[INDOLOGY] Workshop at UCPH: ‘Interplay Between the Traditions of Jyotiḥśāstra and the Purāṇas’

Mon May 6 07:47:47 UTC 2019

Dear all,

I’m happy to announce that there be a work shop on ‘Interplay Between the Traditions of Jyotiḥśāstra and the Purāṇas’ at the University of Copenhagen on May 20-22, 2019. The program is appended below and also attached as a PDF file. The workshop is open to all. Please contact me if you have questions.

Best wishes,
Toke

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Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
University of Copenhagen

<toke.knudsen at oneonta.edu<mailto:toke.knudsen at oneonta.edu>>

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Indological Workshop

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

May 20-22, 2019

Interplay Between the Traditions of Jyotiḥśāstra and the Purāṇas

The workshop investigates the interplay between two intellectual traditions of ancient and medieval India, Jyotiḥśāstra (the astral sciences) and the Purāṇas (religious texts of encyclopedic nature).

PROGRAM

MONDAY, MAY 20, 2019: INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, SOUTH CAMPUS, ROOM 27.1.47

09:30-10:00             Tea and coffee

10:00-10:15             Welcome

10:15-10:45             David Buchta, Brown University

                                    Grammatical Concerns among Purāṇa Commentators in Cosmological Passages

10:50-11:20             Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin at Madison

                                    Ancient Geography: A Model of the Universe in Kathmandu’s Royal Palace

11:25-11:55             Jambugahapitiye Dhammaloka, University of Canterbury

                                    Śrīpati’s Critique of Cosmography in the Purāṇas and Some Other Philosophies

12:00-13:00             Lunch

13:00-13:30             Marko Geslani, University of South Carolina

                                    The Ritualization of Jyotiḥśāstra in Purāṇic Rājadharma

13:35-14:05             Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, University of Copenhagen

                                    Three Purāṇic Vākyas in the Siddhāntasundara

14:10-14:40             Bill Mak, Kyoto University

                                    Jyotiṣa Materials in the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa

14:45-15:15             Tea and coffee

15:15-15:45             Krishnamurthi Ramasubramanian, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

                                    Nīlakaṇṭha’s Understanding of the Purāṇic View

15:50-16:20             Kenneth Zysk, University of Copenhagen

                                    Chapters in the Garuḍapurāṇa Derived from the Bṛhatsaṃhitā

16:30-17:00             Group Discussion

TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2019: READINGS OF SANSKRIT TEXTS

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, SOUTH CAMPUS, ROOM 27.1.47

09:45-10:00             Tea and coffee

10:00-12:30             Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5.16 with the Commentary of Vaṃśīdhara—led by David Buchta

12:30-14:00             Lunch

14:00-16:30             Selections from Śrīpati's Siddhāntaśekhara—led by Jambugahapitiye Dhammaloka

18:30                         Dinner for invited participants

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2019: READINGS OF SANSKRIT TEXTS

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, SOUTH CAMPUS, ROOM 27.0.49

09:45-10:00             Tea and coffee

10:00-12:30             Varāhamihira's Bṛhatsaṃhitā 47 (Puṣyasnāna)—led by Marko Geslani

12:30-14:00             Lunch

14:00-16:30             Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa 166-167—led by Bill Mak

Please direct questions to the organizer Toke Lindegaard Knudsen at toke.knudsen at hum.ku.dk<mailto:toke.knudsen at hum.ku.dk>.

This workshop has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 701709 and from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

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