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\n \n\n \n \n Michael Timothy Heneise.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Global Environmental Humanities: Indigenous Knowledge about Environmental Change in the Arctic, Amazon, Himalayas, and South Asia.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n . April 2024.\n Publisher: [object Object] Version Number: 1\n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Tümüzo Katiry, Akumtong Imchen, & Saktum Wonti.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Tasting Tomorrow: Exploring Climate Adapted Cuisines in Nagaland.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n . April 2024.\n Publisher: [object Object] Version Number: 1\n\n\n\n
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\n This article describes a series of workshops on climate-adapted cuisine held at The Highland Institute,Kohima, between August 2023 and December 2023. The workshops are a contribution to the internationalTasting Tomorrow project, which examines how cultural heritage can adapt to climate change throughfood and cuisine. During the sessions, Highland Institute sta prepared popular Naga dishes, but insteadof adding all the usual ingredients, they exchanged some for food items that were likely to be availableafter 50 years of climate change. Workshop participants were then invited to comment on the climateadapteddishes and compare them with the originals. The adapted dishes drew mixed responses.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Kenilo Kessen, Meziwang Zeliang, Thsope Medo, Mhabemo Patton, Vekho Tunyi, & Dimusie Pojar.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Nagaland's Contribution to India's National Action Plan on Climate Change.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n . April 2024.\n Publisher: [object Object] Version Number: 1\n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Thomas Bøhn, & Jutta Kapfer.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Kaziranga National Park — Beauty and Richness of Species and Ecological Interactions.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n . April 2024.\n Publisher: [object Object] Version Number: 1\n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Lu Chi.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n MyCClimate 2023: Climate change and conservation in three Naga villages.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n . April 2024.\n Publisher: [object Object] Version Number: 1\n\n\n\n
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\n This paper details preliminary research for the global joint project MyCClimate, which intends to improve academic and policy understandings of the relationships between conflict dynamics and climate change activities in regions bordering Myanmar. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Nagaland state, India, it examines environmental conservation initiatives and climate change perceptions in three different villages.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Bertrand Lefebvre, Akumtong Imchen, & Rovithono Yhome.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n URBALTOUR: Examining the Rise of Tourism in Kohima, Nagaland.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n . April 2024.\n Publisher: [object Object] Version Number: 1\n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Sholu Movi, Lanuakum Aier, & Ruchira Boss.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Everyday Lives of Naga Women.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n . April 2024.\n Publisher: [object Object] Version Number: 1\n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Will Sweetman.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Forgeries, Falsifications, Fictions, Fälschungen?: Some Early Modern European “Vedas”.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Entangled Religions, 15(1). January 2024.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Carola Lorea.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n From Dharma to Sound: Decolonizing Definitions of Religious Community.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n AЯGOS. January 2024.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n What role media content plays in processes of change is an ongoing and multi-layered discussion. Therein, advertising and gender have an extraordinary position. In the context of advertising production in urban India, this book deals with the understanding of social change in the early 2010s. Through an inquiry of the production of advertising created for commercial and/or social purposes, the perceptions of advertising producers are highlighted. The analysis presents the realities of the producers as well as debates surrounding the creation processes. Thereby, the complexities and intertwining of advertising are uncovered, while dynamics of gender, media, and change are discussed.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Julia A.B. Hegewald.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Jaina Temple Architecture in India.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2024.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Jaina Temple Architecture in India is the first comprehensive study of the development and uniqueness of Jaina sacred structures. The monograph analyses temples in the whole of India and outlines clear continuities by covering the period from the early centuries BCE till the present day. It identifies a distinct Jaina approach to the shaping of ritual space, which involves often complex spatial layouts on various superimposed vertical levels as well as conglomerates of interconnected sanctums and building elements on the horizontal plane. These accommodate a multitude of venerated objects and mirror specific Jaina patterns of worship as well as Jaina mythological and cosmological concepts.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Philippe Bornet, & Nadia Cattoni.,\n editors.\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Significant Others, Significant Encounters.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n This volume is dedicated to Maya Burger, professor emerita at the Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne. It gathers contributions by friends, colleagues, and former students that echo the multiple dimensions of her work. Organised in four parts, Indology, History of Religions, History of Orientalism, and Hindi and Translation, these contributions explore different examples of encounters with “significant others”. Analysing original historical and literary sources and reflecting on the methodological dimensions, the authors offer innovative perspectives on various processes of interaction and exchange between the Indian subcontinent and the wider world and within the subcontinent itself.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Hiromi Habata.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Aufbau und Umstrukturierung des Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The story of the Buddha's death has come down to us in various texts. One version, the Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra, is known as one of the older texts advocating the so-called \"Buddha-nature theory\", according to which all living beings possess the Buddha's nature. The Sūtra has had a great influence on East Asian Buddhism through the Chinese translations. However, the Sanskrit original has only survived in fragments. The study of the Sanskrit fragments sheds light on the origins of this theory in India.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Ute Hüsken, Jörg Gengnagel, & Srilata Raman.,\n editors.\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Words and Deeds.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Words and Deeds is a collection of articles on rituals in South Asia with a special focus on their texts and context. The volume presupposes that a comprehensive definition of “ritual” does not exist. Instead, the papers in it avoid essentialist definitions, allowing for a possible polythetic definition of the concept to emerge. Papers in this volume include those on Initiation, Pre-Natal Rites, Religious Processions, Royal Consecration, Rituals which mark the commencement of ritual, Rituals of devotion and Vedic sacrifice as well as contributions which address the broader theoretical issues of engaging in the study of ritual texts and ritual practice, both from the etic and the emic perspective. These studies show that any study of the relationship between the text and the context of rituals must also allow for the possibility that different categories of performers can and do subjectively constitute the relationship between their ritual knowledge and ritual practice, between text and context in differing and nuanced ways.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Ute Hüsken, & Will Sweetman.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Viṣṇu's Children.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The Vaikhānasas, a group of Brahmanic priests in the Viṣṇu temples of south India, can look back on a long and turbulent history, that is characterized by the effort of claiming their status against rivalling priests. Central to this monograph is a controversy, ongoing for centuries, as to what makes a person eligible to perform the rituals in Viṣṇu temples: does birth or an initiation create the ideal intermediary between the god and humans? Since the 14th century CE the discussions in the relevant Sanskrit texs centre around the question of whether the Vaikhānasas priests must undergo an initiation including a branding on the upper arms, or whether their particular prenatal life-cycle ritual viṣṇubali makes them eligible to perform temple ritual. As hereditary temple priests the Vaikhānasas’ own stance is explicit: they are Viṣṇu’s own children, preordained for temple service already before birth. In addition to the textual perspective, three instances of local conflicts from the 19th/20th centuries about the question of whether the Vaikhānasas require an initiation are analysed in their contexts. Furthermore, three examples of present-day performances of the viṣṇubali ritual are presented and interpreted in the light of the relation between text and performance.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Axel Michaels, & Niels Gutschow.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Handling Death.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@book{michaels_handling_2023,\n\ttitle = {Handling {Death}},\n\turl = {https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/xa/catalog/book/1256},\n\tabstract = {In a rare combination of competence, an architectural historian (Niels Gutschow) and an indologist (Axel Michaels) have documented death rituals of the ethnic community of Newars in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The first part of the book focusses to a specific setting, the ancient city of Bhaktapur and its calendric rituals of death and renewal. An introduction to the urban fabric with its cremation places, routes of death processions, places of spirits and ancestor deities is followed by a presentation of specialists involved in the death and ancestor rituals – illustrated by 28 maps. The second part presents a detailed description of the union of the deceased with his forefathers, a ritual which is also documented on a DVD. In addition, local handbooks and manuals used by the Brahmin priest during this ritual are edited and translated. This ethno-indological method of combination of textual and contextual approaches aims at understanding both the agency in rituals and the function of the text in contexts. Formalized rituals turn out to be by no means strict, stereotypical and unchangeable. The uniqueness of the actors, places and time has prompted the authors to name places and actors and to date time. The study of death rituals represents the first part of a trilogy of studies of life-cycle rituals in Nepal, carried out under the auspices of the Collaborative Research Centre “Dynamics of Ritual” (Sonderforschungsbereich 619: Ritualdynamik).},\n\tpublisher = {Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing},\n\tauthor = {Michaels, Axel and Gutschow, Niels},\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/HASP.1256},\n\tkeywords = {cultural studies, nepal, religious studies},\n}\n\n
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\n In a rare combination of competence, an architectural historian (Niels Gutschow) and an indologist (Axel Michaels) have documented death rituals of the ethnic community of Newars in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The first part of the book focusses to a specific setting, the ancient city of Bhaktapur and its calendric rituals of death and renewal. An introduction to the urban fabric with its cremation places, routes of death processions, places of spirits and ancestor deities is followed by a presentation of specialists involved in the death and ancestor rituals – illustrated by 28 maps. The second part presents a detailed description of the union of the deceased with his forefathers, a ritual which is also documented on a DVD. In addition, local handbooks and manuals used by the Brahmin priest during this ritual are edited and translated. This ethno-indological method of combination of textual and contextual approaches aims at understanding both the agency in rituals and the function of the text in contexts. Formalized rituals turn out to be by no means strict, stereotypical and unchangeable. The uniqueness of the actors, places and time has prompted the authors to name places and actors and to date time. The study of death rituals represents the first part of a trilogy of studies of life-cycle rituals in Nepal, carried out under the auspices of the Collaborative Research Centre “Dynamics of Ritual” (Sonderforschungsbereich 619: Ritualdynamik).\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Frances Anke Niebuhr.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Dhārī Devī, Goddess of the Floods.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The trajectory of the Dhārī Devī Temple epitomises the idea of catastrophes as watersheds. In particular, flood disasters have accompanied transformation processes of the site located on Alaknanda River in the Indian Himalayas. As early as 1894, a flash flood had a significant impact on the site and the identity of the deity. Local flood legends gained new topicality with the planning of a hydroelectric power plant in the vicinity. They became part of debates surrounding the construction scheme that required the relocation of the sacred site. This case study explores flood discourses and illuminates their influence on a development project. It further demonstrates how previous controversies framed the public interpretation of two flood disasters in 2012 and specifically of the \"Himalayan Tsunami\" in 2013.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Elmar Josef Renner, & Vipul Goswami.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n bāteṁ. Hindi-Grammatik kommunikativ 1.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Der Kopenhagener Hindikurs führt in 46 Lektionen kontextualisiert in die Strukturen des Hindi ein, was einen kommunikativen Grammatikunterricht ermöglicht. Im ersten Teil (L 1-23) liegt der Schwerpunkt auf dem Nominalsystem, grundlegenden Verbalkonstruktionen sowie der Syntax des einfachen Satzes. Die Kontexte entstammen dem Leben der Autoren und ihrer Mitmenschen und laden Lehrer und Lerner dazu ein, sich auf Hindi auszutauschen. Die den Übungen zugrundeliegenden Texte bieten dabei keine abgeschlossene Sicht auf die hindisprachige Welt. Sie leiten vielmehr dazu an, selbst Blickwinkel zu eröffnen und sich dadurch in dialektischer Offenheit das Hindi anzueignen.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Elmar Josef Renner, & Vipul Goswami.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n bāteṁ. Hindigrammatik kommunikativ 2.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n \n \n \"bāteṁ.website\n  \n \n\n \n \n doi\n  \n \n\n \n link\n  \n \n\n bibtex\n \n\n \n  \n \n abstract \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n
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\n Der Kopenhagener Hindikurs führt in 46 Lektionen kontextualisiert in die Strukturen des Hindi ein, was einen kommunikativen Grammatikunterricht ermöglicht. Der zweite Teil (L 24-46) gilt dem Verbalsystem in seiner Gesamtheit und der komplexen Syntax – also dem, was im Deutschen die Nebensatzsyntax ausmacht. Die Kontexte entstammen dem Leben der Autoren und ihrer Mitmenschen und laden Lehrer und Lerner dazu ein, sich auf Hindi auszutauschen. Die den Übungen zugrundeliegenden Texte bieten dabei keine abgeschlossene Sicht auf die hindisprachige Welt. Sie leiten vielmehr dazu an, selbst Blickwinkel zu eröffnen und sich dadurch in dialektischer Offenheit das Hindi anzueignen.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Gustav Roth.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Mallī-Jñāta. Das achte Kapitel des Nāyādhammakahāo im sechsten Aṅga des Śvetāmbara Jainakanons, herausgegeben, übersetzt und erläutert.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The eighth chapter of the Nāyādhammakahāo in the sixth Aṅga of the Śvetāmbara Jaina Canon, edited, translated and explained by Gustav Roth.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Barbara Schuler.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Of Death and Birth. Icakkiyammaṉ, a Tamil Goddess, in Ritual and Story.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Scholars of popular Hindu religion in India have always been fascinated by oral texts and rituals, but surprisingly only few attempts have as yet been made to analyse the relationship between rituals and texts systematically. This book contributes to the filling of this gap. Focusing on the dynamics of a local (non-Brahmanical) ritual, its modular organisation and inner logic, the interaction between narrative text and ritual, and the significance of the local versus translocal nature of the text in the ritual context, the study provides a broad range of issues for comparison. It demonstrates that examining texts in their context helps to understand better the complexity of religious traditions and the way in which ritual and text are programmatically employed. The author offers a vivid description of a hitherto unnoticed ritual system, along with the first translation of a text called the Icakkiyamman-Katai (IK). Composed in the Tamil language, the IK represents a substantially longer and embellished form of a core version which probably goes as far back as the seventh century C.E. Unlike the classical source, this text has been incorporated into a living tradition, and is being constantly refashioned. A range of text versions have been encapsulated in the form of a conspectus, which will shed light on the text’s variability or fixity and will add to our knowledge of bardic creativity.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Play of the Feminine.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n In Tamil Nadu, the nine-night autumnal Navarātri festival can be viewed as a celebration of feminine powers in association with the goddess. This book explores Navarātri as it is celebrated in the South Indian temple town of Kanchipuram. It investigates the local mythologies of the goddess, two temple celebrations, and the domestic ritual practice known as kolu (doll displays). The author highlights three intersecting themes: namely the play of the goddess in myth and ritual, the religious agency and images of women and the divine feminine, and notions of playfulness in Navarātri rituals; as articulated in creativity, aesthetics, competition, and dramatic expressions.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Harald Wiese.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Exchange, gifting, and sacrificing.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@book{wiese_exchange_2023,\n\ttitle = {Exchange, gifting, and sacrificing},\n\turl = {https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/xa/catalog/book/1232},\n\tabstract = {In both the Vedic and the classical periods, a special elite class of people existed that were called Brahmins. In a rough manner, one might say that their material wellbeing depended on dakṣiṇā in the Vedic period and on dāna in the classical one.\nBroadening the perspective beyond dakṣiṇā and dāna, this book is on all sorts of giving in the context of pre-modern India, using Vedic, Sanskrit, Buddhist and, to a much lesser extent, Roman and Christian sources. The Brahmanical theory of the gift (i.e., the theory of dutiful gifting, dharmadāna) is a major focus of, and has provided a major motivation for, this study.},\n\tpublisher = {Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing},\n\tauthor = {Wiese, Harald},\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/HASP.1232},\n\tkeywords = {cultural studies, religious studies, sanskrit, word studies},\n}\n\n
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\n In both the Vedic and the classical periods, a special elite class of people existed that were called Brahmins. In a rough manner, one might say that their material wellbeing depended on dakṣiṇā in the Vedic period and on dāna in the classical one. Broadening the perspective beyond dakṣiṇā and dāna, this book is on all sorts of giving in the context of pre-modern India, using Vedic, Sanskrit, Buddhist and, to a much lesser extent, Roman and Christian sources. The Brahmanical theory of the gift (i.e., the theory of dutiful gifting, dharmadāna) is a major focus of, and has provided a major motivation for, this study.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Harald Wiese.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Sanskrit as an Indo-European Language.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Students of Sanskrit can choose among several good textbooks. Whichever they may choose, learning Sanskrit is a daunting task. This book is not an alternative textbook for learning Sanskrit. Instead, it is to accompany these textbooks and written in the hope to make Sanskrit learning easier by explaining words and grammatical forms from an Indo-European point of view. Consider, for example Old Indian ad which means “to eat”, but is also historically related to both English (abbreviated by E) eat and New High German (NHG) essen. There was an Indo-European (IE) root ed that branched out into all these words over some millennia. Even E tooth and NHG Zahn stem from IE ed.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Dominik Wujastyk, Jason Birch, Andrey Klebanov, Madhu K. Parameswaran, Madhusudan Rimal, Deepro Chakraborty, Harshal Bhatt, Vandana Lele, & Paras Mehta.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n A thousand-year-old Ayurvedic manuscript containing the Compendium of Suśruta was announced to the scholarly world in 2007. The Nepalese manuscript, since adopted by UNESCO as part of the Memory of the World, reveals the state of classical Indian medicine in the ninth century. It enables us to study the changes in this medical classic that have taken place from the ninth to the nineteenth century, when printed texts began to dominate the dissemination of the work. The present monograph describes the research project focussed on this manuscript and offers an edition, study and translation of the historically important chapter about the plastic surgery on the nose and ears.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Vitus Angermeier, Christian Ferstl, Dominik A. Haas, & Channa Li.,\n editors.\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Puṣpikā.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n In the series Puṣpikā – Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology, the proceedings of the International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS) are published. Puṣpikā is a peer-reviewed series that provides early-career scholars with a platform to share the results of their research on pre-modern South Asian cultures. This is the 6th volume in the series, containing thirteen articles based on the talks presented at the 12th IIGRS online and in Vienna, Austria on 22–24 July 2021.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Sreeram Gopalkrishnan, & Lekshmi Sreeram.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Tamil Language as More Central than Even the Gods: The Movie THIRUVILAYADAL (IN 1965) Is an Outlier as a Devotional Film.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n JRFM, 9: 2 p. 127142. November 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The narrow genre of devotional films in India follows a regular template – a combination of theophanic interventions, bhakti (devotional) worship and didactic narratives. Thiruvilayadal (The Divine Play, Akkamappettai Paramasivan Nagarajan, IN 1965), a film in Tamil (a language spoken across South and East Asia by a large diaspora), was long considered a devotional movie that celebrated the God Shiva. However, a close analysis shows that the movie subverts the darshan concept (viewing) in a Hindu devotional film. Though it may appear to be a film about Puranic (mythic) Hindu gods, the subtle subtext reduces heavenly entities to supplicatory positions in relation to a cornerstone of identity in the post-independence Dravidianist Tamil State – Tamil language. This understanding of Thiruvilayadal is all the more relevant in light of the increasing rigidity of Hindu religious beliefs in contemporary India.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Johannes Beltz.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Shiva danse à travers l’espace et le temps: Dilemmes et défis de la présentation d’objets religieux dans des contextes muséaux et scolaires.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Zeitschrift für Religionskunde, (11/2023): 20–37. May 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n L’article explore la question de la présentation d’images icôniques considérées comme religieuses dans les collections des musées suisses, ainsi que dans le matériel pédagogique de l’école publique. En prenant pour exemple l’image de Shiva sous sa forme de seigneur de la danse, il montre comment un objet de culte médiéval du sud de l’Inde est devenu l’une des icônes les plus importantes de l’hindouisme actuel. L’article retrace comment cette réinterprétation a eu lieu et quels acteurs y ont été impliqués. Il soutient la thèse selon laquelle les musées tout comme l’enseignement des religions dans l’éducation publique ne devraient pas attribuer une signification unique aux objets, mais devraient au contraire mettre davantage l’accent sur l’évolution de leur signification au fil du temps. Ce faisant, le discours public des musées et des écoles sur ces objets devrait aborder explicitement les phénomènes d’appropriation et de démarcation culturelles, et prendre en compte les publics en tant qu’acteurs potentiels interagissant avec les objets. L’histoire de l’image de Shiva, seigneur de la danse, se poursuit ; elle est loin d’être terminée.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Elizaveta Ilves.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Khuddur Yātrā: a Symphonic Poem of Texts and Images : A Photo Essay.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia, 5. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{ilves_khuddur_2023,\n\ttitle = {Khuddur {Yātrā}: a {Symphonic} {Poem} of {Texts} and {Images} : {A} {Photo} {Essay}},\n\tvolume = {5},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023 Elizaveta Ilves},\n\tissn = {2628-9113},\n\tshorttitle = {Khuddur {Yātrā}},\n\turl = {https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/dasta/article/view/23647},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/dasta.2023.1.23647},\n\tabstract = {This essay offers an analysis of text-image relations in Abanindranath Tagore’s often overlooked work, Khuddur yātrā. The work is an experimental yātrā-play for children based on the Rāmāyaṇa, and was published in facsimile for the first time in 2009. The manuscript is illustrated with cutouts from newspapers, periodicals, and product wraps, creating a diverse visual landscape. The text of the play, equally complex, weaves together traditional Rāmāyaṇa heroes with new characters, while employing a multitude of languages and dialects. After providing a detailed overview of the work and categorizing text-image relations within it, this essay focuses on the single most complex and experimental one among those. Following Bachtin, who proposed to analyze literary work by using the musical concept of polyphony metaphorically, the author argues that the concept of symphonic poems provides the best way to approach the complexity of text-image congruencies in this work. Additionally, the essay explores some the thematic and visual connections between Abanindranath Tagore’s Khuddur yātrā and the broader landscape of Bengali children’s literature in the early 20th century. Upon closer examination, Khuddur yātrā emerges as a dynamic and layered artistic creation that challenges the viewer to construct new meanings when navigating the complex interplay of text and images. The text and images within the narrative perform various simultaneous functions, thereby encouraging both children and adults to construct, deconstruct, interpret, and reassess the surrounding reality. Abanindranath’s playful use of signs, symbols, and language reveals the intricate interconnectedness of the world, prompting viewers to recognize its complex and intertwined nature.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\turldate = {2023-12-29},\n\tjournal = {Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia},\n\tauthor = {Ilves, Elizaveta},\n\tmonth = dec,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {hinduism, literature},\n}\n\n
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\n This essay offers an analysis of text-image relations in Abanindranath Tagore’s often overlooked work, Khuddur yātrā. The work is an experimental yātrā-play for children based on the Rāmāyaṇa, and was published in facsimile for the first time in 2009. The manuscript is illustrated with cutouts from newspapers, periodicals, and product wraps, creating a diverse visual landscape. The text of the play, equally complex, weaves together traditional Rāmāyaṇa heroes with new characters, while employing a multitude of languages and dialects. After providing a detailed overview of the work and categorizing text-image relations within it, this essay focuses on the single most complex and experimental one among those. Following Bachtin, who proposed to analyze literary work by using the musical concept of polyphony metaphorically, the author argues that the concept of symphonic poems provides the best way to approach the complexity of text-image congruencies in this work. Additionally, the essay explores some the thematic and visual connections between Abanindranath Tagore’s Khuddur yātrā and the broader landscape of Bengali children’s literature in the early 20th century. Upon closer examination, Khuddur yātrā emerges as a dynamic and layered artistic creation that challenges the viewer to construct new meanings when navigating the complex interplay of text and images. The text and images within the narrative perform various simultaneous functions, thereby encouraging both children and adults to construct, deconstruct, interpret, and reassess the surrounding reality. Abanindranath’s playful use of signs, symbols, and language reveals the intricate interconnectedness of the world, prompting viewers to recognize its complex and intertwined nature.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Arshi Javaid.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Seduction of the old City of Srinagar: An Enquiry into Competing Narratives of Belonging : A Photo Essay.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia, 5. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{javaid_seduction_2023,\n\ttitle = {Seduction of the old {City} of {Srinagar}: {An} {Enquiry} into {Competing} {Narratives} of {Belonging} : {A} {Photo} {Essay}},\n\tvolume = {5},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023 Arshi  Javaid},\n\tissn = {2628-9113},\n\tshorttitle = {Seduction of the old {City} of {Srinagar}},\n\turl = {https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/dasta/article/view/24022},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/dasta.2023.1.24022},\n\tabstract = {This essay explores the various narratives of belonging vis-a-vis the city of Srinagar. As the city witnesses massive transformations politically and socially, the interplay between space and power acquires new forms. In this essay, I map this interplay through the elite narrative, the porno-tropic narrative, and the localist narrative to the city.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\turldate = {2023-12-29},\n\tjournal = {Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia},\n\tauthor = {Javaid, Arshi},\n\tmonth = dec,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {social studies},\n}\n\n
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\n This essay explores the various narratives of belonging vis-a-vis the city of Srinagar. As the city witnesses massive transformations politically and socially, the interplay between space and power acquires new forms. In this essay, I map this interplay through the elite narrative, the porno-tropic narrative, and the localist narrative to the city.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Fahad Naveed.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Karachi to Mumbai via Bollywood Express: Karachi to Mumbai via Bollywood Express: Accessing and Remembering a Mythical.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia, 5. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{naveed_karachi_2023,\n\ttitle = {Karachi to {Mumbai} via {Bollywood} {Express}: {Karachi} to {Mumbai} via {Bollywood} {Express}: {Accessing} and {Remembering} a {Mythical}},\n\tvolume = {5},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023 Fahad Naveed},\n\tissn = {2628-9113},\n\tshorttitle = {Karachi to {Mumbai} via {Bollywood} {Express}},\n\turl = {https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/dasta/article/view/22810},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/dasta.2023.1.22810},\n\tabstract = {As a Pakistani who grew up watching pirated Bollywood cinema, I have an intimate but distant relationship with Mumbai on screen. I have been watching fewer Bollywood films lately and am also starting to forget the narratives of the ones I watched growing up. But I still remember certain details of my mythical Mumbai, as constructed by the Hindi films I consumed as a child and teenager. In my video Karachi to Mumbai via Bollywood Express (2023), I use Hindi film imagery of Mumbai’s local railways as a means of transportation to this mythical city. The video is a comment on my relationship with this city, its trains, and the films that feature them. Intended to be played as a loop, much like imagery being replayed in one’s mind, the video makes use of fragmented, glitchy footage from Saathiya (“Companion,” Ali 2002) and Ek Chalis Ki Last Local (“The Last Local of 1:40,” Khanduri 2007), two films that feature the city and its railway system. In this essay, I reflect on the process of making the video loop and build on scholarship and works that explore how films depict and construct spaces, how they bypass bans and barriers, how they travel and transport viewers, and how they are remembered and forgotten.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\turldate = {2023-12-29},\n\tjournal = {Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia},\n\tauthor = {Naveed, Fahad},\n\tmonth = dec,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {cultural studies, india, pakistan, social studies},\n}\n\n
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\n As a Pakistani who grew up watching pirated Bollywood cinema, I have an intimate but distant relationship with Mumbai on screen. I have been watching fewer Bollywood films lately and am also starting to forget the narratives of the ones I watched growing up. But I still remember certain details of my mythical Mumbai, as constructed by the Hindi films I consumed as a child and teenager. In my video Karachi to Mumbai via Bollywood Express (2023), I use Hindi film imagery of Mumbai’s local railways as a means of transportation to this mythical city. The video is a comment on my relationship with this city, its trains, and the films that feature them. Intended to be played as a loop, much like imagery being replayed in one’s mind, the video makes use of fragmented, glitchy footage from Saathiya (“Companion,” Ali 2002) and Ek Chalis Ki Last Local (“The Last Local of 1:40,” Khanduri 2007), two films that feature the city and its railway system. In this essay, I reflect on the process of making the video loop and build on scholarship and works that explore how films depict and construct spaces, how they bypass bans and barriers, how they travel and transport viewers, and how they are remembered and forgotten.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Pramiti Negi, & Hanna Werner.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Himalayan Youth Resist through Art: Debunking “Development” in Kinnaur: A Photo Essay.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia, 5. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{negi_himalayan_2023,\n\ttitle = {Himalayan {Youth} {Resist} through {Art}: {Debunking} “{Development}” in {Kinnaur}: {A} {Photo} {Essay}},\n\tvolume = {5},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023 Pramiti  Negi, Hanna Werner},\n\tissn = {2628-9113},\n\tshorttitle = {Himalayan {Youth} {Resist} through {Art}},\n\turl = {https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/dasta/article/view/24023},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/dasta.2023.1.24023},\n\tabstract = {This photo essay outlines our reflections on the role of art as a means of protest and, in particular, as an expression of the identity struggle that drives resistance. “Artivism” as a form of protest seems to be (re)gaining traction, especially in youth mobilizations worldwide. Our case study is from the Kinnaur district in the western Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh. Launched as a mobilization against the negative impacts of hydropower projects in the region, the No Means No campaign is likely on its way to becoming a broader socioecological movement that confronts the adversities of state-led development policies and mobilizes cultural identity in creative ways. Art in various forms, from paintings and rock graffiti to poems and songs, plays a significant role. Against the backdrop of current debates on environmentalism, identity politics, and political aesthetics, the primary aim of this essay is to situate the selected artifacts in relation to the campaign and give their creators a voice—or an image.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\turldate = {2023-12-29},\n\tjournal = {Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia},\n\tauthor = {Negi, Pramiti and Werner, Hanna},\n\tmonth = dec,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {india, social studies},\n}\n\n
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\n This photo essay outlines our reflections on the role of art as a means of protest and, in particular, as an expression of the identity struggle that drives resistance. “Artivism” as a form of protest seems to be (re)gaining traction, especially in youth mobilizations worldwide. Our case study is from the Kinnaur district in the western Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh. Launched as a mobilization against the negative impacts of hydropower projects in the region, the No Means No campaign is likely on its way to becoming a broader socioecological movement that confronts the adversities of state-led development policies and mobilizes cultural identity in creative ways. Art in various forms, from paintings and rock graffiti to poems and songs, plays a significant role. Against the backdrop of current debates on environmentalism, identity politics, and political aesthetics, the primary aim of this essay is to situate the selected artifacts in relation to the campaign and give their creators a voice—or an image.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Justus Weiss.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Siddha Photography. Making the Invisible Visible in Siddha Pharmacology: A Photo Essay.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia, 5. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{weiss_siddha_2023,\n\ttitle = {Siddha {Photography}. {Making} the {Invisible} {Visible} in {Siddha} {Pharmacology}: {A} {Photo} {Essay}},\n\tvolume = {5},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023 Justus Weiss},\n\tissn = {2628-9113},\n\tshorttitle = {Siddha {Photography}. {Making} the {Invisible} {Visible} in {Siddha} {Pharmacology}},\n\turl = {https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/dasta/article/view/23345},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/dasta.2023.1.23345},\n\tabstract = {This photo essay explores the intricate practices of Siddha pharmacology in Tamil Nadu, India, as documented during field research conducted at the Puttu Maharishi Ashram in Vellore. The essay also examines the role of photography as a research tool, one that is used here to capture moments and processes in Siddha medicine that extend beyond the reach of textual description. The focus is directed toward two significant practices: Pudam, a detailed calcination process integral to medicine making, and Velvi, a full moon fire ritual symbolizing the spiritual dimension of Siddha practice. These practices serve as vital components in the construction and expression of the Siddha medical tradition, highlighting the unique interplay between material and spiritual elements. The photo essay serves as a window into the world of Siddha pharmacology, allowing for an immersive experience of its aesthetic and transformative aspects. Photography is employed not merely as a documentary tool but as a medium for intersubjectivity, inviting readers to engage with the subtle intricacies of this ancient healing tradition. The essay aims to render the invisible spiritual dimensions of Siddha medicine visible.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\turldate = {2023-12-29},\n\tjournal = {Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia},\n\tauthor = {Weiss, Justus},\n\tmonth = dec,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {medicine, siddha medicine},\n}\n\n
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\n This photo essay explores the intricate practices of Siddha pharmacology in Tamil Nadu, India, as documented during field research conducted at the Puttu Maharishi Ashram in Vellore. The essay also examines the role of photography as a research tool, one that is used here to capture moments and processes in Siddha medicine that extend beyond the reach of textual description. The focus is directed toward two significant practices: Pudam, a detailed calcination process integral to medicine making, and Velvi, a full moon fire ritual symbolizing the spiritual dimension of Siddha practice. These practices serve as vital components in the construction and expression of the Siddha medical tradition, highlighting the unique interplay between material and spiritual elements. The photo essay serves as a window into the world of Siddha pharmacology, allowing for an immersive experience of its aesthetic and transformative aspects. Photography is employed not merely as a documentary tool but as a medium for intersubjectivity, inviting readers to engage with the subtle intricacies of this ancient healing tradition. The essay aims to render the invisible spiritual dimensions of Siddha medicine visible.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Fritzi-Marie Titzmann.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Witnessing in Solidarity. Recording the Legacy of Shaheen Bagh through Visual Art: A Photo Essay.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia, 5. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{titzmann_witnessing_2023,\n\ttitle = {Witnessing in {Solidarity}. {Recording} the {Legacy} of {Shaheen} {Bagh} through {Visual} {Art}: {A} {Photo} {Essay}},\n\tvolume = {5},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023 Fritzi-Marie Titzmann},\n\tissn = {2628-9113},\n\tshorttitle = {Witnessing in {Solidarity}. {Recording} the {Legacy} of {Shaheen} {Bagh} through {Visual} {Art}},\n\turl = {https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/dasta/article/view/22809},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/dasta.2023.1.22809},\n\tabstract = {This article delves into the transformative power of art and media in shaping narratives of solidarity and resistance within the context of the historic Shaheen Bagh protests that unfolded in New Delhi during the winter of 2019/20. These protests, sparked by the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), witnessed a unique convergence of Muslim women as protest leaders. The gendered perception of the Muslim minority in India was subsequently redefined. The movement also introduced innovative forms of feminist solidarity and non-violent protest strategies, including the use of digital tools for transnational outreach. The article spotlights the artistic endeavors of two young women artists who utilized their creative talents to bear witness to the events and craft testimonials for posterity. Prarthna Singh’s photo book, Har Shaam Shaheen Bagh (2022), and Ita Mehrotra’s graphic novel, Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection (2021), serve as case studies to investigate the processes of visually mediating the legacy of the Shaheen Bagh movement. Key aspects explored in this inquiry about witnessing and memory-making include the production and mediation of solidarity through art and media, the narratives conveyed by these visual works, prevalent visual tropes within works, the interplay of gender and resistance in their narratives, the new spaces opened up by these artistic interventions, and the positioning and framing of the artists themselves.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\turldate = {2023-12-29},\n\tjournal = {Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia},\n\tauthor = {Titzmann, Fritzi-Marie},\n\tmonth = dec,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {art history, gender studies, islam, social studies},\n}\n\n
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\n This article delves into the transformative power of art and media in shaping narratives of solidarity and resistance within the context of the historic Shaheen Bagh protests that unfolded in New Delhi during the winter of 2019/20. These protests, sparked by the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), witnessed a unique convergence of Muslim women as protest leaders. The gendered perception of the Muslim minority in India was subsequently redefined. The movement also introduced innovative forms of feminist solidarity and non-violent protest strategies, including the use of digital tools for transnational outreach. The article spotlights the artistic endeavors of two young women artists who utilized their creative talents to bear witness to the events and craft testimonials for posterity. Prarthna Singh’s photo book, Har Shaam Shaheen Bagh (2022), and Ita Mehrotra’s graphic novel, Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection (2021), serve as case studies to investigate the processes of visually mediating the legacy of the Shaheen Bagh movement. Key aspects explored in this inquiry about witnessing and memory-making include the production and mediation of solidarity through art and media, the narratives conveyed by these visual works, prevalent visual tropes within works, the interplay of gender and resistance in their narratives, the new spaces opened up by these artistic interventions, and the positioning and framing of the artists themselves.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Mubashir Abbasi, & Sarma Sreeramula Rajeshwar.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Astrolabe by Bulhomal and Pīr Bakhsh of 1841 CE: A Unique Testimonial to an Intercultural Collaboration.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n History of Science in South Asia, 11: 210–249. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n From the middle of the sixteenth century up to the end of the seventeenth, Lahore was the leading centre where Allāhdād and his descendants produced a large number of exquisitely crafted astrolabes, with legends and numerals in Arabic.   In the same period, Sanskrit astrolabes with legends in Sanskrit and numerals in Devanagari were made sporadically in Rajasthan-Gujarat region.  Then in the eighteenth century, the production of both types of astrolabes ended abruptly for various reasons.  Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, however, both these traditions came together in the work of Bulhomal, who created some 27 instruments of diverse kinds. Entirely different from these is a large astrolabe in the creation of  which people of different faiths collaborated.  The astrolabe was commissioned by Mawlwī Ghulām Muḥammad, a Sunni Muslim,  who held an important position at the court of  the Sikh rulers of the princely state of Kapurthala, for the sake of Mubārak cAlī Khān who appears to be a member of an influential Shia Muslim family; it was designed by Bulhomal, a Hindu, and was fabricated by Pīr Bakhsh, a Muslim.  Thus this astrolabe is a laudable example of intercultural collaboration. The present paper offers a full technical description against the background of Bulhomal’s other work.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Ulrike Čokl.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Thuenlam.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 43(1): 108–130. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n In this article, I introduce selected aspects of the concept and practice of thuenlam (མཐུན་ལམ) in Bhutan, the local term for maintaining ‘harmonious relations’. Most Bhutanese consider thuenlam an important prerequisite for successful co-existence and co-operation within society. I describe the views and experiences of my three Bhutanese fellow travelers on the way from Shingkhar, a village in Bumthang (Central Bhutan), to Zhongmay, a village in Lhuentse (Eastern Bhutan). While trekking along the ancient footpath that connected both valleys, I explore the different ways my companions keep thuenlam with a variety of neypo (གནས་པོ hosts) through the exchange of food and drink, gifts, and services. I furthermore draw on my interviews with Bumthap villagers and my field notes resulting from living and traveling with Bhutanese over many years. This account includes my perspective as a researcher who depends on the hospitality framework to establish thuenlam in the field. Hence, drawing on four years of dissertation research and over 23 years of familiarity with Bhutan, I focus on the informal etiquette, beyzhag (འབད་བཞག) and hosting traditions of day-to-day village life rather than the formalized and codified etiquette of driglam namzhag (སྒྲིག་ལམ་རྣམ་གཞག), the official Bhutanese code of conduct. Both nurture various types of thuenlam in society: the former, informal practices are organic and transmitted within the family and community; the latter, mandatory during official events and settings are taught at schools and in specialized courses. Note: To have Tibetan script correctly displayed, please download the PDF file and open it in a desktop application.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Sienna R. Craig.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Politics and Poetics of Himalayan Lives.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 43(1): 12–19. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Heidi E. Fjeld, & Inger K. Vasstveit.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Amulets as Infrastructure.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 43(1): 20–41. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{fjeld_amulets_2023,\n\ttitle = {Amulets as {Infrastructure}},\n\tvolume = {43},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023 Heidi E. Fjeld, Inger K. Vasstveit},\n\tissn = {2471-3716},\n\turl = {http://journals.ed.ac.uk/himalaya/article/view/8969},\n\tdoi = {10.2218/himalaya.2023.8969},\n\tabstract = {This article explores the use of amulets on children’s bodies, drawing on empirical examples from Mugum in western Nepal and theoretical insights from anthropology of personhood, kinship and infrastructure. Taking four-year old Tashi and his family in Mugum as a starting point, we show how the status of toddlers and small children is “extraordinary”; they are physically fragile, emotionally uncontrolled, and weakly connected, and in need of special protection. In the complex transition to ordinary personhood, amulets serve as one of many “technologies of protection” for children (Garrett 2013, 189). We suggest that amulets act as a stable infrastructure that enables a hope for children to live ordinary lives, and argue that the significance of these means of protection intersects closely with notions of marginality.\nNote: To have Tibetan script correctly displayed, please download the PDF file and open it in a desktop application.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\tnumber = {1},\n\turldate = {2023-12-20},\n\tjournal = {HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies},\n\tauthor = {Fjeld, Heidi E. and Vasstveit, Inger K.},\n\tmonth = dec,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {anthropology, nepal, religious studies, social studies},\n\tpages = {20--41},\n}\n\n
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\n This article explores the use of amulets on children’s bodies, drawing on empirical examples from Mugum in western Nepal and theoretical insights from anthropology of personhood, kinship and infrastructure. Taking four-year old Tashi and his family in Mugum as a starting point, we show how the status of toddlers and small children is “extraordinary”; they are physically fragile, emotionally uncontrolled, and weakly connected, and in need of special protection. In the complex transition to ordinary personhood, amulets serve as one of many “technologies of protection” for children (Garrett 2013, 189). We suggest that amulets act as a stable infrastructure that enables a hope for children to live ordinary lives, and argue that the significance of these means of protection intersects closely with notions of marginality. Note: To have Tibetan script correctly displayed, please download the PDF file and open it in a desktop application.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Vineet Gairola.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Review of Himālaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 43(1): 193–195. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Harmandeep Kaur Gill, & Theresia Hofer.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Writing with Care.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 43(1): 3–11. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Geoff Childs, & Namgyal Choedup.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Resistance to Marriage, Family Responsibilities, and Mobility.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 43(1): 92–107. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{childs_resistance_2023,\n\ttitle = {Resistance to {Marriage}, {Family} {Responsibilities}, and {Mobility}},\n\tvolume = {43},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023 Geoff Childs, Namgyal Choedup},\n\tissn = {2471-3716},\n\turl = {http://journals.ed.ac.uk/himalaya/article/view/8840},\n\tdoi = {10.2218/himalaya.2023.8840},\n\tabstract = {Tsering, the eldest of three daughters in a sonless household, was designated to perpetuate the family by marrying a matrilocally resident husband. She did not like the chosen man and thus decided, against her family’s wishes, to remain single. Tsering was subsequently caught up in the destruction of Tibet’s religious institutions and social order during the Cultural Revolution. As border dwellers, her family escaped to Nepal when persecution became too intense, but then returned once the situation stabilized. Because Tsering’s mother decided to remain in Nepal, she accepted her duty of caring for an aging parent and never returned to her natal village. Tsering’s life story sheds light on the nexus of gender, social status, and mobility among Tibetan commoners during the turbulent mid-twentieth century. It underscores how women in Kyidrong had agency, albeit the consequences of resisting marital expectations could be substantial even in a society where female non-marriage was both common and acceptable.\nNote: To have Tibetan script correctly displayed, please download the PDF file and open it in a desktop application.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\tnumber = {1},\n\turldate = {2023-12-20},\n\tjournal = {HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies},\n\tauthor = {Childs, Geoff and Choedup, Namgyal},\n\tmonth = dec,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {cultural studies, gender studies, social studies, tibet},\n\tpages = {92--107},\n}\n\n
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\n Tsering, the eldest of three daughters in a sonless household, was designated to perpetuate the family by marrying a matrilocally resident husband. She did not like the chosen man and thus decided, against her family’s wishes, to remain single. Tsering was subsequently caught up in the destruction of Tibet’s religious institutions and social order during the Cultural Revolution. As border dwellers, her family escaped to Nepal when persecution became too intense, but then returned once the situation stabilized. Because Tsering’s mother decided to remain in Nepal, she accepted her duty of caring for an aging parent and never returned to her natal village. Tsering’s life story sheds light on the nexus of gender, social status, and mobility among Tibetan commoners during the turbulent mid-twentieth century. It underscores how women in Kyidrong had agency, albeit the consequences of resisting marital expectations could be substantial even in a society where female non-marriage was both common and acceptable. Note: To have Tibetan script correctly displayed, please download the PDF file and open it in a desktop application.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Anne Kukuczka.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Working Out in “Sunlight Happiness Gym”.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 43(1): 71–88. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n What might it mean to strive for well-being and a viable life in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR)? What are the temporal rhythms of urban life for government-employed Tibetan women in their mid-twenties? This article engages with these questions by foregrounding seemingly mundane activities related to fitness and sport as they are experienced by Yangkyi and Tselha, two highly educated government workers in their mid-20s. It draws on seven months of ethnographic research, followed up by communication on social media, to examine the everyday routines and concerns of the two women, exploring how “Sunlight Happiness Gym,” a high-end fitness studio catering to the city’s growing middle classes, emerged as significant in their efforts to be well. The article shows how working out created its own temporal rhythms for Yangkyi and Tselha and opened up potentials for self-making that were more difficult to create in other domains of their lives. By demonstrating that, for Yangkyi and Tselha, ideas and practices of well-being, self-care, and fitness get intertwined through going to the gym, I argue that working out plays an important part in their attempts to create joy, meaningful relationships, and a viable life in an environment characterized by often overwhelming structural conditions.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Abhimanyu Pandey.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Review of Places in Knots: Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond by Martin Saxer.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 43(1): 190–192. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Anuj Misra, & Jean Arzoumanov.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Calendars, Compliments, and Computations: A Comparative Survey of the Canon in the Persian Zīj of Šāh Jahān and its Sanskrit Translation, the Siddhāntasindhu.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n History of Science in South Asia, 11: 84–218. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Various studies in recent times have shown how sociohistorical proclivities played an important role in the acceptance or rejection of cross-cultural ideas in Mughal scientific discourses. The cultural patronage of the Mughal courts financed the production and propagation of certain scientific texts deemed intellectually and politically expedient. Among such texts were two seventeenth-century astronomical table-texts, Mullā Farīd's Persian Zīj-i Šāh Jahānī and its Sanskrit translation in Nityānanda's Siddhāntasindhu, both produced at the court of the Mughal Emperor Šāh Jahān. In this paper, we present, for the very first time, a comparative survey of the canon (text) of these two works to reveal the intimacy between the translated Sanskrit and its Persian original. The paper includes brief biographies of both astronomers, a summary of the salient features of the canons, a description of the manuscripts utilised and our transcription and transliteration schemes, along with a detailed comparison of the individual chapters in these canons. We also provide separate appendices with discussions on select aspects from these chapters. We note that this paper forms the first part in a two-part study, with a second forthcoming paper surveying the tables in these two texts (accompanied with mathematical annotations).\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Davide Mocci.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Pāṇini and the Non-Head (upasarjana) of Attributive Endocentric Compounds.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Bhasha, (2). December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n This study aims at contributing to our understanding of Pāṇini’s classification of compounds. In particular, this study investigates the notion upasarjana – roughly translatable as ‘non-head’ – in attributive endocentric (so-called karmadhāraya ) compounds like nava-jvāra- ‘new suffering’, by addressing the following questions: do the units which Pāṇini designated as upasarjana in subordinate endocentric (so-called tatpuruṣa proper) compounds like aśva-śapha- ‘horse’s hoof’ share any feature with the units which he designated as upasarjana in karmadhārayas ? More generally, what is the hallmark of the units designated as upasarjana ? To answer these questions, we shall delve into several rules of Pāṇini’s grammar – the Aṣṭādhyāyī – which conceal such powerful grammatical tools as silent case endings and the operation of case-copying.\n
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\n Ajotikar et al. (2016) claim that most of the counterexamples provided in the Kāśikāvr̥tti conform to the distinctive feature of a counterexample, namely, having all the conditions stated in the rule except one (ekāṅgavikalatā). Ajotikar (2021) discusses how a variant reading for a counterexample helps understand the relation between two operational rules. This article adds one more aspect to the importance of counterexamples. However, there are some cases where the purpose of the counterexample of a complex semantic condition is not clear. In this article, I study counterexamples provided on the sūtras, A. 1.4.33-36, in the kāraka section, on which Patañjali did not comment. These sūtras are chosen for discussion because the counterexamples available on these sūtras are first provided in the Kāśikāvr̥tti. When it comes to the issue of complex semantic conditions (priyamāṇa, jñīpsyamāna, īpsita or uttamarṇa) stated in A. 1.4.33-36, it is difficult to justify the usefulness of the available counterexamples. After carefully examining Bhatr̥hari’s views along with Helārāja’s explanation, it is evident that these counterexamples must have been included in order to fulfil the criteria of a vr̥tti. A vr̥tti typically includes an example, a counterexample and a supplementary word, which are necessary to complete the meaning of the rule. However, these counterexamples fail to justify the significance of the semantic conditions stated in the rule for which they are provided. Hence they do not serve any purpose.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Dipak Jadhav.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Core of the Non-Universe in Jaina Cosmology as a Cube of Eight Space-Points.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n History of Science in South Asia, 11: 63–83. December 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n According to Jaina cosmology, the non-universe is a hollow sphere beyond and exists all round the universe, whose middle region is the horizontal universe resting on a circular disc. The Bhagavatī Sūtra and the Sthānāṅga Sūtra each mention that there is the core of the horizontal universe where a cube of eight space-points is and from those eight space-points ten directions originate. This paper presents a conjectural explanation for understanding that cube. The core of the non-universe is the core of a core-sphere when the core-sphere is formed using n core-circles such that they are stacked up and down in the same order from the nth core-circle to the first core-circle. The upper four points of the cube of eight points form the core of the horizontal universe and the cube of eight points is the core of the non-universe. The nth core-circle becomes the horizontal universe when n is innumerable and the nth core-sphere forms the non-universe when n approaches infinity. This paper also shows that the intermediate and cardinal directions are linear and planar respectively while the zenith and nadir ones are three-dimensional.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Raj Balkaran, & McComas Taylor.,\n editors.\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n ANU Press, 1 edition, November 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Sanskrit narrative is the lifeblood of Indian culture, encapsulating and perpetuating insights and values central to Indian thought and practice. This volume brings together eighteen of the foremost scholars across the globe, who, in an unprecedented collaboration, accord these texts the integrity and dignity they deserve. The last time this was attempted, on a much smaller scale, was a generation ago, with Purāṇa Perennis (1993). The pre-eminent contributors to this landmark collection use novel methods and theory to meaningfully engage Sanskrit narrative texts, showcasing the state of contemporary scholarship on the Sanskrit epics and purāṇas.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Aimée Lahaussois.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n (De)Coding Hodgson’s Kiranti Grammars and Verbal Paradigms.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Bhasha, (2). November 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n This article presents the process, challenges and results of reconstructing hierarchised tables of contents for two grammar sketches written by B.H. Hodgson of the Vayu (1857) and Bahing (1858) languages. The process has involved making sense of the ontological systems used by Hodgson in organising his materials and analyses, and has been complicated by the dual factors of occasionally opaque terminological choices and of inconsistent physical presentation of the materials. The resulting tables of contents, presented in the appendix, make it possible to compare these sketches to others from the same time period and/or linguistic area.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Surya Sanjay.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Pre-Toda Verb: A Reconstruction.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Bhasha, (2). November 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Toda is a Dravidian language that is well known for its aberrant phonology, namely due to ubiquitous vowel dropping, simplification of consonant clusters, and phonemic diversification. Although efforts have succeeded to some extent in mapping these phonemes to those of related languages, the origins and implications of Toda morphology have not yet been explored in detail. This work aims to reconstruct key aspects of the Pre-Toda verb in order to provide a dataset to be faithfully used in comparative Dravidian linguistics. Here, the formation of the secondary stem and the nonpast suffixes are demonstrated to show more affinity towards Old Kannada rather than Old Tamil. At the same time, the tenseless and dubitative conjugations, along with personal terminations, are found to retain archaic Dravidian suffixes.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Alessandra Consolaro.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Childhood, mystery and the idea of a self in Uday Prakash’s memoirs.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, 27(2): 21–34. September 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n This article focuses on some very short stories by Uday Prakash published as ‘autobiographies.’ Three of them are in the short story collection Tirich (“The poisonous lizard”) first published in 1989; five autobiographical sketches are found in the collection Aur ant meṃ prārthnā (“And, finally, a prayer”) first published in 1994. The focalization on the child character produces an indeterminacy that engages in a delightful game with the final ratiocinations of the first-person adult narrator, especially when the child faces traumatic experiences. In these micro stories, time, space and emotions scroll like a film, moving from within the memory and shaping the self in very mysterious ways. At a metanarrative level, writing appears as a journey on the path of memory, from the past towards the present and perhaps even leaping into the future.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Julian Schott.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Dārikapa’s Short Instruction on Reality – the Great Secret of Secrets from Uḍḍiyāna.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Asian Literature and Translation, 10(2): 134–168. September 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n This short paper aims in presenting a modern but close reading of Dārikapāda’s Short Instruction on Reality – the Great Secret of Secrets from the exalted Oḍḍiyāna. This first translation of this short and inspirational Buddhist tantric song-poem into English is accompanied by an introduction in which the work is briefly contextualised, followed by two summarising sections about the author, text and its contents. The Short Instruction on Reality has not received any noteworthy scholarly attention from within or outside of Buddhist or scholarly traditions. Yet, as being part of the so-called ‘Seven Siddhi Texts’ (Grub pa sde bdun), it has gained its place within the Indo-Tibetan Mahāmudrā traditions that developed on the Tibetan plateau from 10th and 11th centuries onward, and is thus one among the many relevant sources, although a minor one, to be studied and investigated to shed light on its development and formation.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Sadhu Aksharananddas.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n New Perspectives on the Brahmasūtra. An English Translation of the Brahmasūtra-Svāminārāyaṇabhāṣya’s Exposition of “Athāto Brahmajijñāsā”.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Asian Literature and Translation, 10(2): 93–133. September 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Within the darśanic world, the Brahmasūtra is a seminal text that provides key insights into Upaniṣadic revelation. The recent creation of Mahāmahopādhyāya Bhadresh Swami’s Brahmasūtra-Svāminārāyaṇabhāṣya, a comprehensive Sanskrit commentary on the Brahmasūtra, presents unique readings of the text according to the teachings of the Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana as revealed by Bhagavān Svāminārāyaṇa. The commentary’s recent reception encourages further inquiry into its distinctive insights on Vedānta thought and the principles of the Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana. This article  presents an English translation of the Brahmasūtra-Svāminārāyaṇabhāṣya’s exposition on the first aphorism: “athāto brahmajijñāsā,” in an effort to make the commentary’s expositions more accessible. In doing so, it highlights distinctive principles of the darśana, including its unique understanding of the nature and form of Akṣarabrahman and Parabrahman. To further contextualize the commentary, this article also presents an introduction to the darśanic commentarial tradition, focusing on the role, features, and significance of the Brahmasūtra commentaries and the Svāminārāyaṇabhāṣya.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Federico Divino.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Elements of the Buddhist Medical System.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n History of Science in South Asia, 11: 22–62. August 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{divino_elements_2023,\n\ttitle = {Elements of the {Buddhist} {Medical} {System}},\n\tvolume = {11},\n\tissn = {2369-775X},\n\turl = {https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/hssa/index.php/hssa/article/view/97},\n\tdoi = {10.18732/hssa97},\n\tabstract = {This article aims to explore the anthropological foundations of early Buddhist medical thought by conducting a comprehensive analysis of Pāli texts and their relationship to the development of Indian traditional medicine, such as Āyurveda. The research investigates the possible existence of an ancient Buddhist medical system and compares it with contemporary medical systems, such as Hippocratic medicine. By examining the Bhesajjakkhandhaka and the Bhesajjamañjūsā, two Pāli texts that discuss medicine, the article seeks to outline the key elements of ancient Buddhist medical conceptions. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of understanding the evolution of Buddhist medical practices and their potential role in defining Indian traditional medicine. The findings could provide a foundation for historians of Indian medicine to delve into even more complex aspects of the medical tradition in ancient Buddhism.},\n\turldate = {2023-08-20},\n\tjournal = {History of Science in South Asia},\n\tauthor = {Divino, Federico},\n\tmonth = aug,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {ayurveda, buddhism, medicine, pāli},\n\tpages = {22--62},\n}\n\n
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\n This article aims to explore the anthropological foundations of early Buddhist medical thought by conducting a comprehensive analysis of Pāli texts and their relationship to the development of Indian traditional medicine, such as Āyurveda. The research investigates the possible existence of an ancient Buddhist medical system and compares it with contemporary medical systems, such as Hippocratic medicine. By examining the Bhesajjakkhandhaka and the Bhesajjamañjūsā, two Pāli texts that discuss medicine, the article seeks to outline the key elements of ancient Buddhist medical conceptions. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of understanding the evolution of Buddhist medical practices and their potential role in defining Indian traditional medicine. The findings could provide a foundation for historians of Indian medicine to delve into even more complex aspects of the medical tradition in ancient Buddhism.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Michael Witzel.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Realm of the Kuru: Origins and Development of the First State in India.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies, 28(1): 1–165. June 2023.\n Number: 1\n\n\n\n
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@article{witzel_realm_2023,\n\ttitle = {The {Realm} of the {Kuru}: {Origins} and {Development} of the {First} {State} in {India}},\n\tvolume = {28},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023 Michael Witzel},\n\tissn = {1084-7561},\n\tshorttitle = {The {Realm} of the {Kuru}},\n\turl = {https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/ejvs/article/view/22065},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/ejvs.2023.1.22065},\n\tabstract = {This issue of EJVS contains the long version of my article “Early Sanskritization. Origins and development of theKuru state” of 1997, published in a volume edited by B.Kölver. At that time, I had merely presented the outline and results of the longer paper publishedhere. After 1997, I have added some data, over the next few years, to the unpublished long version. I have now minimally updated it, for example by important genetic DNA data about the first immigration of steppe people to India (Swat) around 1250 BCE. However, I could not find the time to thoroughly update the paper and therefore present it here as is, in the hope that it will be useful to colleagues. As the current version includes many sections of the 1997 paper, some repetitions and overlaps will occur in the bulk of the text, for which I beg thereader’s indulgence.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\tnumber = {1},\n\turldate = {2023-06-28},\n\tjournal = {Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies},\n\tauthor = {Witzel, Michael},\n\tmonth = jun,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tnote = {Number: 1},\n\tkeywords = {cultural studies, religious studies, vedic studies},\n\tpages = {1--165},\n}\n\n
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\n This issue of EJVS contains the long version of my article “Early Sanskritization. Origins and development of theKuru state” of 1997, published in a volume edited by B.Kölver. At that time, I had merely presented the outline and results of the longer paper publishedhere. After 1997, I have added some data, over the next few years, to the unpublished long version. I have now minimally updated it, for example by important genetic DNA data about the first immigration of steppe people to India (Swat) around 1250 BCE. However, I could not find the time to thoroughly update the paper and therefore present it here as is, in the hope that it will be useful to colleagues. As the current version includes many sections of the 1997 paper, some repetitions and overlaps will occur in the bulk of the text, for which I beg thereader’s indulgence.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Giacomo Benedetti.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Meaning and Etymology of ārya.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Bhasha, (1). June 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{benedetti_meaning_2023,\n\ttitle = {The {Meaning} and {Etymology} of \\textit{ārya}},\n\tissn = {2785-5953},\n\turl = {https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni/riviste/bhasha/2023/1/the-meaning-and-etymology-of-arya/},\n\tdoi = {10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/01/006},\n\tabstract = {The present paper considers the issue of the Sanskrit term ārya, starting from the use of ārya and arya as ‘freeman’ and ‘owner’ in opposition to dāsa  ‘servant’ (or śūdra), from the Vedas to the Arthaśāstra and Pāli texts (in the form ayya). The original meaning is here interpreted as based on social classes rather than ethnic differences, although foreign populations could be considered as belonging to the dāsa or śūdra class. This social meaning can be found also in the Irish cognate aire ‘freeman, noble’, and in Iranic cognates like Middle Persian ērīh  ‘nobility’. Derived terms from arya / ārya often have an honorific use, and from the social meaning, also a moral and spiritual meaning could be developed, which is more easily explained from the concept of ‘noble’ and ‘freeman’ than from that of an ethnic identity or kinship. If the original meaning of Indo-European *  aryos  was ‘freeman, noble’, it can be compared with the Afro-Asiatic root *ħar  - ‘(vb.) to be superior, to be higher in status or rank, to be above or over; (n.) nobleman, master, chief, superior; (adj.) free-born, noble’. We can have thus to do with concepts of nobility and freedom developed in the common cultural frame of a society where slavery and social stratification were evolving.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\tnumber = {1},\n\turldate = {2023-06-26},\n\tjournal = {Bhasha},\n\tauthor = {Benedetti, Giacomo},\n\tmonth = jun,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {etymology, sanskrit, word studies},\n}\n\n
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\n The present paper considers the issue of the Sanskrit term ārya, starting from the use of ārya and arya as ‘freeman’ and ‘owner’ in opposition to dāsa ‘servant’ (or śūdra), from the Vedas to the Arthaśāstra and Pāli texts (in the form ayya). The original meaning is here interpreted as based on social classes rather than ethnic differences, although foreign populations could be considered as belonging to the dāsa or śūdra class. This social meaning can be found also in the Irish cognate aire ‘freeman, noble’, and in Iranic cognates like Middle Persian ērīh ‘nobility’. Derived terms from arya / ārya often have an honorific use, and from the social meaning, also a moral and spiritual meaning could be developed, which is more easily explained from the concept of ‘noble’ and ‘freeman’ than from that of an ethnic identity or kinship. If the original meaning of Indo-European * aryos was ‘freeman, noble’, it can be compared with the Afro-Asiatic root *ħar - ‘(vb.) to be superior, to be higher in status or rank, to be above or over; (n.) nobleman, master, chief, superior; (adj.) free-born, noble’. We can have thus to do with concepts of nobility and freedom developed in the common cultural frame of a society where slavery and social stratification were evolving.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Maria Elena Cantù Degani.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Comrie, Zamponi. A Grammar of Akajeru.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Bhasha, (1). June 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{cantu_degani_comrie_2023,\n\ttitle = {Comrie, {Zamponi}. \\textit{{A} {Grammar} of {Akajeru}}},\n\tissn = {2785-5953},\n\turl = {https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni/riviste/bhasha/2023/1/comrie-zamponi-a-grammar-of-akajeru/},\n\tdoi = {10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/01/008},\n\tabstract = {Review of Comrie, B.; Zamponi, R. (2021).\n              A Grammar of Akajeru: Fragments of a Traditional North Andamanese Dialect\n              . London: UCL Press, xi + 171 pp.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\tnumber = {1},\n\turldate = {2023-06-26},\n\tjournal = {Bhasha},\n\tauthor = {Cantù Degani, Maria Elena},\n\tmonth = jun,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {review},\n}\n\n
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\n Review of Comrie, B.; Zamponi, R. (2021). A Grammar of Akajeru: Fragments of a Traditional North Andamanese Dialect . London: UCL Press, xi + 171 pp.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Adam Alvah Catt.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Verbal Governing Compounds with an Accusative-Marked First Member of the Type agnim-indhá- : From Vedic to Pāṇini.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Bhasha, (1). June 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The verbal governing compound type agnim-indhá - ‘kindling the fire’, with an accusative-marked first member and a second member built to the present stem with the suffix -á- , is attested since the Vedic period and continues to enjoy a certain degree of productivity in later periods. In addition to this type, there are also related verbal governing compounds in Vedic and later Sanskrit of the type khajaṃ-kará- ‘making a battle-din’, in which the second member is not built to the present stem. After overviewing the early Vedic evidence for these types, we will examine Pāṇini’s approach in deriving these compounds. Pāṇini generally derives such compounds built to a present stem with the sārvadhātuka affix KHaŚ and those which show some discrepancy with the present stem with the affix KHaC. The motivation for introducing these affixes is clear in the majority of cases but there remain some forms within the group of KHaC-derivatives for which Pāṇini’s choice of KHaC over KHaŚ is not completely clear. Importantly, some sūtra s within the KHaC group explicitly provide for the derivation of names ( sañjñā ), suggesting that a link with the present stem may have been less intuitive in such cases.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Pascal Coenen.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n A New Interpretation of the Vedic Particle aṅgá.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Bhasha, (1). June 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{coenen_new_2023,\n\ttitle = {A {New} {Interpretation} of the {Vedic} {Particle} \\textit{aṅgá}},\n\tissn = {2785-5953},\n\turl = {https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni/riviste/bhasha/2023/1/a-new-interpretation-of-the-vedic-particle-anga/},\n\tdoi = {10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/01/007},\n\tabstract = {The aim of this article is to provide a unified account for all attestations of the particle\n              aṅgá\n              in the Rigveda. Based on its distribution in different clause types, I argue that previous analyses of this particle, which treat it as a focus particle or a marker of the speaker’s attitude or certainty are incorrect. Instead, I propose that the particle is used to indicate shared (lack of) knowledge between speaker and addressee. This proposal is based on the observation that when the particle occurs in questions these are not information-seeking. By adducing typological parallels, I argue that this function accounts for its presence in other clause types as well. Moreover, I will attempt to show that while\n              aṅgá\n              has an intersubjective function it is not to be regarded as an evidential or a marker of epistemic authority or epistemic modality.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\tnumber = {1},\n\turldate = {2023-06-26},\n\tjournal = {Bhasha},\n\tauthor = {Coenen, Pascal},\n\tmonth = jun,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {vedic studies, word studies},\n}\n\n
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\n The aim of this article is to provide a unified account for all attestations of the particle aṅgá in the Rigveda. Based on its distribution in different clause types, I argue that previous analyses of this particle, which treat it as a focus particle or a marker of the speaker’s attitude or certainty are incorrect. Instead, I propose that the particle is used to indicate shared (lack of) knowledge between speaker and addressee. This proposal is based on the observation that when the particle occurs in questions these are not information-seeking. By adducing typological parallels, I argue that this function accounts for its presence in other clause types as well. Moreover, I will attempt to show that while aṅgá has an intersubjective function it is not to be regarded as an evidential or a marker of epistemic authority or epistemic modality.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Simon Hürlimann.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n An Ethnolinguistic Remark on the fēiyī 飛衣.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Bhasha, (1). June 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{hurlimann_ethnolinguistic_2023,\n\ttitle = {An {Ethnolinguistic} {Remark} on the \\textit{fēiyī} 飛衣},\n\tissn = {2785-5953},\n\turl = {https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni/riviste/bhasha/2023/1/an-ethnolinguistic-remark-on-the-feiyi/},\n\tdoi = {10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/01/005},\n\tabstract = {This paper inquires the relationship between two Trans-Himalayan languages, namely Lohorung (Eastern Kiranti) and Old Chinese (Sinitic) by comparing their ‘soul’-related vocabulary. Several identified etymological cognates and rather unexpected parallels between the Lohorung maŋsuʔ ‘household shrine’ and the fēiyī  飛衣 ‘flying garment’ (i.e. T-shaped silk banner) excavated at the Mǎwángduī 馬王堆 site may in turn just add another perspective in understanding the function and meaning of this controversially discussed archaeological find.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\tnumber = {1},\n\turldate = {2023-06-26},\n\tjournal = {Bhasha},\n\tauthor = {Hürlimann, Simon},\n\tmonth = jun,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {linguistics, word studies},\n}\n\n
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\n This paper inquires the relationship between two Trans-Himalayan languages, namely Lohorung (Eastern Kiranti) and Old Chinese (Sinitic) by comparing their ‘soul’-related vocabulary. Several identified etymological cognates and rather unexpected parallels between the Lohorung maŋsuʔ ‘household shrine’ and the fēiyī 飛衣 ‘flying garment’ (i.e. T-shaped silk banner) excavated at the Mǎwángduī 馬王堆 site may in turn just add another perspective in understanding the function and meaning of this controversially discussed archaeological find.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Chiara Pette.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Phonographic Characters in the Biography of Xuanzang by Hui Li: The Declension of puruṣa (bùlùshā 布路沙).\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Bhasha, (1). June 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Rishi Rajpopat.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Evolution of Conflict-Resolution Tools in the Early Pāṇinian Tradition.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Bhasha, (1). June 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Mittal Trivedi.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Creating Tradition Through Interposition Exploring the Foundation of the lakāra in the Tiṅanta Section of the Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntakaumudī and the Prakriyākaumudī: Exploring the Foundation of the lakāra in the Tiṅanta Section of the Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntakaumudī and the Prakriyākaumudī.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Bhasha, (1). June 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n As the progenitor of Navya Vyākaraṇa, the Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntakaumudī by Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita is known for its prakriyā-based approach to Pāṇinian grammar. However, the Prakriyākaumudī by Rāmacandra Śeṣa has already established a precedent for a creative presentation of prakriyā. The present study aims to assess the innovation, structural integrity, and cohesiveness of these texts using the initial four sūtras of the tiṅanta section which develop the concept of the lakāra. The commentaries by Viṭṭhala and Jñānendra Sarasvati help to understand the progression of these concepts as the texts disseminated into the Sanskrit world.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Osensang Pongen, & Martin M. Bosman.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Epistemologies of Land Relations in India’s Tribal Frontier.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n The South Asianist Journal, 9: 23–42. June 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n This article contributes to the burgeoning critical literature on Naga lifeworlds by using a heterodox Foucaultian and Marxist framework. The analysis is structured as a genealogy that reinterprets the ways that historical epistemologies have shaped contemporary land relations in Nagaland. Our genealogy draws on place-based interviews to foreground what the history of land relations mean to Nagas today. The discussion sheds new light on (i) the epistemological bearings of gennas on the present-day social realities of Naga-Christianity; (ii) territoriality as an epistemology that reified the village-centered ownership of land; (iii) epistemic ruptures of subjectivation under British colonialism. The paper ends by contextualizing the genealogy of Naga land relations to redress its biased representations and culture of alterity by mainstream media and political outlets in India.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Raj Kharel, & Rakshya Silwal.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Empowering or burdening women?.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n The South Asianist Journal, 9: 1–22. June 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{kharel_empowering_2023,\n\ttitle = {Empowering or burdening women?},\n\tvolume = {9},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023 Raj Kharel},\n\tissn = {2050-487X},\n\turl = {http://www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk/article/view/7301},\n\tabstract = {In many developing countries like Nepal, women are vocationally trained in ‘women-friendly’ professions, encouraging them to enter the labour market. Amidst discussions concerning the role of gender-stereotyped Vocational Training (VT) programmes in empowering women, this research makes a qualitative study of the training and post-training experiences of women graduating from two ‘women-friendly’ VT programs – tailoring and beautician. Data obtained from interviewing 12 beauticians and 7 tailors have been analysed to assess the precariousness associated with these professions and also women’s sense of empowerment through the World Bank Empowerment Framework 2005.\nDiscussions suggest that women are often nudged into low-income occupations owing to their gender roles, lower attainment of formal education and limited access to finances. In addition to their domestic and care work, women are forced to sell cheap labour and work longer hours in a highly competitive market, which signifies the extremity of precariousness they encounter.\nAlthough VT programmes give women some agency through assets like income (albeit low), skill, information and social capital, the translation of this agency to empowerment remains questionable. Despite being professionals, women are still not the ones making decisions for their future and thus have limited social and political power. Even institutions designed to empower women leave them out of their board rooms – proving women quite  powerless even while walking the recommended paths of ‘empowerment’.\nThis research concludes that gender-stereotyped VT programmes in Nepal exacerbate gender differences, burden women with precariousness and exclude them from economic, social and political capital-earning opportunities.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\turldate = {2023-06-11},\n\tjournal = {The South Asianist Journal},\n\tauthor = {Kharel, Raj and Silwal, Rakshya},\n\tmonth = jun,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {gender studies, nepal, social studies},\n\tpages = {1--22},\n}\n\n
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\n In many developing countries like Nepal, women are vocationally trained in ‘women-friendly’ professions, encouraging them to enter the labour market. Amidst discussions concerning the role of gender-stereotyped Vocational Training (VT) programmes in empowering women, this research makes a qualitative study of the training and post-training experiences of women graduating from two ‘women-friendly’ VT programs – tailoring and beautician. Data obtained from interviewing 12 beauticians and 7 tailors have been analysed to assess the precariousness associated with these professions and also women’s sense of empowerment through the World Bank Empowerment Framework 2005. Discussions suggest that women are often nudged into low-income occupations owing to their gender roles, lower attainment of formal education and limited access to finances. In addition to their domestic and care work, women are forced to sell cheap labour and work longer hours in a highly competitive market, which signifies the extremity of precariousness they encounter. Although VT programmes give women some agency through assets like income (albeit low), skill, information and social capital, the translation of this agency to empowerment remains questionable. Despite being professionals, women are still not the ones making decisions for their future and thus have limited social and political power. Even institutions designed to empower women leave them out of their board rooms – proving women quite  powerless even while walking the recommended paths of ‘empowerment’. This research concludes that gender-stereotyped VT programmes in Nepal exacerbate gender differences, burden women with precariousness and exclude them from economic, social and political capital-earning opportunities.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Dagmar Wujastyk.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Making Gems in Indian Alchemical Literature.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n History of Science in South Asia, 11: 1–21. June 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n This article examines the practice of producing factitious gems as described in Nityanātha’s Jewel Mine of Mercury (Rasaratnākara), a thirteenth to fifteenth-century alchemical work written in Sanskrit. It queries how this practice fits within the Indian alchemical discipline and explores its possible connections with other artisanal crafts.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Amit Ahuja, & Aashish Mehta.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n How Does Growth Affect Everyday Corruption? Exit, Empowerment and Voice in Indian Public Services.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, (81): 58–58. April 2023.\n Number: 81\n\n\n\n
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@article{ahuja_how_2023,\n\ttitle = {How {Does} {Growth} {Affect} {Everyday} {Corruption}? {Exit}, {Empowerment} and {Voice} in {Indian} {Public} {Services}},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023 Amit  Ahuja, Aashish Mehta},\n\tissn = {1617-5069},\n\tshorttitle = {How {Does} {Growth} {Affect} {Everyday} {Corruption}?},\n\turl = {https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/hdpapers/article/view/21436},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/hpsap.2023.81.21436},\n\tabstract = {Economic growth’s effects on government efforts to combat citizen-facing, public-service corruption varies in a puzzling way across services. Over two high-growth decades in India, those services undergoing the largest increases in demand, and therefore in rent-extraction opportunities, saw more robust anti-corruption reforms than did services experiencing weaker or even negative demand growth. In this paper, the authors build theoretical models that can explain why growth induced the state to more aggressively shut down its fastest-growing rent opportunities. They show that the net effect of growth on anti-corruption efforts in a service depends upon the balance of three growth-induced outcomes – two negative and one positive. Exit of richer, high-voice citizens from the service reduces public pressure for reforms, while entry of poorer low-voice citizens enhances opportunities for rent extraction without increasing accountability. Conversely, growth empowers existing service users to demand anti-corruption reforms. The balance between exit, entry and empowerment forces explains why growth leads government to clean up corruption in services that the middle classes and rich continue to use, and concentrates corruption in the services they leave behind. By inducing stronger anticorruption efforts in the services used by richer citizens, growth makes everyday corruption more of a “tax on the poor”. We illustrate how growth disproportionately empowered richer citizens to successfully demand reforms by analyzing changes to the passport service and the railway reservation system. We also validate the model’s main mechanisms statistically through a case study of India’s rural elementary schools, where anti-corruption reforms have lagged. These results suggest that designing services to discourage exit by their richer users could help to harness the anti-corruption benefits of growth for the rest. \nKeywords: Corruption, Economic Growth, Public Services, Voice, Exit, Entry, Anti-corruption reforms, Accountability, State Institutions, Passport issuance, Railway Reservation, Teacher Absenteeism.\nJEL Codes: H11, H42, D73, O12, O17},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\tnumber = {81},\n\turldate = {2023-04-21},\n\tjournal = {Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics},\n\tauthor = {Ahuja, Amit and Mehta, Aashish},\n\tmonth = apr,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tnote = {Number: 81},\n\tkeywords = {corruption, economy},\n\tpages = {58--58},\n}\n\n
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\n Economic growth’s effects on government efforts to combat citizen-facing, public-service corruption varies in a puzzling way across services. Over two high-growth decades in India, those services undergoing the largest increases in demand, and therefore in rent-extraction opportunities, saw more robust anti-corruption reforms than did services experiencing weaker or even negative demand growth. In this paper, the authors build theoretical models that can explain why growth induced the state to more aggressively shut down its fastest-growing rent opportunities. They show that the net effect of growth on anti-corruption efforts in a service depends upon the balance of three growth-induced outcomes – two negative and one positive. Exit of richer, high-voice citizens from the service reduces public pressure for reforms, while entry of poorer low-voice citizens enhances opportunities for rent extraction without increasing accountability. Conversely, growth empowers existing service users to demand anti-corruption reforms. The balance between exit, entry and empowerment forces explains why growth leads government to clean up corruption in services that the middle classes and rich continue to use, and concentrates corruption in the services they leave behind. By inducing stronger anticorruption efforts in the services used by richer citizens, growth makes everyday corruption more of a “tax on the poor”. We illustrate how growth disproportionately empowered richer citizens to successfully demand reforms by analyzing changes to the passport service and the railway reservation system. We also validate the model’s main mechanisms statistically through a case study of India’s rural elementary schools, where anti-corruption reforms have lagged. These results suggest that designing services to discourage exit by their richer users could help to harness the anti-corruption benefits of growth for the rest.  Keywords: Corruption, Economic Growth, Public Services, Voice, Exit, Entry, Anti-corruption reforms, Accountability, State Institutions, Passport issuance, Railway Reservation, Teacher Absenteeism. JEL Codes: H11, H42, D73, O12, O17\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Saran Suebsantiwongse.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Royal Amusements, Sports, Acrobats and Yogic Practices According to the Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 113–135. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The largely understudied Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā is known to a small number of Sanskritists as a compendium on kingship, which they believe to be from South India. The text is composed in the form of an ongoing dialogue between Śiva and Pārvatī and the colophon attributes it to the Ākāśabhairavakalpa. Hence, the text is catalogued as a Tantric text. Apart from Tantric rituals, the Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā also contains chapters on various activities that the king must perform publicly and privately. Chapter 107 contains an elaborate description of the Navarātri festival, which describes various amusements that the king should witness on the night of the Mahānavamī. Dance performances, wrestling combats, acrobatic shows, magic and presumably yogic practices are some of the physical exercises on the list. This paper aims to highlight these physical practices and demonstrate how performers and ascetics shared the same space during religious festivals, a situation that could favour the exchange of practices and embodied knowledge. Secondly, it aims to demonstrate how the information on these royal spectacles contributes to a hypothesis that the text was probably composed during the Vijayanagara period. This was primarily done through the studies of both primary and secondary sources and by matching the descriptions of the aforesaid physical exercises with stone reliefs located in temples and monuments in Hampi.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Jason Birch, & Jacqueline Hargreaves.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Premodern Yogāsanas and Modern Postural Yoga Practice.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 31–82. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n In this chapter, we formulate a corpus of premodern praxis manuals on yoga that were composed in the 18th and 19th century in rudimentary Sanskrit and vernacular languages, which were likely documenting collections of yoga postures (āsana) current among practitioners of the time. Much of their detailed, praxis-focused content does not occur in the scholarly Sanskrit yoga treatises that predate them, and yet most of these manuals have received little attention in academic publications. Our analysis and comparative study of this material has identified three distinct collections of complex āsana that can be located to different geographical regions of India on the eve of colonialism. This research provides evidence for premodern āsanas that crossed sectarian and linguistic divides and were adopted by the gurus who popularised yoga in the early 20th century. This latter issue underlies contemporary debates on the continuity of modern postural yoga within the Indian tradition. Until this study, clear lines of transmission from premodern teachings on āsana to modern postural yoga have eluded academic research.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Seth Powell.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Yogi Sculptures.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 85–111. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{powell_yogi_2023,\n\ttitle = {Yogi {Sculptures}},\n\tvolume = {4},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023 Seth Powell},\n\tissn = {2664-1739},\n\turl = {https://journalofyogastudies.org/index.php/JoYS/article/view/JoYS.2023.V4.02},\n\tabstract = {This chapter aims to broaden our understanding of the visual record of yogis carved upon the temple pillars and walls of several Vijayanagara-era temple sites in the Deccan—including major temple complexes at Hampi, Śrīśailam, Śṛṅgerī, Lepākṣī, and Śravaṇabeḷagola. The yogi sculptures are a key feature of a broader visual program of artistic temple production that spanned across these Vijayanagara temple sites during the 15th and 16th centuries. I argue that the pervasive sculptural presence of yogis performing complex āsanas in the Deccan during this period is a testament to the physical presence of lived yogis in and around these south-Indian temple sites. In several cases, the sculptures of particular āsanas predate and anticipate textual evidence thereof, providing unique insight into “on the ground” yoga traditions. Renditions of certain contortionist postures and those involving physical “props” may also be indicative of a shared performative community of physical culturalists (including yogis, dancers, and gymnasts) who were active at such temples, especially during annual festivals. The assessment of this material record of yoga practice is crucial for our understanding of the historical development and geographical location of physical yoga traditions in precolonial South India.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\turldate = {2023-04-09},\n\tjournal = {Journal of Yoga Studies},\n\tauthor = {Powell, Seth},\n\tmonth = apr,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {art history, yoga},\n\tpages = {85--111},\n}\n\n
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\n This chapter aims to broaden our understanding of the visual record of yogis carved upon the temple pillars and walls of several Vijayanagara-era temple sites in the Deccan—including major temple complexes at Hampi, Śrīśailam, Śṛṅgerī, Lepākṣī, and Śravaṇabeḷagola. The yogi sculptures are a key feature of a broader visual program of artistic temple production that spanned across these Vijayanagara temple sites during the 15th and 16th centuries. I argue that the pervasive sculptural presence of yogis performing complex āsanas in the Deccan during this period is a testament to the physical presence of lived yogis in and around these south-Indian temple sites. In several cases, the sculptures of particular āsanas predate and anticipate textual evidence thereof, providing unique insight into “on the ground” yoga traditions. Renditions of certain contortionist postures and those involving physical “props” may also be indicative of a shared performative community of physical culturalists (including yogis, dancers, and gymnasts) who were active at such temples, especially during annual festivals. The assessment of this material record of yoga practice is crucial for our understanding of the historical development and geographical location of physical yoga traditions in precolonial South India.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Joseph Alter.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Embodiment of Meaning and the Meaning of Embodiment.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 491–513. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Drawing on the example of kuśtī-pahalvānī (traditional wrestling in India) to engage with arguments presented in each of the chapters that have come before, this “Afterword” engages with the problem of how meaning is assigned to physical practices and to the body engaged in various forms of self-development and self-discipline. An analytical perspective based on semiotic theory is used to examine the problem of embodied meaning as well as methodological questions about how to compare various forms of physical practice. Emphasis is placed on the contingency of meaning and on the social construction of knowledge, as the social construction of knowledge provides a framework for understanding the intellectual significance of both transcendental consciousness and physical fitness.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Jerome Armstrong.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Uncovering Vyāyāma in Yoga.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 271–302. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n This chapter aims to show how the 19th-century revival of vyāyāma became a source for modern yoga to emerge in India during the first half of the 20th century. In order to do so it will look at the contents of four exercise texts: Gymnastics Part One (1874); Gymnastics Part Two, Vyāyāma Śikṣak (1875); Vyāyāma Dīpike (1896); and Vyāyāma Śikṣak (1904). It will examine these texts alongside a broad historical understanding of the vyāyāma traditions of India in the classical and medieval periods, and will explore the cross-currents of vyāyāma in haṭhayoga and modern yoga. The research will lead us to understand how the syncretic nature of today’s globalised yoga is nothing new. This feature is common throughout the historical development of physical yoga, both in the formative period of modern yoga and the amalgamation process of haṭhayoga over past centuries.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Daniela Bevilacqua, & Mark Singleton.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Introduction.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 1–27. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n This volume is the outcome of a workshop held at SOAS University of London in November 2019, under the auspices of the five-year, ERC-funded Haṭha Yoga Project (HYP). The workshop was organised because of several questions that had been on our minds for some time: considering the centuries-long presence of multiple embodied traditions in India, what was the relationship between the physical practices of yoga and other physical disciplines that bear certain similarities to yoga, at least in appearance? Had there been interchange or even influence across and between different physical disciplines and the practices of yoga? Could such a perspective on the history of yoga help to understand better any of its developments?\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Elisa Ganser.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Dance as Yoga.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 137–171. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{ganser_dance_2023,\n\ttitle = {Dance as {Yoga}},\n\tvolume = {4},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c)},\n\tissn = {2664-1739},\n\turl = {https://journalofyogastudies.org/index.php/JoYS/article/view/JoYS.2023.V4.04},\n\tabstract = {In the Nāṭyaśāstra, two main types of physical practices are described in some detail: the so-called “bodily acting” (āṅgikābhinaya) and dance (nṛtta). Although their building blocks are to a large extent common, their purpose appears to be different: while bodily acting is used for dramatic mimesis, dance is said to produce beauty and to be auspicious. Peculiar to the technique of dance are the one hundred and eight karaṇas, complex dance movements that require great coordination, balance and flexibility. Sculptural representations of the karaṇas in the mediaeval temples of South India and in Central Java, as well as some interpretations by contemporary dancers, have elicited comparisons with yogic āsanas, notwithstanding the fact that the karaṇas were first and foremost codified in the context of Sanskrit theatre. More generally, the overlap between dance and yoga-related concepts and practices in antiquity has not been studied in depth. In this chapter, I investigate the connection of dance with the pūrvaraṅga, the preliminary rite that precedes the performance of a play, in order to highlight the connection of some of the physical practices described in the Nāṭyaśāstra’s chapter on dance with ideas of mental cultivation, ritual, and devotion. This connection is particularly evident in the case of the piṇḍībandhas, a set of movements of difficult interpretation that present ideological affinities with practices described in early religious sources, especially, but not exclusively, those of Śaiva affiliation. Finally, I argue that this interface between drama and ritual points to a shared ground for practices and beliefs connected with the body in ancient India.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\turldate = {2023-04-08},\n\tjournal = {Journal of Yoga Studies},\n\tauthor = {Ganser, Elisa},\n\tmonth = apr,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {yoga},\n\tpages = {137--171},\n}\n\n
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\n In the Nāṭyaśāstra, two main types of physical practices are described in some detail: the so-called “bodily acting” (āṅgikābhinaya) and dance (nṛtta). Although their building blocks are to a large extent common, their purpose appears to be different: while bodily acting is used for dramatic mimesis, dance is said to produce beauty and to be auspicious. Peculiar to the technique of dance are the one hundred and eight karaṇas, complex dance movements that require great coordination, balance and flexibility. Sculptural representations of the karaṇas in the mediaeval temples of South India and in Central Java, as well as some interpretations by contemporary dancers, have elicited comparisons with yogic āsanas, notwithstanding the fact that the karaṇas were first and foremost codified in the context of Sanskrit theatre. More generally, the overlap between dance and yoga-related concepts and practices in antiquity has not been studied in depth. In this chapter, I investigate the connection of dance with the pūrvaraṅga, the preliminary rite that precedes the performance of a play, in order to highlight the connection of some of the physical practices described in the Nāṭyaśāstra’s chapter on dance with ideas of mental cultivation, ritual, and devotion. This connection is particularly evident in the case of the piṇḍībandhas, a set of movements of difficult interpretation that present ideological affinities with practices described in early religious sources, especially, but not exclusively, those of Śaiva affiliation. Finally, I argue that this interface between drama and ritual points to a shared ground for practices and beliefs connected with the body in ancient India.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Patrick McCartney.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Poles apart? From Wrestling and Mallkhāmb to Pole Yoga.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 215–270. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Mallkhāmb (malla-khāmba, “wrestler-pole”) is today popularly referred to as “Pole Yoga” and it is recognised as the so-called “Authentic Indian Sport.” However, its history is confusing to trace. Some speculate that the source of pole yoga is neither the Marathi mallkhāmb nor the similar Sanskrit mallastambha, or neither stambha-śrama (“pole-exercise”). Rather, myths of Śiva’s stambha are imagined across dissonant and dislocated biographies, which appear to be poles apart and appear to represent an ever-increasing historical polarity. The aim of this chapter is to provide clarity about, and if possible pin, mallkhāmb’s connections to haṭhayoga’s suite of āsanas (“postures”). This thorough analysis of mallkhāmb’s primary textual sources is based on a close reading of the Mallapurāṇa and Mānasollāsa, through which it is determined that the wrestler’s āsana has very little, if anything at all, to do with the contemporaneous concept of āsana as stretching. Instead, it serves as an integral part of a wrestler’s path towards defeating his opponent.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Philippe Rochard, & Oliver Bast.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Zurkhāneh, Akhāṛā, Pahlavān, and Jyeṣṭhī-mallas.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 175–214. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The tradition of Turco-Persian wrestling, including its programme of physical education based at dedicated gyms known as zurkhāneh (literally “houses of strength”), contains elements that would appear to merge Turkish, Iranian, Central-Asian, and Indian influences within a mystical (Sufi) Islamic framework potentially affected to a certain degree by Buddhism. The chapter discusses the relations and interaction between the Turco-Persian athletic tradition and the one existing in India on the basis of a parallel reading of four key textual sources, two from each tradition. On the Indian side we will draw on the analysis of the Mallapurāṇa and of the Mānasollāsa, while the Persian documents that inform our discussion are the Tumār-e afsāneh-ye Puryā-ye Vali and the Gol-e koshti of Mir-Nejāt Qomi known as Esfahāni. The chapter will first survey the evolution of the tradition of Turco-Persian wrestling from the middle of the 13th through to the end of the 16th century, and then make a comparative analysis of the connections between Turco-Persian wrestling and the Indian tradition of the jyeṣṭhī-mallas of Gujarat. Based on these observations it will then proceed to ask how one might explain the commonalities between the two traditions. Attention will be brought to the consideration that certain physical practices gain recognition thanks to being performed at royal courts, and, in India, also at temples, due to the intellectualisation, and hence legitimisation, of these borrowed practices by learned representatives of the dominant schools of thought present at the seats of political and/or spiritual power.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Stuart Ray Sarbacker.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Prostration or Potentiation?.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 303–329. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The so-called “Sun Salutation” (S. sūryanamaskāra, H. sūryanamaskār), is one of the most ubiquitous and iconic of all modern yoga practices. As Alter (1992, 2000), Goldberg (2006, 2016), and Singleton (2010, 2016), have discussed at length, the modern history of yoga, and of the sūryanamaskār in particular, is deeply rooted in the soil of Hindu ritual, Indian nationalism, and the emergence of a cosmopolitan middle-class physical culture in late 19th and early 20th century Europe and India. The goal of this paper is to explore three interrelated issues connected to the sūryanamaskār. First, we will further explore the genealogical and morphological relationships between the sūryanamaskār exercise and Hindu traditions of ritual worship. Second, we will examine the thesis forwarded by Mujumdar (1950) that the sūryanamaskār was taught in a communal exercise (H. akhāṛā-vyāyām) mode by Samarth Rāmdās to the Maharashtrian culture-hero Shivaji (Śivajī), considering his principal work, the Dāsbodh (17th century CE). Lastly, we will discuss the tensions between religion and physical culture associated with the sūryanamaskār and with yoga as understood in the work of Bhavanrao Pant and Swami Kuvalayananda, key proponents of the respective systems. We will conclude with reflections on the ways in which the modern sūryanamaskār and modern postural yoga demonstrate an ongoing process of interpretation and expression between the poles of the demonstration of religious piety (prostration) and empowerment through physical culture (potentiation), and why their conjunction, particularly in the modern era, makes sense historically and philosophically.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Ian A. Baker.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Tracking the Illusory Magical Wheel.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 441–488. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n In Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and Bön, yoga refers to expedient means (thabs, S. upāya) for liberating oneself and others from the wheel of cyclic existence (kor ba, S. saṃsāra). Central to that agenda is mastery of a subtle physiology of energy channels (rtsa, S. nāḍī) and their nodal points at radiant “wheels” (’khor lo, S. cakra) along the body’s central axis. The method whereby subtle energy (rlung, S. prāṇa), and corresponding mental states, are brought under conscious control are known in Tibetan as Tsalung Trulkhor (rtsa rlung ’khrul ’khor), literally “illusory” or “magical” “wheel of subtle channels and vital energies.” This chapter traces the development and trajectory of the Magical Wheel in so-called Perfection (rdzogs rim) and Great Perfection (rdzogs chen) practices that Tibetan Buddhism and Bön uphold as progressively efficacious means for freeing oneself from conditioned existence through realisation of the illusory, and therefore mutable, nature of self-identity (bdag med, S. anātman).\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Laura Silvestri.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Managing Wind and Fire.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 331–346. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Throughout its development, the Keralan body practice kaḷarippayaṟṟụ has been characterised by various visions among the masters (gurukkaḷ) regarding the practice itself and its relationship to other Indian practices. Based on a case study, this chapter discusses some technical aspects and underlying principles of kaḷarippayaṟṟụ according to the understanding of a specific master. At first, it addresses the changes that this master made in the repertoire of exercises in order to reflect his views on the relationship between kaḷarippayaṟṟụ and yoga. In the second part, it concerns more generally the underlying principles of kaḷarippayaṟṟụ.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Lucy May Constantini.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Firm Feet and Inner Wind.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 347–371. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Kaḷarippayaṟṟ˘ developed as an intertwined martial and medical system in various styles across South India. While its final śāstric authority resides in the body and practice of a gurukkaḷ (“lineage-holder”), in contrast to haṭhayoga contexts, a kaḷarippayaṟṟ ̆ gurukkaḷ safeguards, consults and transmits his lineage’s manuscripts and thus this relationship between practice and text offers potential insight into traditions where that connection is either lost or never existed. Like yogis, practitioners of kaḷarippayaṟṟ ̆ conceive it as a form where the gross physical body is employed to activate and affect a subtler inner body with which it is fundamentally interconnected. Focussing on the CVN lineage of “northern style” or “Malabar” kaḷarippayaṟṟ ̆ and drawing on both its practices and manuscripts, this chapter examines how vaṭiv ̆ (“posture”) relates to the inner kaḷari body and how the foundational principle of cuvaṭ ̆, the action of the feet, initiates the circulation of vāyu, a subtle inner wind that gives virtuosity in kaḷarippayaṟṟ ̆. I also consider how this lineage differentiates the control of vāyu in kaḷarippayaṟṟ ̆ with what is perceived to be the deeper prāṇa accessed by the more static āsanas of haṭhayoga.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Dominic Steavu.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Is There Such a Thing as Chinese Yoga?.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 375–412. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n China has an unbroken history of therapeutic stretches, gymnastics, and callisthenic practices—collectively known as daoyin—that date back to the 2nd century BCE. Yet, despite a robust indigenous tradition, an iconic and influential set of eighteen daoyin postures was originally labelled an “Indian massage method” or “Brahmanic callisthenics” when it first surfaced in Daoist texts and medical treatises around the 6th or 7th century. Indeed, those eighteen postures bear a striking resemblance to bodily disciplines associated with traditional physical practices in India. In the first part of the chapter, we examine the earliest Chinese sources of the so-called “Indian massage methods,” namely, the Daoist scripture known as Daolin’s Treatise on Maintaining Life and the physician Sun Simiao’s (d. 682) Essential Emergency Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold [Pieces]. In the second part of the paper, we turn to the question of how these foreign practices were “naturalised” and renegotiated as native therapies. In a third section, we will consider the further peregrinations of “Brahmanic callisthenics” by following their traces in European accounts of Chinese self-cultivation techniques. We will seek to untangle the threads connecting Jesuit accounts and mediaeval Sino-Indian methods. We will also succinctly reflect on the reception of biospiritual disciplines in early-modern Europe and their re-circulation in India.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Dolly Yang.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Knowledge Transfer of Bodily Practices Between China and India in the Mediaeval World.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Journal of Yoga Studies, 4: 413–440. April 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The “family resemblance” between the Chinese therapeutic exercises known as daoyin (lit. “guiding and pulling”), and the Indian breathing and physical movement practices later known as haṭhayoga is marked, and would appear to be the result of the transfer of knowledge and culture, in parallel with merchandise, along the Silk Roads and sea routes. China possessed a rich tradition of yangsheng self-cultivation teachings on breathing, sexual techniques and therapeutic exercises from the 3rd century BCE onwards. The complexities of haṭhayoga were not, however, laid bare until the 11th century CE when it was described in the Amṛtasiddhi, the earliest extant haṭhayoga text. Daoyin reached its zenith during the Sui dynasty (581–618 CE), while later on various esoteric doctrines known as neidan (“inner alchemy”) became prominent. These became the major source for those hoping to achieve longevity and immortality and they preceded haṭhayoga by about two centuries. Neidan may well have formed the link between the Chinese and Indian approaches, since they have much in common including advocating bodily inversion, specific non-sexual practices and breath control, as well as the use of the alchemical language.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Dominik A. Haas.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Translating the Gāyatrī-Mantra.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Asian Literature and Translation, 10(1): 47. February 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n No single standard translation of the mantra known as Sāvitrī, Gāyatrī, or Gāyatrī-Mantra (Ṛgveda III 62.10) has ever become widely accepted. Many authors seem to have felt that a famous mantra such as this one must have, or allow for, several interpretations and translations – a position that is not without justification, especially when it comes to mantras. Yet, translators of the Gāyatrī-Mantra have rarely taken into consideration that language changes over time, and that this has an impact on how the mantra is to be translated. The aim of this paper is to remedy this situation. It provides grammatical, morphological, etymological, lexical, and semantic analyses of the textual content of the mantra against the background of the linguistic changes that took place during the transition from early to late Old Indo-Aryan. In other words, this paper explores how the mantra would be understood by users of Vedic and Sanskrit. To this end, each textual component of the Gāyatrī-Mantra is analyzed in dedicated sections. An appendix also provides a collection of more than sixty scholarly translations into European languages.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Charles Li.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n King Śibi in the Vahnipurāṇa.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Asian Literature and Translation, 10(1): 1–46. February 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Although the many extant Sanskrit versions of the story of King Śibi and the dove have been thoroughly studied, one version, from the Vahnipurāṇa, has so far escaped the attention of scholars. This paper presents a new, critical edition of the Sanskrit text, based on all available material — an existing edition, quotations, and a recently discovered Nepalese fragment — followed by a translation. Connections to Buddhist and Jain versions of the story are discussed. The long afterlife of the text presents an opportunity to study how it has been reused and recast over the course of many centuries, quoted in dharmanibandhas and harvested for material for other stories.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Rinku Lamba.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Engaging Bhakti as/in Translation.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung,128–160. February 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The analysis in this article suggests that M G Ranade’s reflections in his essay about the ‘Saints and Prophets of Maharashtra’ are significant because they offer a site to unravel shifts from a premodern to a modern conception of moral order on the Indian subcontinent, in the context of the encounter with colonialism. For its role in allowing such unravelling, and for the way it permits attention to hitherto neglected dimensions of Ranade’s comparison between bhakti and the Protestant Reformation, this article argues for the value of investigating Ranade’s reflections through the framework of translation. While doing the above, the article also seeks to gesture toward methodological issues involved in the study of ideas and clusters of concepts that bear transtemporal resonance and relevance.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n From Theology to Culture.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung, 7: 91–127. February 2023.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{bhargav_theology_2023,\n\ttitle = {From {Theology} to {Culture}},\n\tvolume = {7},\n\tcopyright = {Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International},\n\turl = {https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/izsa/article/view/21058},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/IZSA.2022.7.21058},\n\tabstract = {This article explores the Hindu thought of Lala Lajpat Rai (1865–1928), a prominent actor-thinker in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and often considered an ideological ancestor of Savarkarite Hindutva. Focussing on Rai’s thought between the 1880s and 1915, it argues that at the same time that Hindu beliefs and practices were undergoing a process of ‘religionisation’ in the late nineteenth century, in a prominent strand of thinking about Hindu identity, represented by Rai, Hindu religion was being ‘thinned down’. It was being defined less by reference to theological detail and complexity and more in broad and simple terms. Second, Hinduism also underwent a process of ‘culturalisation’. It was decoupled from faith and practice and re-formulated as secular ‘culture’. In Rai’s definition of Hindu identity, Hinduism progressively lost ground to ‘Hindu culture’, which by 1909 formed the centrepiece of his imagined ‘Hindu nation’. ‘Hindu culture’ served to include within Rai’s ‘Hindu nation’ various groups of Indians who were not followers of Hinduism, and simultaneously excluded India’s Muslims and Christians. Yet, I argue that this Hindu nationalism remained different from Savarkarite Hindutva. Through its examination of Rai’s thought, the article makes broader analytical points. One, that Hindu identity can be defined in various senses—thickly religious, thinly religious, broadly non-religious and ‘cultural’, apolitical, openly political, or implicitly political. Second, the thinning of religion can be viewed as a form of both religionisation and secularisation, and the secularisation of Hinduism via its culturalisation was co-eval with the larger process of religionisation. Third, it challenges the dichotomy drawn by Hindu nationalists and secularists alike between the process of secularisation and articulations of Hindu nationalist identity. Finally, Rai’s thought reveals that the secularisation and culturalisation of Hindu identity can culminate in a conception of ‘Hindu nationalism’ distinct from Hindutva.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\turldate = {2023-02-22},\n\tjournal = {Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung},\n\tauthor = {Bhargav, Vanya Vaidehi},\n\tmonth = feb,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {hinduism, hindutva, islam, philosophy, religious studies},\n\tpages = {91--127},\n}\n\n
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\n This article explores the Hindu thought of Lala Lajpat Rai (1865–1928), a prominent actor-thinker in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and often considered an ideological ancestor of Savarkarite Hindutva. Focussing on Rai’s thought between the 1880s and 1915, it argues that at the same time that Hindu beliefs and practices were undergoing a process of ‘religionisation’ in the late nineteenth century, in a prominent strand of thinking about Hindu identity, represented by Rai, Hindu religion was being ‘thinned down’. It was being defined less by reference to theological detail and complexity and more in broad and simple terms. Second, Hinduism also underwent a process of ‘culturalisation’. It was decoupled from faith and practice and re-formulated as secular ‘culture’. In Rai’s definition of Hindu identity, Hinduism progressively lost ground to ‘Hindu culture’, which by 1909 formed the centrepiece of his imagined ‘Hindu nation’. ‘Hindu culture’ served to include within Rai’s ‘Hindu nation’ various groups of Indians who were not followers of Hinduism, and simultaneously excluded India’s Muslims and Christians. Yet, I argue that this Hindu nationalism remained different from Savarkarite Hindutva. Through its examination of Rai’s thought, the article makes broader analytical points. One, that Hindu identity can be defined in various senses—thickly religious, thinly religious, broadly non-religious and ‘cultural’, apolitical, openly political, or implicitly political. Second, the thinning of religion can be viewed as a form of both religionisation and secularisation, and the secularisation of Hinduism via its culturalisation was co-eval with the larger process of religionisation. Third, it challenges the dichotomy drawn by Hindu nationalists and secularists alike between the process of secularisation and articulations of Hindu nationalist identity. Finally, Rai’s thought reveals that the secularisation and culturalisation of Hindu identity can culminate in a conception of ‘Hindu nationalism’ distinct from Hindutva.\n
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@article{schuler_honour_2023,\n\ttitle = {Honour {Matters}},\n\tcopyright = {Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International},\n\turl = {https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/izsa/article/view/21055},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/IZSA.2022.7.21055},\n\tabstract = {What do we know about honour-based emotional practices of the various social groups in early modern Tamil-speaking south India? And which emotions were involved in honour practice? This case study applies a well-known approach in emotion history studies to this new terrain, a terrain that is largely uncharted and deserves to be explored. By examining two honour-sensitive social groups and their respective key narratives—on one hand, a lower status group, on the other, an elite and privileged group—it will be shown what kinds of practices were highlighted or evoked in conflict settings, and how honour-bound emotional practices came to the fore. Against the backdrop of a pre-modern Tamil culture, where practices were shaped by traditional normative social attributions and demarcated group boundaries, this study offers ample details of the fluid boundaries in the new literary genres of the time, where gender-specific emotions compete strongly with the clear boundaries for emotions in normative orders. The study will further show that an investigation of pre-modern Tamil emotion treatises, lexicons/glossaries (nikaṇṭu), moral canons, and proverbs counter the Western tendency of considering honour an emotion. Examining community-specific situated honour practices and the sets of emotions surrounding them not only gives us insight into the self-understanding, emotional life and needs of these groups. It also provides insight into questions pertaining to new political facts, internal literary dynamics, and social expectations. These insights are also relevant to questions about honour concepts and practices in India today.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\turldate = {2023-02-22},\n\tjournal = {Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung},\n\tauthor = {Schuler, Barbara},\n\tmonth = feb,\n\tyear = {2023},\n\tkeywords = {cultural studies, gender studies, social studies, tamil},\n\tpages = {3--55},\n}\n\n
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\n What do we know about honour-based emotional practices of the various social groups in early modern Tamil-speaking south India? And which emotions were involved in honour practice? This case study applies a well-known approach in emotion history studies to this new terrain, a terrain that is largely uncharted and deserves to be explored. By examining two honour-sensitive social groups and their respective key narratives—on one hand, a lower status group, on the other, an elite and privileged group—it will be shown what kinds of practices were highlighted or evoked in conflict settings, and how honour-bound emotional practices came to the fore. Against the backdrop of a pre-modern Tamil culture, where practices were shaped by traditional normative social attributions and demarcated group boundaries, this study offers ample details of the fluid boundaries in the new literary genres of the time, where gender-specific emotions compete strongly with the clear boundaries for emotions in normative orders. The study will further show that an investigation of pre-modern Tamil emotion treatises, lexicons/glossaries (nikaṇṭu), moral canons, and proverbs counter the Western tendency of considering honour an emotion. Examining community-specific situated honour practices and the sets of emotions surrounding them not only gives us insight into the self-understanding, emotional life and needs of these groups. It also provides insight into questions pertaining to new political facts, internal literary dynamics, and social expectations. These insights are also relevant to questions about honour concepts and practices in India today.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Ewa Dębicka-Borek.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n On Poetic Modes of Glorifying a Ruler and Retelling His Past: The Sāḷuvābhyudaya Narrative on Sāḷuva Narasiṃha the Ahobilanarasiṃha Incarnate.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, 35: 5–38. 2022.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{debicka-borek_poetic_2022,\n\ttitle = {On {Poetic} {Modes} of {Glorifying} a {Ruler} and {Retelling} {His} {Past}: {The} {Sāḷuvābhyudaya} {Narrative} on {Sāḷuva} {Narasiṃha} the {Ahobilanarasiṃha} {Incarnate}},\n\tvolume = {35},\n\tissn = {08606102, 24498653},\n\tshorttitle = {On {Poetic} {Modes} of {Glorifying} a {Ruler} and {Retelling} {His} {Past}},\n\turl = {http://aav.iksiopan.pl/index.php/en/current-issue/903-on-poetic-modes-of-glorifying-a-ruler-and-retelling-his-past-the-sa-uvabhyudaya-narrative-on-sa-uva-narasi-ha-the-ahobilanarasi-ha-incarnate},\n\tdoi = {10.60018/AcAsVa.buce9608},\n\tabstract = {This paper discusses the poetic modes of recounting the past in a Sanskrit mahākāvya titled Sāḷuvābhyudaya, authored by Rājanātha Ḍiṇḍima ca. 1480 AD, to eulogise Sāḷuva Narasiṃha, the soon-to-be founder of the Sāḷuva dynasty of Vijayanagara. Focusing on the poem’s second canto, which is built on the theme of divine intervention culminating in the miraculous conception of the future, I argue that depiction of Sāḷuva Narasiṃha as the Ahobilanarasiṃha incarnate – a rather locally known form of Narasiṃha presiding over a Vaishnava religious centre in Ahobilam (currently Andhra Pradesh) – was aimed at enunciating his martial power and justifying his claims to the Vijayanagara throne, while simultaneously revealing the growing interests of Vijayanagara rulers in cooperating with temples and religious institutions.},\n\tjournal = {Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia},\n\tauthor = {Dębicka-Borek, Ewa},\n\tyear = {2022},\n\tkeywords = {literature, poetics, sanskrit},\n\tpages = {5--38},\n}\n\n
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\n This paper discusses the poetic modes of recounting the past in a Sanskrit mahākāvya titled Sāḷuvābhyudaya, authored by Rājanātha Ḍiṇḍima ca. 1480 AD, to eulogise Sāḷuva Narasiṃha, the soon-to-be founder of the Sāḷuva dynasty of Vijayanagara. Focusing on the poem’s second canto, which is built on the theme of divine intervention culminating in the miraculous conception of the future, I argue that depiction of Sāḷuva Narasiṃha as the Ahobilanarasiṃha incarnate – a rather locally known form of Narasiṃha presiding over a Vaishnava religious centre in Ahobilam (currently Andhra Pradesh) – was aimed at enunciating his martial power and justifying his claims to the Vijayanagara throne, while simultaneously revealing the growing interests of Vijayanagara rulers in cooperating with temples and religious institutions.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Jens-Uwe Hartmann, & Dieter Maue.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Ein sanskrit–uigurisches Fragment der Tridaṇḍamālā in Brāhmī-Schrift: Reedition des Texts TT VIII D.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, 35: 39–130. 2022.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{hartmann_sanskrituigurisches_2022,\n\ttitle = {Ein sanskrit–uigurisches {Fragment} der {Tridaṇḍamālā} in {Brāhmī}-{Schrift}: {Reedition} des {Texts} {TT} {VIII} {D}},\n\tvolume = {35},\n\tissn = {08606102, 24498653},\n\tshorttitle = {Ein sanskrit–uigurisches {Fragment} der {Tridaṇḍamālā} in {Brāhmī}-{Schrift}},\n\turl = {http://aav.iksiopan.pl/index.php/en/current-issue/912-ein-sanskrit-uigurisches-fragment-der-trida-amala-in-brahmi-schrift-reedition-des-texts-tt-viii-d},\n\tdoi = {10.60018/AcAsVa.rxxc2247},\n\tabstract = {The subject of this article, a manuscript rediscovered during the First Prussian Turfan Expedition, was the first sample of the then unknown Uigur variety of the Brāhmī script, whose decipherment was greatly facilitated by its bi-linguality, with Sanskrit as the source language. Though a whole series of scholars have dealt intensively with the text, it has not been possible to assign it to a specific work. Recently, however, a parallel has been found in the Tridaṇḍamālā, a collection of ritual texts in forty chapters, each consisting of a sūtra framed by stanzas. The fragmentary Sanskrit-Uigur bilingual preserves part of chapter 5. Here, the text of both languages is edited, translated and commented on (§ 3), preceded by the history of research (§ 1) and a short introduction to the Tridaṇḍamālā (§ 2), followed by the graphematical profile of the manuscript (§ 4) and glossaries (§ 5).},\n\tjournal = {Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia},\n\tauthor = {Hartmann, Jens-Uwe and Maue, Dieter},\n\tyear = {2022},\n\tkeywords = {buddhism, palaeography, sanskrit},\n\tpages = {39--130},\n}\n\n
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\n The subject of this article, a manuscript rediscovered during the First Prussian Turfan Expedition, was the first sample of the then unknown Uigur variety of the Brāhmī script, whose decipherment was greatly facilitated by its bi-linguality, with Sanskrit as the source language. Though a whole series of scholars have dealt intensively with the text, it has not been possible to assign it to a specific work. Recently, however, a parallel has been found in the Tridaṇḍamālā, a collection of ritual texts in forty chapters, each consisting of a sūtra framed by stanzas. The fragmentary Sanskrit-Uigur bilingual preserves part of chapter 5. Here, the text of both languages is edited, translated and commented on (§ 3), preceded by the history of research (§ 1) and a short introduction to the Tridaṇḍamālā (§ 2), followed by the graphematical profile of the manuscript (§ 4) and glossaries (§ 5).\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Stanisław Jan Kania.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n How Do the Cārvākas/Lokāyatas Fit into Udayana’s Statement of Universal Worship? On Nyāya-kusumâñjali 17,3: loka-vyavahāra-siddha iti cārvākāḥ.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, 35: 131–154. 2022.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n In his influential work concerned with rational argumentation in defence of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika theism, the Nyāya-kusumâñjali, Udayana (10th–11th cent.) makes a puzzling claim that all seekers of puruṣârtha, theist or not, worship God, albeit under a different form or name. Included in the provided enumeration of different traditions of Indian thought is the irreligious school of the Cārvākas (also known as the Lokāyatas), declared by Udayana to be worshipping God as loka-vyavahāra-siddha (lit. ‘(the) established by common usage’). In this paper, I attempt to shed light on the meaning behind both loka-vyavahāra-siddha and the statement of universal worship as a whole. Specifically, I argue that Udayana imposes on non-theists and atheists the need to resort to (broadly understood) belief, and in the case of the Cārvākas/Lokāyatas this is manifested in their acceptance of everyday inference warranted by mere common usage. I reject the interpretations by Udayana’s commentators and by the modern scholar of Indian materialism, Ramkrishna Bhattacharya.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Johannes Schneider.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Synonyme in der Mahāvyutpatti. Zum Verständnis der mit (ma) ’dom na gebildeten Einträge.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, 35: 233–262. 2022.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{schneider_synonyme_2022,\n\ttitle = {Synonyme in der {Mahāvyutpatti}. {Zum} {Verständnis} der mit (ma) ’dom na gebildeten {Einträge}},\n\tvolume = {35},\n\tissn = {08606102, 24498653},\n\turl = {http://aav.iksiopan.pl/index.php/en/current-issue/907-synonyme-in-der-mahavyutpatti-zum-verstaendnis-der-mit-ma-dom-na-gebildeten-eintraege},\n\tdoi = {10.60018/AcAsVa.umup2788},\n\tabstract = {At the beginning of the 9th century, official guidelines for translating Indian texts into Tibetan were issued. A Sanskrit-Tibetan dictionary, called Mahāvyutpatti, was also compiled at that time: Its approximately 9,500 entries had a lasting influence on Tibetan lexicography. For many Sanskrit words, the Mahāvyutpatti offers several possible translations (synonyms). This paper deals with entries which characterise synonyms by means of the terms 'dom na and ma 'dom na. The structure and function of these definitions are examined in detail, the text of the critical edition by Ishihama and Fukuda (published in 1989) is corrected if necessary. In fact, these definitions follow a general rule given in the Sgra-sbyor-bam-po-gnyis-pa: Literal translations should only be used if in the context ('dom na) synonyms are given that enable an easy understanding; if not (ma 'dom na), more common but less precise renderings should be chosen from the outset. The Tibetan equivalents marked with 'dom na are very often loan translations: As a rule, they render the traditional etymologies of the underlying Sanskrit words quite exactly. However, they are often difficult to understand, especially in Tibet, outside the Indian context from which they originated. Thus ma 'dom na and 'dom na are tags referring to the usage of the words in question. Except for minor irregularities these prescriptions are confirmed by findings from the 'Dul ba, the Tibetan version of the Vinaya. This shows that the rules in the Mahāvyutpatti are consistent with the older canonical literature. The (ma) 'dom na entries in the Mahāvyutpatti thus provide important clues to the historical development of the vocabulary of classical Tibetan.},\n\tjournal = {Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia},\n\tauthor = {Schneider, Johannes},\n\tyear = {2022},\n\tkeywords = {sanskrit, tibetan, translation},\n\tpages = {233--262},\n}\n\n
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\n At the beginning of the 9th century, official guidelines for translating Indian texts into Tibetan were issued. A Sanskrit-Tibetan dictionary, called Mahāvyutpatti, was also compiled at that time: Its approximately 9,500 entries had a lasting influence on Tibetan lexicography. For many Sanskrit words, the Mahāvyutpatti offers several possible translations (synonyms). This paper deals with entries which characterise synonyms by means of the terms 'dom na and ma 'dom na. The structure and function of these definitions are examined in detail, the text of the critical edition by Ishihama and Fukuda (published in 1989) is corrected if necessary. In fact, these definitions follow a general rule given in the Sgra-sbyor-bam-po-gnyis-pa: Literal translations should only be used if in the context ('dom na) synonyms are given that enable an easy understanding; if not (ma 'dom na), more common but less precise renderings should be chosen from the outset. The Tibetan equivalents marked with 'dom na are very often loan translations: As a rule, they render the traditional etymologies of the underlying Sanskrit words quite exactly. However, they are often difficult to understand, especially in Tibet, outside the Indian context from which they originated. Thus ma 'dom na and 'dom na are tags referring to the usage of the words in question. Except for minor irregularities these prescriptions are confirmed by findings from the 'Dul ba, the Tibetan version of the Vinaya. This shows that the rules in the Mahāvyutpatti are consistent with the older canonical literature. The (ma) 'dom na entries in the Mahāvyutpatti thus provide important clues to the historical development of the vocabulary of classical Tibetan.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Zhen Liu.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n New Manuscript Evidence for Suprabhātastava by Śrīharṣadeva: The Drepung Texts Critically Examined.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, 35: 155–200. 2022.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The Suprabhātastava is one of the two hymns ascribed to King Śrīharṣadeva (c. 590–647 CE), who ruled over Kannauj. There are five modern editions of this text, which roughly follow eight extant Sanskrit manuscripts and a Tibetan translation. Recently, scholars discovered two unknown Sanskrit manuscripts of the text in Drepung Monastery. One of them has unique contents and readings. For this reason, the present article compares the said manuscript with other extant versions. In this respect, the article demonstrates that the newly discovered manuscripts belong to a different transmission lineage. Moreover, the article discusses the authorship and genre of the Suprabhātastava.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Isabella Schwaderer.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Enlightened Religion? : On Buddhism in Karl Gjellerup’s novel Die Weltwanderer (The Wanderers of the World, 1910).\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung, (7): 161–192. 2022.\n Number: 7\n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Isabella Schwaderer.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Introduction: Negotiating Religion in South Asia-European Entanglements.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung, (7): 83–90. 2022.\n Number: 7\n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Mohinder Singh.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Religious Criticism, Public Reason and Affect in the Reformist Age : Early Arya Samaj and the Religious Controversies.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung, (7): 234–261. 2022.\n Number: 7\n\n\n\n
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@article{singh_religious_2022,\n\ttitle = {Religious {Criticism}, {Public} {Reason} and {Affect} in the {Reformist} {Age} : {Early} {Arya} {Samaj} and the {Religious} {Controversies}},\n\tcopyright = {Copyright (c) 2023},\n\tissn = {2510-2621},\n\tshorttitle = {Religious {Criticism}, {Public} {Reason} and {Affect} in the {Reformist} {Age}},\n\turl = {https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/izsa/article/view/21062},\n\tdoi = {10.11588/izsa.2022.7.21062},\n\tabstract = {Several movements for religious and social reform emerged among the religious communities in 19th century India as varied responses to the colonial ‘civilizing mission’. The work of reform among the Hindus and Muslims involved both the defence of their respective religious traditions and simultaneous critiques of established religious practices and institutions seen as corrupt or inauthentic. Both Hindus and Muslims inherited rich traditions of reason, reasoning and rational argumentation as well as of internal religious innovation and reforms. What is new about the 19th century reformist discourses, is the imbrication of these concepts with the Western conceptions of reason and science. The public sphere that emerged in this wake involved diverse forms of polemics and contests within religious traditions (i.e., between the orthodox and the reformers within a tradition) and between the religious traditions. The colonial state protected religious criticism, subject to public peace and order. However, public order frequently became a concern for the state as both these dimensions of religious controversies tended to generate affects—hurt feelings, passions, public enthusiasm—often leading to violence. A large number of court cases were also filed as a consequence. The public sphere of the religious controversies was also exposed to the global circulation of concepts, images and rhetorical figures. This article attempts to explore the rational and affective dimensions of the religious controversies in the early 20th century India by focusing on an important document related to the history of the reformist organisation Arya Samaj relevant for this theme.},\n\tlanguage = {en},\n\tnumber = {7},\n\tjournal = {Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung},\n\tauthor = {Singh, Mohinder},\n\tyear = {2022},\n\tnote = {Number: 7},\n\tkeywords = {hinduism, india, islam, religious studies},\n\tpages = {234--261},\n}\n\n
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\n Several movements for religious and social reform emerged among the religious communities in 19th century India as varied responses to the colonial ‘civilizing mission’. The work of reform among the Hindus and Muslims involved both the defence of their respective religious traditions and simultaneous critiques of established religious practices and institutions seen as corrupt or inauthentic. Both Hindus and Muslims inherited rich traditions of reason, reasoning and rational argumentation as well as of internal religious innovation and reforms. What is new about the 19th century reformist discourses, is the imbrication of these concepts with the Western conceptions of reason and science. The public sphere that emerged in this wake involved diverse forms of polemics and contests within religious traditions (i.e., between the orthodox and the reformers within a tradition) and between the religious traditions. The colonial state protected religious criticism, subject to public peace and order. However, public order frequently became a concern for the state as both these dimensions of religious controversies tended to generate affects—hurt feelings, passions, public enthusiasm—often leading to violence. A large number of court cases were also filed as a consequence. The public sphere of the religious controversies was also exposed to the global circulation of concepts, images and rhetorical figures. This article attempts to explore the rational and affective dimensions of the religious controversies in the early 20th century India by focusing on an important document related to the history of the reformist organisation Arya Samaj relevant for this theme.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Anna Trynkowska.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Pigeons and Doves in Classical Sanskrit Literature.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, 35: 263–280. 2022.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n The main aim of the present study is to indicate the most salient elements of the image of pigeons and doves in Classical Sanskrit literature (kāvya). The author has identified three groups of such elements, which are dealt with in three separate sections of the paper: pigeons and doves are discussed as birds closely associated with humans, as well as symbols of love and sorrow. With the help of this information, in another section of the paper, selected kāvya stanzas featuring pigeons or doves are analysed in more detail.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Nora Warmer.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Zwischen gesellschaftlichen Umbrüchen und dem Festhalten am vermeintlichen Status Quo: Die Satire Puruṣ-ratna von Jogendra Chandra Basu.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung, (7): 56–82. 2022.\n Number: 7\n\n\n\n
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\n Die bengalischsprachige Kurzgeschichte Puruṣ-ratna („Das Mann-Juwel“) von Jogendra Chandra Basu thematisiert die Einflüsse der britischen Kolonialzeit auf die bengalische Gesellschaft, insbesondere auf das Verhältnis von Mann und Frau in der Ehe, am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mithilfe der satirisch dargestellten Hauptfigur seiner Kurzgeschichte bringt Jogendra Chandra Basu sein Missfallen über das Streben nach englischer Bildung und Lebensweise zum Ausdruck und erschafft mit dieser einen klassischen Vertreter der satirischen Figur eines die europäische Lebensweise nachahmenden Babus. Im Mittelpunkt des folgenden Essays steht die Analyse der Darstellung dieser Figur und ihrer Herausforderungen im Alltag.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Monika Zin.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Nagarjunakonda: Monasteries and Their School Affiliations.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, 35: 315–344. 2022.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Narrative representations have not been found in all Buddhist monasteries. In some areas, for instance in the region of modern Sannati in ancient Āndhradeśa, only one stūpa, known today as Kanaganahalli, was decorated with opulent narrative reliefs, while the others display none at all. It appears that some Buddhist schools were interested in narrative representations while others were not. The area now known as Nagarjunakonda – the historical Vijayapurī of the Ikṣvāku dynasty in the 3rd century CE – offers the best opportunity to investigate which monasteries the narrative reliefs came from. Among the approximately 40 Buddhist complexes that have been excavated, some of which actually name the schools the resident monks belonged to, and which were built following different layouts, all narrative reliefs were discovered in only a few of the complexes. All of these complexes show a very similar layout with a stūpa outside the monks’ cells, which are positioned in a U-shape, and two apsidal temples facing each other. One of these complexes gives the name of the related school as Aparamahāvinaśaila. It seems that this school was one of those interested in narrative representations, while all the others mentioned in inscriptions at Nagarjunakonda (Theravādins, Mahīśāsakas, and Bahuśrutīyas) were not.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Dominik A. Haas.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \"Mantras: Sound, Materiality, and the Body\": A Comprehensive Workshop Report.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n . 2022.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n Vitus Angermeier.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Seasons in Ancient Indian Medicine: Long Winters or Extensive Rains?.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n History of Science in South Asia, 10: 247–271. October 2022.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n Most passages on the seasons in works of ancient Indian medicine list frost, spring, summer, rainy season, autumn and winter as the divisions of the year. However, in some contexts, the hibernal season frost (śiśira) is left out and replaced by a second rainy season, called “beginning of the rain” (prāvṛṣ), that is placed between summer and the actual rainy season. In this paper, I first introduce the concept of the seasons and the division of the year into two halves. Second, I examine the dichotomy of the existence, within one scientific corpus, of two seasonal schemes that vary regarding the included seasons. Concerning this matter, I review the investigations of Francis Zimmermann and compare them with Ḍalhaṇas commentary on the relevant passages in the Suśrutasaṃhitā. This analysis shows that Zimmermann was by and large correct when he argued that the two schemes are utilized in specific contexts but it proposes a new terminology for the schemes, understanding them as preventive and reactive instead of distributive and transitive. Finally, an examination of the relevant passages in the lesson on the seasons in the Suśrutasaṃhitā reveals that, contrary to the correspondent lessons in the other sources, here the two schemes are mixed together in a very confusing way. This, in combination with further textual evidence, clearly points to the posteriority of the Suśrutasaṃhitā’s lesson on the seasons compared to its counterparts in the Caraka- and Bhelasaṃhitā.\n
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