[INDOLOGY] New publication

Wed May 7 09:27:13 UTC 2025

Thanks, Eli, yes it is in the link in Petra's message.
For the record and for the Indology List archives:

PRAŚASTI
Studies in Indology Presented to Nalini Balbir by Colleagues, Students and
Friends

Table of Contents
Tabula Gratulatoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. vii
Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . xiii
Foreword
Mehool H. Sanghrajka MBE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 1
List of Publications of Prof. Nalini Balbir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7
1. Les aventures terrestres de deux mauvais anges jaïns dans le texte
anonyme persan Iẓhār al-ḥaqq (1830–1831)
Jean Arzoumanov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2. Knowing Grammar, Practicing Grammar. Reflections on Some
Didactic Strategies in Dhuṇḍirāja’s Gīrvāṇavāṅmañjarī
Émilie Aussant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3. De l’analogie à la métaphore: la figure rūpaka dans la poésie sans‐
krite à double sens
Sylvain Brocquet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4. Faithful Copying in Tamil Manuscripts: A Philological Remark
Giovanni Ciotti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5. Ācārya Vĳaya Dharmasūri and the First Series of Published Jain
Texts
John E. Cort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
101
6. Hanumān in the Jain Rāmāyaṇas
Eva De Clercq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
123
7. Bhārgava Rāma dans le roman Bhagvān Paraśurām de K. M.
Munshi: Une réécriture personnelle et idéologique
Nicolas Dejenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
137
8. Adopting Structure, Adapting Contents: Abhidhānappadīpikā and
its Commentary (Ṭīkā)
Lata M. Deokar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
9. Interrelationship between Sanskrit and Pali Grammars
Mahesh A. Deokar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
10. A Good Man, not so Good: Courtly Ethics in Vidyāpati’s
Argumentative Lyric Poems
Thibaut d’Hubert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
11. Klaus Bruhn’s “Commentary” on the Jaina-Concordance and Chan‐
drabhal B. Tripathi’s Notebooks at the British Library
Peter Flügel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
207
12. Cultural History through Paratexts: Materials for the Study of the
Nepalese Renaissance (II)
Camillo A. Formigatti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
221
13. On the Wrong Dates in the Colophons of Tamil Nadu Manu‐
scripts: Data, Observations, Interpretative Hypotheses
Marco Franceschini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
14. The Analysis of the Term satipaṭṭhāna in the Pali Exegetical
Tradition
Rupert Gethin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
275
15. The Image of the Victim: Expiatory Gifts in the Karmavipākasaṃhitā
Caterina Guenzi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
289
16. Bhartr̥hari’s Vākyapadīya and the Ancient Vr̥tti (4): The Reception
of Bhartr̥hari’s Vākyapadīya in Mallinātha’s Dvādaśāranayacakra,
with Special Attention to Vākyapadīya 1.13 and the Ancient Vr̥tti
Jan E. M. Houben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
17. kā kriyā? kaḥ poṣadhaḥ? On the Origin and Characteristic of the
Buddhist “Confession Ceremony”
Haiyan Hu-von Hinüber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
18. La création d’une icône littéraire: culte de Mauṉi et développe‐
ment du modernisme tamoul
Léticia Ibanez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
343
19. Donating Unallowable Things. The Ten Types of Legalizers
(kappiyakāraka) and the Implications for Monks
Petra Kieffer-Pülz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
359

20. Die Doctrix grüßt das ganze Hertelhaus: Briefe zwischen
Charlotte Krause und Johannes Hertel
Anett Krause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
21. L’influence du jaïnisme sur le Gaṇitasārasaṃgraha de Mahāvīrā‐
cārya: des évidences, des indices
Catherine Morice-Singh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
22. Kurkyāla Inscription of Jinavallabha: 950 CE
Hampa Nagarajaiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
23. Mad for the Flavour: Notes on lolupa- and lola- in Sanskrit and
Middle Indic
Valters Negribs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
415
24. Of Monks and Books: Manuscripts in Early Jainism
Andrew Ollett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
431
25. Armand Guérinot (1872–1940), a Discreet Bibliographer of
Jainism
Jérôme Petit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
449
26. Wonderful Anomalies: On the Representations of Women
Philosophers in Indian Premodern Literature
Isabelle Ratié . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
473
27. La lettre du Dhamma: note sur le génie linguistique des textes
pāli
Javier Schnake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
515
28. Unabashedly Canonical: Pali Literature and its Discombobula‐
tions
Peter Skilling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
533
29. Embodiment in Jaina Philosophy, with Special Reference to Hu‐
man Embodiment
Jayandra Soni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
557
30. Exile as a Liminal Phase in the Lives of Prince Śreṇika and Prince
Arkakīrti
Luitgard Soni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
569
31. An Older Source for India’s Motto
Carmen S. Spiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
Contributors

On Wed, 7 May 2025 at 09:58, Jan E.M. Houben <jemhouben at gmail.com> wrote:

> Felicitations to the editors, publishers, and of course to the one who is
> felicitated in the volume !
> It would be useful if the readers of this list receive a Table of Contents
> of the volume...
> With best regards,
> Jan Houben
>
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 00:44, Kie Pue via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> It is my pleasure to announce the publication of the Felicitation volume
>> for Nalini Balbir, which appeared as volume 29 of the series Studia
>> Indologica Universitatis Halensis.
>>
>> Jérôme Petit / Georges-Jean Pinault (Eds)
>>
>> PRAŚASTI
>> Studies in Indology Presented to Nalini Balbir by Colleagues, Students
>> and Friends
>> This volume comprises a collection of articles in honor of Professor
>> Nalini Balbir, who turns seventy in 2025. The thirty-one contributions in
>> English, French and German paint a portrait of Balbir. Some are authored by
>> colleagues and friends with whom she worked throughout her academic career,
>> others by junior and senior scholars who were her students, or who
>> collaborated with her on research projects. The main topics that have
>> occupied Balbir at the different stages of her career are represented,
>> including Sanskrit, Middle Indic and Pali philology, Jainism, the history
>> of Indian studies, manuscript studies and contemporary Indian literature.This
>> volume comprises a collection of articles in honour of Professor Nalini
>> Balbir, who turns seventy in 2025. The thirty-one contributions in English,
>> French and German paint a portrait of Balbir. Some are authored by
>> colleagues and friends with whom she worked throughout her academic career,
>> others by junior and senior scholars who were her students, or who
>> collaborated with her on research projects. The main topics that have
>> occupied Balbir at the different stages of her career are represented,
>> including Sanskrit, Middle Indic and Pali philology, Jainism, the history
>> of Indian studies, manuscript studies and contemporary Indian literature.These
>> contributions are preceded by a comprehensive bibliography of Balbir’s
>> work. Her scholarship has many facets, covering nearly the whole of
>> Indology, and involving fieldwork in India, research in libraries, archives
>> and museums in many countries, as well as participation in international
>> conferences. The introduction to the volume retraces the brilliant academic
>> career of the honorand, who obtained a position as Professor of Indology
>> in 1988 at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, where she taught
>> until her retirement in 2022. In 2000, she was also appointed as Professor
>> of Middle Indic Philology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE),
>> Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques. The transmission of
>> knowledge and expertise was one of her major longstanding commitments. The
>> ample Tabula Gratulatoria and the list of her awards testify to Balbir’s
>> international renown as scholar, teacher and mentor.This publication has
>> been made possible through grants obtained from several institutions, which
>> are gratefully acknowledged: the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris
>> Sciences et Lettres), the GREI research team in Indian studies in Paris
>> (Groupe de Recherches en Études Indiennes, EA 2021, EPHE and University
>> Sorbonne Nouvelle), and the Institute of Jainology in London.
>>
>> Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis | Volume 291st edition 2025hardcover,
>> thread stitched, 616 pagesISBN 978-3-86977-292-9
>>
>> The book can be ordered from the publisher
>> https://uvhw.de/studia-indologica/product/250429_08_292-9.html
>> or via booksellers (except Amazon)
>>
>> With kind regards,
>> Petra Kieffer-Pülz
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> *Jan E.M. Houben*
>
> Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology
>
> *Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite*
>
> École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres)
>
> *Sciences historiques et philologiques *
>
> Groupe de recherches en études indiennes (EA 2120)
>
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>
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*Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite*

École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres)

*Sciences historiques et philologiques *

Groupe de recherches en études indiennes (EA 2120)

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