderful edition of Hemacandra's Chandonusasana lists about 1,000 different meters. However, it is absolutely useless and superfluous to study all of them if only one tenth of them does actually occur. It does not mean anything if a would-be poet takes one of the additional metres from a chandahsastra and uses it only to show his erudition, if nobody else knows his particular metre. As Ashwini Deo has convincingly shown in her ground-breaking paper on Sanskrit metrics, it is very unlikely for any literature to actively use such a great variety of metres. Even the 100 (130) metres listed by K?hnau and Velankar are not really different metres, but can be reduced to a much smaller number of basic pattens and their variations, as are Indravajra, Upendravajra and Upajati, Vamsastha, Indravamsa ind Vamsamala, Salini and Vaisvadevi, the four Vaitaliya and Aupacchandasaka off-shoots etc. etc. By the way, in the 1,130 stanzas of his Kapphinabhyudaya the poet Sivasvamin uses 43 different metres, which is the highest number of metres in a classical work (from the first millenium) I know of. Practically all of them belong to my "50 not extremely rare metres" category; see my edition, Delhi 2013. The Buddhist authors Aryasura, Haribhatta, Gopadatta use not more than 30 metres in their campu poems. The 150 metres in Jnanasrimitras Vrttamalastuti do not mean anything because they only serve as illustrations of theory. In sharp contrast with the predilections of the Indian metricians for the increase of the number of metres and the invention of ever new varieties stands their neglect of, or silence about, some of the basic laws.of Indian metrics that every body knew and followed but nobody ever included in the sastras. Pingala teaches four varieties of vipulas for the sloka (anustubh, vaktra) metre: bhrau ntau, i.e. bh, ra, na, and ta vipula. This might habe been valid for his time. Until the 11th century CE no one seems to have noticed that the ta vipula is virtually non-existing in classical Sanskrit literature whereas another vipula, the ma-vipula, is actually the most specific and most frequently used among them. Ratnakarasanti is the first to reluctantly acknowledge it: d.r.s.taa makaare.naapy eva.m Moreover, Indian metricians confined themselves only to the description of the syllables 5, 6, and 7 of the quarter, remaining tacits about the generally fixed structure of the preceding ga.na. It was left to Western scholars on the 19th century to formulate thosee laws that the Indian poets intuitively knew and followed already 2000 years earlier. The point of my remarks is that the metrical theory as represented by the chandahsastras is one thing and the actual practice of the poets something quite different. I would like to encourage a deeper research on the practical side (as done in an exmplary manner by Ashwini Deo, on a high theoretical analytical level) and to devote more energy to the as yet only unsufficiently explored question, what the different metres meant for Indian poets, what they regarded as their specific functions. Ksemendra in his Suvrttatilaka is by far too superficial. I have written about this topic but unfortunately mostly in German. Michael Hahn --- Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn Ritterstr. 14 D-35287 Amoeneburg Tel. +49-6422-938963 Fax: +49-6422-938967 E-mail: hahn.m at t-online.de URL: staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~hahnm From karp at uw.edu.pl Sun Mar 9 16:28:16 2014 From: karp at uw.edu.pl (Artur Karp) Date: Sun, 09 Mar 14 17:28:16 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Dhauli Elephant Message-ID: Sorry for X-posting --- Dear List, Does someone know the source of this pen ink drawing? http://www.safarmer.com/Dhauli.elephant.jpg Thanks in advance, Artur Karp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From birendra176 at yahoo.com Tue Mar 11 05:51:42 2014 From: birendra176 at yahoo.com (Birendra Nath Prasad) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 14 22:51:42 -0700 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Call for papers : international Conference On Indian Buddhism in Its Social Context In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1394517102.87586.YahooMailBasic@web121902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Concept Note for an International Conference to be organised by the Department of History, BB Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India (March 27-28 ,2014) Indian Buddhism in Its Social Context: From Sakyamuni Buddha to the Present. ******************************************************************** In a significant section of Indian historiography, Buddhism is believed to be a world-negating soteriology of ?asocial? monks. It is also generally believed that beyond the monastic walls, it hardly had any social presence. When the Turkic invasions destroyed the big monastic centres of Indian Buddhism, Buddhism simply disappeared from the land of its birth. This approach fails to explain why a religion without any social relevance survived in India for more than fifteen hundred years and why it was reinvented, reformulated and adopted in the context of social reform movements in Colonial and Post-Colonial India. In contemporary India, we see that Buddhism has become an essential component of Dalit identity formulation, mobilisation and consolidation. That is another indication of the continuing social relevance of Buddhism in India. For long, study of ancient Indian Buddhist religious institutions has been dominated by art historical concerns only. A more pertinent approach may be to see them as important constituents of the overall societal matrix, as institutions in dynamic interaction with other societal institutions, acting and reacting with them, influencing them and getting influenced by them in turn. That is to say, Buddhist institutions must be visualised as social institutions, in dynamic interaction with other societal institutions. Unfortunately, Indian Buddhism has not been studied much from this perspective. This Conference hopes to be an endeavour in unravelling some aspects of the patterns of interactions between Buddhism (including Buddhist institutions) and other social institutions in India from Sakyamuni Buddha to the present. Papers are invited on the following themes: 1. Defining the ?self ?, defining the ?other?: Did Indian Buddhism (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana) had any notion of self? Or did it consider itself just as a soteriology for the world-renouncing monks? If it had some definite notions of the ?self?, how did it negotiate ?other? or ?others?? And what did it do nurture and cultivate the ?self?? Did the Buddhist ?self? include the lay followers? That brings us to assess the relationship between the Buddhist Sangha and the laity. 2. Buddhism was one of the earliest world religions, yet it has developed remarkable local colours across the vast landmass of Asia. This ?localization? process, what has been earlier referred to as ?translation in the local idiom?, has been well documented in the case of many Asian countries, but it has barely begun for India. Future researches on the functional dimensions of Indian monastic Buddhism may negotiate one core issue: how does the Sa?gha localize at a particular place by resolving what Richard Cohen calls ?uniquely local problems?, yet retain its supra-local character? To analyse the twists and turns of this supralocal?local dialectic, shifting the focus away from the ?rya- caturdi?a-bhik?u-sa?gha, (?Universal) Noble Sa?gha of the Four Quarters? to the individual monastery in its spatial context may not be a bad idea. This will naturally entail a greater use of archaeological data and archaeological fieldwork. This approach forces us to revisit many established notions regarding the social bases of patronage to Indian Buddhism and Buddhist institutions. How did the monastic tradition localise at a particular place? How did it try to negotiate the local socio-economic, political and cultic situations? Once a Buddhist monastery or a stupa established its presence at a particular site, how did it mobilise resources for its survival? Which section of society patronised Buddhism and Buddhist institutions? With what motives? What did the Buddhist Sangha provide in return to its patrons? Are there spatial variations in the patterns of interactions between the Sangha and its patrons as one moves out of the middle and upper Ganga valley? How did Buddhist institutions survive without any kind of royal patronage in many cases? 3. Ancient Indian Buddhism and social hierarchies (Varna/Jati/ gender) 4. Patterns of interaction between Ancient Indian Buddhism and Indian political orders and processes. 5. Ancient Indian Buddhism and economic processes: craft production, trade, urbanisation, agriculture. 6. Buddhism and medicine in ancient India: textual and archaeological perspectives. 7. Socio-economic contexts of ancient Indian Buddhist art and architecture. 8. Archaeology and the reconstruction of social and economic history of ancient Indian Buddhism. 9. Role of pilgrimage in Indian Buddhism: textual, epigraphic and archaeological perspectives. 10. The social and economic philosophy of ancient Indian Buddhism 11. Buddhism and Environment 12. Decline of Indian Buddhism: socio-economic factors. 13. The social dimensions of Buddhist revival movements in colonial, post-colonial and contemporary India. In this section, we are particularly interested in tracing the interface between the Dalit and backward castes identity movements and Buddhist revival movements. Why and how was Buddhism appropriated and reformulated by the Ambedkarite Dalits? What are the ideological and institutional aspects of Buddhist revival movements in post-Colonial and contemporary India? Do we see any variation in the patterns of Buddhist revival movements in different parts of India? 14. Any other theme related to the social dimensions of Indian Buddhism. Paper submission The length of your paper should be around ten thousand words. It should contain a short abstract and four or five key words. In the end, provide a detailed bibliography. Abstracts should be sent latest by 15th March, 2014. All abstracts and full papers shall be reviewed. You will be extended a formal invitation if your paper proposal is finally accepted. We intend to invite around 30 scholars from different parts of India and abroad. We will like to ensure that papers cover all parts of India (including Pakistan and Bangladesh). Each scholar will be given 20 minutes to present his/her paper. That shall be followed by a discussion for 15 minutes. Within 4 months of the date of the Conference, you will be required to submit the final copy of your paper. It is our intention to publish the selected papers from the Conference in the form of a book. Accommodation If your paper is accepted, we will provide local hospitality and accommodation for the Conference period to all outstation delegates. Travelling allowance If your paper proposal is accepted, we will provide 3AC rail fare for all Indian delegates and economy class return airfare to international delegates. We will not be able to reimburse Visa expenses. No DA will be provided. Correspondence Kindly direct all correspondence to either Prof. S.Victor Babu (Head of the Department of History, BBAU , Lucknow . Email : saragandlavb at gmail.com) or to Birendra Nath Prasad, Assistant Professor, History Deptt , BBAU , Lucknow . Email: bp2628 at yahoo.com ). In your email, kindly do mention your contact number and institutional affiliation. -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 3/10/14, indology-request at list.indology.info wrote: Subject: INDOLOGY Digest, Vol 14, Issue 10 To: indology at list.indology.info Date: Monday, March 10, 2014, 9:30 PM Send INDOLOGY mailing list submissions to ??? indology at list.indology.info To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit ??? http://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology_list.indology.info or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ??? indology-request at list.indology.info You can reach the person managing the list at ??? indology-owner at list.indology.info When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of INDOLOGY digest..." Today's Topics: ???1. Meter identifying tool --- The actual usage and funcrion??? of ? ? ? metres (Michael Hahn) ???2. Dhauli Elephant (Artur Karp) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 17:05:21 +0100 From: Michael Hahn To: indology at list.indology.info Subject: [INDOLOGY] Meter identifying tool --- The actual usage and ??? funcrion??? of metres Message-ID: <20140309170519.09C3.CF0E9E7 at t-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Many thanks to Prof. Kulkarni's hint of the valuable meter identifying tool, which greatly facilitates the task of the inexperienced student. In this connection I would like to mention my observations regarding the actual use of metres in classical Sanskrit literature. There are two comprehensive collections and statistics of metres occurring in Sanskrit literature: one by K?hnau (based on Stenzler's collections), one by H. D. Velankar. For the bibliographical details see my paper A030 on www.academia.edu. From these papers we can see that not many more than 100 metres do actually occur in serious Sanskrit texts (the higher figure is some 130 metres). These 100 metres can roughly be divided into two halves of 50 each with 50 of them being used very, very rarely. The remaining 50 metres can again be split into two halves of 25 comparatively rare metres and 25 frequently used metres which every student of Sanskrit literature should know. They are the content of page 6 of my "Brief introduction ..." These figures contrast highly with what theory teaches. The most comprehensive index of Sanskrit and Prakrit metres that can be found in H. D. Velankar's (a really great scholar and metrician) wonderful edition of Hemacandra's Chandonusasana lists about 1,000 different meters. However, it is absolutely useless and superfluous to study all of them if only one tenth of them does actually occur. It does not mean anything if a would-be poet takes one of the additional metres from a chandahsastra and uses it only to show his erudition, if nobody else knows his particular metre. As Ashwini Deo has convincingly shown in her ground-breaking paper on Sanskrit metrics, it is very unlikely for any literature to actively use such a great variety of metres. Even the 100 (130) metres listed by K?hnau and Velankar are not really different metres, but can be reduced to a much smaller number of basic pattens and their variations, as are Indravajra, Upendravajra and Upajati, Vamsastha, Indravamsa ind Vamsamala, Salini and Vaisvadevi, the four Vaitaliya and Aupacchandasaka off-shoots etc. etc. By the way, in the 1,130 stanzas of his Kapphinabhyudaya the poet Sivasvamin uses 43 different metres, which is the highest number of metres in a classical work (from the first millenium) I know of. Practically all of them belong to my "50 not extremely rare metres" category; see my edition, Delhi 2013. The Buddhist authors Aryasura, Haribhatta, Gopadatta use not more than 30 metres in their campu poems. The 150 metres in Jnanasrimitras Vrttamalastuti do not mean anything because they only serve as illustrations of theory. In sharp contrast with the predilections of the Indian metricians for the increase of the number of metres and the invention of ever new varieties stands their neglect of, or silence about, some of the basic laws.of Indian metrics that every body knew and followed but nobody ever included in the sastras. Pingala teaches four varieties of vipulas for the sloka (anustubh, vaktra) metre: bhrau ntau, i.e. bh, ra, na, and ta vipula. This might habe been valid for his time. Until the 11th century CE no one seems to have noticed that the ta vipula is virtually non-existing in classical Sanskrit literature whereas another vipula, the ma-vipula, is actually the most specific and most frequently used among them. Ratnakarasanti is the first to reluctantly acknowledge it: d.r.s.taa makaare.naapy eva.m Moreover, Indian metricians confined themselves only to the description of the syllables 5, 6, and 7 of the quarter, remaining tacits about the generally fixed structure of the preceding ga.na. It was left to Western scholars on the 19th century to formulate thosee laws that the Indian poets intuitively knew and followed already 2000 years earlier. The point of my remarks is that the metrical theory as represented by the chandahsastras is one thing and the actual practice of the poets something quite different. I would like to encourage a deeper research on the practical side (as done in an exmplary manner by Ashwini Deo, on a high theoretical analytical level) and to devote more energy to the as yet only unsufficiently explored question, what the different metres meant for Indian poets, what they regarded as their specific functions. Ksemendra in his Suvrttatilaka is by far too superficial. I have written about this topic but unfortunately mostly in German. Michael Hahn --- Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn Ritterstr. 14 D-35287 Amoeneburg Tel. +49-6422-938963 Fax: +49-6422-938967 E-mail: hahn.m at t-online.de URL: staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~hahnm ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 17:28:16 +0100 From: Artur Karp To: Indology Subject: [INDOLOGY] Dhauli Elephant Message-ID: ??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sorry for X-posting --- Dear List, Does someone know the source of this pen ink drawing? http://www.safarmer.com/Dhauli.elephant.jpg Thanks in advance, Artur Karp From ssandahl at sympatico.ca Tue Mar 11 08:54:45 2014 From: ssandahl at sympatico.ca (Stella Sandahl) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 14 04:54:45 -0400 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Call for papers : international Conference On Indian Buddhism in Its Social Context In-Reply-To: <1394517102.87586.YahooMailBasic@web121902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear Birendra Nath, If this conference takes place March 27-28, 2014, i.e. in about two weeks, it seems a bit late to call for papers! Best Stella Stella Sandahl ssandahl at sympatico.ca On 2014-03-11, at 1:51 AM, Birendra Nath Prasad wrote: > Concept Note for an International Conference to be organised by the Department of History, BB Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India (March 27-28 ,2014) > Indian Buddhism in Its Social Context: From Sakyamuni Buddha to the Present. > ******************************************************************** > In a significant section of Indian historiography, Buddhism is believed to be a world-negating soteriology of ?asocial? monks. It is also generally believed that beyond the monastic walls, it hardly had any social presence. When the Turkic invasions destroyed the big monastic centres of Indian Buddhism, Buddhism simply disappeared from the land of its birth. This approach fails to explain why a religion without any social relevance survived in India for more than fifteen hundred years and why it was reinvented, reformulated and adopted in the context of social reform movements in Colonial and Post-Colonial India. In contemporary India, we see that Buddhism has become an essential component of Dalit identity formulation, mobilisation and consolidation. That is another indication of the continuing social relevance of Buddhism in India. > For long, study of ancient Indian Buddhist religious institutions has been dominated by art historical concerns only. A more pertinent approach may be to see them as important constituents of the overall societal matrix, as institutions in dynamic interaction with other societal institutions, acting and reacting with them, influencing them and getting influenced by them in turn. That is to say, Buddhist institutions must be visualised as social institutions, in dynamic interaction with other societal institutions. Unfortunately, Indian Buddhism has not been studied much from this perspective. > This Conference hopes to be an endeavour in unravelling some aspects of the patterns of interactions between Buddhism (including Buddhist institutions) and other social institutions in India from Sakyamuni Buddha to the present. Papers are invited on the following themes: > 1. Defining the ?self ?, defining the ?other?: Did Indian Buddhism (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana) had any notion of self? Or did it consider itself just as a soteriology for the world-renouncing monks? If it had some definite notions of the ?self?, how did it negotiate ?other? or ?others?? And what did it do nurture and cultivate the ?self?? Did the Buddhist ?self? include the lay followers? That brings us to assess the relationship between the Buddhist Sangha and the laity. > 2. Buddhism was one of the earliest world religions, yet it has developed remarkable local colours across the vast landmass of Asia. This ?localization? process, what has been earlier referred to as ?translation in the local idiom?, has been well documented in the case of many Asian countries, but it has barely begun for India. Future researches on the functional dimensions of Indian monastic Buddhism may negotiate one core issue: how does the Sa?gha localize at a particular place by resolving what Richard Cohen calls ?uniquely local problems?, yet retain its supra-local character? To analyse the twists and turns of this supralocal?local dialectic, shifting the focus away from the ?rya- caturdi?a-bhik?u-sa?gha, (?Universal) Noble Sa?gha of the Four Quarters? to the individual monastery in its spatial context may not be a bad idea. This will naturally entail a greater use of archaeological data and archaeological fieldwork. > This approach forces us to revisit many established notions regarding the social bases of patronage to Indian Buddhism and Buddhist institutions. How did the monastic tradition localise at a particular place? How did it try to negotiate the local socio-economic, political and cultic situations? Once a Buddhist monastery or a stupa established its presence at a particular site, how did it mobilise resources for its survival? Which section of society patronised Buddhism and Buddhist institutions? With what motives? What did the Buddhist Sangha provide in return to its patrons? Are there spatial variations in the patterns of interactions between the Sangha and its patrons as one moves out of the middle and upper Ganga valley? How did Buddhist institutions survive without any kind of royal patronage in many cases? > 3. Ancient Indian Buddhism and social hierarchies (Varna/Jati/ gender) > 4. Patterns of interaction between Ancient Indian Buddhism and Indian political orders and processes. > 5. Ancient Indian Buddhism and economic processes: craft production, trade, urbanisation, agriculture. > 6. Buddhism and medicine in ancient India: textual and archaeological perspectives. > 7. Socio-economic contexts of ancient Indian Buddhist art and architecture. > 8. Archaeology and the reconstruction of social and economic history of ancient Indian Buddhism. > 9. Role of pilgrimage in Indian Buddhism: textual, epigraphic and archaeological perspectives. > 10. The social and economic philosophy of ancient Indian Buddhism > 11. Buddhism and Environment > 12. Decline of Indian Buddhism: socio-economic factors. > 13. The social dimensions of Buddhist revival movements in colonial, post-colonial and contemporary India. > In this section, we are particularly interested in tracing the interface between the Dalit and backward castes identity movements and Buddhist revival movements. Why and how was Buddhism appropriated and reformulated by the Ambedkarite Dalits? What are the ideological and institutional aspects of Buddhist revival movements in post-Colonial and contemporary India? Do we see any variation in the patterns of Buddhist revival movements in different parts of India? > 14. Any other theme related to the social dimensions of Indian Buddhism. > > Paper submission > The length of your paper should be around ten thousand words. It should contain a short abstract and four or five key words. In the end, provide a detailed bibliography. Abstracts should be sent latest by 15th March, 2014. All abstracts and full papers shall be reviewed. You will be extended a formal invitation if your paper proposal is finally accepted. > We intend to invite around 30 scholars from different parts of India and abroad. We will like to ensure that papers cover all parts of India (including Pakistan and Bangladesh). Each scholar will be given 20 minutes to present his/her paper. That shall be followed by a discussion for 15 minutes. > Within 4 months of the date of the Conference, you will be required to submit the final copy of your paper. It is our intention to publish the selected papers from the Conference in the form of a book. > Accommodation > If your paper is accepted, we will provide local hospitality and accommodation for the Conference period to all outstation delegates. > Travelling allowance > If your paper proposal is accepted, we will provide 3AC rail fare for all Indian delegates and economy class return airfare to international delegates. We will not be able to reimburse Visa expenses. No DA will be provided. > Correspondence > Kindly direct all correspondence to either Prof. S.Victor Babu (Head of the Department of History, BBAU , Lucknow . Email : saragandlavb at gmail.com) or to Birendra Nath Prasad, Assistant Professor, History Deptt , BBAU , Lucknow . Email: bp2628 at yahoo.com ). In your email, kindly do mention your contact number and institutional affiliation. > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 3/10/14, indology-request at list.indology.info wrote: > > Subject: INDOLOGY Digest, Vol 14, Issue 10 > To: indology at list.indology.info > Date: Monday, March 10, 2014, 9:30 PM > > Send INDOLOGY mailing list > submissions to > indology at list.indology.info > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology_list.indology.info > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' > to > indology-request at list.indology.info > > You can reach the person managing the list at > indology-owner at list.indology.info > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more > specific > than "Re: Contents of INDOLOGY digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Meter identifying tool --- The actual > usage and funcrion of > metres (Michael Hahn) > 2. Dhauli Elephant (Artur Karp) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 17:05:21 +0100 > From: Michael Hahn > To: indology at list.indology.info > Subject: [INDOLOGY] Meter identifying tool --- The actual > usage and > funcrion of metres > Message-ID: <20140309170519.09C3.CF0E9E7 at t-online.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Many thanks to Prof. Kulkarni's hint of the valuable meter > identifying > tool, which greatly facilitates the task of the > inexperienced student. In > this connection I would like to mention my observations > regarding the > actual use of metres in classical Sanskrit literature. > > There are two comprehensive collections and statistics of > metres > occurring in Sanskrit literature: one by K?hnau (based on > Stenzler's > collections), one by H. D. Velankar. For the bibliographical > details see > my paper A030 on www.academia.edu. From these papers we can > see that not > many more than 100 metres do actually occur in serious > Sanskrit texts > (the higher figure is some 130 metres). These 100 metres can > roughly > be divided into two halves of 50 each with 50 of them being > used very, > very rarely. The remaining 50 metres can again be split into > two halves > of 25 comparatively rare metres and 25 frequently used > metres which > every student of Sanskrit literature should know. They are > the content > of page 6 of my "Brief introduction ..." > > These figures contrast highly with what theory teaches. The > most > comprehensive index of Sanskrit and Prakrit metres that can > be found in > H. D. Velankar's (a really great scholar and metrician) > wonderful > edition of Hemacandra's Chandonusasana lists about 1,000 > different > meters. However, it is absolutely useless and superfluous to > study all > of them if only one tenth of them does actually occur. It > does not mean > anything if a would-be poet takes one of the additional > metres from a > chandahsastra and uses it only to show his erudition, if > nobody else > knows his particular metre. As Ashwini Deo has convincingly > shown in her > ground-breaking paper on Sanskrit metrics, it is very > unlikely for any > literature to actively use such a great variety of metres. > Even the 100 > (130) metres listed by K?hnau and Velankar are not really > different > metres, but can be reduced to a much smaller number of basic > pattens and > their variations, as are Indravajra, Upendravajra and > Upajati, Vamsastha, > Indravamsa ind Vamsamala, Salini and Vaisvadevi, the four > Vaitaliya and > Aupacchandasaka off-shoots etc. etc. By the way, in the > 1,130 stanzas of > his Kapphinabhyudaya the poet Sivasvamin uses 43 different > metres, which > is the highest number of metres in a classical work (from > the first > millenium) I know of. Practically all of them belong to my > "50 not > extremely rare metres" category; see my edition, Delhi 2013. > The > Buddhist authors Aryasura, Haribhatta, Gopadatta use not > more than 30 > metres in their campu poems. The 150 metres in > Jnanasrimitras > Vrttamalastuti do not mean anything because they only serve > as > illustrations of theory. > > In sharp contrast with the predilections of the Indian > metricians for > the increase of the number of metres and the invention of > ever new > varieties stands their neglect of, or silence about, some of > the basic > laws.of Indian metrics that every body knew and followed but > nobody > ever included in the sastras. Pingala teaches four varieties > of vipulas > for the sloka (anustubh, vaktra) metre: bhrau ntau, i.e. bh, > ra, na, and > ta vipula. This might habe been valid for his time. Until > the 11th > century CE no one seems to have noticed that the ta vipula > is virtually > non-existing in classical Sanskrit literature whereas > another vipula, > the ma-vipula, is actually the most specific and most > frequently used > among them. Ratnakarasanti is the first to reluctantly > acknowledge it: > d.r.s.taa makaare.naapy eva.m > > Moreover, Indian metricians confined themselves only to the > description > of the syllables 5, 6, and 7 of the quarter, remaining > tacits about the > generally fixed structure of the preceding ga.na. It was > left to Western > scholars on the 19th century to formulate thosee laws that > the Indian > poets intuitively knew and followed already 2000 years > earlier. > > The point of my remarks is that the metrical theory as > represented by > the chandahsastras is one thing and the actual practice of > the poets > something quite different. I would like to encourage a > deeper research > on the practical side (as done in an exmplary manner by > Ashwini Deo, on > a high theoretical analytical level) and to devote more > energy to the as > yet only unsufficiently explored question, what the > different metres > meant for Indian poets, what they regarded as their specific > functions. > Ksemendra in his Suvrttatilaka is by far too superficial. I > have written > about this topic but unfortunately mostly in German. > > Michael Hahn > > --- > Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn > Ritterstr. 14 > D-35287 Amoeneburg > Tel. +49-6422-938963 > Fax: +49-6422-938967 > E-mail: hahn.m at t-online.de > URL: staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~hahnm > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 17:28:16 +0100 > From: Artur Karp > To: Indology > Subject: [INDOLOGY] Dhauli Elephant > Message-ID: > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Sorry for X-posting --- > > Dear List, > > Does someone know the source of this pen ink drawing? > > > http://www.safarmer.com/Dhauli.elephant.jpg > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Artur Karp > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From v.a.van.bijlert at vu.nl Tue Mar 11 09:22:56 2014 From: v.a.van.bijlert at vu.nl (Bijlert, V.A. van) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 14 09:22:56 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Call for papers : international Conference On Indian Buddhism in Its Social Context In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <190jae5vrb0xelgmr6yf5hq1.1394529768173@email.android.com> Precisely my view Victor van Bijlert Verzonden vanaf Samsung Mobile -------- Oorspronkelijk bericht -------- Van: Stella Sandahl Datum: 11-03-2014 09:55 (GMT+01:00) Aan: Birendra Nath Prasad Cc: indology at list.indology.info Onderwerp: Re: [INDOLOGY] Call for papers : international Conference On Indian Buddhism in Its Social Context Dear Birendra Nath, If this conference takes place March 27-28, 2014, i.e. in about two weeks, it seems a bit late to call for papers! Best Stella Stella Sandahl ssandahl at sympatico.ca On 2014-03-11, at 1:51 AM, Birendra Nath Prasad wrote: Concept Note for an International Conference to be organised by the Department of History, BB Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India (March 27-28 ,2014) Indian Buddhism in Its Social Context: From Sakyamuni Buddha to the Present. ******************************************************************** In a significant section of Indian historiography, Buddhism is believed to be a world-negating soteriology of ?asocial? monks. It is also generally believed that beyond the monastic walls, it hardly had any social presence. When the Turkic invasions destroyed the big monastic centres of Indian Buddhism, Buddhism simply disappeared from the land of its birth. This approach fails to explain why a religion without any social relevance survived in India for more than fifteen hundred years and why it was reinvented, reformulated and adopted in the context of social reform movements in Colonial and Post-Colonial India. In contemporary India, we see that Buddhism has become an essential component of Dalit identity formulation, mobilisation and consolidation. That is another indication of the continuing social relevance of Buddhism in India. For long, study of ancient Indian Buddhist religious institutions has been dominated by art historical concerns only. A more pertinent approach may be to see them as important constituents of the overall societal matrix, as institutions in dynamic interaction with other societal institutions, acting and reacting with them, influencing them and getting influenced by them in turn. That is to say, Buddhist institutions must be visualised as social institutions, in dynamic interaction with other societal institutions. Unfortunately, Indian Buddhism has not been studied much from this perspective. This Conference hopes to be an endeavour in unravelling some aspects of the patterns of interactions between Buddhism (including Buddhist institutions) and other social institutions in India from Sakyamuni Buddha to the present. Papers are invited on the following themes: 1. Defining the ?self ?, defining the ?other?: Did Indian Buddhism (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana) had any notion of self? Or did it consider itself just as a soteriology for the world-renouncing monks? If it had some definite notions of the ?self?, how did it negotiate ?other? or ?others?? And what did it do nurture and cultivate the ?self?? Did the Buddhist ?self? include the lay followers? That brings us to assess the relationship between the Buddhist Sangha and the laity. 2. Buddhism was one of the earliest world religions, yet it has developed remarkable local colours across the vast landmass of Asia. This ?localization? process, what has been earlier referred to as ?translation in the local idiom?, has been well documented in the case of many Asian countries, but it has barely begun for India. Future researches on the functional dimensions of Indian monastic Buddhism may negotiate one core issue: how does the Sa?gha localize at a particular place by resolving what Richard Cohen calls ?uniquely local problems?, yet retain its supra-local character? To analyse the twists and turns of this supralocal?local dialectic, shifting the focus away from the ?rya- caturdi?a-bhik?u-sa?gha, (?Universal) Noble Sa?gha of the Four Quarters? to the individual monastery in its spatial context may not be a bad idea. This will naturally entail a greater use of archaeological data and archaeological fieldwork. This approach forces us to revisit many established notions regarding the social bases of patronage to Indian Buddhism and Buddhist institutions. How did the monastic tradition localise at a particular place? How did it try to negotiate the local socio-economic, political and cultic situations? Once a Buddhist monastery or a stupa established its presence at a particular site, how did it mobilise resources for its survival? Which section of society patronised Buddhism and Buddhist institutions? With what motives? What did the Buddhist Sangha provide in return to its patrons? Are there spatial variations in the patterns of interactions between the Sangha and its patrons as one moves out of the middle and upper Ganga valley? How did Buddhist institutions survive without any kind of royal patronage in many cases? 3. Ancient Indian Buddhism and social hierarchies (Varna/Jati/ gender) 4. Patterns of interaction between Ancient Indian Buddhism and Indian political orders and processes. 5. Ancient Indian Buddhism and economic processes: craft production, trade, urbanisation, agriculture. 6. Buddhism and medicine in ancient India: textual and archaeological perspectives. 7. Socio-economic contexts of ancient Indian Buddhist art and architecture. 8. Archaeology and the reconstruction of social and economic history of ancient Indian Buddhism. 9. Role of pilgrimage in Indian Buddhism: textual, epigraphic and archaeological perspectives. 10. The social and economic philosophy of ancient Indian Buddhism 11. Buddhism and Environment 12. Decline of Indian Buddhism: socio-economic factors. 13. The social dimensions of Buddhist revival movements in colonial, post-colonial and contemporary India. In this section, we are particularly interested in tracing the interface between the Dalit and backward castes identity movements and Buddhist revival movements. Why and how was Buddhism appropriated and reformulated by the Ambedkarite Dalits? What are the ideological and institutional aspects of Buddhist revival movements in post-Colonial and contemporary India? Do we see any variation in the patterns of Buddhist revival movements in different parts of India? 14. Any other theme related to the social dimensions of Indian Buddhism. Paper submission The length of your paper should be around ten thousand words. It should contain a short abstract and four or five key words. In the end, provide a detailed bibliography. Abstracts should be sent latest by 15th March, 2014. All abstracts and full papers shall be reviewed. You will be extended a formal invitation if your paper proposal is finally accepted. We intend to invite around 30 scholars from different parts of India and abroad. We will like to ensure that papers cover all parts of India (including Pakistan and Bangladesh). Each scholar will be given 20 minutes to present his/her paper. That shall be followed by a discussion for 15 minutes. Within 4 months of the date of the Conference, you will be required to submit the final copy of your paper. It is our intention to publish the selected papers from the Conference in the form of a book. Accommodation If your paper is accepted, we will provide local hospitality and accommodation for the Conference period to all outstation delegates. Travelling allowance If your paper proposal is accepted, we will provide 3AC rail fare for all Indian delegates and economy class return airfare to international delegates. We will not be able to reimburse Visa expenses. No DA will be provided. Correspondence Kindly direct all correspondence to either Prof. S.Victor Babu (Head of the Department of History, BBAU , Lucknow . Email : saragandlavb at gmail.com) or to Birendra Nath Prasad, Assistant Professor, History Deptt , BBAU , Lucknow . Email: bp2628 at yahoo.com ). In your email, kindly do mention your contact number and institutional affiliation. -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 3/10/14, indology-request at list.indology.info > wrote: Subject: INDOLOGY Digest, Vol 14, Issue 10 To: indology at list.indology.info Date: Monday, March 10, 2014, 9:30 PM Send INDOLOGY mailing list submissions to indology at list.indology.info To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology_list.indology.info or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to indology-request at list.indology.info You can reach the person managing the list at indology-owner at list.indology.info When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of INDOLOGY digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Meter identifying tool --- The actual usage and funcrion of metres (Michael Hahn) 2. Dhauli Elephant (Artur Karp) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 17:05:21 +0100 From: Michael Hahn > To: indology at list.indology.info Subject: [INDOLOGY] Meter identifying tool --- The actual usage and funcrion of metres Message-ID: <20140309170519.09C3.CF0E9E7 at t-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Many thanks to Prof. Kulkarni's hint of the valuable meter identifying tool, which greatly facilitates the task of the inexperienced student. In this connection I would like to mention my observations regarding the actual use of metres in classical Sanskrit literature. There are two comprehensive collections and statistics of metres occurring in Sanskrit literature: one by K?hnau (based on Stenzler's collections), one by H. D. Velankar. For the bibliographical details see my paper A030 on www.academia.edu. From these papers we can see that not many more than 100 metres do actually occur in serious Sanskrit texts (the higher figure is some 130 metres). These 100 metres can roughly be divided into two halves of 50 each with 50 of them being used very, very rarely. The remaining 50 metres can again be split into two halves of 25 comparatively rare metres and 25 frequently used metres which every student of Sanskrit literature should know. They are the content of page 6 of my "Brief introduction ..." These figures contrast highly with what theory teaches. The most comprehensive index of Sanskrit and Prakrit metres that can be found in H. D. Velankar's (a really great scholar and metrician) wonderful edition of Hemacandra's Chandonusasana lists about 1,000 different meters. However, it is absolutely useless and superfluous to study all of them if only one tenth of them does actually occur. It does not mean anything if a would-be poet takes one of the additional metres from a chandahsastra and uses it only to show his erudition, if nobody else knows his particular metre. As Ashwini Deo has convincingly shown in her ground-breaking paper on Sanskrit metrics, it is very unlikely for any literature to actively use such a great variety of metres. Even the 100 (130) metres listed by K?hnau and Velankar are not really different metres, but can be reduced to a much smaller number of basic pattens and their variations, as are Indravajra, Upendravajra and Upajati, Vamsastha, Indravamsa ind Vamsamala, Salini and Vaisvadevi, the four Vaitaliya and Aupacchandasaka off-shoots etc. etc. By the way, in the 1,130 stanzas of his Kapphinabhyudaya the poet Sivasvamin uses 43 different metres, which is the highest number of metres in a classical work (from the first millenium) I know of. Practically all of them belong to my "50 not extremely rare metres" category; see my edition, Delhi 2013. The Buddhist authors Aryasura, Haribhatta, Gopadatta use not more than 30 metres in their campu poems. The 150 metres in Jnanasrimitras Vrttamalastuti do not mean anything because they only serve as illustrations of theory. In sharp contrast with the predilections of the Indian metricians for the increase of the number of metres and the invention of ever new varieties stands their neglect of, or silence about, some of the basic laws.of Indian metrics that every body knew and followed but nobody ever included in the sastras. Pingala teaches four varieties of vipulas for the sloka (anustubh, vaktra) metre: bhrau ntau, i.e. bh, ra, na, and ta vipula. This might habe been valid for his time. Until the 11th century CE no one seems to have noticed that the ta vipula is virtually non-existing in classical Sanskrit literature whereas another vipula, the ma-vipula, is actually the most specific and most frequently used among them. Ratnakarasanti is the first to reluctantly acknowledge it: d.r.s.taa makaare.naapy eva.m Moreover, Indian metricians confined themselves only to the description of the syllables 5, 6, and 7 of the quarter, remaining tacits about the generally fixed structure of the preceding ga.na. It was left to Western scholars on the 19th century to formulate thosee laws that the Indian poets intuitively knew and followed already 2000 years earlier. The point of my remarks is that the metrical theory as represented by the chandahsastras is one thing and the actual practice of the poets something quite different. I would like to encourage a deeper research on the practical side (as done in an exmplary manner by Ashwini Deo, on a high theoretical analytical level) and to devote more energy to the as yet only unsufficiently explored question, what the different metres meant for Indian poets, what they regarded as their specific functions. Ksemendra in his Suvrttatilaka is by far too superficial. I have written about this topic but unfortunately mostly in German. Michael Hahn --- Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn Ritterstr. 14 D-35287 Amoeneburg Tel. +49-6422-938963 Fax: +49-6422-938967 E-mail: hahn.m at t-online.de URL: staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~hahnm ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 17:28:16 +0100 From: Artur Karp > To: Indology > Subject: [INDOLOGY] Dhauli Elephant Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sorry for X-posting --- Dear List, Does someone know the source of this pen ink drawing? http://www.safarmer.com/Dhauli.elephant.jpg Thanks in advance, Artur Karp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dominik On 5 March 2014 22:56, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > A scholar whom Prof. Michael Hahn has been assisting is working on a Hindi > tr. of the Sanskrit Siddhas?ra by Ravigupta. Prof. Hahn is seeking a scan > of the English tr. that Emmerick did of the Tibetan version of that text > (i.e., vol.2). > I've looked in the usual places (Google, DLI, archive.org, scribd.com, > etc.), but drawn a blank. Does anyone here have a scan they would be > willing to share. It's the English tr. only that's needed. > > With thanks, > Dominik Wujastyk > > > -- > Dr Dominik Wujastyk > Department of South Asia, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies > , > University of Vienna > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Research articles are expected to be about 8?12 pages (counting ca. 400?450 words/3000?3200 characters per standard page), but works of differing length are also accepted. Preliminary enquiries should be made concerning articles of much greater length. Reviews are expected to be about 2?3 pages in length, but if justifiable (in the case of significant, or problematic works) longer submissions are accepted. Deadline Works to be published in the first volume (containing issues 1?4) are expected until 31st July 2014, but (in respect of the summer holidays) authors are requested to post articles by 30thJune 2014?to ease the process of peer-review. More about submissions and policies here. Submission e-mails To avoid the misplacement of articles please address all works directly to the Editor-in-chief and send a copy to the Editorial Assistant as well. If you wish you are welcome to discuss with me the submission of your article before sending it to the editor-in-chief. 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His popular writings enjoyed a wide readership and acclaim. His public lectures were sell-out events. He was a prominent figure in the popularisation of evolutionary thinking before Darwin. His theories regarding the origins and development of language served to create a public fascination with the past, with legend and with myth. His public role in the contexts of imperialism and British understanding of the cultures of the Indian subcontinent brought him notoriety. Good-looking, witty and gifted, Max Mueller was, for many outside academe, the embodiment of the German Professor and a forerunner of todays media-savvy academic. Max Mueller's scholarship is often seen as an important contribution to Victorian knowledge. When studied today, Max Muellers works offer remarkable insights into the preoccupations and parameters of Victorian intellectual life. His translation of ancient Sanskrit scripts was inherently ground-breaking and monumental. His work was absorbed not just by academics but also by an influential cross-section of the Victorian elite. His findings helped raise the profile of so-called Oriental cultures in Britain, as well as inspiring interest in philology, a discipline that enjoyed a peculiar popularity and strategic position in Victorian Britain. Max Muellers contribution to the development of philology intellectually and through personal intervention was significant. Yet his influence can only be understood through an interdisciplinary lens. Philology intersected with theology and with the academic study of religion, key areas of sensitive importance in Victorian Britain. It also overlapped with literary scholarship, philosophy, anthropology, and evolutionary thinking in the natural sciences. The first President of the English Goethe Society, Max Mueller actively fostered interdisciplinary discourse. Seen broadly, his scholarship made an important contribution to the dissemination of German-style historicism in Victorian intellectual life. Historically, Max Mueller's personal life is highly significant. Through his father, the Romantic poet Wilhelm Mueller, and through his studies Max Mueller was on personal terms with the leading German intellectuals of the time. Identified by the Prussian Ambassador, Bunsen, as an important catalyst of intellectual exchange, Max Mueller came to occupy a position of significance in Anglo-German cultural relations and Victorian life in general, even if his position as a German-born Professor at Oxford carried with it challenges of integration and cultural acceptance. He corresponded widely with prominent and important figures, including Charles Darwin and William Gladstone, and became a favourite guest of Queen Victoria. He was related by marriage to both J.A. Froude and Charles Kingsley. His scholarship and public engagement in imperial matters extended his impact abroad. His high profile campaigning for better understanding of Indian culture in Europe has left its mark: Goethe Institutes in India today are known as Max Mueller Bhavan. Despite being credited with significance in many fields of Victorian intellectual and public life, Max Muellers life and work have not been subjected to sufficient scholarly attention. The relatively recent biography by Lourens P. van den Bosch (Friedrich Max Mueller: A Life Devoted to the Humanities, 2002) has provided an excellent overview that should now enable more detailed evaluations of Max Mueller's contributions to many facets of intellectual life. By necessity, such evaluations must be biographical, historical and interdisciplinary. The proposed conference will therefore bring together academics from a range of disciplines. It seeks to recapture, and evaluate comprehensively and rigorously, Friedrich Max Muellers significance personally, intellectually, and publicly. CONFERENCE PANELS: Contributions are sought relating to the following provisional panel themes: *Introduction* Biography; political and intellectual context; research questions; *Philology* Max Mueller's position within philology; Max Mueller and philology as a discipline in Britain in the nineteenth century; *Religion* Max Muelle's religious position; his influence upon Victorian religious discourse and his founding of religious studies as an academic discipline in the United Kingdom; *Evolution* Max Mueller and nineteenth-century thinking on evolution; Max Mueller and Darwin; *Anthropology* Max Mueller's influence upon nineteenth-century anthropology; *Myths* Max Mueller's influence on the theory of myth; *Translation and Sanskrit Studies* Max Mueller and the craft of the translator; Max Mllers impact on Sanskrit research in Britain and internationally; *Imperialism* Max Mueller's engagement with British imperialism and imperial policy; Max Mueller and the history of British imperialism in India; Max Mueller in relation to current debates about imperialism, intercultural relations and interreligious dialogue. DISSEMINATION: The conference proceedings will be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal of the English Goethe Society (Publications of the English Goethe Society). CONVENORS: John R. Davis (Kingston University), Email: j.davis at kingston.ac.uk Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary University of London), Email: a.j.nicholls at qmul.ac.uk Abstracts of 500 words should be sent to either of the conference convenors by 30 April 2014. Dr. Angus Nicholls Dept of German Queen Mary University of London London UK, E1 4NS Phone: +44 207 882 2683 Email: a.j.nicholls at qmul.ac.uk H-Net reproduces announcements that have been submitted to us as a free service to the academic community. If you are interested in an announcement listed here, please contact the organizers or patrons directly. Though we strive to provide accurate information, H-Net (and H-ASIA)cannot accept responsibility for the text of announcements appearing in this service. 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Prepared by Alexander Cunningham Calcutta: Office of The Superintendent of Governmment Printing, 1877 Plate XXIX Best, Artur Karp 2014-03-09 17:28 GMT+01:00 Artur Karp : > Sorry for X-posting --- > > Dear List, > > Does someone know the source of this pen ink drawing? > > > http://www.safarmer.com/Dhauli.elephant.jpg > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Artur Karp > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karp at uw.edu.pl Wed Mar 12 14:33:25 2014 From: karp at uw.edu.pl (Artur Karp) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 14 15:33:25 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Kiran Kumar Thaplyal Message-ID: Dear List, again my apologies for cross-posting --- I urgently need to contact Dr. Kumar Kiran Thaplyal, Professor Emeritus, Department of Ancient Indian History and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Lucknow University. Could someone, please, send me his e-mail address? Thanks in advance and Regards, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I need the article by next week and so I am afraid to try to order it through the usual channels. Thanks, -j Joseph Walser Associate Professor Department of Religion Tufts University ________________________________________ From: INDOLOGY [indology-bounces at list.indology.info] on behalf of Michael Hahn [hahn.m at t-online.de] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 8:48 AM To: Indology Subject: [INDOLOGY] A brief introduction into the Indian metrical system for the use of students. Dear all (specially the instructors of Sanskrit) I would like to inform you that I have just uploaded to www.academia.edu a very modest paper (unpublished), "A brief introduction into the Indian metrical system for the use of students," that attempts at summarizing on just six pages the very essentials of classical Sanskrit metrics. On its last page you will find a list of the 25 most common Sanskrit metres that saves the student the trouble to go through the long list in Apte's dictionary. Several colleagues found this draft (originally prepared for classes at UC Berkeley) helpful. That is the reason why I have decided to make it generally accessible. Any criticism will be greatly appreciated. Michael Hahn --- Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn Ritterstr. 14 D-35287 Amoeneburg Tel. +49-6422-938963 Fax: +49-6422-938967 E-mail: hahn.m at t-online.de URL: staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~hahnm _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY at list.indology.info http://listinfo.indology.info From Joseph.Walser at tufts.edu Fri Mar 14 01:43:40 2014 From: Joseph.Walser at tufts.edu (Walser, Joseph) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 14 01:43:40 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Gerald Larson paper In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1B78E4F5-5F01-4E57-9178-13A061A1C907@tufts.edu> My thanks to Dominik Wujastyk for his speedy response. -j Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 13, 2014, at 2:31 PM, "Walser, Joseph" wrote: > > Does anyone out there have a copy of the following paper: > > Author: Larson, Gerald > Title: An Old Problem Revisited: The Relation between Samkhya, Yoga and Buddhism > Journal: Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik. vol 15 (1989) 129-146. > > It took 3 weeks for our Interlibrary loan department to send me the wrong pages. > I need the article by next week and so I am afraid to try to order it through the usual channels. > > Thanks, > -j > > > Joseph Walser > Associate Professor > Department of Religion > Tufts University > > ________________________________________ > From: INDOLOGY [indology-bounces at list.indology.info] on behalf of Michael Hahn [hahn.m at t-online.de] > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 8:48 AM > To: Indology > Subject: [INDOLOGY] A brief introduction into the Indian metrical system for the use of students. > > Dear all > (specially the instructors of Sanskrit) > > I would like to inform you that I have just uploaded to www.academia.edu > a very modest paper (unpublished), "A brief introduction into the Indian > metrical system for the use of students," that attempts at summarizing on > just six pages the very essentials of classical Sanskrit metrics. On its > last page you will find a list of the 25 most common Sanskrit metres > that saves the student the trouble to go through the long list in Apte's > dictionary. Several colleagues found this draft (originally prepared for > classes at UC Berkeley) helpful. That is the reason why I have decided > to make it generally accessible. Any criticism will be greatly appreciated. > > Michael Hahn > > > --- > Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn > Ritterstr. 14 > D-35287 Amoeneburg > Tel. +49-6422-938963 > Fax: +49-6422-938967 > E-mail: hahn.m at t-online.de > URL: staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~hahnm > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info From lmfosse at getmail.no Fri Mar 14 02:01:48 2014 From: lmfosse at getmail.no (Lars Martin Fosse) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 14 03:01:48 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Kalhana's Rajatarangini Message-ID: <009501cf3f29$5c4c7f80$14e57e80$@getmail.no> Dear members of the list! Do you know of any electronic edition of the Rajatarangini (or where I could obtain the Sanskrit text in book form). My internet searches have been all in vain. Best regards, Lars Martin Fosse Lars Martin Fosse, MNORFAG Mobile: +47 90919145 Haugerudvn. 76 E-mail1: lmfosse at getmail.no 0674 Oslo - Norway E-mail2: lmfosse at online.no Phone: +47 22321219 www.norfag.org Logo_NORFAG SDL_Trados_Studio_2011_landscape_narrow -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 969 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1726 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rajam at earthlink.net Fri Mar 14 02:30:21 2014 From: rajam at earthlink.net (rajam) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 14 19:30:21 -0700 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Ass Head of Ravana In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <28C45DE9-5C1E-40D0-8955-45537E0CC208@earthlink.net> Interesting information, indeed! Could I have access to the sculptural descriptions and pictures related to this information? Thanks and regards, Rajam On Mar 13, 2014, at 5:56 AM, Dr. Rupali Mokashi wrote: > Many sculptural depictions show the Ass Head as the tenth head of Ravava. What is the textual reference for this depiction? > Rupali Mokashi > http://rupalimokashi.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Re: Gerald Larson paper (Walser, Joseph) > 3. Kalhana's Rajatarangini (Lars Martin Fosse) > 4. Re: Ass Head of Ravana (rajam) > 5. Re: Ass Head of Ravana (Valerie J Roebuck) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:30:37 +0000 > From: "Walser, Joseph" > To: Indology > Subject: [INDOLOGY] Gerald Larson paper > Message-ID: > < > E5F571B94D36DB4AA048E0CF279CFC700FCB462B at SSVMEXDAG01MB01.tufts.ad.tufts.edu > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Does anyone out there have a copy of the following paper: > > Author: Larson, Gerald > Title: An Old Problem Revisited: The Relation between Samkhya, Yoga and > Buddhism > Journal: Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik. vol 15 (1989) 129-146. > > It took 3 weeks for our Interlibrary loan department to send me the wrong > pages. > I need the article by next week and so I am afraid to try to order it > through the usual channels. > > Thanks, > -j > > > Joseph Walser > Associate Professor > Department of Religion > Tufts University > > ________________________________________ > From: INDOLOGY [indology-bounces at list.indology.info] on behalf of Michael > Hahn [hahn.m at t-online.de] > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 8:48 AM > To: Indology > Subject: [INDOLOGY] A brief introduction into the Indian metrical system > for the use of students. > > Dear all > (specially the instructors of Sanskrit) > > I would like to inform you that I have just uploaded to www.academia.edu > a very modest paper (unpublished), "A brief introduction into the Indian > metrical system for the use of students," that attempts at summarizing on > just six pages the very essentials of classical Sanskrit metrics. On its > last page you will find a list of the 25 most common Sanskrit metres > that saves the student the trouble to go through the long list in Apte's > dictionary. Several colleagues found this draft (originally prepared for > classes at UC Berkeley) helpful. That is the reason why I have decided > to make it generally accessible. Any criticism will be greatly appreciated. > > Michael Hahn > > > --- > Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn > Ritterstr. 14 > D-35287 Amoeneburg > Tel. +49-6422-938963 > Fax: +49-6422-938967 > E-mail: hahn.m at t-online.de > URL: staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~hahnm > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 01:43:40 +0000 > From: "Walser, Joseph" > To: Indology > Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Gerald Larson paper > Message-ID: <1B78E4F5-5F01-4E57-9178-13A061A1C907 at tufts.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > My thanks to Dominik Wujastyk for his speedy response. > -j > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 13, 2014, at 2:31 PM, "Walser, Joseph" > wrote: > > > > Does anyone out there have a copy of the following paper: > > > > Author: Larson, Gerald > > Title: An Old Problem Revisited: The Relation between Samkhya, Yoga and > Buddhism > > Journal: Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik. vol 15 (1989) 129-146. > > > > It took 3 weeks for our Interlibrary loan department to send me the > wrong pages. > > I need the article by next week and so I am afraid to try to order it > through the usual channels. > > > > Thanks, > > -j > > > > > > Joseph Walser > > Associate Professor > > Department of Religion > > Tufts University > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: INDOLOGY [indology-bounces at list.indology.info] on behalf of > Michael Hahn [hahn.m at t-online.de] > > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 8:48 AM > > To: Indology > > Subject: [INDOLOGY] A brief introduction into the Indian metrical system > for the use of students. > > > > Dear all > > (specially the instructors of Sanskrit) > > > > I would like to inform you that I have just uploaded to www.academia.edu > > a very modest paper (unpublished), "A brief introduction into the Indian > > metrical system for the use of students," that attempts at summarizing on > > just six pages the very essentials of classical Sanskrit metrics. On its > > last page you will find a list of the 25 most common Sanskrit metres > > that saves the student the trouble to go through the long list in Apte's > > dictionary. Several colleagues found this draft (originally prepared for > > classes at UC Berkeley) helpful. That is the reason why I have decided > > to make it generally accessible. Any criticism will be greatly > appreciated. > > > > Michael Hahn > > > > > > --- > > Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn > > Ritterstr. 14 > > D-35287 Amoeneburg > > Tel. +49-6422-938963 > > Fax: +49-6422-938967 > > E-mail: hahn.m at t-online.de > > URL: staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~hahnm > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > INDOLOGY mailing list > > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > > http://listinfo.indology.info > > > > _______________________________________________ > > INDOLOGY mailing list > > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > > http://listinfo.indology.info > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:01:48 +0100 > From: "Lars Martin Fosse" > To: > Subject: [INDOLOGY] Kalhana's Rajatarangini > Message-ID: <009501cf3f29$5c4c7f80$14e57e80$@getmail.no> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dear members of the list! > > > > Do you know of any electronic edition of the Rajatarangini (or where I > could > obtain the Sanskrit text in book form). My internet searches have been all > in vain. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Lars Martin Fosse > > > > > > > > Lars Martin Fosse, MNORFAG Mobile: +47 90919145 > > Haugerudvn. 76 E-mail1: > lmfosse at getmail.no > > 0674 Oslo - Norway E-mail2: > lmfosse at online.no > > Phone: +47 22321219 www.norfag.org > > > Logo_NORFAG > SDL_Trados_Studio_2011_landscape_narrow > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: larson.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 867070 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Mary.Storm at sit.edu Sat Mar 15 03:42:38 2014 From: Mary.Storm at sit.edu (Mary Storm) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 14 03:42:38 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Syllabus Help! Message-ID: Dear Indologists, Greetings from New Delhi. I am the director of a study abroad program, focused on Indian art history, presently located in New Delhi. 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Stella Sandahl -- Stella Sandahl ssandahl at sympatico.ca On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: > Dear Indologists > > As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? > > I am happy to announce the publication of my book Head and Heart: Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India, published by Routledge in August 2013. > > My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. > > Mary Storm > > Mary Storm, Ph.D. > Academic Director > India: National Identity and the Arts > and > Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture > F 301 Lado Sarai > New Delhi > +91 98106 98003 > > > http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st > art > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Cover picture wonderful. > Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings. > Stella Sandahl > -- > Stella Sandahl > ssandahl at sympatico.ca > > > > On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: > >> Dear Indologists >> >> As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? >> >> I am happy to announce the publication of my book Head and Heart: Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India, published by Routledge in August 2013. >> >> My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. >> >> Mary Storm >> >> Mary Storm, Ph.D. >> Academic Director >> India: National Identity and the Arts >> and >> Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture >> F 301 Lado Sarai >> New Delhi >> +91 98106 98003 >> >> >> http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st >> art >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vjroebuck at btinternet.com Sat Mar 15 15:31:10 2014 From: vjroebuck at btinternet.com (Valerie J Roebuck) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 14 15:31:10 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] (no subject) In-Reply-To: <1745D722-4646-4BAE-8782-1D015F1951BA@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <947D9AD4-5716-4BBF-9580-56DC77332CC4@btinternet.com> Indeed, it appears she traditionally stands on a copulating couple (K?ma and Rati, usually with Rati on top). But a web search turned up a modern painting of her riding a lion (or lioness?): http://www.artoflegendindia.com/chinnamasta-devi-p-5070.html Valerie J Roebuck Manchester, UK On 15 Mar 2014, at 14:58, rajam wrote: > I do not know much about these things, but received a comment from a friend in India that "the Chinnamasta Devi does not have a lion for her vehicle.? > > May I know the source of the picture on the cover, so I can write to him and clear his doubt? (He is not a member of this group.) > > Thanks, > Rajam > > > On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Stella Sandahl wrote: > >> Congratulations! Cover picture wonderful. >> Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings. >> Stella Sandahl >> -- >> Stella Sandahl >> ssandahl at sympatico.ca >> >> >> >> On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: >> >>> Dear Indologists >>> >>> As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? >>> >>> I am happy to announce the publication of my book Head and Heart: Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India, published by Routledge in August 2013. >>> >>> My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. >>> >>> Mary Storm >>> >>> Mary Storm, Ph.D. >>> Academic Director >>> India: National Identity and the Arts >>> and >>> Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture >>> F 301 Lado Sarai >>> New Delhi >>> +91 98106 98003 >>> >>> >>> http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st >>> art >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But a web search turned up a modern painting of her riding a lion (or lioness?): http://www.artoflegendindia.com/chinnamasta-devi-p-5070.html >> >> Valerie J Roebuck >> Manchester, UK >> >> On 15 Mar 2014, at 14:58, rajam wrote: >> >>> I do not know much about tChinnamastase things, but received a comment from a friend in India that "the Chinnamasta Devi does not have a lion for her vehicle.? >>> >>> May I know the source of the picture on the cover, so I can write to him and clear his doubt? (He is not a member of this group.) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Rajam >>> >>> >>> On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Stella Sandahl wrote: >>> >>>> Congratulations! Cover picture wonderful. >>>> Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings. >>>> Stella Sandahl >>>> -- >>>> Stella Sandahl >>>> ssandahl at sympatico.ca >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear Indologists >>>>> >>>>> As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? >>>>> >>>>> I am happy to announce the publication of my book Head and Heart: Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India, published by Routledge in August 2013. >>>>> >>>>> My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. >>>>> >>>>> Mary Storm >>>>> >>>>> Mary Storm, Ph.D. >>>>> Academic Director >>>>> India: National Identity and the Arts >>>>> and >>>>> Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture >>>>> F 301 Lado Sarai >>>>> New Delhi >>>>> +91 98106 98003 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st >>>>> art >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>>>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Artur Karp 2014-03-15 15:58 GMT+01:00 rajam : I do not know much about these things, but received a comment from a friend > in India that "the Chinnamasta Devi does not have a lion for her vehicle.? > > May I know the source of the picture on the cover, so I can write to him > and clear his doubt? (He is not a member of this group.) > > Thanks, > Rajam > > > On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Stella Sandahl wrote: > > Congratulations! Cover picture wonderful. > Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings. > Stella Sandahl > -- > Stella Sandahl > ssandahl at sympatico.ca > > > > On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: > > Dear Indologists > > As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? > > I am happy to announce the publication of my book *Head and Heart: > Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India*, published by Routledge in August > 2013. > > My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. > > Mary Storm > > Mary Storm, Ph.D. > Academic Director > India: National Identity and the Arts > and > Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture > F 301 Lado Sarai > New Delhi > +91 98106 98003 > > > > http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st > art[image: Buy Head and Heart : Valour and Self Sacrifice in the Art of > India: Book] > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Mary On 15-Mar-2014, at 9:24 pm, Artur Karp wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Artur Karp > Date: 2014-03-15 16:53 GMT+01:00 > Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] (no subject) > To: rajam > > > It has, > > here: > > http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/paintings/mahavidya-chinnamasta-riding-lion-HJ82/ > > and here: > > http://www.artoflegendindia.com/chinnamasta-devi-p-5070.html > > and here: > > http://vi.sualize.us/vintage_painting_of_chinnamasta_devi_simon_ram_parvathi_godess_durga_picture_7c62.html > > And, certainly, in many more images. > > Best, > > Artur Karp > > > > > 2014-03-15 15:58 GMT+01:00 rajam : > > I do not know much about these things, but received a comment from a friend in India that "the Chinnamasta Devi does not have a lion for her vehicle.? > > May I know the source of the picture on the cover, so I can write to him and clear his doubt? (He is not a member of this group.) > > Thanks, > Rajam > > > On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Stella Sandahl wrote: > >> Congratulations! Cover picture wonderful. >> Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings. >> Stella Sandahl >> -- >> Stella Sandahl >> ssandahl at sympatico.ca >> >> >> >> On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: >> >>> Dear Indologists >>> >>> As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? >>> >>> I am happy to announce the publication of my book Head and Heart: Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India, published by Routledge in August 2013. >>> >>> My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. >>> >>> Mary Storm >>> >>> Mary Storm, Ph.D. >>> Academic Director >>> India: National Identity and the Arts >>> and >>> Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture >>> F 301 Lado Sarai >>> New Delhi >>> +91 98106 98003 >>> >>> >>> http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st >>> art >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rajam at earthlink.net Sat Mar 15 16:08:35 2014 From: rajam at earthlink.net (rajam) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 14 09:08:35 -0700 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: (no subject) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <58274EF2-ED80-4B41-97B3-9362291577C8@earthlink.net> Many thanks to everyone for the information! As I confessed at the outset, I don?t know much about these things; and, many traditional scholars (of Sanskrit & Tamil & religion) in South India are not in touch with ?modernism!' So much for our generation gap! One way to preempt controversy and confusion would be to refer to the source of the art work with acknowledgement. Regards, Rajam On Mar 15, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Artur Karp wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Artur Karp > Date: 2014-03-15 16:53 GMT+01:00 > Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] (no subject) > To: rajam > > > It has, > > here: > > http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/paintings/mahavidya-chinnamasta-riding-lion-HJ82/ > > and here: > > http://www.artoflegendindia.com/chinnamasta-devi-p-5070.html > > and here: > > http://vi.sualize.us/vintage_painting_of_chinnamasta_devi_simon_ram_parvathi_godess_durga_picture_7c62.html > > And, certainly, in many more images. > > Best, > > Artur Karp > > > > > 2014-03-15 15:58 GMT+01:00 rajam : > > I do not know much about these things, but received a comment from a friend in India that "the Chinnamasta Devi does not have a lion for her vehicle.? > > May I know the source of the picture on the cover, so I can write to him and clear his doubt? (He is not a member of this group.) > > Thanks, > Rajam > > > On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Stella Sandahl wrote: > >> Congratulations! Cover picture wonderful. >> Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings. >> Stella Sandahl >> -- >> Stella Sandahl >> ssandahl at sympatico.ca >> >> >> >> On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: >> >>> Dear Indologists >>> >>> As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? >>> >>> I am happy to announce the publication of my book Head and Heart: Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India, published by Routledge in August 2013. >>> >>> My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. >>> >>> Mary Storm >>> >>> Mary Storm, Ph.D. >>> Academic Director >>> India: National Identity and the Arts >>> and >>> Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture >>> F 301 Lado Sarai >>> New Delhi >>> +91 98106 98003 >>> >>> >>> http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st >>> art >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.darumadera at gmail.com Sat Mar 15 16:42:26 2014 From: john.darumadera at gmail.com (John Huntington) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 14 12:42:26 -0400 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Chinnamasta Message-ID: Traditionally Chinnamsta is shown as a red nude figure, in a dancing posture with her own severed head and blood flowing into her own mouth and either the mouths or kapalas of Vijaya and Jaya, her two companions. All three as ascetic females wearing little but jewelry Her "Vahana" is Kama and Rati shown in Pahari painting as copulating There are numerous modern interpretations including her as essentially also sa brandishing Durga's knife (to slay the buffalo?) and occasionally with other figures in attendance. In Nepal the traditional for occurs in both Hinduism and Buddhism and in the latter she is is specifically an aspect of Vajravarahi. I know of no traditional images of her on a Lion and only one by a modern artist, Kailash Raj, Cited below at exoticindiaart.com It might be interesting to ask him if he has a traditional source for the iconography. John John C. Huntington, Professor Emeritus Buddhist Art, Asian Numismatics, Field and Object Art Photography john.darumadera at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vjroebuck at btinternet.com Sat Mar 15 16:45:00 2014 From: vjroebuck at btinternet.com (Valerie J Roebuck) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 14 16:45:00 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Chinnamasta on Lion In-Reply-To: <22E769FE-2CBC-4978-A9A5-73C1E1EA97CD@mac.com> Message-ID: Dear Mary The painting in your latest email didn?t download for me. Valerie On 15 Mar 2014, at 16:04, Mary Storm wrote: > Thanks Dr Karp. > > This is another and early painting of Chinnamasta on a lion, but the present ownership and copyright was a challenge for the book cover. > > Mary > > > > > On 15-Mar-2014, at 9:24 pm, Artur Karp wrote: > >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Artur Karp >> Date: 2014-03-15 16:53 GMT+01:00 >> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] (no subject) >> To: rajam >> >> >> It has, >> >> here: >> >> http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/paintings/mahavidya-chinnamasta-riding-lion-HJ82/ >> >> and here: >> >> http://www.artoflegendindia.com/chinnamasta-devi-p-5070.html >> >> and here: >> >> http://vi.sualize.us/vintage_painting_of_chinnamasta_devi_simon_ram_parvathi_godess_durga_picture_7c62.html >> >> And, certainly, in many more images. >> >> Best, >> >> Artur Karp >> >> >> >> >> 2014-03-15 15:58 GMT+01:00 rajam : >> >> I do not know much about these things, but received a comment from a friend in India that "the Chinnamasta Devi does not have a lion for her vehicle.? >> >> May I know the source of the picture on the cover, so I can write to him and clear his doubt? (He is not a member of this group.) >> >> Thanks, >> Rajam >> >> >> On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Stella Sandahl wrote: >> >>> Congratulations! Cover picture wonderful. >>> Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings. >>> Stella Sandahl >>> -- >>> Stella Sandahl >>> ssandahl at sympatico.ca >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: >>> >>>> Dear Indologists >>>> >>>> As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? >>>> >>>> I am happy to announce the publication of my book Head and Heart: Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India, published by Routledge in August 2013. >>>> >>>> My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. >>>> >>>> Mary Storm >>>> >>>> Mary Storm, Ph.D. >>>> Academic Director >>>> India: National Identity and the Arts >>>> and >>>> Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture >>>> F 301 Lado Sarai >>>> New Delhi >>>> +91 98106 98003 >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st >>>> art >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vjroebuck at btinternet.com Sat Mar 15 16:52:47 2014 From: vjroebuck at btinternet.com (Valerie J Roebuck) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 14 16:52:47 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: (no subject) In-Reply-To: <58274EF2-ED80-4B41-97B3-9362291577C8@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <19DF1BE8-FB60-486B-8B03-EBCA5C139FA0@btinternet.com> Speaking of v?hanas, can anyone point me to a painting - or even a sculpture - of ?a??h? Dev? with her cat? I have found some nice Kalighat paintings, but nothing earlier. Valerie J Roebuck On 15 Mar 2014, at 16:08, rajam wrote: > Many thanks to everyone for the information! As I confessed at the outset, I don?t know much about these things; and, many traditional scholars (of Sanskrit & Tamil & religion) in South India are not in touch with ?modernism!' So much for our generation gap! > > One way to preempt controversy and confusion would be to refer to the source of the art work with acknowledgement. > > Regards, > Rajam > > > On Mar 15, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Artur Karp wrote: > >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Artur Karp >> Date: 2014-03-15 16:53 GMT+01:00 >> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] (no subject) >> To: rajam >> >> >> It has, >> >> here: >> >> http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/paintings/mahavidya-chinnamasta-riding-lion-HJ82/ >> >> and here: >> >> http://www.artoflegendindia.com/chinnamasta-devi-p-5070.html >> >> and here: >> >> http://vi.sualize.us/vintage_painting_of_chinnamasta_devi_simon_ram_parvathi_godess_durga_picture_7c62.html >> >> And, certainly, in many more images. >> >> Best, >> >> Artur Karp >> >> >> >> >> 2014-03-15 15:58 GMT+01:00 rajam : >> >> I do not know much about these things, but received a comment from a friend in India that "the Chinnamasta Devi does not have a lion for her vehicle.? >> >> May I know the source of the picture on the cover, so I can write to him and clear his doubt? (He is not a member of this group.) >> >> Thanks, >> Rajam >> >> >> On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Stella Sandahl wrote: >> >>> Congratulations! Cover picture wonderful. >>> Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings. >>> Stella Sandahl >>> -- >>> Stella Sandahl >>> ssandahl at sympatico.ca >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: >>> >>>> Dear Indologists >>>> >>>> As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? >>>> >>>> I am happy to announce the publication of my book Head and Heart: Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India, published by Routledge in August 2013. >>>> >>>> My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. >>>> >>>> Mary Storm >>>> >>>> Mary Storm, Ph.D. >>>> Academic Director >>>> India: National Identity and the Arts >>>> and >>>> Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture >>>> F 301 Lado Sarai >>>> New Delhi >>>> +91 98106 98003 >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st >>>> art >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mrinalkaul81 at gmail.com Sat Mar 15 20:24:36 2014 From: mrinalkaul81 at gmail.com (Mrinal Kaul) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 14 21:24:36 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Publication Announcement Message-ID: <1A833BAB-9EFA-4CC2-9DC0-AEA94194B35A@gmail.com> Dear All, On behalf of Professor Navjivan Rastogi I am sending herewith the details of his new book in Hindi titled "K??m?ra ?iv?dvayav?da me? pram??a-cintana": "epistemological speculation in the monistic ?aivism of Kashmir" (pp.14+264) published by LD Institute, Ahmedabad. Prof Rastogi has also send me a table of contents in English which I am enclosing herewith. About the Book: The present monograph opens up a virtually hitherto unexplored area of fertile intellectual tradition of the Trika namely the epistemological. The foremost motivation for the author has been to seek an identifiable Trika model of philosophical enquiry, if there is one. The model, so envisaged, is theorized by him as the Dynamic Theory of Knowledge pivoted on the notion of re- cognition (pratyabhij??) conceptualized as a rudimentary generalized mode of cognition per se. Spread over seven chapters under two sections plus a large thematic appendix the work seeks to reconstruct system's precise formulations along the nature and definition of source of knowing and its specific modes, integral instrumentalities and the process mechanisms at work graphically recaptured and represented by seven tabular charts. The whole presentation is contextualized within the Trika ontology and against the inherited traditions of logical discourse. Best wishes. Mrinal Kaul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Dev? with her cat? I have found some nice Kalighat paintings, but nothing earlier. > > Valerie J Roebuck > > On 15 Mar 2014, at 16:08, rajam wrote: > >> Many thanks to everyone for the information! As I confessed at the outset, I don?t know much about these things; and, many traditional scholars (of Sanskrit & Tamil & religion) in South India are not in touch with ?modernism!' So much for our generation gap! >> >> One way to preempt controversy and confusion would be to refer to the source of the art work with acknowledgement. >> >> Regards, >> Rajam >> >> >> On Mar 15, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Artur Karp wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Artur Karp >>> Date: 2014-03-15 16:53 GMT+01:00 >>> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] (no subject) >>> To: rajam >>> >>> >>> It has, >>> >>> here: >>> >>> http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/paintings/mahavidya-chinnamasta-riding-lion-HJ82/ >>> >>> and here: >>> >>> http://www.artoflegendindia.com/chinnamasta-devi-p-5070.html >>> >>> and here: >>> >>> http://vi.sualize.us/vintage_painting_of_chinnamasta_devi_simon_ram_parvathi_godess_durga_picture_7c62.html >>> >>> And, certainly, in many more images. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Artur Karp >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 2014-03-15 15:58 GMT+01:00 rajam : >>> >>> I do not know much about these things, but received a comment from a friend in India that "the Chinnamasta Devi does not have a lion for her vehicle.? >>> >>> May I know the source of the picture on the cover, so I can write to him and clear his doubt? (He is not a member of this group.) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Rajam >>> >>> >>> On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Stella Sandahl wrote: >>> >>>> Congratulations! Cover picture wonderful. >>>> Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings. >>>> Stella Sandahl >>>> -- >>>> Stella Sandahl >>>> ssandahl at sympatico.ca >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear Indologists >>>>> >>>>> As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? >>>>> >>>>> I am happy to announce the publication of my book Head and Heart: Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India, published by Routledge in August 2013. >>>>> >>>>> My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. >>>>> >>>>> Mary Storm >>>>> >>>>> Mary Storm, Ph.D. >>>>> Academic Director >>>>> India: National Identity and the Arts >>>>> and >>>>> Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture >>>>> F 301 Lado Sarai >>>>> New Delhi >>>>> +91 98106 98003 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st >>>>> art >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>>>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mnstorm at mac.com Sun Mar 16 06:53:19 2014 From: mnstorm at mac.com (Mary Storm) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 14 12:23:19 +0530 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Shashti Devi In-Reply-To: <19DF1BE8-FB60-486B-8B03-EBCA5C139FA0@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <875D1CEF-F309-46A6-A690-5884D8D477B7@mac.com> You have probably seen these, but just in case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashthi http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/d4/dc/a9/d4dca99836a0da3926906d3986912200.jpg Mary Storm On 15-Mar-2014, at 10:22 pm, Valerie J Roebuck wrote: > Speaking of v?hanas, can anyone point me to a painting - or even a sculpture - of ?a??h? Dev? with her cat? I have found some nice Kalighat paintings, but nothing earlier. > > Valerie J Roebuck > > On 15 Mar 2014, at 16:08, rajam wrote: > >> Many thanks to everyone for the information! As I confessed at the outset, I don?t know much about these things; and, many traditional scholars (of Sanskrit & Tamil & religion) in South India are not in touch with ?modernism!' So much for our generation gap! >> >> One way to preempt controversy and confusion would be to refer to the source of the art work with acknowledgement. >> >> Regards, >> Rajam >> >> >> On Mar 15, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Artur Karp wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Artur Karp >>> Date: 2014-03-15 16:53 GMT+01:00 >>> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] (no subject) >>> To: rajam >>> >>> >>> It has, >>> >>> here: >>> >>> http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/paintings/mahavidya-chinnamasta-riding-lion-HJ82/ >>> >>> and here: >>> >>> http://www.artoflegendindia.com/chinnamasta-devi-p-5070.html >>> >>> and here: >>> >>> http://vi.sualize.us/vintage_painting_of_chinnamasta_devi_simon_ram_parvathi_godess_durga_picture_7c62.html >>> >>> And, certainly, in many more images. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Artur Karp >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 2014-03-15 15:58 GMT+01:00 rajam : >>> >>> I do not know much about these things, but received a comment from a friend in India that "the Chinnamasta Devi does not have a lion for her vehicle.? >>> >>> May I know the source of the picture on the cover, so I can write to him and clear his doubt? (He is not a member of this group.) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Rajam >>> >>> >>> On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Stella Sandahl wrote: >>> >>>> Congratulations! Cover picture wonderful. >>>> Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings. >>>> Stella Sandahl >>>> -- >>>> Stella Sandahl >>>> ssandahl at sympatico.ca >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear Indologists >>>>> >>>>> As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? >>>>> >>>>> I am happy to announce the publication of my book Head and Heart: Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India, published by Routledge in August 2013. >>>>> >>>>> My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. >>>>> >>>>> Mary Storm >>>>> >>>>> Mary Storm, Ph.D. >>>>> Academic Director >>>>> India: National Identity and the Arts >>>>> and >>>>> Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture >>>>> F 301 Lado Sarai >>>>> New Delhi >>>>> +91 98106 98003 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st >>>>> art >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>>>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vjroebuck at btinternet.com Sun Mar 16 08:28:31 2014 From: vjroebuck at btinternet.com (Valerie J Roebuck) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 14 08:28:31 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Shashti Devi In-Reply-To: <875D1CEF-F309-46A6-A690-5884D8D477B7@mac.com> Message-ID: <2A500B76-A294-48F1-8977-72303DEF9E8D@btinternet.com> Yes, she seems to have been a popular subject in Kalighat painting. Officially it?s supposed to be a black cat, as in this splendid one in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but often it isn?t: http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/88464.html I am told that there is a temple of ?Ma Shoshthi? (with cat v?hana) in Kolkata, but I cannot find any pictures or information online. I am probably hampered by my lack of Bengali, as I wouldn?t be able to pick up if e.g. someone blogged about visiting it. Valerie J Roebuck On 16 Mar 2014, at 06:53, Mary Storm wrote: > You have probably seen these, but just in case: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashthi > > http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/d4/dc/a9/d4dca99836a0da3926906d3986912200.jpg > > Mary Storm > > > On 15-Mar-2014, at 10:22 pm, Valerie J Roebuck wrote: > >> Speaking of v?hanas, can anyone point me to a painting - or even a sculpture - of ?a??h? Dev? with her cat? I have found some nice Kalighat paintings, but nothing earlier. >> >> Valerie J Roebuck >> >> On 15 Mar 2014, at 16:08, rajam wrote: >> >>> Many thanks to everyone for the information! As I confessed at the outset, I don?t know much about these things; and, many traditional scholars (of Sanskrit & Tamil & religion) in South India are not in touch with ?modernism!' So much for our generation gap! >>> >>> One way to preempt controversy and confusion would be to refer to the source of the art work with acknowledgement. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Rajam >>> >>> >>> On Mar 15, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Artur Karp wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: Artur Karp >>>> Date: 2014-03-15 16:53 GMT+01:00 >>>> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] (no subject) >>>> To: rajam >>>> >>>> >>>> It has, >>>> >>>> here: >>>> >>>> http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/paintings/mahavidya-chinnamasta-riding-lion-HJ82/ >>>> >>>> and here: >>>> >>>> http://www.artoflegendindia.com/chinnamasta-devi-p-5070.html >>>> >>>> and here: >>>> >>>> http://vi.sualize.us/vintage_painting_of_chinnamasta_devi_simon_ram_parvathi_godess_durga_picture_7c62.html >>>> >>>> And, certainly, in many more images. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Artur Karp >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2014-03-15 15:58 GMT+01:00 rajam : >>>> >>>> I do not know much about these things, but received a comment from a friend in India that "the Chinnamasta Devi does not have a lion for her vehicle.? >>>> >>>> May I know the source of the picture on the cover, so I can write to him and clear his doubt? (He is not a member of this group.) >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Rajam >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Stella Sandahl wrote: >>>> >>>>> Congratulations! Cover picture wonderful. >>>>> Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings. >>>>> Stella Sandahl >>>>> -- >>>>> Stella Sandahl >>>>> ssandahl at sympatico.ca >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Dear Indologists >>>>>> >>>>>> As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? >>>>>> >>>>>> I am happy to announce the publication of my book Head and Heart: Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India, published by Routledge in August 2013. >>>>>> >>>>>> My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. >>>>>> >>>>>> Mary Storm >>>>>> >>>>>> Mary Storm, Ph.D. >>>>>> Academic Director >>>>>> India: National Identity and the Arts >>>>>> and >>>>>> Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture >>>>>> F 301 Lado Sarai >>>>>> New Delhi >>>>>> +91 98106 98003 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st >>>>>> art >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>>>>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>>>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>>> http://listinfo.indology.info >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >>> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dchakra at hotmail.de Sun Mar 16 11:41:13 2014 From: dchakra at hotmail.de (Dr. Debabrata Chakrabarti) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 14 17:11:13 +0530 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Shashti Devi In-Reply-To: <2A500B76-A294-48F1-8977-72303DEF9E8D@btinternet.com> Message-ID: Dear Everybody,I saw a figure of Ma Shashthi in a temple at Panchanantala, Howrah (on the other side of Kolkata Ganga) in my boyhood days. She was worshiped by the female family mothers of a mother giving birth to a babe on the eighth day of the child's birth. There was a ceremony of distributing eight kinds of fried snacks.I think the temple is still there, and the figure has not been done away with. The vehicle animal figure was a cat, I remember.BestDebabrata Chakrabarti ?This body is like a musical instrument; what you hear depends upon how you play it.? ? Anandamayi Ma ?Inside every human being there exists a special heaven, whole and unbroken.? - Paracelsus From: vjroebuck at btinternet.com Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:28:31 +0000 To: mnstorm at mac.com CC: indology at list.indology.info Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Shashti Devi Yes, she seems to have been a popular subject in Kalighat painting. Officially it?s supposed to be a black cat, as in this splendid one in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but often it isn?t: http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/88464.html I am told that there is a temple of ?Ma Shoshthi? (with cat v?hana) in Kolkata, but I cannot find any pictures or information online. I am probably hampered by my lack of Bengali, as I wouldn?t be able to pick up if e.g. someone blogged about visiting it. Valerie J Roebuck On 16 Mar 2014, at 06:53, Mary Storm wrote:You have probably seen these, but just in case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashthi http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/d4/dc/a9/d4dca99836a0da3926906d3986912200.jpg Mary Storm On 15-Mar-2014, at 10:22 pm, Valerie J Roebuck wrote:Speaking of v?hanas, can anyone point me to a painting - or even a sculpture - of ?a??h? Dev? with her cat? I have found some nice Kalighat paintings, but nothing earlier. Valerie J Roebuck On 15 Mar 2014, at 16:08, rajam wrote:Many thanks to everyone for the information! As I confessed at the outset, I don?t know much about these things; and, many traditional scholars (of Sanskrit & Tamil & religion) in South India are not in touch with ?modernism!' So much for our generation gap! One way to preempt controversy and confusion would be to refer to the source of the art work with acknowledgement. Regards,Rajam On Mar 15, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Artur Karp wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Artur Karp Date: 2014-03-15 16:53 GMT+01:00 Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] (no subject) To: rajam It has, here: http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/paintings/mahavidya-chinnamasta-riding-lion-HJ82/ and here: http://www.artoflegendindia.com/chinnamasta-devi-p-5070.html and here: http://vi.sualize.us/vintage_painting_of_chinnamasta_devi_simon_ram_parvathi_godess_durga_picture_7c62.html And, certainly, in many more images. Best, Artur Karp 2014-03-15 15:58 GMT+01:00 rajam : I do not know much about these things, but received a comment from a friend in India that "the Chinnamasta Devi does not have a lion for her vehicle.? May I know the source of the picture on the cover, so I can write to him and clear his doubt? (He is not a member of this group.) Thanks,Rajam On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Stella Sandahl wrote: Congratulations! Cover picture wonderful. Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings.Stella Sandahl --Stella Sandahlssandahl at sympatico.ca On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: Dear Indologists As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? I am happy to announce the publication of my book Head and Heart: Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India, published by Routledge in August 2013. My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. Mary Storm Mary Storm, Ph.D. Academic DirectorIndia: National Identity and the ArtsandHimalayan Buddhist Art and ArchitectureF 301 Lado SaraiNew Delhi+91 98106 98003 http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st art _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY at list.indology.info http://listinfo.indology.info _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY at list.indology.info http://listinfo.indology.info _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY at list.indology.info http://listinfo.indology.info _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY at list.indology.info http://listinfo.indology.info _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY at list.indology.info http://listinfo.indology.info _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY at list.indology.info http://listinfo.indology.info _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY at list.indology.info http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best DB On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Mary Storm wrote: > You have probably seen these, but just in case: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashthi > > > http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/d4/dc/a9/d4dca99836a0da3926906d3986912200.jpg > > Mary Storm > > > On 15-Mar-2014, at 10:22 pm, Valerie J Roebuck > wrote: > > Speaking of v?hanas, can anyone point me to a painting - or even a > sculpture - of ?a??h? Dev? with her cat? I have found some nice Kalighat > paintings, but nothing earlier. > > Valerie J Roebuck > > On 15 Mar 2014, at 16:08, rajam wrote: > > Many thanks to everyone for the information! As I confessed at the outset, > I don?t know much about these things; and, many traditional scholars (of > Sanskrit & Tamil & religion) in South India are not in touch with > ?modernism!' So much for our generation gap! > > One way to preempt controversy and confusion would be to refer to the > source of the art work with acknowledgement. > > Regards, > Rajam > > > On Mar 15, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Artur Karp wrote: > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Artur Karp > Date: 2014-03-15 16:53 GMT+01:00 > Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] (no subject) > To: rajam > > > It has, > > here: > > > http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/paintings/mahavidya-chinnamasta-riding-lion-HJ82/ > > and here: > > http://www.artoflegendindia.com/chinnamasta-devi-p-5070.html > > and here: > > > http://vi.sualize.us/vintage_painting_of_chinnamasta_devi_simon_ram_parvathi_godess_durga_picture_7c62.html > > And, certainly, in many more images. > > Best, > > Artur Karp > > > > > 2014-03-15 15:58 GMT+01:00 rajam : > > I do not know much about these things, but received a comment from a >> friend in India that "the Chinnamasta Devi does not have a lion for her >> vehicle.? >> >> May I know the source of the picture on the cover, so I can write to him >> and clear his doubt? (He is not a member of this group.) >> >> Thanks, >> Rajam >> >> >> On Mar 15, 2014, at 5:15 AM, Stella Sandahl >> wrote: >> >> Congratulations! Cover picture wonderful. >> Hope your book will not offend anybody's religious or other feelings. >> Stella Sandahl >> -- >> Stella Sandahl >> ssandahl at sympatico.ca >> >> >> >> On 2014-03-15, at 12:14 AM, Mary Storm wrote: >> >> Dear Indologists >> >> As Etta James, sang ?At Last?? >> >> I am happy to announce the publication of my book *Head and Heart: >> Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India*, published by Routledge in August >> 2013. >> >> My thanks to all of you who offered help and support over the years. >> >> Mary Storm >> >> Mary Storm, Ph.D. >> Academic Director >> India: National Identity and the Arts >> and >> Himalayan Buddhist Art and Architecture >> F 301 Lado Sarai >> New Delhi >> +91 98106 98003 >> >> >> >> http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=Head+and+Heart%3A+Self+sacrifice+in+the+Art+of+India&as=off&as-show=off&otracker=st >> art[image: Buy Head and Heart : Valour and Self Sacrifice in the Art of >> India: Book] >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info >> http://listinfo.indology.info >> > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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His son Soudjit informed me this afternoon before leaving for Dacca. > Stella Sandahl > -- > Professor Stella Sandahl > Department of East Asian Studies > 130 St. George St. room 14087 > Toronto, ON M5S 3H1 > ssandahl at sympatico.ca > stella.sandahl at utoronto.ca > Tel. (416) 978-4295 > Fax. (416) 978-5711 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He had > gone to see his birthplace along with his wife. Kamaleshwar was 85 years > old. His son Soudjit informed me this afternoon before leaving for Dacca. > Stella Sandahl > -- > Professor Stella Sandahl > Department of East Asian Studies > 130 St. George St. room 14087 > Toronto, ON M5S 3H1 > ssandahl at sympatico.ca > stella.sandahl at utoronto.ca > Tel. (416) 978-4295 > Fax. (416) 978-5711 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Naomi Appleton carefully explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia, examining portrayals of the different realms of rebirth, the potential paths and goals of human beings, and the biographies of ideal religious figures. Appleton also deftly surveys the ability of karma to bind individuals together over multiple lives, and the nature of the supernormal memory that makes multi-life stories available in the first place. This original study not only sheds light on the individual preoccupations of Buddhist and Jain tradition, but contributes to a more complete history of religious thought in South Asia, and brings to the foreground long-neglected narrative sources. With best wishes, Naomi -------------------------------- Dr Naomi Appleton Chancellor's Fellow in Religious Studies School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh naomi.appleton at ed.ac.uk http://naomiappleton.wordpress.com http://storyofstoryinsouthasia.wordpress.com The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From drdj at austin.utexas.edu Mon Mar 17 19:52:11 2014 From: drdj at austin.utexas.edu (Donald R Davis) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 14 19:52:11 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Article of Charles Malamoud Message-ID: <19e6a9275d5e4eef81e80ecd0a60cf98@BY2PR06MB188.namprd06.prod.outlook.com> Dear colleagues, I would be most grateful if someone on the list would privately send me a copy of Charles Malamoud, "Imagination, Ritual, Political Devices," Rivista degli Studi Orientali 81:1-4, pp.27-34 (2008). 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KBh was a wonderful person, a learned and curious man, always keen to explain, discuss, re-think, and one of the makers of contemporary Indology. elisa freschi Dr. Elisa Freschi Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia Austrian Academy of Sciences Apostelgasse 23 1030 Vienna Austria Phone +43 1 51581 6433 Fax +43 1 51581 6410 http://elisafreschi.com http://oeaw.academia.edu/elisafreschi On 17/mar/2014, at 02:38, Stella Sandahl wrote: > Dear colleagues, > It is with great sadness I inform you about the passing of our colleague and friend Kamaleswar Bhattacharya last night in Dacca, Bangla Desh. He had gone to see his birthplace along with his wife. Kamaleshwar was 85 years old. His son Soudjit informed me this afternoon before leaving for Dacca. > Stella Sandahl > -- > Professor Stella Sandahl > Department of East Asian Studies > 130 St. George St. room 14087 > Toronto, ON M5S 3H1 > ssandahl at sympatico.ca > stella.sandahl at utoronto.ca > Tel. (416) 978-4295 > Fax. 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URL: From kauzeya at gmail.com Tue Mar 18 10:45:13 2014 From: kauzeya at gmail.com (Jonathan Silk) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 14 11:45:13 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Conference Announcement: Buddhism and Social Justice Message-ID: dear Friends and Colleagues, It is my very great pleasure to announce the following conference, which all are welcome to attend: *An International Conference on Buddhism and Social Justice* 23-25 April 2014, Leiden University Pavilion building, Museum Volkenkunde, Steenstraat 1, Leiden Moving away from a common perception of Buddhism as intrinsically a tradition of peace and justice, our project?based at Leiden University?seeks to explore the various ways in which historically Buddhist societies have shaped, transmitted, and adapted Buddhist ideas and ideals about equality, fairness, and freedom. We are further interested in how (if at all) such societies have instantiated these ideas and ideals. The intent of the conference ?Buddhism and Social Justice? is to gather scholars to discuss Classical and modern Buddhist notions of justice and their real world reflexes. We will be most centrally concerned with Buddhist visions?implicit or explicit?of ideal (just) societies and the role of human action, as these appear, for instance, in the realms of freedom and its constraints, social hierarchy and mobility, economic opportunity, and power and self-determination. The full text of the initial proposal upon which our project was based, and other information about our research team, and the conference itself, can be consulted on this website. This Call for Papers hasinvited scholars interested in these issues from a descriptive, rather than prescriptive, point of view to come together and share their expertise, findings and questions. Papers will deal with many regions within Asia and any time period. The interested public is welcome to attend, but we do ask that you register (free of charge) in order to allow us to plan properly for seats and catering. Registration emails and questions can be sent to conference at buddhismandsocialjustice.com *Please visit our website Buddhismandsocialjustice.com to view the conference abstracts and to stay updated on conference developments. * Conference Programme (tentative program) *Wednesday 23 April* 9:30-10:30 *Jonathan Silk *- *Buddhism and Social Justice: What are we doing?* 10:30-10:45 Coffee break 10:45-11:15 *Claudio Cicuzza *- *Buddhist notions of justice and modern concepts of Human Dignity* 11:15-11:45 *Paulus Kaufmann *- *Roles of Justice in K?kai?s Ethical Theory* 11:45-12:00 Coffee break 12:00-12:45 *Eugin Ciurtin *-* Flat and Curved Universes: On Exceptional Agency and Ordinary Social Justice in Indian Buddhism* 13:00-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-15:30 *Steve Collins *-* On the 'gentle violence' of a stable social order* 15:30-15:45 Coffee break 15:45-16:15 *Berthe Jansen *- *The Impact of the Monastic Institution on Society and Social Justice in Pre-modern Tibet* 16:15-16:45 *Johan Elverskog *-* Buddhism as Colonialism: Mining and Social Exploitation on the Commodity Frontier* *Thursday 24 April* 9:30-10:30 *Nam-Lin Hur *-* Buddhism and War: Senriji?s Monthly Newsletters and Shinsh? Teachings in Modern Japan, 1929-1944* 10:30-10:45 Coffee break 10:45-11:15 *Vincent Breugem *- *Ghosts Under the Bridge: Famine and Segaki Rituals in Medieval Japan* 11:15-11:45 *Pu Chengzhong *-* Justice for Different Species: the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Early Chinese Buddhism* 11:45-12:00 Coffee break 12:00-12:30 *Thomas Kim *- *Temple Slaves and Monks as Landlords: Issues of Doctrinal Allegiance and Institutional Pragmatism in the Joseon Period* 12:30-14:30 Lunch break + *afternoon visit to Keukenhof* *Friday 25 April* 9:30-10:00 *Joanna Gruszewska *- *The rhetorics of the caste criticism in Vajras?c?* 10:00-10:30 *Jonathan Silk *- *What Remains: Anti-caste Rhetoric and Anti-Outcaste Rhetoric in Indian Buddhism* 10:30-11:00 *Vincent Tournier *-* Cosmogony, Anti-caste Arguments and Royal Epics: the Agga??a Myth and Its Scriptural Contexts* 11:00-11:15 Coffee break 11:15-11:45 *Iselin Frydenlund *- *Religious minorities in Buddhist majority states* 11:45-12:15 *Jacques Leider *- *Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingyas in Arakan - Historical grief and ethnic tensions* 12:15-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:00 *Chris Lammerts *- *Contested histories of Buddhist law in Burma, c.1200-1800 C.E.* 14:00-14:30 *Daniel Webster Kent *- *Thinking Karmically About War in Sri Lanka: Evaluating Actions and Ameliorating Consequences in a Time of Declining Dharma* 14:30-15:00 Coffee break 15:00-15:30 *Chris Wilkinson *- *Political Revolution and the Commoners? Cause in the Transmission of the Cakrasa?varatantra* 15:30-16:00 *Ian Harris *- *Kingship, colonialism and republic: Rethinking issues of social justice in modern Cambodia* 16:00-16:15 Coffee break 16:15-17:30 *Round table discussion* -- 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 copies of my publications may be found at http://www.buddhismandsocialjustice.com/silk_publications.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From drdj at austin.utexas.edu Tue Mar 18 12:16:10 2014 From: drdj at austin.utexas.edu (Donald R Davis) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 14 12:16:10 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Malamoud's article Message-ID: My thanks to Dominik Wujastyk, who kindly sent the article to me. Best, Don From brendan.gillon at mcgill.ca Wed Mar 19 03:53:12 2014 From: brendan.gillon at mcgill.ca (Brendan S. Gillon, Prof.) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 14 03:53:12 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] the passing of Kamaleswar Bhattacharya Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The passing of Prof. Kamaleswar Bhattacharya is indeed sad news. I had the privilege of studying with Prof. Bhattacharya when he was a visitor at the University of Toronto many years ago. My own work has greatly benefited from his careful and broad ranging scholarship. Over the years, I enjoyed many a conversation with him on a variety of matters, especially his work on Nagarjuna. Most recently, I had an opportunity to spend some time with him during a visit to Paris for a seminar organized by Peter Scharf, which he also attended. Prof. Bhattacharya was a first rate scholar, in my view, and his passing will be a loss to the Sanskrit scholarly community. Cordially yours, Brendan Gillon Brendan S. Gillon email: brendan.gillon at mcgill.ca Department of Linguistics McGill University tel.: 001 514 398 4868 1085, Avenue Docteur-Penfield Montreal, Quebec fax.: 001 514 398 7088 H3A 1A7 CANADA webpage: http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/group3/bgillo/web/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be Wed Mar 19 07:58:34 2014 From: christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be (Christophe Vielle) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 14 08:58:34 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: the passing of Kamaleswar Bhattacharya In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Prof. K. Bhattacharya was present at the Vedic Workshop held in Calicut/Kozhikode in last January. He very kindly told me a few things about Paul-Emile Dumont (1879-1968) whom he once met (in Paris, 1963) and who was, like him, a long-living scholar as great as modest. Best wishes, Christophe Vielle D?but du message r?exp?di? : > De : "Brendan S. Gillon, Prof." > Objet : [INDOLOGY] the passing of Kamaleswar Bhattacharya > Date : 19 mars 2014 04:53:12 HNEC > ? : indology List List > > Dear colleagues, > > The passing of Prof. Kamaleswar Bhattacharya is indeed sad news. I had the privilege of studying with Prof. Bhattacharya when he was a visitor at the University of Toronto many years ago. My own work has greatly benefited from his careful and broad ranging scholarship. Over the years, I enjoyed many a conversation with him on a variety of matters, especially his work on Nagarjuna. Most recently, I had an opportunity to spend some time with him during a visit to Paris for a seminar organized by Peter Scharf, which he also attended. Prof. Bhattacharya was a first rate scholar, in my view, and his passing will be a loss to the Sanskrit scholarly community. > > Cordially yours, > > Brendan Gillon > > > Brendan S. Gillon email: brendan.gillon at mcgill.ca > Department of Linguistics > McGill University tel.: 001 514 398 4868 > 1085, Avenue Docteur-Penfield > Montreal, Quebec fax.: 001 514 398 7088 > H3A 1A7 CANADA > > webpage: http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/group3/bgillo/web/ > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info ??????????????????? Christophe Vielle Louvain-la-Neuve -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karp at uw.edu.pl Thu Mar 20 05:27:27 2014 From: karp at uw.edu.pl (Artur Karp) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 14 06:27:27 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Churning king Vena Message-ID: Dear List, Bhagavata Purana has the brahmans churning at first the dead king Vena's thigh and then his arms - in order to create a new king. BhP_04.14.043/1 vini?cityaivam ??ayo vipannasya mah?pate? BhP_04.14.043/2 *mamanthur ?ru?* taras? tatr?s?d b?huko nara? BhP_04.15.001/1 atha tasya punar viprair aputrasya mah?pate? BhP_04.15.001/2 *b?hubhy?? mathyam?n?bhy??* mithuna? samapadyata Would someone comment on the procedure involved and the meaning of that - certainly - strange ritual? Has someone worked on the king Vena's story? Any book? Paper? Regards, Artur Karp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dipak.d2004 at gmail.com Thu Mar 20 08:16:37 2014 From: dipak.d2004 at gmail.com (Dipak Bhattacharya) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 14 13:46:37 +0530 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Churning king Vena In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 20.3.14 Dear Colleague, The story goes back to Atharvaveda (?)VIII.10 and AVP 16.133. That deals with the milking of Vir?? by various beings including P?th? Vainya with various vessels and youngs. Enlarged versions of the P?thi-Vainya part of the myth appear in the Mah?bh?rata (Dro?a-P.) and many Pur??as (V?yu, Matsya etc), the Bh?gavata being the latest among them. A paper with some treatment of the milking of the earth was published in the *Journal of the Bihar Research Society* LI, Jan-Dec 1965, 8ff. I do not know of any study on the particular points raised but general studies on the myth or aspects of the myth exist. The said paper refers to a paper by N.K.V.Pantulu, *Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society* XXIX, 289ff . As far as I remember U.N.Ghoshal said something on the ?social contract? theory claimed to have been implied in the part of the Puranic version dealing with Vena?s oppression. But it is the political implications of the colorful story that drew scholars? attention in the twenties and thirties and even much later. Some of the papers are in Indian languages. Will this help? Best DB On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Artur Karp wrote: > Dear List, > > Bhagavata Purana has the brahmans churning at first the dead king Vena's > thigh and then his arms - in order to create a new king. > > BhP_04.14.043/1 vini?cityaivam ??ayo vipannasya mah?pate? > BhP_04.14.043/2 *mamanthur ?ru?* taras? tatr?s?d b?huko nara? > > BhP_04.15.001/1 atha tasya punar viprair aputrasya mah?pate? > BhP_04.15.001/2 *b?hubhy?? mathyam?n?bhy??* mithuna? samapadyata > > Would someone comment on the procedure involved and the meaning of that - > certainly - strange ritual? > > Has someone worked on the king Vena's story? Any book? Paper? > > > Regards, > > Artur Karp > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(instr. crit. ed., better than loc. ara?y?m var. mss.) mamanthu? : the ara?i referred to here should be the uttar? whereas the mummified body on the ground is used as the adhara-ara?i (like in the Rm - V?P-B?P common passage), the one in the yoni of which the point of the upper-one is fitted into and turned. The episode of the churning of king Vena was dealt with by Georges Dum?zil in his interesting mythological study of king P?thu (Vena's Son), which forms a long part of his work "Servius et la Fortune" (Paris, 1943, pp. 33-111; more recently on P?thu, see Marcelle Saindon, 'Le bon roi P?thu et la traite de la vache Terre: un plaidoyer en faveur de la Terre nourrici?re ? prot?ger des violences', Studies in Religion 36/3-4, 2007, pp. 553-569). Best wishes, Christophe Vielle Le 20 mars 2014 ? 06:27, Artur Karp a ?crit : > Dear List, > > Bhagavata Purana has the brahmans churning at first the dead king Vena's thigh and then his arms - in order to create a new king. > > BhP_04.14.043/1 vini?cityaivam ??ayo vipannasya mah?pate? > BhP_04.14.043/2 mamanthur ?ru? taras? tatr?s?d b?huko nara? > > BhP_04.15.001/1 atha tasya punar viprair aputrasya mah?pate? > BhP_04.15.001/2 b?hubhy?? mathyam?n?bhy?? mithuna? samapadyata > > Would someone comment on the procedure involved and the meaning of that - certainly - strange ritual? > > Has someone worked on the king Vena's story? Any book? Paper? > > > Regards, > > Artur Karp > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info ??????????????????? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All papers dealing with any indological research centered around the study of texts in their original language will be considered by the selection committee. For further information please have a look at our website at http://iigrs.byethost17.com or contact us directly at iigrsuk at googlemail.com. We are currently sorting out several issues concerning funding, accommodation, and the participation fees, and will announce them on our website no later than the middle of April. If you are teaching at an institution, we would be very grateful if you could circulate this information among your students. Yours faithfully, Andrey Klebanov, Jonas Buchholz, Judith Unterd?rfler -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Artur Karp 2014-03-20 6:27 GMT+01:00 Artur Karp : > Dear List, > > Bhagavata Purana has the brahmans churning at first the dead king Vena's > thigh and then his arms - in order to create a new king. > > BhP_04.14.043/1 vini?cityaivam ??ayo vipannasya mah?pate? > BhP_04.14.043/2 *mamanthur ?ru?* taras? tatr?s?d b?huko nara? > > BhP_04.15.001/1 atha tasya punar viprair aputrasya mah?pate? > BhP_04.15.001/2 *b?hubhy?? mathyam?n?bhy??* mithuna? samapadyata > > Would someone comment on the procedure involved and the meaning of that - > certainly - strange ritual? > > Has someone worked on the king Vena's story? Any book? Paper? > > > Regards, > > Artur Karp > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dipak.d2004 at gmail.com Thu Mar 20 12:34:43 2014 From: dipak.d2004 at gmail.com (Dipak Bhattacharya) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 14 18:04:43 +0530 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Churning king Vena In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Friend, I shall try within a few days. Thanks for your interest. I gave you notice of Indian studies only under the assumption that you knew of Dumezil's contribution. May I give one friendly advice? Once you get Dumezil, you may rest assured the mythological aspect would be best treated by him. But I shall try to collect some Indian material too, as desired by you. Best DB On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Artur Karp wrote: > I am very grateful to Christophe Vielle, Deepak Bhattacharya and James > Hagerty for their nearly instantaneous reply to my query. I know now where > to search for the "body-churning ritual" antecedents. > > James Hagerty's monograph is, happily, on hand. But, the University of > Warsaw Library informs me that the 1943 Georges Dumezil's book is not > available in Poland, and - that the University's JSTOR does not possess in > its resources either of the journals (*Journal of the Bihar Research > Society, Studies in Religion*) you mentioned. > > Will try to get access to the journals via my ex-students (one lives in > India, the other in England). > > A question to Prof. Bhattacharya: any detailed information on U.N. > Ghoshal's work re "Vena's oppression"? > > Best, > > Artur Karp > > > 2014-03-20 6:27 GMT+01:00 Artur Karp : > > Dear List, >> >> Bhagavata Purana has the brahmans churning at first the dead king Vena's >> thigh and then his arms - in order to create a new king. >> >> BhP_04.14.043/1 vini?cityaivam ??ayo vipannasya mah?pate? >> BhP_04.14.043/2 *mamanthur ?ru?* taras? tatr?s?d b?huko nara? >> >> BhP_04.15.001/1 atha tasya punar viprair aputrasya mah?pate? >> BhP_04.15.001/2 *b?hubhy?? mathyam?n?bhy??* mithuna? samapadyata >> >> Would someone comment on the procedure involved and the meaning of that - >> certainly - strange ritual? >> >> Has someone worked on the king Vena's story? 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Best Wishes, James Hegarty Cardiff University From pcbisschop at googlemail.com Thu Mar 20 14:06:07 2014 From: pcbisschop at googlemail.com (peter bisschop) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 14 15:06:07 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] 9th Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The 9th Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics will be held in Leiden from 14 to 25 July. The programme is now available online: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/summerschool/ As usual, students can create their own programme by selecting individual courses. There are four courses on offer in the Indological programme: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/summerschool/programmes-2014/indological-programma.html Kindly inform any interested students. Peter Bisschop LIAS, Leiden University From torzsokjudit at hotmail.com Thu Mar 20 14:19:37 2014 From: torzsokjudit at hotmail.com (Judit Torzsok) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 14 14:19:37 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] shaiva workshop in Paris 24.03-28.03 Message-ID: Dear Members, If you happen to be in or near Paris the next week, may I draw your attention to the following workshop, whose title is "History of Shaivism: Readings in Inscriptions and Early Manuscripts". Everybody is welcome and participation is free. The venues: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday: Maison de l?Asie, 22 avenue du Pr?sident Wilson, 75116 Paris. Thursday: CEIAS,190-198 avenue de France - Paris 13e - 6e ?tage, salle 640. Here is the program: Monday 24.03: 9.30-12.30: Excerpts from the Ni?v?satattvasa?hit?, Dominic GOODALL (EFEO) 14.30-17.30: ?aiva passages in Pallava Inscriptions, Emmanuel FRANCIS (CNRS) Tuesday 25.03: 9.30-12.30: The Origins of the Skull and Skull-staff: Excerpts from Brahmay?mala, pa?ala 83, Shaman HATLEY (Concordia, Montreal) 14.30-17.30: ?aiva Inscriptions from Cambodia, Dominic GOODALL (EFEO) Wednesday 26.03: 9.30-12.30: LECTURES: ? On the Am?tasiddhi, James MALLINSON (SOAS); ? ?aiva and Vai??ava Inscriptions of the Licchavis, Kengo HARIMOTO (Hamburg); ? Inscribing Merit, Obtaining Might: Recovering Early Strategies for Establishing and Solidifying ?aiva Practices in Licchavi Nepal, Nina MIRNIG (Cambridge); ? Announcement of the Preparation of a New Critical Edition: Abhinavagupta?s G?t?rthasa?graha, Lyne BANSAT-BOUDON (EPHE) and Judit T?RZS?K (UMR 7528/Lille III) 14.30-17.30: Visit to the Mus?e Guimet led by Charlotte SCHMID (EFEO) and Dominic GOODALL (EFEO) Thursday 27.03: 9.30-12.30: ?iva As the Supreme God and the Sacred Place of ?r?parvata (Reading Chapter 70 of the Skandapur??a), Judit T?RZS?K (UMR 7528/Lille III). Synopsis by Peter BISSCHOP (Leiden) 14.30-17.30: A Bilingual (Sanskrit-Kannada) ?aiva Inscription from the Pra?ave?vara Temple in T??agunda (1158 AD), Florinda DE SIMINI (L?Orientale, Naples) Friday 28.03: 9.30-12.30: The Birth of Skanda (Reading Chapter 72 of the Skandapur??a) Yuko YOKOCHI (Kyoto). Synopsis by Peter BISSCHOP (Leiden) 14.30-17.30: On the Classification and Treatment of Fever in the Kriy?k?lagu?ottara, Michael SLOUBER (Western Washington) -------------- 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 Christopher.Austin at Dal.Ca Thu Mar 20 18:04:46 2014 From: Christopher.Austin at Dal.Ca (Christopher Austin) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 14 18:04:46 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Harivamsa Purana of Jinasena etext? In-Reply-To: <8E1480CD-B048-4528-A70F-3CA29FA1A888@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hello James, To my knowledge there is no e-text of Punnata Jinasena's Harivamsa Purana (I searched for it as well some time ago), but this printed edition in nagari with Hindi translation was not hard to get hold of: Jain, Panna Lal, ed., tr. (Hindi). 2011. Harivamsa Purana of Acarya Jinasena with Hindi translation, introduction and appendices. 13th ed. New Delhi: Bharatiya Jnanpith. Best, Chris Dr. Christopher R. Austin Assistant Professor Dept. of Classics - Religious Studies Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia ________________________________________ From: INDOLOGY on behalf of James Hegarty Sent: March-20-14 10:38 AM To: indology Subject: [INDOLOGY] Harivamsa Purana of Jinasena etext? Dear Colleagues, I am sure I am missing an obvious repository or two, but in a quick search I could not locate an e-text of the above work. Is anyone aware of where one may be found? Best Wishes, James Hegarty Cardiff University _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY at list.indology.info http://listinfo.indology.info From ssandahl at sympatico.ca Fri Mar 21 21:12:16 2014 From: ssandahl at sympatico.ca (Stella Sandahl) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 14 17:12:16 -0400 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Funeral for Kamaleshwar Bhattacharya. Message-ID: Kamaleshwar's son Soudjit has just sent me the following message: Ch?re Stella, je suis toujours au Bangladesh d'o? mon p?re sera rapatri? dimanche prochain. Une c?r?monie fun?raire ,suivie par sa cr?mation aura lieu le samedi 28 Mars 2014 ? 10h30 dans un lieu encore ? choisir ? proximit? d'Angers. Veuillez transmettre cette information aux personnes int?ress?es. Merci et ? bient?t Soudjit I'll inform all about the exact location as soon as Soudjit informs me. Stella Sandahl -- Stella Sandahl ssandahl at sympatico.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------ Rohana Seneviratne DPhil Student in Sanskrit The Oriental Institute Faculty of Oriental Studies University of Oxford Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE United Kingdom Email: rohana.seneviratne at orinst.ox.ac.uk Web: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~pemb3753/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dipak.d2004 at gmail.com Sat Mar 22 05:37:48 2014 From: dipak.d2004 at gmail.com (Dipak Bhattacharya) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 14 11:07:48 +0530 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Funeral for Kamaleshwar Bhattacharya. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 22 3 14 Santiniketan Dear Professor Sandahl, Thank you for the information. It again roused all the memories of my meetings and exchanges with the savant since 1979 when he had visited our department at Santiniketan and made indelible impressions upon me personally and through his exquisite productions. Unfortunately I cannot be present at the funeral. I pay my respect to the departed one through you. Please be kind enough to convey this message to the bereaved. With greetings and desire of peace for all! Yours Dipak Bhattacharya 2014-03-22 2:42 GMT+05:30 Stella Sandahl : > Kamaleshwar's son Soudjit has just sent me the following message: > > Ch?re Stella, > je suis toujours au Bangladesh d'o? mon p?re sera rapatri? dimanche > prochain. Une c?r?monie fun?raire ,suivie par sa cr?mation aura lieu l*e > samedi 28 Mars 2014 ? 10h30 * dans un lieu encore ? choisir ? *proximit? > d'Angers*. Veuillez transmettre cette information aux personnes > int?ress?es. > Merci et ? bient?t > Soudjit > > I'll inform all about the exact location as soon as Soudjit informs me. > Stella Sandahl > -- > Stella Sandahl > ssandahl at sympatico.ca > > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mkapstei at uchicago.edu Sat Mar 22 07:01:44 2014 From: mkapstei at uchicago.edu (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 14 07:01:44 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Funeral for Kamaleshwar Bhattacharya. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <82C3E42590D939418C74DD76B97DDED083AB93@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu> Dear Stella, Do you have a postal address for Kamaleshwar's family? To which those of us who knew him can send our condolences. thank you in advance for this, Matthew Matthew Kapstein Directeur d'?tudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, The University of Chicago ________________________________________ From: INDOLOGY [indology-bounces at list.indology.info] on behalf of Stella Sandahl [ssandahl at sympatico.ca] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 4:12 PM To: Indology; INDOLOGIE at listserv.uni-heidelberg.de Subject: [INDOLOGY] Funeral for Kamaleshwar Bhattacharya. Kamaleshwar's son Soudjit has just sent me the following message: Ch?re Stella, je suis toujours au Bangladesh d'o? mon p?re sera rapatri? dimanche prochain. Une c?r?monie fun?raire ,suivie par sa cr?mation aura lieu le samedi 28 Mars 2014 ? 10h30 dans un lieu encore ? choisir ? proximit? d'Angers. Veuillez transmettre cette information aux personnes int?ress?es. Merci et ? bient?t Soudjit I'll inform all about the exact location as soon as Soudjit informs me. Stella Sandahl -- Stella Sandahl ssandahl at sympatico.ca From wujastyk at gmail.com Sun Mar 23 17:08:20 2014 From: wujastyk at gmail.com (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 14 18:08:20 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Mewar Ramayana, reunited digital edition Message-ID: A nice article in the Mumbai Mirror about the BL project of reuniting - by digitization - the 17th century Jagat Singh Mewar Ramayana. By Jeremiah Losty and Marina Chellini at the BL, and Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghralaya (CSMVS). See also the BBC report . See the digitally-reunited Mewar Ramayana, "one of the world's most beautiful *Ramayana* manuscripts," at the British Library's website . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From tylerwwilliams at gmail.com Tue Mar 25 20:54:58 2014 From: tylerwwilliams at gmail.com (Tyler Williams) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 14 16:54:58 -0400 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?[INDOLOGY]_Dates_and_'sa=C4=ABk=C4=81'?= Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Has anyone come across the use of the word 'sa?ka' (saIkA) in the sense of 'one hundred' in the context of dates, colophons, or other numeric records? The term comes up in the context of the following verse (in Brajbhasha) which records the date of death of the saint Haridas of Rajasthan: samvata solaha sai ju sa?k? ?tu vasanta ?nandama?k? phaga?a sudi ?a??am? j?n?? jana harid?sa hari m??hi sam?n? In samvat sixteen hundred "sa?ka" in the blissful season of spring Know that on the sixth of the bright half of Phalgun, Haridas became absorbed in Hari. (The ju here appears to be simply a verse-filler, which is very common in poetry from this place and time.) Neha Baid argues has argued that the term sa?k? means 'one hundred' in this context, and therefore the date should be read as VS 1700, not 1600. I have yet to find such a used attested in any other text. Has anyone else? With thanks in anticipation of any suggestions or advice, Tyler Williams Columbia University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wujastyk at gmail.com Wed Mar 26 15:53:39 2014 From: wujastyk at gmail.com (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 14 16:53:39 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] I am not the boss Message-ID: ?Dear colleagues and friends, The INDOLOGY list is run by a committee. I am a member of that committee, but I'm really not the boss. All decisions are taken jointly, and we have a rota that means that at any time only one of us is on duty. The rest of us are on a well-deserved break, perhaps even *doing* indology. 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With thanks and best wishes, Rosane Rocher From gvvajrac at wisc.edu Wed Mar 26 16:57:32 2014 From: gvvajrac at wisc.edu (Gautama Vajra Vajracharya) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 14 11:57:32 -0500 Subject: [INDOLOGY] FROG HYMNS AND RAIN BABIES In-Reply-To: <7490b55a10bd9f.533306f3@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <74f0e4df10de25.5332c0ac@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Dear Friends, Many years ago I wrote an article ?The Adaptation of Monsoonal Culture by Rgvedic Aryans: A Further Study of the Frog Hymn?, Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies 3 (May 1997), pp. 1-19. Realizing that the components of Monsoon culture are hidden not only in Vedic literature but also in the artistic expressions of South Asia, I continued working on the subject in more detail. Now I have a monograph, Frog Hymns and Rain Babies: Monsoon Culture and the Art of Ancient South Asia (Mumbai: The Marg Foundation, 2013). I look forward to your feedback. Gautama Vajracharya From caf57 at cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 27 17:18:20 2014 From: caf57 at cam.ac.uk (C.A. Formigatti) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 14 17:18:20 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Mss in St Petersburg (Rosane Rocher) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <2ba14cec2bc01196dec69e9cea3cbf3d@cam.ac.uk> Dear Prof. Rocher, I do not know if the catalogs listed in Janert's Annotated Bibliography of the Catalogues of Indian Manuscripts (nos. 150, 261-262 and 288-290) and in Biswas'Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (nos. 0827-0828 and 0945-0947) are comprehensive, but maybe the might be helpful (maybe also the article by The Central Asian Manuscript Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences by M. I. Vorobyova Desyatovskaya and Jan Nattier). Best wishes, Camillo Formigatti On 2014-03-27 16:00, indology-request at list.indology.info wrote: > Send INDOLOGY mailing list submissions to > indology at list.indology.info > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology_list.indology.info > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > indology-request at list.indology.info > > You can reach the person managing the list at > indology-owner at list.indology.info > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of INDOLOGY digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Sanskrit Mss in St Petersburg (Rosane Rocher) > 2. FROG HYMNS AND RAIN BABIES (Gautama Vajra Vajracharya) > > List-Post: > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: Rosane Rocher > Precedence: list > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: indology at list.indology.info > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:15:41 -0400 > Message-ID: <5332FD2D.8030907 at sas.upenn.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > Subject: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Mss in St Petersburg > Message: 1 > > Dear Colleagues, > > I would be most grateful for the name and email or other address of the > person in charge of Sanskrit manuscripts in St Petersburg. There is no > comprehensive catalog of them, is there? > > With thanks and best wishes, > Rosane Rocher > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology_list.indology.info From kellner at asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de Thu Mar 27 17:48:56 2014 From: kellner at asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de (Kellner, Birgit) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 14 18:48:56 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Mss in St Petersburg (Rosane Rocher) In-Reply-To: <2ba14cec2bc01196dec69e9cea3cbf3d@cam.ac.uk> Message-ID: The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in St. Petersburg has an excellent and highly informative website; see here for the institute structure: http://orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=53. With best regards, Birgit Kellner ---------- Prof. Dr. Birgit Kellner Chair of 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 ________________________________________ Von: INDOLOGY [indology-bounces at list.indology.info] im Auftrag von C.A. Formigatti [caf57 at cam.ac.uk] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. M?rz 2014 18:18 An: indology at list.indology.info Betreff: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Mss in St Petersburg (Rosane Rocher) Dear Prof. Rocher, I do not know if the catalogs listed in Janert's Annotated Bibliography of the Catalogues of Indian Manuscripts (nos. 150, 261-262 and 288-290) and in Biswas'Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (nos. 0827-0828 and 0945-0947) are comprehensive, but maybe the might be helpful (maybe also the article by The Central Asian Manuscript Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences by M. I. Vorobyova Desyatovskaya and Jan Nattier). Best wishes, Camillo Formigatti On 2014-03-27 16:00, indology-request at list.indology.info wrote: > Send INDOLOGY mailing list submissions to > indology at list.indology.info > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology_list.indology.info > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > indology-request at list.indology.info > > You can reach the person managing the list at > indology-owner at list.indology.info > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of INDOLOGY digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Sanskrit Mss in St Petersburg (Rosane Rocher) > 2. FROG HYMNS AND RAIN BABIES (Gautama Vajra Vajracharya) > > List-Post: > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: Rosane Rocher > Precedence: list > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: indology at list.indology.info > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:15:41 -0400 > Message-ID: <5332FD2D.8030907 at sas.upenn.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > Subject: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Mss in St Petersburg > Message: 1 > > Dear Colleagues, > > I would be most grateful for the name and email or other address of the > person in charge of Sanskrit manuscripts in St Petersburg. There is no > comprehensive catalog of them, is there? > > With thanks and best wishes, > Rosane Rocher > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology_list.indology.info _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY at list.indology.info http://listinfo.indology.info From christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be Thu Mar 27 20:55:40 2014 From: christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be (Christophe Vielle) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 14 21:55:40 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Converting "Kali chronograms" Message-ID: Dear list, in trying to solve the discrepancy between two different Gregorian dates (1310 AD in Kunjunni Raja 1958, but 1314 AD KSSC) given on the basis of the same "chronogram" pu?y??avy?m yatis sy?t denoting the Kali days according to the ka?apay?di system of writing the numbers: pu (1) - ?y? (1) - ?a (1) - vy? (1) - mya (1) - ti (6)- ssyaat (1) = 1611111 I came across the following useful on-line tool http://www.usvishakh.net/php/kaligreg.php which in this case gives the following precise date: 1310 February 19 (Wednesday). I made some new testing on the basis of a few more Kunjunni Raja (1958)'s dates: ? p. 61 (Tantrasa?graha of N?laka??ha Somay?j?): he vi??o nihita? k?tsna? = 1500 AD (he vi-??o ni-hi-ta? k?-tsna? = 84508610) Converter: 1500 April 1 (Sunday) But in K. Ramasubramanian, Tantrasa?graha of N?laka??ha Somay?j?, 2011 http://books.google.be/books?id=TGYxXjZXIGwC , p. xxxvii, differently: "(...) the Kali chronogram of the date of the commencement of the work, which turns out to be 1680548, and corresponds to Mina 26,4600 gatakali (elapsed Kali years) according to the Indian calendar, which corresponds to March 22, 1500 CE according to the Gregorian calendar" ? p. 129 (Prakry?sarvasva): "yatna? phalapras?? sy?t [and] k?tar?garasodya representing 1723201 (ya-tna?-pha-la-pra-s?-ssy?t) and 1723261 (k?-ta-r?-ga-ra-so-dya) respectively ... give the dates January and March of 1616 AD" But converter : 1617 January 10 (Tuesday) and 1617 March 11 (Saturday) respectively ? p. 130 : "the N?r?ya??ya (completed) on 27th November 1586, expressed by the chronogram ?yur?rogyasaukhyam denoting the Kali date 1712210 ( ?-yu-r?-ro-gya-sau-khyam)" But converter : 1586 December 8 (Monday) My question to the specialists of calendars/chronology : what explains these slight differences; is the on-line tool right or not in these cases ? 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Thanks in advance, Richard Salomon Diwakar Acharya, "Anuparama's Dvaipayanastotra Inscription from the Early 6th century," Journal of indological studies (Kyoto University) 19 (2007), pp. 29-52. ---------------------- Richard Salomon Department of Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington, Box 353521 Seattle WA 98195-3521 USA From yanom at cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp Fri Mar 28 02:16:04 2014 From: yanom at cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp (yanom at cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 14 11:16:04 +0900 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Converting "Kali chronograms" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20140328021604.00003803.0349@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp> First of all you should clearly distinguish Gregorian calendar and Julian calendar. Since Gregorian calendar started on 15 October 1582, dates before should be given in Julian calendar. Thus you should be careful when you use? the online tool http://www.usvishakh.net/php/kaligreg.php which does not show Julian Calendar. Here is my comments according to my pancanga program which you can run at: http://www.cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~yanom/pancanga/index.html. Julin day 1611111 falls on 1310 Feb.11 (Wednesday) by Julian calendar. The same day can be 1310 Feb. 19 by Gregorian calendar, but as I wrote above, this is misleading. JD 84508610 is impossible (too large number!). `Converter: 1500 April 1 (Sunday)' ?would be also in Gregorian,? and it should be 1500 April 12 (Sunday) (JD 1680569) in Julian calendar. ? JD 1680548 falls on 1500 March 22 (Sunday) in Julian Calendar, not Gregorian. The solar calendar date is Mina 27, Kali 4601. (4600 is wrong. Mina 26 is possible depending on the definition of solar date).? In this sense K. Ramasubramanian's dating is misleading. JD 1723201 falls on 1617 January 10 (Tuesday) by Gregorian calendar. JD 1723261 falls on 1617 March 11 (Saturday) by Gregorian calendar. Both are OK. JD 1712210 falls on 1586 December 8 (Monday) by Gregorian calendar which is 1586 November 28 by Julian calendar. Remember that Gregorian calendar was officially in use only after 1752 in British ruled countries including India. (This is the reason why the pancanga program gives double dates between 1582 and 1752). With best wishes, Michio Yano ----- Original Message ----- > Dear list, > > in trying to solve the discrepancy between two different Gregorian dates (1310 AD in Kunjunni Raja 1958, but 1314 AD KSSC) given on the basis of the same "chronogram" > pu?y??avy?m yatis sy?t > denoting the Kali days according to the ka?apay?di system of writing the numbers: > pu (1) - ?y? (1) - ?a (1) - vy? (1) - mya (1) - ti (6)- ssyaat (1) = 1611111 > > I came across the following useful on-line tool > > http://www.usvishakh.net/php/kaligreg.php > > which in this case gives the following precise date: 1310 February 19 (Wednesday). > > I made some new testing on the basis of a few more Kunjunni Raja (1958) 's dates: > > ? p. 61 (Tantrasa?graha of N?laka??ha Somay?j?): he vi??o nihita? k? tsna? = > 1500 AD (he vi-??o ni-hi-ta? k?-tsna? = 84508610) > > Converter: 1500 April 1 (Sunday) > > But in K. Ramasubramanian, Tantrasa?graha of N?laka??ha Somay?j?, 2011 > http://books.google.be/books?id=TGYxXjZXIGwC , p. xxxvii, differently: > "(...) the Kali chronogram of the date of the commencement of the work, which turns out to be 1680548, and corresponds to Mina 26,4600 gatakali (elapsed Kali years) according to the Indian calendar, which corresponds to March 22, 1500 CE according to the Gregorian calendar" > > ? p. 129 (Prakry?sarvasva): "yatna? phalapras?? sy?t [and] k?tar? garasodya > representing 1723201 (ya-tna?-pha-la-pra-s?-ssy?t) > and 1723261 (k?-ta-r?-ga-ra-so-dya) respectively > ... give the dates January and March of 1616 AD" > > But converter : 1617 January 10 (Tuesday) and 1617 March 11 (Saturday) respectively > > ? p. 130 : "the N?r?ya??ya (completed) on 27th November 1586, expressed by the chronogram ?yur?rogyasaukhyam denoting the Kali date 1712210 ( ?-yu-r?-ro-gya-sau-khyam)" > > But converter : 1586 December 8 (Monday) > > My question to the specialists of calendars/chronology : what explains these slight differences; is the on-line tool right or not in these cases ? > > Best wishes > ??????????????????? > Christophe Vielle > Louvain-la-Neuve > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info From ssandahl at sympatico.ca Fri Mar 28 03:52:03 2014 From: ssandahl at sympatico.ca (Stella Sandahl) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 14 23:52:03 -0400 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?[INDOLOGY]_C=C3=A9r=C3=A9monie_fun=C3=A9raire_de_Kamaleshwar_Bhattacharya?= Message-ID: Kamaleshwar's son has just informed me that La c?r?monie aura lieu demain (i.e le 28 mars) au Cr?matorium et Centre Fun?raire de Montreuil-Juign? ? 13h30. 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Kind regards, Jacob Jacob Schmidt-Madsen Teaching Assistant Department of Indology University of Copenhagen Denmark From rrocher at sas.upenn.edu Fri Mar 28 13:53:29 2014 From: rrocher at sas.upenn.edu (Rosane Rocher) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 14 09:53:29 -0400 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Mss in St Petersburg (Rosane Rocher) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <53357ED9.7010407@sas.upenn.edu> Many thanks to all the colleagues who responded to my query on and off list. I found the Mironov catalog of 1914, digitized on Dominik's homepage, particularly informative, even for scholars who struggle with Russian. The brief history of the collections and other information posted on the Institute of Oriental Studies (English) website is also of considerable help. I am again most appreciative of our wonderfully supportive community of scholars. Every communication provided usable data. Best wishes to all, Rosane On 3/28/14 7:05 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > > > > On 27 March 2014 18:18, C.A. Formigatti > wrote: > > Dear Prof. Rocher, > > I do not know if the catalogs listed in Janert's Annotated > Bibliography of the Catalogues of Indian Manuscripts (nos. 150, > 261-262 and 288-290) and in Biswas'Bibliographic > Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (nos. 0827-0828 and > 0945-0947) are comprehensive, but maybe the might be helpful > (maybe also the article by The Central Asian Manuscript Collection > of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies > of the Russian Academy of Sciences by M. I. Vorobyova > Desyatovskaya and Jan Nattier). > > > The first two MS catalogues (Biswas 0827 0828) are digitized in my > collection . > > Best, > Dominik > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hahn.m at t-online.de Fri Mar 28 18:54:29 2014 From: hahn.m at t-online.de (Michael Hahn) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 14 19:54:29 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit manuscripts in St. Petersburg Message-ID: <20140328195428.E994.CF0E9E7@t-online.de> Dear members, I cannot help but report my experiences with the Oriental Manuscript Library in St. Petersburg. In the early seventies I wished to consult the rather recent paper manuscript of Candragomin's Sisyalekha which had been edited a long time ago by the Russian scholar Minaev. So it was not an unpublished manuscript. The Ms. consists only of only 7 or 8 folios. I filed my request, received a positive response and instead of a payment I was requested to send a copy of my Tibetan textbook, which I gladly did. After two months I received a letter informing me that my request was now being taken care of. After another 2 months I was informed that the Ms. had now been sent to the photographic department. After another two months: The film has now been prepared. After another two months: The film has now been sent to the forwarding section. After another two months, twelve in all, I received the microfilm. Although the whole situation had a strong kafkaesk touch I was really lucky and happy: My request was indeed fulfilled. And it had been worthwhile to wait: Although the original palm leaf manuscript from which the Russian copy was prepared (by Amrtananda!) is still available (now published in my book "Invitation to Enlightenment") it is obviously stronger damaged than it was two centuries ago. So a few gaps could indeed be filled. Now these were the days of the Cold War, of general paranoia and a highly developed bureaucracy, not to speak of the lack of the technical facilities we are enjoying nowadays. What else to expect! Therefore it came as a big surprise that a second rather innocent attempt to get a manuscript from St. Petersburg ended in a failure, less than 10 years ago. Among the collections there is an unpublished niti work called Subhasitarnava. It is about 200 years old, comprising more than 300 (small) pages and written in the Bengali script and according to B?htlingk very faulty. It was completely exploited by B?htlingk for his "Indische Spr?che", either by giving its variant readings or presenting all those stanzas that cannot be found elsewhere. So the content of the Ms. is fully available. For reasons not to be elaborated here it thought it desirable to make the text accessible as a whole. Since I am rather familiar with the genre by several editions of niti texts I thought I could execute the task without too much effort. I filed my request which was never officially answered. Only unofficially I received the information that my request had been discussed, but that it was decided that the manuscript should not be given to a foreigner. I was really shocked. In my na?vet? I had assumed that I would be doing a favour not only to the specialists in the field but also to the owner of the manuscript. So it obviously deemed the authorities better to let the Ms. slumber for another 200 years than to show it to the impure eyes of a foreigner. Are we still in the seventies? By the way: I already saw the manuscript because all (?) the Sanskrit manuscripts from St. Petersburg were microfilmed by the IGNCA. It can even be consulted there, but of course not published. Again: Why are we doing the laudable job of preserving manuscripts by microfilming them? I am fully aware that many of our colleagues have made the same experiences at different places in the world. So this is nothing special. Nevertheless I think it is useful to mention them from time to time. Perhaps the restrictive attitude can slowly be changed. And it just occurred to me: Instead of naming (and blaming) the institutions that are not so helpful (in some kind of "black list") wouldn't it be worthwhile to compile a "white list" of the more cooperative institutions? Fortunately there are many of them. I apologize for my long letter. Michael Hahn --- Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn Ritterstr. 14 D-35287 Amoeneburg Tel. +49-6422-938963 Fax: +49-6422-938967 E-mail: hahn.m at t-online.de URL: staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~hahnm From rsalomon at u.washington.edu Fri Mar 28 20:03:12 2014 From: rsalomon at u.washington.edu (Richard Salomon) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 14 13:03:12 -0700 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Article request > thanks to all In-Reply-To: <41625623-F9C5-4E2C-B69C-D5E82B1B5539@me.com> Message-ID: <5335D580.5050003@u.washington.edu> Dear colleagues, Many thanks to the several of you who sent me the requested article by D. Acharya so promptly. Rich Salomon On Mar 28, 2014, at 6:21, Richard Salomon wrote: > I have not been able to locate a copy of the following article. Can anyone help me with this? > > Thanks in advance, > > Richard Salomon > > Diwakar Acharya, "Anuparama's Dvaipayanastotra Inscription from the Early 6th century," Journal of indological studies (Kyoto University) 19 (2007), pp. 29-52. > > > ---------------------- > > Richard Salomon > Department of Asian Languages and Literature > University of Washington, Box 353521 > Seattle WA 98195-3521 > USA > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Here is the link: http://www.wissenschaft-ist-zukunft.at/index.php?file=home_uk.htm Thank you for having a look and letting me know! With best regards and many thanks in advance, Vincent Eltschinger Dr. Vincent Eltschinger Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia Deputy Director Austrian Academy of Sciences Apostelgasse 23 A-1030 Vienna Vincent.Eltschinger at oeaw.ac.at 0043 1 51581 6434 0041 79 7347694 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nlidova at gmail.com Fri Mar 28 21:47:26 2014 From: nlidova at gmail.com (Lidova Natalia) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 14 01:47:26 +0400 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Mss in St Petersburg In-Reply-To: <5332FD2D.8030907@sas.upenn.edu> Message-ID: Dear Prof. Rosane Rocher, I think the easiest way is to contact Dr. Irina Popova who is the head of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (http://www.orientalstudies.ru) in S.Peterburg. She is also the head of the Department of Manuscripts and Documents. I will be happy to assist in case you need any further help as I know her personally. The contact details are below: Institute e-mail: iom at orientalstudies.ru; Dr.Popova e-mail: popova at orientalstudies.ru Institute tel.: +7-812-3158728 With best wishes, Natalia Lidova. 2014-03-26 20:15 GMT+04:00 Rosane Rocher : > Dear Colleagues, > > I would be most grateful for the name and email or other address of the > person in charge of Sanskrit manuscripts in St Petersburg. There is no > comprehensive catalog of them, is there? > > With thanks and best wishes, > Rosane Rocher > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wujastyk at gmail.com Fri Mar 28 23:56:51 2014 From: wujastyk at gmail.com (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 14 00:56:51 +0100 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Petition on Austria needs Science and Science needs Public Funding In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I publicly support Dr. Eltschinger's request to support this petition. I have signed it myself, and I urge you to do so too if you wish to help indology in Austria. For those not *au courant* with Austrian matters, in January this year, just three months ago, the Austrian government decided without warning to discontinue the existence of the Ministry of Science and Research (=higher education). They moved some of its functions into the Ministry of Economic Affairs, renamed Ministry of Science, Research and Economics (Bundesministerium f?r Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft). They split off those parts of the old Ministry concerned specifically with applied and business-related research and development and gave them to the Ministry of Transport, Technology and Innovation. These moves became law on 1st March, just weeks ago. These changes have crystallized major uncertainties about the future of funding for academic research in Austria, uncertainties that were already creating serious anxieties in the main research councils last year. In general, the academy in Austria feels itself to be under serious economic threat at this time. Best, -- 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 On 28 March 2014 21:55, Audrey Truschke wrote: > I am forwarding the following message from Vincent Eltschinger. > > Dear Madam, Dear Sir, > A few days ago, I have been asking Dominik whether the Indology list would > agree that I post a petition launched by the president of the Austrian > Academy of Sciences, Prof. Anton Zeilinger. The petition concerns all > researchers based in Austria, which, as you may know, represents one of the > biggest concentration of Indologists throughout the world. Dominik has > asked me to ask you, and so I do! > Here is the link: > http://www.wissenschaft-ist-zukunft.at/index.php?file=home_uk.htm > Thank you for having a look and letting me know! > With best regards and many thanks in advance, > > Vincent Eltschinger > > Dr. Vincent Eltschinger > Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia > Deputy Director > Austrian Academy of Sciences > Apostelgasse 23 > A-1030 Vienna > Vincent.Eltschinger at oeaw.ac.at > 0043 1 51581 6434 > 0041 79 7347694 > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > INDOLOGY at list.indology.info > http://listinfo.indology.info > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arlogriffiths at hotmail.com Sat Mar 29 11:12:52 2014 From: arlogriffiths at hotmail.com (Arlo Griffiths) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 14 11:12:52 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] requesting article Message-ID: Colleagues, Could anyone furnish the following in pdf form? P. V. B. Karunatillaka, ?The Administrative Organization of the Nalanda Mahavihara from Sigillary Evidence?, The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities 6.1 & 2 (1980) I don't know the page references. Thank you very much. Best wishes, Arlo Griffiths EFEO/Jakarta -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mkapstei at uchicago.edu Sat Mar 29 22:23:19 2014 From: mkapstei at uchicago.edu (Matthew Kapstein) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 14 22:23:19 +0000 Subject: [INDOLOGY] text search Message-ID: <82C3E42590D939418C74DD76B97DDED083BD20@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu> Dear friends, Does anyone by any chance have a scan of S. Yamaguchi's ed. of the Tibetan text of Sthiramati's commentary on the Madhyaantavibhaaga? many thanks in advance, 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 Mar 30 14:04:46 2014 From: witzel at fas.harvard.edu (Michael Witzel) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 14 10:04:46 -0400 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Report: 6th Intl. Vedic Workshop Message-ID: <631FE226-B655-4EE5-949A-A559CDCB8153@fas.harvard.edu> Dear All, from Jan.7- 10, the 6th International Vedic Workshop took place at Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala. It was excellently organized by the local committee. This was followed by a tour to Nambudiri Brahmin villages in Central Kerala, where the three Vedas are taught and elaborate Shrauta rituals are performed still. Both a great and pleasurable experiences! Here my report: http://vedagya.blogspot.com/2014/03/report-on-6-th-international-vedic.html Enjoy! Michael > ============ > 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 palaniappa at aol.com Sun Mar 30 15:22:44 2014 From: palaniappa at aol.com (palaniappa at aol.com) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 14 11:22:44 -0400 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Report: 6th Intl. Vedic Workshop In-Reply-To: <631FE226-B655-4EE5-949A-A559CDCB8153@fas.harvard.edu> Message-ID: <8D11A43082C8A5B-2358-8799@webmail-va026.sysops.aol.com> Michael, I am intrigued by the term 'v?ram recitation'. Can you describe this mode of recitation? In the Cilappatik?ram, the term 'v?ram p??al', i.e., singing v?ram is used. It is also mentioned in Tolk?ppiyam Poru?atik?ram 653. V. P. K. Sundaram, the late musicologist, explains v?ram as two ak?aras per unit time. I am curious how the term is used in the context of Vedic recitation. Thanks Regards, Palaniappan -----Original Message----- From: Michael Witzel To: Indology ; Informationsaustausch der deutschsprachigen Indologie ; indo_iranian ; Indo-Eurasian_research ; INDOLOGY Sent: Sun, Mar 30, 2014 9:05 am Subject: [INDOLOGY] Report: 6th Intl. Vedic Workshop Dear All, from Jan.7- 10, the 6th International Vedic Workshop took place at Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala. It was excellently organized by the local committee. This was followed by a tour to Nambudiri Brahmin villages in Central Kerala, where the three Vedas are taught and elaborate Shrauta rituals are performed still. Both a great and pleasurable experiences! Here my report: http://vedagya.blogspot.com/2014/03/report-on-6-th-international-vedic.html Enjoy! Michael ============ 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 _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY at list.indology.info http://listinfo.indology.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Vedic Workshop In-Reply-To: <8D11A43082C8A5B-2358-8799@webmail-va026.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Palaniappan: *v?ram *recitation refers to the recitation of mantras by multiple people in turns. *v?ra-, *perhaps derived from ?vr?- also has the meanings of 'day of the week' (turn of the day?), again and again (*v?ra?-v?ra?, v?ra**?** v?re?a) and occasion *(related to Hindi* b?r-, b?ri* 'turn' [CDIAL 11547]) etc. Interestingly, Dravidian *c?ri/s**?ri *[DEDR 2464] shows similar semantics of turn, time, occasion etc., although, I don't believe these two words are related. Suresh. Atlanta, GA. On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 11:22 AM, wrote: > Michael, > > I am intrigued by the term '*v?ram* recitation'. Can you describe this > mode of recitation? In the Cilappatik?ram, the term '*v?ram p??al*', > i.e., singing *v?ram *is used. It is also mentioned in Tolk?ppiyam > Poru?atik?ram 653. V. P. K. Sundaram, the late musicologist, explains > *v?ram* as two *ak?ara*s per unit time. 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University students ? undergraduate, graduate, researchers, and faculty members are welcome to join this. Please find a brochure with details of the program attached. Please forward this to the academicians and universities that you are in touch. > > Those who would like to participate in the Summer School should submit their application online through the following link Application ? Summer School 2014. > > Thanks and regards, > Srinivasa Kumar N Acharya > > Assistant Professor > Dvaita Philosophy Resource Centre (DPRC) > Manipal Centre for European Studies (MCES) > Manipal University (MU) > Behind Post Office, Manipal (Vedadri) ? 576104 Udupi, Karnataka, India > > Telephone: +91 820 2923053 > Hand-held: +91 99860 85634 > Website: www.manipal.edu/des/dprc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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ISBN: 9784831865151 483186515X; WorldCat link: http://www.worldcat.org/title/seshin-yuishiki-no-genten-kaimei/oclc/752052158?referer=di&ht=edition Many thanks, Roy Tzohar Dr. Roy Tzohar, Assistant Professor Department of East Asian Studies Tel Aviv University Zukunftsphilologie Affiliated Fellow 2013-14, Forum Transregionale Studien, Freie Universit?t, Berlin www.zukunftsphilologie.de www.forum-transregionale-studien.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wujastyk at gmail.com Mon Mar 31 17:59:54 2014 From: wujastyk at gmail.com (Dominik Wujastyk) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 14 19:59:54 +0200 Subject: [INDOLOGY] Prof. Helmut Krasser Message-ID: It gives me great sadness to announce the death of Prof. Dr Helmut Krasser, Director of the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in Vienna. Prof. Krasser was known to many of us as a leading scholar in the fields of Sanskrit, Tibetan and Buddhist philosophy, as well as an administrator who enabled the careers of many other scholars to flourish under his aegis. May he rest in peace. -- ?http://www.ikga.oeaw.ac.at/Mitarbeiter/Krasser -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From soni at staff.uni-marburg.de Mon Mar 31 18:56:31 2014 From: soni at staff.uni-marburg.de (soni at staff.uni-marburg.de) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 14 20:56:31 +0200 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?[INDOLOGY]_Vi-d=C5=AB_09,_Vidyudd=C5=ABta=E1=B8=A5,_the_E-Messenger?= Message-ID: <20140331205631.Horde.KeFU87xRyJ1fN-PCieyVKg1@home.staff.uni-marburg.de> Dear Colleagues and Friends, As usual, it is a pleasure to present to you the next issue of Vi-d?. The poem translated into Sanskrit for the second anniversary of Vi-d? is an unusual tribute, and "is translated with a purpose of enriching Sanskrit literature with contemporary contents, themes and ideas written in a modern Indian language. It aims to highlight the point that Sanskrit is capable of expressing 21st century ideas with equal or more effect." I trust you will also enjoy reading it. With best wishes, Jayendra Soni Secretary General, IASS http://www.sanskritassociation.org/ -- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Our friend died after a two-year struggle against illness during which he exemplarily never gave up hope and never ceased to care for optimism and good mood. Helmut Krasser had studied Indian Buddhism, Tibetology and philosophy at the University of Vienna from 1981 to 1989 under the guidance of his teacher Prof. Ernst Steinkellner, to whom he succeeded at the head of the Vienna institute. After his PhD (an edition and German translation of Dharmottara?s Laghupr?m??yapar?k??, Vienna 1991), he spent two years in Kyoto under the learned and friendly supervision of Prof. Katsumi Mimaki. Back in Vienna, he developed further the philological and historical acumen that made his work such an irreplaceable standard in the field of late Indian Buddhist philosophy. During the last ten years, Krasser had been increasingly involved in the Viennese institute?s groundbreaking cooperation with the China Tibetology Research Center (Beijing), a cooperation that has resulted in the sensational publication of numerous works the Sanskrit original of which had been hitherto considered lost. Besides his participation in numerous collective works and a long list of articles (e.g., Pram??ak?rti?, Festschrift Steinkellner, Vienna 2007, together with Birgit Kellner, Horst Lasic, Michael Torsten Much, Helmut Tauscher; Religion and Logic in Buddhist Philosophical Analysis, Vienna 2011, together with Horst Lasic, Eli Franco und Birgit Kellner; Scriptural Authority, Reason and Action, Vienna 2013, together with Vincent Eltschinger), Krasser?s most significant works include the monumental edition, translation and study of ?a?karanandana?s ??var?p?kara?asa?k?epa (Vienna 2002, Krasser?s habilitation thesis), the edition of the first two chapters of Jinendrabuddhi?s Vi??l?malavat? commentary on Dign?ga?s Pram??asamuccaya (Vienna, 2005 and 2012, together with Horst Lasic and Ernst Steinkellner), and an annotated translation of the final section of Dharmak?rti?s Pram??av?rttikasvav?tti (Vienna 2012, together with Vincent Eltschinger and John Taber). In his activity as a lecturer at the University of Vienna, Krasser has been supervising the PhD theses of several promising young scholars, among whom mention may be made of Masamichi Sakai, Hisataka Ishida, and Patrick Mc Allister. Let it also be mentioned that in the last few years, Krasser?s research work led him to hypothesize that most of the extant Buddhist philosophical literature actually consisted in more or less carefully edited notes taken by monastic students during ?philosophy? classes. The (hypo)thesis, which certainly needs further substantiation and an edition of Krasser?s research notes, will not fail to be the source of scholarly debate and inspiration. All those who have had the privilege to meet Helmut Krasser have been instantly charmed by his wit, the warm and vibrant expression of his eyes, his exceptional understanding of things human and social, and the unique manner in which he managed not to take himself or his research (too) seriously. Krasser did not only belong to the most talented scholars of his generation. He also?and maybe above all? belonged to the most generous, humorous and lucid representatives of our field(s). We all owe you, we all miss you, Helmut. In the name of the institute, Dr. Vincent Eltschinger Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia Austrian Academy of Sciences Apostelgasse 23 A-1030 Vienna Vincent.Eltschinger at oeaw.ac.at 0043 1 51581 6434 0041 79 7347694 ________________________________ Von: INDOLOGY [indology-bounces at list.indology.info]" im Auftrag von "Dominik Wujastyk [wujastyk at gmail.com] Gesendet: Montag, 31. M?rz 2014 19:59 An: Indology Betreff: [INDOLOGY] Prof. Helmut Krasser It gives me great sadness to announce the death of Prof. Dr Helmut Krasser, Director of the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in Vienna. 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