[INDOLOGY] Sexual Harassment

[Artur Karp]

> Iva Fiser

Let's please retain Prof. *Ivo **Fišer*'s Czech family name.

Artur K.

2016-10-17 22:17 GMT+02:00 farkhondeh iran via INDOLOGY <
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> From: farkhondeh iran <iran_farkhondeh at yahoo.fr>
> To: Walter Slaje <slaje at kabelmail.de>
> Cc: Nityanand Misra <nmisra at gmail.com>, indology <
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> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:16:11 +0200
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sexual Harassment
>
> If I may again, I agree with Prof. Slaje on the danger of anachronism and
> the need to go back to the Sanskrit words. The word kanyā-dūṣaṇa does not
> occur in KSS XII, 2, 105 cd but the Sanskrit is crystal-clear: it is a case
> of abuse as the girl is not willing and as the vidyādhara has undertaken to
> abduct her by force.
>
> upetya tām anicchantīm haṭhād dhartum pravṛttavān, KSS XII, 2, 105, cd
> I. Farkhondeh
>
> Le 17 oct. 2016 à 21:54, Walter Slaje <slaje at kabelmail.de> a écrit :
>
> Before rashly jumping to a discussion of “rape” by tacitly presupposing a
> 21st century Western understanding of its concept and performance also
> for ancient India, a clarification is required of the concept(s) of “rape”
> prevailing in premodern Indian thought. What unambiguous words and matching
> notions have so far been recorded that would correspond to "rape" in
> accordance with modern Western standards? What normative boundaries of,
> e.g., “legal” types of marriage such as *rākṣasa *and* piśāca* – clear
> cases of “rape” in Western terms I suppose – needed to be transgressed that
> facts of rape would have been considered as fulfilled in premodern India?
> Was *kanyā-dūṣaṇa* the same as “rape” in our understanding, or simply the
> spoiling of a virgin so that she could no longer be married off and became
> a serious damage to her parents?
>
> In what way can the absolute power a husband would have exercised over his
> wife (or wives) be categorised in contexts of "rape"?
>
> Is there any connecting factor of the past that could be related to the
> extraordinarily high number of filed gang rape cases in present-day India
> as continuously reported by the Indian media? In this latter regard, a good
> starting point could perhaps be Gyula Wojtilla's "Women at Work and Their
> Enemies. A Reappraisal of the Kāmasūtra V, 5, 5 – 10" (I lack the
> bibliographic citation of his paper at the moment).
>
>
> In a more general sense, BĀU (M) VI 4,7 could also be revealing*, *if
> just *ati-√kram* is not understood in line with Śaṅkara’s unconvincing
> attempts at downplaying the matter, but in accordance with Iva Fiser's „overcome
> her forcibly“ (*Indian Erotics of the Oldest Period*, Praha 1966: 116, a
> book not without its merits).
>
>
> Regards,
>
> WS
>
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> 2016-10-17 20:08 GMT+02:00 Nityanand Misra <nmisra at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> On 17 October 2016 at 22:48, Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> Should I understand that there are no traces, no mentions of sexual
>>> harrasment in the entire - vast - corpus of ancient/medieval Indian
>>> literature?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> A search for *rape* as the Text Word in the Puranic Encylopedia under
>> http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/PEScan/2014/w
>> eb/webtc2/index.php shows up the following:
>>
>> Rape of Rambhā by Rāvaṇa (VR, UK).
>> Rape [sic] of Vedavatī by Rāvaṇa (VR, UK). In the VR, it is harassment
>> but not rape. Probably the rape is described in some other R.
>> Rape of Madanamañjarī by Rāvaṇa (source?)
>> Rape of Cañcalākṣī by Rāvaṇa (KambaR)
>> Rape of Arā, daughter of Śukra, by Daṇḍa (VR UK)
>> Rape of Ugrasena's wife by the *Gandharva* Dramila (SB, 10th Canto)
>> Attempt to rape Vinayavatī by Raṅgamālī (Kathāsaritsāgara)
>> Attempt to rape Pramati by Nala, friend of Sudeva (Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa)
>>
>>
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