[INDOLOGY] Book Announcement: DICSEP proceedings vols. 8 and 9

[Ivan Andrijanić]

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest two volumes of the Proceedings of the Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas (DICSEP).

Volume 8 (ed. Sven Sellmer, Ivan Andrijanić, gen. ed. Mislav Ježić) contains the following contributions:

Renate Söhnen-Thieme: Spoken Sanskrit in the Epic
Mislav Ježić: Mŷthos, Épos, and Lógos: Myth, Epic, and Logic. On the Relationship between Hieratic, Aristocratic and Philosophical Traditions: a Comparative Approach
Joanna Jurewicz: Cosmogony, Storytelling and Irony in the Mahābhārata. Why Kṛṣṇa laughs in Bhagavadgītā 2,10
Przemysław Szczurek: In Search of the Beginning of the Strīparvan
Ivan Andrijanić: Fate, Dharma, and Dispassion: Demonic Dialogues in the Mokṣadharmaparvan
Hideki Teshima: Yudhiṣṭhira and the Notion of the Buddhist King Cakravartin: An Analysis of His Image as Reflected in the Āśvamedhikaparvan
Greg Bailey: Some Buddhist Understandings of the Mahābhārata in the Light of the Lalitavistara and its Intertextual Significance
Mandakranta Bose: Private Dilemma and Public Ceremony: The Performance of Authority in the Rāmāyaṇa
McComas Taylor: Reading the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa as Literature: Exploring Purāṇic Narrative Structure
Natalia Lidova: Lokapālas – the Guardians of the World. On the Origin and Nature of the Concept in the Brahmanic tradition
Sven Sellmer: Epic and Non-Epic Ślokas: Comparing Versification in the Great Epics and the Kathāsaritsāgara

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Volume 9 (ed. Sven Sellmer, Ivan Andrijanić, gen. ed. Mislav Ježić) has also been published and includes the following contributions:

Johannes Bronkhorst: The Bhagavadgītā and Karmic Retribution
Mislav Ježić: The Text History, the Impact on the Mahābhārata, and the Dating of the Bhagavadgītā
Péter Száler: Bhāratas and Sāgaras. Recurrent Motifs in the Sanskrit Genealogies
Krešimir Krnic: Epics and Ethics
Diletta Falqui: The Lotus as upamāna in Compounded rūpakas “Lotus-Face”, “Lotus-Eyes”. Epic Genesis of a Mahākāvya Motive
Giulia Buriola Meneghin: Stories in Histories: The Case of Prapannāmṛta 123–125.

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Both volumes will be officially presented during the DICSEP 11 on Monday, 3 August, at 6:00 p.m. (CEST) in Dubrovnik.

The programme of this year's conference is available on the conference website:
https://dicsep.org/

The conference, including the book presentation, may also be followed live via Zoom. Anyone interested in attending online is kindly invited to request the Zoom link by emailing iandrij at m.ffzg.hr.

We warmly welcome all colleagues interested in Sanskrit epics, Purāṇic literature, and related fields.
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