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   1. job advertisement at the University of Vienna (Karin.Preisendanz)
   2. Re: INDUS CIVILISATION. (Andrea Acri)
   3. Re: Devipurana (2) (Christophe Vielle)
   4. Re: Devipurana (2) (Paolo Eugenio Rosati)
   5. Re: Devipurana (2) (Bihani Sarkar)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 01:35:03 +0100
From: "Karin.Preisendanz" <karin.preisendanz@univie.ac.at>
To: Indology <indology@list.indology.info>
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Dear colleagues,

The University of Vienna is announcing the position of a University
Assistant (pre-doctoral) in the area of the study of pre-modern South
Asia at its Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies. For
further details, see the attachment in German and English.

I would be very grateful to you if you would post the advertisement at
your Department and pass it on to the circle of interested persons.

With many thanks and best regards,

Karin Preisendanz

--
Karin Preisendanz
Institut f?r S?dasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
Universit?t Wien
Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 2, Eingang 2.1
A-1090 Wien
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 11:06:30 +0100
From: Andrea Acri <andrea.acri@ephe.sorbonne.fr>
To: Indology List <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] INDUS CIVILISATION.
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It is worth noting that problems still exist in the classification of Austroasiatic languages, and an increasing number of scholars (like Geoffrey Benjamin) now think that the Munda languages do not form a primary-level subdivision of Austroasiatic separate from Mon-Khmer, and the very term ?Mon-Khmer? is currently being replaced by ?Austroasiatic?. Sidwell (2013:454) points out that this ?is an unfolding story that, however it pans out, promises to offer important insights into the origins and nature of cultural diversity in South and Southeast Asia?.

See:
Paul Sidwell, 2013, ?Issues in Austroasiatic Classification?, Language and Linguistics Compass 7/8 (2013): 437?457.

Paul Sidwell, 2015, ?Chapter 3: Austroasiatic Classification?, in M. Jenny and P. Sidwell (ends), The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages, Vol. 1.

Best

Andrea Acri
Ma?tre de conf?rences
?tudes tantriques/Tantric Studies
?cole Pratique des Hautes ?tudes (Sciences Religieuses), Paris
andrea.acri@ephe.sorbonne.fr
Publications at: www.ephe.academia.edu/AndreaAcri


> Le 4 f?vr. 2017 ? 16:48, Witzel, Michael via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> a ?crit :
>
> Dear All,
>
> Re: Blench et al. (below) on a South-East Asian origin of Munda (and other Austroasiatic languages), the opposite position has been argued by P. Donegan and D. Stampe (U. Hawai?i, M?noa) :
>
> P Donegan, D Stampe. Rhythm and the synthetic drift of Munda <https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=GHzXs3FHeFUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=donegan+stampe&ots=KjInYVFx7-&sig=daQvRdCqtP0TUypIvOcXYnAMqEo>. The yearbook of South Asian languages ?, 2004

>
>
> The polarity of Munda vs Mon-Khmer recalls that of ancient vs modern Indo-European:
> synthetic head-last vs analytic head-first (Lehmann 1974). But Munda and Mon-Khmer are
> far more divergent. Indo-European was never/w/ysynthetic, but many Munda languages are...
>
> P Donegan, D Stampe. South-East Asian Features in the Munda Languages: Evidence for the analytic-to-synthetic drift of Munda <http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/donegan/Papers/2002mundadrift.pdf> Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual ?, 2002.

>
> The Munda (South Asian) and Mon-Khmer (South-East Asian) branches of the Austroasiatic
> language family are so exactly opposite at every level of structure that Sir George Grierson
> in his Linguistic Survey of India remarked that if they were descended from a common ...
>
> cf. also:  http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/austroasiatic/AA/rhythm1983.pdf <http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/austroasiatic/AA/rhythm1983.pdf>
>
>>>> http://www.rogerblench.info/Ar chaeology/SE%20Asia/Blench%20A A%20prehistory%20final.pdf <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rogerblench.info_Archaeology_SE-2520Asia_Blench-2520AA-2520prehistory-2520final.pdf&d=CwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=tFXzIbyKS2C0TpVqKsMrj46qwsAermBN5wzaDe51So0&m=he3VBRBYUqYb2aD3vFDO3b3dYNbfiOg9FavfOaJTbVE&s=ST8bUE4HIn08fZ5VRA4xzanm3dDi0DRcQr4BXIRD0uo&e=>
>>>> Munda people expansion is said to be only from 3500 BP.
>>>> Reconstructing Austroasiatic prehistory
>>>> by Roger Blench,
>>>> Chapter in Jenny, M. & P. Sidwell (eds.) 2015. Handbook of the Austroasiatic Languages. Leiden: Brill.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
> More on the  Indus languages (and signs) separately, when I get a moment.
> Cheers,
> M.Witzel
>
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:19:04 +0100
From: Christophe Vielle <christophe.vielle@uclouvain.be>
To: Paolo Eugenio Rosati <paoloe.rosati@gmail.com>
Cc: Indology List <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Devipurana (2)
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Hazra's Studies in the Upapur??as vol. 2 (1963) deals extensively with the DeviiP pp. 46-239. He refers to the Bengali characters (Vangavasi Press) ed. as the only one existing at that time.
The v. 6b of ch. 39 is given p. 63 fn. 127 as:
> yajed bhaumaatmajo devii.m kaamaakhye girikandare
The presentation of the chap. 39 at the same page says:
"Names of holy places in which Devii was worshipped in her different forms by different gods, sages and kinds (including Jaamadagnya, Bhauma's son, Vibhii.sa.na and Raajasena) viz., [...] Ki.skindhyaa-parvata [...]"
I do not see in his detailed description (nor in the following one of the KaalikaaP) reference to such a list of 64 devii-pii.thas.
Hope it may help,
Best wishes,
Christophe


Le 7 f?vr. 2017 ? 14:16, Paolo Eugenio Rosati via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> a ?crit :

> Dear list,
>
> I am looking for a couple of references from the Devipurana.
>
> I found---throughout secundary literature---some references that probably derived from this edition:
>
> Dev?pur??a, ed. with a Bengali translation by Pancanana Tarkaratna. Calcutta, 1928.
>
> while I have got (thanks to the list!) this edition:
> Dev?pur??a. Kumar, Sharma P. (ed.) 1976. Dev? Pur??am. New Delhi: Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth.
>
> Actually I do not know if the two eds are based on different mss, but I was unable to find out verse (39.6) that should says:
>
> yajed ... devIM kAmAkhye girikandare (Van Kooij 1972, 32n3---based on Bengali trans.)
>
> although some scholars wrote that in this verse should also be a reference to the son of Bhumi (earth goddess) and cited the Kumar ed. (v. 39.6b)---but in Kumar ed. there is the verse that speak of Kamakhya neither it speak about a "Bhauma".
>
> The second part that I am looking for is a so-called Appendix 1 list 7 (cit. in Dehejia 1986, Yogini Cult and Temples), although in her bibliography it is not cited any DP ms or edition. Thus, I imagine this appendix was somewhere through the Kumar ed. (or maybe not) or perhaps she confused with another text?!
> Dehejia wrote that in this list were enumerated 64 devi-pithas from which depend on the two yogini lists of the Kalikapurana (Chs. 54 and 63, in B. Shastri [1991] 2008).
>
> I wish someone could help in find out the verse and the appendix that I was unable to find out from Kumar ed. of DP.
>
> Best wishes,
> Paolo
>
> --
> Paolo E. Rosati
> Oriental Archaeologist
> PhD candidate in "Civilizations of Asia and Africa"
> South Asia Section
> Dep. Italian Institute of Oriental Studies/ISO
> 'Sapienza' University of Rome
> https://uniroma1.academia.edu/PaoloRosati/

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???????????????????
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 15:06:39 +0100
From: Paolo Eugenio Rosati <paoloe.rosati@gmail.com>
To: Christophe Vielle <christophe.vielle@uclouvain.be>
Cc: Indology List <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Devipurana (2)
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Dear Christophe,

thanks, I did not think to have a look of other secondary publications.
Thus, I suppose the verse is right and it should appears somewhere also in
the DP ed. of P. Kumar.

On the other hand, I think Dehejia mis-cited *DP *(in fact it did not
appear in final bibliography) and probably she confused with
*Devibhagavatapurana* although there are two lists there, the first
composed of 108 places and the second (in the devigita section) composed of
71 or 72 (if you consider also Varanasi as the seat where all the goddess's
forms resides together). Very strange.

Best,
Paolo





On 9 February 2017 at 14:19, Christophe Vielle <
christophe.vielle@uclouvain.be> wrote:

> Hazra's *Studies in the Upapur**??as *vol. 2 (1963) deals extensively
> with the DeviiP pp. 46-239. He refers to the Bengali characters (Vangavasi
> Press) ed. as the only one existing at that time.
> The v. 6b of ch. 39 is given p. 63 fn. 127 as:
>
> *yajed bhaumaatmajo devii.m kaamaakhye girikandare*
>
> The presentation of the chap. 39 at the same page says:
> "Names of holy places in which Devii was worshipped in her different forms
> by different gods, sages and kinds (including Jaamadagnya, *Bhauma's son*,
> Vibhii.sa.na and Raajasena) viz., [...] Ki.skindhyaa-parvata [...]"
> I do not see in his detailed description (nor in the following one of the
> KaalikaaP) reference to such a list of 64 devii-pii.thas.
> Hope it may help,
> Best wishes,
> Christophe
>
>
> Le 7 f?vr. 2017 ? 14:16, Paolo Eugenio Rosati via INDOLOGY <
> indology@list.indology.info> a ?crit :
>
> Dear list,
>
> I am looking for a couple of references from the *Devipurana*.
>
> I found---throughout secundary literature---some references that probably
> derived from this edition:
>
> *Dev?pur??a*, ed. with a Bengali translation by Pancanana Tarkaratna.
> Calcutta, 1928.
>
> while I have got (thanks to the list!) this edition:
> *Dev?pur??a*. Kumar, Sharma P. (ed.) 1976. *Dev? Pur??am*. New Delhi: Sri
> Lal Bahadur Shastri Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth.
>
> Actually I do not know if the two eds are based on different mss, but I
> was unable to find out verse (39.6) that should says:
>
> *yajed ... devIM kAmAkhye girikandare *(Van Kooij 1972, 32n3---based on
> Bengali trans.)
>
> although some scholars wrote that in this verse should also be a reference
> to the son of Bhumi (earth goddess) and cited the Kumar ed. (v.
> 39.6b)---but in Kumar ed. there is the verse that speak of Kamakhya neither
> it speak about a "Bhauma".
>
> The second part that I am looking for is a so-called* Appendix 1 list 7*
> (cit. in Dehejia 1986, Yogini Cult and Temples), although in her
> bibliography it is not cited any *DP *ms or edition. Thus, I imagine this
> appendix was somewhere through the Kumar ed. (or maybe not) or perhaps she
> confused with another text?!
> Dehejia wrote that in this list were enumerated 64 devi-pithas from which
> depend on the two *yogini *lists of the *Kalikapurana *(Chs. 54 and 63,
> in B. Shastri [1991] 2008).
>
> I wish someone could help in find out the verse and the appendix that I
> was unable to find out from Kumar ed. of *DP*.
>
> Best wishes,
> Paolo
>
> --
> Paolo E. Rosati
> Oriental Archaeologist
> PhD candidate in "Civilizations of Asia and Africa"
> South Asia Section
> Dep. Italian Institute of Oriental Studies/ISO
> 'Sapienza' University of Rome
> *https://uniroma1.academia.edu/PaoloRosati/
> <https://uniroma1.academia.edu/PaoloRosati/>*
> paoloe.rosati@uniroma1.it
> paoloe.rosati@gmail.com
> Skype: paoloe.rosati
> Mobile: (+39) 338 73 83 472
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>
> ???????????????????
> Christophe Vielle <http://www.uclouvain.be/christophe.vielle>

> Louvain-la-Neuve
>
>


--
Paolo E. Rosati
Oriental Archaeologist
PhD candidate in "Civilizations of Asia and Africa"
South Asia Section
Dep. Italian Institute of Oriental Studies/ISO
'Sapienza' University of Rome
*https://uniroma1.academia.edu/PaoloRosati/
<https://uniroma1.academia.edu/PaoloRosati/>*

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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 15:12:36 +0000
From: Bihani Sarkar <bihanisarkar@googlemail.com>
To: Paolo Eugenio Rosati <paoloe.rosati@gmail.com>,
        indology@list.indology.info
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Devipurana (2)
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Dear Mr. Rosati,

I have the Bengali edition of the *Dev?pur??a* you are referring to. The
verse 39.6 fully quoted runs thus (without removing the doubled consonants
used by the editor):

*sarvvak?masusiddhyartha? r?jati vedaparvvate |*
*yajed bhaum?tjamjo dev?? k?m?khye girikandare ||*

The reference to the sacred site of K?m?khy? in Assam is embedded in a
longer descriptive enumeration of various sacred sites of goddesses
contained within 39.2-39.21 ('*brahma?? pu?kare dev??.plav? hel?
prak?rtit??*') of the Bengali edition. I do not have the Devan?gar?
edition, hence I am unable to check if this rather interesting little
passage on what seem to be important ??kta* p??ha*s of the time is included
in it. If it is not, let me know and I can scan the passage from the
Bengali edition for you.

I would interpret Bhaum?tmaja as "a descendent of [king] Bhauma", in which
Bhauma, according to royal genealogical myths of K?mar?pa from the fourth
to the twelfth centuries CE, seems to refer to the alternative name of
Naraka, the mythical first king of Pr?gjyoti?a. The second half of the
verse means accordingly: "A [--by extension, 'any'--] descendent of Bhauma
[the first king of K?mar?pa] must worship the goddess in the mountain cave
K?m?khy?". For a description of the myth of the first king of K?mar?pa, the
genealogies of that kingdom and the K?mar?pa kings' loyal patronage of the
site of K?m?khya for the authorization of their political power, see
J.E.Shin, "Changing Dynasties, Enduring Genealogy: A Critical Study on the
Political Legitimation in early Mediaeval K?mar?pa". I attach the article
herewith.

I do hope this may be of some help.

With best wishes,
Bihani Sarkar BA, M.Phil, D.Phil (Oxon),
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sanskrit
Christ Church College
Oriental Institute,
Oxford University

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Paolo Eugenio Rosati via INDOLOGY <
indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I am looking for a couple of references from the *Devipurana*.
>
> I found---throughout secundary literature---some references that probably
> derived from this edition:
>
> *Dev?pur??a*, ed. with a Bengali translation by Pancanana Tarkaratna.
> Calcutta, 1928.
>
> while I have got (thanks to the list!) this edition:
> *Dev?pur??a*. Kumar, Sharma P. (ed.) 1976. *Dev? Pur??am*. New Delhi: Sri
> Lal Bahadur Shastri Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth.
>
> Actually I do not know if the two eds are based on different mss, but I
> was unable to find out verse (39.6) that should says:
>
> *yajed ... devIM kAmAkhye girikandare *(Van Kooij 1972, 32n3---based on
> Bengali trans.)
>
> although some scholars wrote that in this verse should also be a reference
> to the son of Bhumi (earth goddess) and cited the Kumar ed. (v.
> 39.6b)---but in Kumar ed. there is the verse that speak of Kamakhya neither
> it speak about a "Bhauma".
>
> The second part that I am looking for is a so-called* Appendix 1 list 7*
> (cit. in Dehejia 1986, Yogini Cult and Temples), although in her
> bibliography it is not cited any *DP *ms or edition. Thus, I imagine this
> appendix was somewhere through the Kumar ed. (or maybe not) or perhaps she
> confused with another text?!
> Dehejia wrote that in this list were enumerated 64 devi-pithas from which
> depend on the two *yogini *lists of the *Kalikapurana *(Chs. 54 and 63,
> in B. Shastri [1991] 2008).
>
> I wish someone could help in find out the verse and the appendix that I
> was unable to find out from Kumar ed. of *DP*.
>
> Best wishes,
> Paolo
>
> --
> Paolo E. Rosati
> Oriental Archaeologist
> PhD candidate in "Civilizations of Asia and Africa"
> South Asia Section
> Dep. Italian Institute of Oriental Studies/ISO
> 'Sapienza' University of Rome
> *https://uniroma1.academia.edu/PaoloRosati/
> <https://uniroma1.academia.edu/PaoloRosati/>*

> paoloe.rosati@uniroma1.it
> paoloe.rosati@gmail.com
> Skype: paoloe.rosati
> Mobile: (+39) 338 73 83 472
>
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