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Volume 1
 
 
 
Copyright
Contents
Preface
One: Defining the Svara Bearing Unit in the śikṣāvedāṅga literature: Unmasking a veiled debate
§ 1 Defining the framework
§ 1.1 Sanskrit as a common ground
§1.2 Phonetics and phonology in the Sanskrit tradition
§ 2 Defining the sources
§ 3 Defining a prominence
§ 4 Defining the Bearing Unit
§ 5 Defining the Svara Bearing Unit
§ 5.1 Pāṇinīyaśikṣā
§ 5.2 Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya
§ 5.3 Nāradīyaśikṣā, Vājasaneyiprātiśākhya, and Yājñavalkyaśikṣā
§ 5.4 Śaunakīyā Caturādhyāyikā
§ 5.5 Lomaśīśikṣā
§ 6 Open conclusions
Bibliography
Two: Purāṅic transformations in Coḻa Cidambaram: The Cidambaramāhātmya and the Sūtasaṃhitā
References
Appendix 1: SūSa l:4.17cd—39 and
CidMā 8.3—23 compared
Appendix 1: SūSa l:4.17cd—39 and
CidMā 8.3—23 compared (cont’d)
Appendix 2: SūSa 4:24.1—10, 21—27
Three: Unfuzzying the fuzzy. The distinction between rasas and bhāvas in Bharata and Abhinavagupta
Rasa as a semantic field
Bharata and the ‘Ancients’
Abhinavagupta
A Deconstructive Corollary
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Primary Literature
Secondary literature
Four: A contribution of Vedānta to the history of Mīmāṃsā: Prakāśātman’s interpretation of “verbal effectuation” (śabdabhāvanā)
I. Kumārila’s distinction of two types of “effectuation”: “objective effectuation” (arthātmikā bhāvanā) and “verbal effectuation” (śabdātmikā bhāvanā)
II. Verbal effectuation according to Prakāśātman’s Sābdanirṇaya
III. Maṇḍana Miśra’s Vidhiviveka: a possible source of Prakāśātman’s account of śabdabhāvanā ?
Bibliography
Sanskrit texts
Studies and translations
Five: Married women and courtesans: Marriage and women’s room for manæuvre as depicted in the Kathā-sarit-sāgara
I. A comparison between the legal norm and the KSS
1) Marriage
2) Women are statutorily dependent, hence they should be closely guarded
II. Women’s stereotypes in the KSS
1) Women who are nonentities
2) Bad women
3) Courtesans
III. The adventuress in the KSS
1) A shrewd and virtuous wife
2) A young princess who goes her own way
3) A young kṣatriyā woman leaves her husband, an old Brahman
Conclusion
References
Notes on the editorial conventions used in this article:
Six: Towards a new edition of the corpus of Pallava inscriptions
Defining what may be termed a Pallava inscription
Evaluation of Mahalingam’s corpus
Newly discovered inscriptions
Reading the published inscriptions again
Towards a new corpus
Abbreviations
Bibliography: Epigraphic sources
Bibliography: Secondary sources
Seven: Did Mīmāṃsā authors formulate a theory of action?
§1. Philosophical background: Action as movement in Vaiśeṣika
§2. Exegetical background: Śabara
§3. Kumarila
§4. Maṇḍana
§5. Someśvara
§5.1 Effort as evidence for the self
§6. Conclusion: what is an action?
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Texts
Studies
Eight: Trajectories of dance on the surface of theatrical meanings: a contribution to the theory of rasa from the fourth chapter of the Abhinavabhāratī
Introduction
1. Abhinavagupta’s evaluation of dance
2. Dance as a charming element of the performance
3. Dance and Representation in the image of the fire-wheel
4. Preliminary conclusions
Bibliography
Sanskrit texts
Studies and translations
Nine: Dravya as a Permanent Referent: The Potential Sarvāstivāda Influence on Patañjali’s Paspaśāhnika
Bibliography
Ten: Rituals in the Mahāsāhasrapramardanasūtra
Previous Research
Sources
Title
Contexts
Antiquity
Geographical Origins
Structure and Contents
Ritual instructions
A Ritual for the Protection of the State
Sigla
Symbols and abbreviations
Silent standardisations
Text
Translation
References
Eleven: The Liṅgodbhava Myth in Early Śaiva Sources
1. The version of the Liṅgodbhava myth in the Śivadharmaśāstra
2. The Liṅgodbhava myth in early Purāṇas
3. Iconographical representation of the myth
4. The prevalence of the Liṅgodbhava myth
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Manuscripts
Printed sources
Secondary material
Twelve: Yantras in the Buddhist Tantras — Yamāritantras and Related Literature
Introduction
1. The Yamaritantras and Related Literature
2. Yantras and their Rites in the Yamāritantras and Related Literature
2.1. The Procedure of the Nine Rites
2.2. The Procedure of a Yantra
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Thirteen: Śaiva Siddhānta Śrāddha Towards an evaluation of the socio-religious landscape envisaged by pre-12th century sources
1. Rationalizing Śrāddha in Śaiva terms
2. Underlying structures envisaged by our sources
2.1 Kiraṇa: Śiva-, Rudra-, and Laukikaśrāddha
2.2 Śrāddha in the Saiddhāntika manuals and the controversial term rudrāṃśa
3. Towards a social reality of its practice?
References
Fourteen: Constituents of Buddhahood as Presented in the Buddhabhūmisūtra and the 9th Chapter of the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra: A Comparative Analysis
1. Prologue
2. The Ninth Chapter of the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra
3. The Buddhabhūmisūtra
4. Epilogue
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Fifteen: The gaṇacchandas in the Indian metrical tradition
Primary Texts (Metrics)
References
Sixteen: Anātmatā, Soteriology and Moral Psychology in Indian Buddhism
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Seventeen: Pāramārthika or apāramārthika? On the ontological status of separation according to Abhinavagupta
References
Primary sources (a): manuscripts
Primary sources (b): editions
Secondary sources
Eighteen: Thy Fierce Lotus-Feet: Danger and Benevolence in Mediaeval Sanskrit Poems to Mahiṣāsuramardinī-Durgā
Danger and Benevolence: Ugratā and Saumyatā
The Wrathful Amazon in Legend and Art
Dharma versus Adharma
A Coven of Yoginīs
The Caṇḍīstotra in the Haravijaya
The hymn to Vindhyavāsinī in the Gaüḍavaho
The “fierce lotus-foot” and the Caṇḍīśataka
A Kaula hymn to Durgā
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources:
Secondary Sources
Nineteen: Minor Vajrayāna texts II. A new manuscript of the Gurupañcāśikā
The Gurupañcaśika
The new manuscript
Codicological details
Scribal dialect
Diplomatic transcript
Conventions
Text
Twenty: Can we infer unestablished entities? A Mādhva contribution to the Indian theory of inference
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Inferences
The Flaw of “Unestablished-qualifier-ness” (aprasiddhaviśeṣaṇatā)
Purely-negative Inferences
The Absence of an Absence is a Presence
Eliminative inferences and unestablished sādhyas
The Creator Argument
The Case of “Smoky-water-vapour”
Bibliography
Primary Literature
Secondary literature
Volume 2
 
 
Copyright
Contents
Preface
One: Refuge and Reform: Snakes, Gleaners, and Niṣādas in Early Kāvya
Introduction: Janamejaya, Aśoka, and Postcoloniality[1015]
Stories of Gleaners
Niṣādas and Dasyus
Two Curses, and the Good Wife
Conclusion
Appendix: Kṛṣṇa, Bāṇa, and the Vṛṣṇis
Bibliography
Two: Like a Howling Piśāca: A Note on the Pronunciation of the Ṛgvedasaṃhitā
Vedalakṣaṇa
About the definition of vedalakṣaṇa
Chandas and the Ṛgveda
Iyādipūraṇaḥ
The form of ṚV 1.127.6
Abbreviations
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Three: Does the Subject Have Desires? The Ātman in Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā[1070]
1. Introduction
2. The Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā approach
2.1 Methodological Premise
2.2 From ritual to subject
3. Is desire directly connected to the subject?
3.1 Rebuttal of intermediate entities
3.2. Rebuttal of the quality/substrate model
3.3 What kind of subject is a desirous one?
4. Tests: Other occurrences of subject-theory in Mīmāṃsā
4.1. The subject as an agent of knowledge
4.2 Śālikanātha on the ontology of the ātman
4.2.1 The subject and the psychic functions: buddhi, ahaṅkāra, manas
5. The conundrum of desire
5.1 What happens in the Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā context?
6. Conclusion
Bibliography and Abbreviations
Four: Kārakas in Cāndra Grammar: An Interpretation from the Pāli Buddhist Śāstras[1110]
1. Moggallāna and Cāndra
2. Kārakas in the Pāṇinian Tradition
3. Karakas in the Candra Tradition
5. Karakas in the Moggallana Tradition
6. Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. Primary Sources
II. Secondary Sources
Five: The Three Jewels and the Formation of the Pāñcarātra Canon[1181]
1. The Three Jewels
2. Divisions within the Pañcaratra
3. The Formation of the Pañcaratra Canon
References
Sanskrit Texts
Secondary Works
Six: Preliminary Survey of Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
The hitherto consulted manuscripts for the previous editions
Minaev 1889
Śāstrī 1894
La Vallée Poussin 1898 and 1901–14
Bhattacharya and Vaidya 1960
Summary
Unconsulted manuscripts
Original pieces
Reproductions
IASWR
Nagoya
NGMPP
References
Seven: Asiddha vs asiddhavat in Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya
Introduction
Examples in the Asiddhavat Section
Examples in the Pūrvatrāsiddha Section
Type of Operations
Conclusion
Abbreviations and Bibliography
Eight: Continuity and Change in Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6.1–4
Bibliography
Volume 3
 
 
 
Contents
Preface
One: Is inference a cognitive or a linguistic process? A line of divergence between Jain and Buddhist classifications
Abstract
1. The cognitive process of inference
1.1. Historic presentation
1.2. General presentation
2. The linguistic process of inference
2.1. Stating an inference in two steps
2.1.1. General presentation
2.2. Five relations ensuring certainty
3. On the delimitation between the cognitive and the linguistic side of the inferential process
3.1. A linguistic approach to negation
3.2. The four forms of inference
3.3. Conclusive remarks
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Two: Between Theism and Atheism: a journey through Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta and Mīmāṃsā{12}
1. Terminological Foreword
2. Mīmāṃsā, Anti-Realism and God
2.1. The chapter on deities (devatādhikaraṇa) in the PMS and its commentaries
2.1.1. Jaimini
2.2. Anti-theological arguments in Kumārila
3. Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta
4. Can They be Reconciled?
4.1. Kumārila and vivakṣā
4.2. Yāmuna etc. on the denial of deities as an instrumental move
4.3. The specificity of Veṅkaṭanātha’s Seśvaramīmāṃsā: apūrva
4.4. Sociological Background
4.5. Conclusions: siddha part
4.6. Some yet-to-be established conclusions
5. What Do We Mean by “God”, “Atheism”, and “Empiricism”?
Abbreviations
References
Three: The pre-eminence of men in the vrātya-ideology
1. Introduction
2. The pre-eminence of Prajāpati in the AVŚ
2.1. The creation of Prajāpati
2.2. The knowledge of Prajāpati and the knowledge of man
3. The pre-eminence of man in the AVŚ
3.1. The pre-eminence of the Brahmacārin
3.2. The pre-eminence of the Vrātya
4. Conclusion
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources and Translations
Four: “Tear down my Sādhana- and Havirdhāna-huts, stow away my Soma-vessels!” – Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa 2,269ff. : A typical case of cursing in the Veda?[1516]
References
Five: A New Reading Of The Meghadūta[1536]
1. Purpose of this paper
2. A missed message
3. Absence of the Romantic idea of Nature in India
4. The Meghadūta as an innovation
5. The meaning of kelikāvya in Vallabhadeva’s commentary
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Literature
Six: Banārasīdās climbing the Jain Stages of Perfection
1. Fourteen Stages of Qualities (guṇasthāna)
2. Banārasīdās’s Avasthāṣṭaka and the categories of the self
3. Eleven Steps of Perfection (pratimā)
4. Stages of Perfection in History
5. Conclusion
Bibliographical references
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Seven: If people get to know me, I’ll become cow-dung: Bhaba Pagla and the songs of the Bauls of Bengal[1588]
Introduction
1. The Baul tradition: a premise on a negotiable category
2. Bahurūpī Bhaba Pagla: an introductory profile
3. Representing Bhaba Pagla in academic and popular literature
4. Escaping classifications, disappointing “the communists”: perspectives on Bhaba Pagla’s absence from the literature on Bauls
Conclusions
Works cited
Eight: Revisiting Sanskrit Teaching in the Light of Modern Language Pedagogy
1. History and methods of language pedagogy at western universities
Argument 1: Sanskrit is a dead language, therefore non-analytical exercises are not required.
Argument 2: Modern textbooks use “fake Sanskrit” and not “authentic” texts.
Argument 3: Modern methods are infantile.
2. Practical examples for the teaching of Sanskrit
Considering styles of learning – Exercises
Reading courses
Conclusion
Literature
Source, notes...