[INDOLOGY] ECSAS 2025: "Recovering lost works: traces and methods"

[Andrew Ollett]

Dear colleagues,

In case you haven't already gone through the 126 (!) panels at this year's
ECSAS in Heidelberg (October 1–4), my co-convenor, Christine Chojnacki, and
I would like to let you know that we will have a panel dedicated to "lost
works" across South Asian literary and intellectual traditions, and we
warmly welcome submissions. The deadline for submission of paper proposals
is January 30.

Paper submission (note that you must be an EASAS member to submit):
https://ecsas2025.com/call-for-panels/

Panel description:
https://ecsas2025.com/panel/107-recovering-lost-works-traces-and-methods/

Andrew

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107 – Recovering lost works: traces and methods

This panel examines lost works of Indian literature, religion, and
philosophy. It focuses not only on the use of traces — whether fragments,
abridgments, or translations — to recover lost works and thereby to gain a
greater understanding of Indian traditions, but on the methods and concepts
that scholars working in different disciplines and subfields bring to these
questions. We are therefore interested in starting a productive dialogue to
compare the clues and methods used for studying "lost texts" between
participants who work across a range of languages and specializations.
Examples might include works presumed lost in their original form but
available in summaries or adaptations, some of which have subsequently been
recovered (e.g., Taraṅgavaī, Ṇivvāṇalīlāvaī, Suhr̥llēkha); works that are
incompletely preserved (e.g., Rukmāṅgada, Pārataveṇpā); works that include
portions of texts otherwise lost (e.g., Tridaṇḍamālā, Śr̥ṅgāraprakāśa,
Yāpparuṅkalavirutti); or works that are totally lost and known only from
either brief quotations or paraphrases (e.g., Mukuṭatāḍitika,
Ṣaḍḍhātusamīkṣā, Vyādi's Saṅgraha). We hope that the comparative and
synthetic results of this panel will aid in future research, and in view of
publishing those results, we ask for original papers.
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