[INDOLOGY] [Publication Announcement] Voix et échos du roman-poème en prakrit

[Roland Steiner]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to bring a new publication to your attention:

Voix et échos du roman-poème en prakrit. Vers une histoire des  
traditions monastiques jaina dans l’Inde médiévale (8e‒12e siècles).
Par Christine Chojnacki. Marburg 2024. 732 pp. [Indica et Tibetica. 62]
ISBN 978-3-923776-69-6
€ 64,00

The influence of Uddyotana’s Kuvalayamālā composed in 779 is  
noticeable in a series of ten long narrative works composed between  
the 8th and 12th centuries: Haribhadra’s Samarāiccakahā (8th c.),  
Guṇapāla’s Jambucaria (9th c.), Śīlāṅka’s Cauppannamahāpurisacaria  
(868), Vijayasiṃha’s Bhuvaṇasuṃdarī (10–11th c.), Guṇacandra’s  
Mahāvīracaria (1082), Vardhamāna’s Maṇoramā (1082), Devacandra’s  
Saṃtiṇāhacaria (1104), Vardhamāna’s Jugāijiṇiṃdacaria (1104),  
Śāntisūri’s Puhaicaṃdacaria (1105) and Devabhadra’s Pāsaṇāhacaria  
(1112). They constitute a particular genre called romance-poem because  
of the distinctive features they have in common: in addition to  
devices typical of the kāvya style in Prakrit and, for most of them,  
the alternation between prose and verse, they contain didactic  
passages borrowed from worldly knowledge and religious discourses  
expounding the principles of the Jaina faith. However, with the  
exception of Haribhadra’s Samarāiccakahā and Uddyotana’s Kuvalayamālā,  
the other nine romance-poems in the corpus have remained un known in  
literary histories as well as in scholarly works partly because of  
their language, and partly because of their editions that were  
restricted to a narrow readership. The first aim of this book is  
therefore to restore these works to their rightful place in Indian  
culture and to assess their role in Jaina literature. The other aim is  
to analyse how the romance-poems composed at a pivotal period that is  
still poorly understood due to a lack of documentation can shed light  
on the history of medieval Jain monasticism.

Further details can be found here:

https://www.iet-verlag.de/ser_iet60.html#i62
https://www.iet-verlag.de/toc/iet62_toc.pdf


Links to the publisher:

https://www.iet-verlag.de/home.html
https://www.iet-verlag.de/contact.html

With my very best wishes,
Roland Steiner