Dear Matthew,

The Divine Miscarriage: Mārtāṇḍa, the Sun, and the Birth of Mankind, by Per-Johan Norelius.
Journal of Indo-European Studies, Vol. 48, no 1-2, 2020, pp. 151-172.

The Myth of Martanda ‘Descendant of a Dead Egg’ in the Vedic prose, by Toshifumi GOTŌ. Journal of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, Vol. 20, 2016, pp. 21-47, or 222-196. (In Japanese, with an English summary). Link: https://icabs.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/388

Mārtāṇḍá and Avijjaṇḍakosa, by Zhen Liu and Myriadne Wang (in Japanese, with an English abstract). Link: https://dlbs.liberal.ntu.edu.tw/FT/JA/694760.pdf

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.


On Wed, Oct 7, 2026 at 8:28 AM Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Dear friends,

Are there any studies you might recommend on the origins and history of the word mārtāṇḍa?

No need to send dictionary entries. 

with thanks,
Matthew 

Matthew T. Kapstein
Professor emeritus
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies Emeritus
The University of Chicago Divinity School

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences







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