I forgot to mention in my last post the date of the M.G.S. Felicitation volume, which was issued last year (2014). Here is the  table of contents :

 Irreverent History: Essays for M.G.S. Narayanan, edited by Kesavan Veluthat & Donald R. Davis, Jr., Delhi: Primus Books, 2014, ISBN: 978-93-84082-14-7

List of Contributors vii

Preface (Kesavan Veluthat & Donald R. Davis, Jr.) ix

.    1.  M.G.S. Narayanan: The Irreverent Historian        Kesavan Veluthat 1 


Part I: Kerala History and Culture

.    2.  How did Paraśurāma Come to Raise Kerala?
          Christophe Vielle 15

.    3.  From Nadu to Swarupam: Political Authority in Southern Kerala from the tenth to the thirteenth Centuries         K.K. Ganesh 33

.    4.  Changes in Land Relations during the Decline of the Cēra State
           Manu V. Devadevan 53

.    5.  Jaṭāyuvadham in Kerala’s Sanskrit Theatre Kūṭiyāṭṭam  Heike Moser 81

.    6.  Satire as Apology: The Puruṣārtthakkūttŭ of Kerala
        Donald R. Davis, Jr. 93

.    7.  Implications of the Ritual Programme and Context of Āṟāṭṭupuḻa Pūram        Rich Freeman 111


Part II: Epigraphy, Connected History, and Conceptual Frameworks

.    8.  Social Structure and Commercial Pursuits in Early India: Reflections on Some Conceptual Issues  Krishna Mohan Shrimali 147

.    9. The Image of the Scribe in Early Medieval Sources        Daud Ali 167

.    10. Community, Caste and Region in Odisha: The Formative Period           
Bhairabi Prasad Sahu 189

.    11. Varṇa and Jāti in Ancient India: Some Questions            
Upinder Singh 205

.    12. Borrowed Words in an Ocean of Objects: Geniza Sources and new Cultural Histories of the Indian ocean       Elizabeth Lambourn 215

.    13. Political Compacts Made by Local Chiefs during the Later Chola Period      Noboru Karashima 243

.    14. A Copperplate Inscription of Krishnadevaraya’s Time: Its Historical Implication     Y. Subbarayalu 251

.    15. Historical Memory and statecraft in late Medieval south India: a study of Krishnadeva raya’s Campaign of ad 1517   Venkata Raghotham 261

.    16. Delhi’s Capital Century (1911–2011): Understanding the transformation of the City         Nayanjot Lahiri 277

Research Publications of M.G.S. Narayanan 297  

Index 303 


Le 9 janv. 2015 à 09:39, Christophe Vielle <christophe.vielle@uclouvain.be> a écrit :

I would add on the topic:

Donald R. Davis, 'Satire as Apology: The Puruṣārtthakkūttŭ of Kerala', In: Kesavan Veluthat & Id. eds, Irreverent History: Essays for M.G.S. Narayanan, Delhi: Primus Books, pp. 93-109.

Two satirical theatre-genres (rūpaka) :

• the prahasana, of which the Bhagavadajjuka (which brings into ridicule the doctrines of Buddhism) is (like the Mattavilāsa) another good example:

cf. - K.K. Malathi Devi, Prahasanas in Sanskrit Literature and Kerala Stage, Delhi: Nag Publishers, 1995.

- Paulose, K.G., Bhagavadajjukam in Kūṭiyāṭṭam: The Hermit and the Harlot - the Sanskrit farce in Performance, Delhi: New Bharatiya Book Corp. 2000. 

Note the transl. of the farce by J.A.B. Van Buitenen in Mahfil (1971): jstor.org/stable/40874441

 • the bhāṇa (satirical monologue)

cf.  for example The Quartet of Causeries, by Śyāmilaka, Vararuci, Śūdraka & Īśvaradatta, translated by Csaba Dezső & Somadeva Vasudeva, Clays Sanskrit Library 2009.

In the philosophical debate, there are a few satirical expressions to find in :

J.-M. Verpoorten, 'Quelques tournures péjoratives dans le débat philosophique en sanskrit', IT 28, 2002, pp. 267-79. http://www.indologica.com/volumes/vol28/vol28_art13_VERPOORTEN.pdf

About the jaina parodical Dhuttakkhāṇa of Haribhadra referred to by A. Ollett, see Haribhadra, Ballade des coquins, présentation et traduction du prakrit par Jean-Pierre Osier et Nalini Balbir, Paris: GF Flammarion, 2004).

Le 9 janv. 2015 à 01:23, Jan E.M. Houben <jemhouben@gmail.com> a écrit :

Dear List Members, 
In order to pay a tribute to freedom of critical expression my Master course "Sanskrit, scientific and philosophical lingua franca" will in the following weeks, as it did yesterday, focus on 

Satirical criticism in Sanskrit literature and philosophy

Without trying to be in any way complete I propose that the work of the following authors can be regarded as, to some extent at least, belonging in this category:
Bhartrhari the poet/subhasita collector, Jayarasi, Ksemendra.
Part of Bhavabhuuti's Maalatiimaadhava reads as satirical criticism on Kapaalikas. 

Now my question: ARE THERE ANY OTHER STRONG (extensive) EXAMPLES?

Satire in Indian literature? WHAT is usually criticized?

Satire in Indian philosophy? Criticism of WHAT? (Tattvopaplavasimha: of all philosophical-religious "truths" without trying to establish one's own).

Writing satirical criticism in Sanskrit in a manuscript is not the same as expressing such criticism in the most accessible "language" thinkable: comics published in a weekly. 
HOW was satirical criticism in ancient, classical India RECEIVED? 
Did anyone suffer on account of critical views expressed in Sanskrit? Or only when it was 
expressed in a more popular language like Hindi (Kabir)?
Best,
jan houben


Prof. Dr. Jan E.M. Houben,
Directeur d Etudes « Sources et Histoire de la Tradition Sanskrite »
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences historiques et philologiques,
Sorbonne – 54, rue Saint-Jacques
CS 20525 – 75005 Paris – France. 
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