Dear Jean-Luc,

I presume the suggestion in your message is that it is improper for several colleagues with a (past) EFEO connection to be involved in a new Indological series published by the IFP outside of the framework of the EFEO-IFP series Collection Indologie, and that you find it ironic that the IFP has named the new/tentative series after a scholar who was for 21 years of the 20th century director of the EFEO.

Could you provide such a convenient link for the diagnosis of François Gros, or a scan? I do not know what document you are talking about, and I suppose this holds for most other list members, although I am not sure everybody cares.

Best wishes,

Arlo Griffiths
EFEO/Jakarta





> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:50:07 +0200
> From: jean-luc.chevillard@UNIV-PARIS-DIDEROT.FR
> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: French Institute of Pondicherry / Publications April 2012
> To: INDOLOGY@liverpool.ac.uk
>
> (eventual ERRATA and) CORRIGENDA/ADDENDA:
>
> ****************************
>
> Dear Indology mailing list members,
>
>
> a new IFP publication has appeared,
> under the leadership of Bruno DAGENS
> who was an EFEO (École Française d'Extrême-Orient) "scientific member"
> for 17 years
>
> "http://www.efeo.fr/biographies/notices/dagens.htm"
>
> (before becoming a "professeur" at "Paris 3" university)
> [He is currently retired, due to age limits in France]
>
> It appears as part of a new TENTATIVE collection
> named after the late Jean Filliozat who was the EFEO director for 21
> years. SEE:
>
> "http://www.efeo.fr/biographies/notices/filliozat.htm"
>
> All that is reassuring because it shows that François Gros's
> FRANK/UNDIPLOMATIC "juvénile" diagnosis found in the pages 47-81 of the
> (green) report for the 75th anniversary of the EFEO was sound !
>
> It is a good thing for France to be involved in Southern Indian literatures.
>
> (François GROS himself later became an EFEO director)
>
> SEE: "http://www.efeo.fr/biographies/notices/gros.htm"
>
> and
> SEE:
> "http://www.ifpindia.org/Deep-Rivers-Selected-Writings-on-Tamil-Literature.html"
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> -- Jean-Luc Chevillard (CNRS [UMR 7597])
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: French Institute of Pondicherry / Publications April 2012
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:25:49 +0580
> From: IFP Info <ifpinfo@ifpindia.org>
> Reply-To: IFP Info <ifpinfo@ifpindia.org>
> To: jean-luc.chevillard@univ-paris-diderot.fr
>
>
>
> Just Published - April 2012
>
> IFPINFO / New publication / Nouvelle publication
>
>
> JUST PUBLISHED
>
>
> Suksmagama. Volume II. Chapters 14 to 53.
>
> *S. Sambandhasivacarya, B. Dagens, M.-L. Barazer-Billoret* and *T.
> Ganesan* with the collaboration of *J.-M. Creisméas*, Steles : Jean
> Filliozat Series in South Asian Culture and History no. 3, IFP, 2012.
> Language: Sanskrit, with English introduction. *800 Rs (35 €).*
> ISBN:978-81-8470-190-6.
>
> This second volume of the /Suksmagama/ critical edition contains
> descriptions of a variety of rites and ceremonies concerning divinities
> and humans, mostly performed in the temple. Many of them are in the form
> of festivals celebrated in honour of Siva and the Goddess. Others
> include anointing the Linga with a continuous flow of liquids, less well
> known ceremonies connected with the Goddess, special rites exclusively
> performed for the sake of kings, as well as ordeals and an interesting
> and unusual chapter dealing with the organisation of the temple
> personnel. This volume has been prepared and published with the help of
> Région Île-de-France (Programme ARCUS Île-de-France – Inde)
>
> *Keywords: *saiva, saivasiddhanta, agama, ritual
>
> *About the editors:*
>
> * *S. Sambandhasivacarya* has been working in the French Institute of
> Pondicherry since 1969 in the project of critically editing the
> Saivagama-s. Coming from a family of temple priests, well versed in
> the domain of temple rituals and with a long experience in reading
> various ancient scripts, he has rendered great help in the first
> critical editions of agama-s such as the /Matangaparamesvara,
> Sardhatrisatikalottara, Rauravottara, Ajita/ and the /Diptagama/.
> * *Bruno Dagens* (Professor emeritus, Université Paris-III Sorbonne
> nouvelle, member of UMR 7528 and associated researcher at the IFP),
> has translated /Mayamata/ and authored several studies about Indian
> tradition in South and Southeast Asia.
> * *Marie-Luce Barazer-Billoret* (Senior lecturer, Université Paris-III
> Sorbonne nouvelle, member of UMR 7528 and associated researcher at
> the IFP), is studying Southern Saivism; she has authored several
> articles and co-authored the translation of the /Rauravagama/, the
> critical edition of the /Diptagama/ and a book on Siva.
> * *T. Ganesan* has been working as a Senior Researcher in the French
> Institute of Pondicherry since 1985. Under his current research
> project “A Comprehensive History of Saivasiddhanta in Tamilnadu”, he
> has published a detailed monograph /Two Saiva Teachers of the
> sixteenth century. Nigamajnana I and his disciple Nigamajnana II/.
> The first critical edition of the ancient Saiva text,
> /Varunapaddhati/ along with the unpublished commentary of
> Nigamajnana II is one of his main research publications concerning
> the Saiva ritual system.
>
>
> VIENT DE PARAITRE
>
>
> Suksmagama. Volume II. Chapters 14 to 53.
>
> *S. Sambandhasivacarya, B. Dagens, M.-L. Barazer-Billoret* and *T.
> Ganesan* with the collaboration of *J.-M. Creisméas*, Steles : Jean
> Filliozat Series in South Asian Culture and History no. 3, IFP, 2012.
> Langues: sanskrit, avec une introduction en anglais. *800 Rs (35 €). *
> ISBN:978-81-8470-190-6.
>
> Ce second volume de l'édition critique du /Suksmagama/ contient la
> description de divers rites et cérémonies concernant des dieux et des
> humains et pour la plupart accomplis dans le temple. A côté de plusieurs
> fêtes en l'honneur de Siva et de la Déesse, sont décrits l’ondoiement du
> Linga avec un flot continu de liquides, des cérémonies relativement peu
> connues concernant la Déesse, des rites accomplis au bénéfice du roi ou
> bien encore des ordalies, cependant qu’un chapitre intéressant et peu
> commun traite de l’organisation du personnel du temple. Ce volume a été
> préparé et publié avec l'aide de la Région Île-de-France (Programme
> ARCUS Île-de-France - Inde)
>
> *Mots-clefs : *saiva, saivasiddhanta, agama, rites
>
> *A propos des auteurs :*
>
> * *S. Sambandhasivacarya* travaille à l’Institut Français de
> Pondichéry depuis 1969, dans le projet d’édition critique des agama
> sivaïtes. Issu d’une famille de prêtres, versé dans le domaine des
> rites des temples et possédant une longue expérience dans la lecture
> de manuscrits en écritures anciennes différentes, sa contribution a
> été inestimable pour la préparation des premières éditions
> critiques d’agama tels que le /Matangaparamesvara/, le
> /Sardhatrisatikalottara/, le /Rauravottara/, l’/Ajita/ et le
> /Diptagama/.
> * *Bruno Dagens* (Professeur émérite, Université Paris-III Sorbonne
> nouvelle, membre de l’UMR 7528 et chercheur associé à l’IFP), a
> traduit le /Mayamata/ et a publié de nombreux travaux sur le Monde
> indien (Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est).
> * *Marie-Luce Barazer-Billoret* (Maître de conférences, Université
> Paris-III Sorbonne nouvelle, membre de l’UMR 7528 et chercheur
> associé à l’IFP), étudie le Sivaïsme méridional ; elle a publié
> plusieurs articles et, en collaboration, la traduction du
> /Rauravagama/, l’édition critique du /Diptagama/ et un ouvrage sur
> Siva.
> * *T. Ganesan* travaille en tant que « Chercheur Senior » à l’Institut
> Français de Pondichéry depuis 1985. Dans le cadre de son projet de
> recherche actuel « Histoire détaillée du Saivasiddhanta en pays
> tamoul », il a publié une monographie intitulée /Two Saiva Teachers
> of the sixteenth century. Nigamajnana I and his disciple Nigamajnana
> II/. L'une de ses publications principales dans le domaine des rites
> sivaïtes est la première édition critique d’un texte sanskrit ancien
> intitulé la /Varunapaddhati/, accompagné du commentaire inédit de
> Nigamajnana II.
>
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