[INDOLOGY] Statement Regarding the Murty Classical Library of India

Tue Mar 5 16:02:58 UTC 2024

Merci Lyne! mon inspiration est toujours de la langue française bien que ce
soit écrit en anglais!

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 2:25 PM Lyne Bansat-Boudon <
Lyne.Bansat-Boudon at ephe.psl.eu> wrote:

> Dear Jesse,
>
> This is a very fine "Défense et Illustration", if not "de la langue
> française" , at least of this incomparable Library.
>
> Thanks for this.
>
> Lyne
>
> Lyne Bansat-Boudon
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> Directeur d'études pour les Religions de l'Inde
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> Ecole pratique des hautes études, section des sciences religieuses
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> Membre senior honoraire de l'Institut universitaire de France
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> *De :* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> de la part de Jesse
> Knutson via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Envoyé :* mardi 5 mars 2024 14:16
> *À :* Robert P. GOLDMAN <rpg at berkeley.edu>
> *Cc :* Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Objet :* Re: [INDOLOGY] Statement Regarding the Murty Classical Library
> of India
>
> I cannot fathom why this is happening, but I fear that I already know the
> kinds of forces compromising academic integrity in this instance, since
> they are likely the same ones at work in many other less spectacular ones.
> Leaving speculation aside for now, I’ll just say that MCLI has been to my
> mind one of the most exciting and uplifting initiatives in our field. The
> way it has weathered previous attacks with solemn dignity has also been a
> model and inspiration. MCLI is exactly the kind of thing I yearned for when
> I first started getting interested in Sanskrit as a tender youth, and it
> really stands to change the world as I see it. I can also say from
> firsthand experience that each of our colleagues who has been fired from
> their position is a scholar and editor of the highest possible order. Their
> dismissal is an act of such insanity that I wonder if anyone behind it
> could even be fit to stand trial. In any case this is an indelible stain on
> the reputation of MCLI and HUP.
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 7:58 PM Robert P. GOLDMAN via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> This is deeply disturbing although, alas, hardly surprising. It reflects,
> no doubt ,political interference with this groundbreaking and outstanding
> scholarly series. List members should add their voices to those of  the
>  former members of the editorial board.
>
> Dr. R.P. Goldman
> William and Catherine Magistretti Professor of Sanskrit Emeritus
> and
> Joint Editor of the South Asia Across the Disciplines  Publication Series
> Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
> Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
>
>
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> On Mar 4, 2024, at 8:29 AM, Archana Venkatesan via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear Respected Colleagues,
>
> With apologies for cross-posting, please see the attached communication
> from the former editors of the Murty Classical Library of India.
>
> Archana
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> Jesse Knutson PhD
> Professor of Sanskrit Language and Literature
> Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures
> University of Hawai'i, Mānoa
> 461 Spalding
>
> E io ch’avea d’error la testa cinta,
> dissi: «Maestro, che è quel ch’i’ odo?
> e che gent’ è che par nel duol sì vinta?
>
> Ed elli a me: «Questo misero modo
> tegnon l’anime triste di coloro
> che visser sanza ’nfamia e sanza lodo.
>
> Mischiate sono a quel cattivo coro
> de li angeli che non furon ribelli
> né fur fedeli a Dio, ma per sé fuoro.
>
> Caccianli i ciel per non esser men belli,
>
> né lo profondo inferno li riceve,
>
>
>                 ch’alcuna gloria i rei avrebber d’elli». (Inferno 3.31-39)
>

-- 
Jesse Knutson PhD
Professor of Sanskrit Language and Literature
Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures
University of Hawai'i, Mānoa
461 Spalding

E io ch’avea d’error la testa cinta,
dissi: «Maestro, che è quel ch’i’ odo?
e che gent’ è che par nel duol sì vinta?

Ed elli a me: «Questo misero modo
tegnon l’anime triste di coloro
che visser sanza ’nfamia e sanza lodo.

Mischiate sono a quel cattivo coro
de li angeli che non furon ribelli
né fur fedeli a Dio, ma per sé fuoro.

Caccianli i ciel per non esser men belli,

né lo profondo inferno li riceve,
              ch’alcuna gloria i rei avrebber d’elli». (Inferno 3.31-39)
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