[INDOLOGY] Childhood and Children in Ancient India

[Ales Petrocchi]

Dear Donald,
it may be not exactly what you mean but you can find interesting
information in few jyotiṣa-texts dealing with HIndu rituals and children
and
in the Bālatantra by Kalyāṇa (approx 16th c. CE), or in other ayurvedic
texts.

Also, I would suggest you to look at the Mānasollāsa.

Yours,
Ales.


On 3 November 2014 19:58, Donald R Davis <drdj at austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

>  Dear colleagues,
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> I would be grateful for further recommendations of secondary studies
> pertaining to childhood and children in ancient India, especially those
> with a historical, epigraphical, or literary focus.  I am aware of the
> studies below that touch on some aspects of children’s lives and training.
> The literature on sons specifically is easier to find, but it clusters
> around the ideal twelve-sons categorization in Dharmasastra.  I’m looking
> for studies outside of Dharmasastra, if possible.  SARDS-3 was helpful.  Is
> there nothing more like Phillipe Aries’s Centuries of Childhood, for those
> of you who may know it?  Any leads would be appreciated.
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> Thanks,
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> Don Davis
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> Dept of Asian Studies
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> University of Texas at Austin
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> Granoff, Phyllis. “Fathers and Sons: Some Remarks on the Ordination of
> Children in the Medieval Śvetāmbara Monastic Community”
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> Kakar, Sudhir. The Inner World
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> Katre, S. M. “On some words for 'child' in Indo-Aryan”
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> Meyer, J.J. Sexual Life in Ancient India
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> Rocher, Ludo. “The Status of Minors in Classical Hindu Law”
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> Scharfe, Hartmut. Education in Ancient India
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> Schopen, Gregory, “The Urban Buddhist Nun and a Protective Rite for
> Children in Early North India”
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> Silk, Jonathan A. “Child abandonment and homes for unwed mothers in
> ancient India: Buddhist sources”
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> Verpoorten, Jean-Marie. “L'enfant dans la littérature rituelle védique
> (brāhmaṇa)”
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