Le 22 août 2025 à 20:41, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> a écrit :

If possible, can one share the pdf of Christophe Vielle's paper? Thanks.

Madhav M. Deshpande

Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM Walter Slaje via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Lyne,

With reference to what you wrote in your paper:

"[…] that Bhāskara could have been more or less contemporary with Śaṅkara. In that case, Bhāskara’s mūla would be the earliest evidence (c. 9th century) of the Kashmirian Gītā […]"

I would like to draw the list's attention to Christophe Vielle's recently published study, which contains important findings that cannot be underestimated with regard to a precise, absolute dating of Śaṅkara during the reign of Vijayāditya [696–733 CE].

See his 'The Great (Divine) Self Behind the Many Deities: The Vedānta Connection of the Nirukta Tradition,' in: ABORI 104 (2023) [publ.], § 4.

It would also bring down the date of Bhāskara, the Vedāntin from Kashmir, to around the early 8th century.

Warmly,

Walter

Am Fr., 22. Aug. 2025 um 15:23 Uhr schrieb Lyne Bansat-Boudon via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>:

Dear colleagues,

 

All thanks for this very interesting discussion. 

 

I would like to add another stone to the edifice of reasoning.

 In 2018, Judit Törzsök and I published a paper entitled "Abhinavagupta on the Kashmirian Gītā. Announcement of the First Critical Edition of the Gītārthasaṃgraha, with the Reconstruction of the Text of the Kashmirian Gītā [..] and a French translation of Both Texts", in Journal of Indian Philosophy (46.1: 31-64).

 

Its final section (an Appendix, in fact), p.50 ff., deals with the (?) Bhāskara (his identity, his place of origin, his philosophical persuasion, etc.) under consideration in the platform’s discussion.

 

 I attach the paper, hoping that our colleagues might find further information there, and perhaps new material for other conclusions.

 

Best wishes,

 

Lyne

 

NB: Some of you referred to Kato 2014. It happened that while preparing the J’s paper, I came through a first draft of Kato’s paper, and that I suggested a few emendations, mostly on the reasoning; see the printed Kato’s paper. It so happens that I had access to a first version of his paper and that I suggested some amendments, primarily concerning the reasoning.

 

Lyne Bansat-Boudon

Directeur d'études pour les Religions de l'Inde

Ecole pratique des hautes études, section des sciences religieuses

Membre senior honoraire de l'Institut universitaire de France

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