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Mireille Lobligeois, Pondicherry |
De la Réunion à l'Inde française. Philippe- Achille Bédier (1791-1865), une carrière coloniale |
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| This solid and comprehensive study traces the career of an administrative officer in India and in the Reunion Islands towards the end of the Napoleonic wars. It details life in these various outposts of the Indian Ocean from precolonial renaissance period to the end of the 19th century. It describes the multiple crises faced by Bédier – economic crisis, freedom movement of the Blacks, tensions between communities that had embraced reform, massive exodus of Indian labourers and the... |
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Dominic Goodall |
Mélanges tantriques à la mémoire d’Hélène Brunner. Tantric studies in memory of Hélène Brunner |
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| Theological and philosophical aspects of tantric literature are addressed in the contributions of Gerhard Oberhammer, Francesco Sferra, and Raffaele Torella. Peter Bisschop and Marion Rastelli throw light on connections between the tantric and puranic religious worlds. Diwakar Acharya has uncovered and published primary source material about initiation in pre-tantric saivism. Iconography and tantric ideas that underly it is the subject of the article of Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat. Leslie C. Orr... |
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Marguerite E. Adicéam |
Contribution à l'étude d'Aiyanar-Sasta |
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| Aiyan?r-??st?, a village deity or popular deity of South India, has many temples attributed to him in this region. One of his principal duties is to protect the land. Literary sources often describe him as a son of ?iva. The present publication, using all documentation pertaining to the deity assembled by the French Institute of Pondicherry (Sanskrit and Tamil texts both edited and in manuscript form as well as illustrations), successively studies the various names of the deity, his origins,... |
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Jean-Claude Bonnan |
Jugements du tribunal de la Chaudrie de Pondichéry 1766-1817 |
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| The Choultry of Pondicherry, an Indian court ruled subsequently by the French, existed from the 17th century until 1827. It dealt with personal law, trade, civil and criminal proceedings, immovable property, criminal law and public regulations. Its manner of settling disputes exemplifies both an ancient tradition of jurisprudence and also the contacts between Indian law and European law. Drawing on manuscript material, this book reproduces the most interesting judgements passed during the... |
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Charlotte Vaudeville |
Les Duha de Dhola-Maru. Une ancienne ballade du Rajasthan |
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| The legend of Dhola-Maru is an ancient ballad composed in old Marvari, one of the first dialects of North India to attain the status of a literary language. It is a piece of popular literature, a love story with a lyrical aspect to the fore. The numerous and diverse adaptations of this legend in the north-western provinces bear witness to its success. The text presented here with a translation into French is based primarily on the recension of Bikaner. The introduction presents the various... |
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Joseph Cordier |
Statistiques de Chandernagor (1823, 1827,1838) |
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| In this volume are found three statistical accounts of Chandernagor.The first one, written by J. Cordier, gives a description of the condition of the main settlement and of the secondary trading posts (Balassore, Dacca, Patna) in Bengal and Orissa in 1823, with several tables concerning various aspects of administration. The second is an account of Chandernagor, in 1827, also by J. Cordier, analysing systematically all the aspects of the settlement: physical (geology, climate, vegetation),... |
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Jean Filliozat |
Un catéchisme tamoul du XVIe siècle en lettres latines |
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| This publication presents the first known printed text in Tamil, a Cartilha, syllabary and catechism. The catechism and collection of prayers was translated from Portuguese and Latin by three Indians. The Tamil text was provided in Roman letters and a prologue gave information on the transcription and pronunciation. The printing of the text was completed in Lisbon in February 1554. The Cartilha em Tamoul is also of interest because it represents the first translation of European texts into... |
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Suzanne Siauve |
Astadasabhedanirnaya. Explication des dix-huit différences (entre les deux branches de l'Ecole de Ramanuja) de Sri Vatsya Ranganatha |
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| A controversy of a theological nature on the divergences between the two major schools of Vaisnavism in the South continues even to this day. The debate between the school of the ‘North’ or vad?agalai, founded on the Sanskrit tradition, and that of the South, or ten?galai, which is partial to Tamil tradition, concerns the relations between divine grace and human endeavor and the nature of surren-der to this grace on the part of the devotee. The Astadasabhedanirnaya is one of the texts relating... |
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Charlotte Vaudeville |
Barahmasa - Les chansons des douze mois dans les littératures indo-aryennes |
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| The poetic genre known as the barahmasa, or ‘twelve months’, devotes a stanza to each of the months of the year. Found in the vernacular literatures of the north of India, it proved immensely popular amongst the rural communities and continues to be orally transmitted through village songs. This study is based on the oldest of the barahmasa-s, which appear mainly in three languages: ancient Marwari-Gujarati, Avadhi and old Bengali. It presents samples of the barahmasa in several dialects (13th... |
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Chants dévotionnels tamouls de Karaikkalammaiyar |
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| This earliest expression of saiva devotion in Tamil by the poetess from Karaikkal is published with an outstanding translation by Karavelane (Leon Saint-Jean, a lawyer and freedom fighter from Karaikkal, where he inaugurated in 1937 a French Institute of Indianism). It remains a landmark, and the preface (1956), by Jean Filliozat, a valid charter for French Indology. The new edition has been considerably enriched, by a complete glossary/concordance of the poems, a full translation by Vinson... |
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Djallal G. Heuzé |
Des Intouchables aux Dalit : les errements d’un mouvement d’émancipation dans l’Inde contemporaine |
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| In India, the term Dalit is claimed by those who were earlier called untouchables. They have created a movement of emancipation that reveals worrying tensions on its margins. The campaign of a journal that, in 1981, took on the title of Dalit Voice, bears testimony to this fact. Agitating against the caste system and for statutory equality, this journal, which is influential among the small elite originating from the lower castes, constitutes a remarkable example of the drift in the discourse... |
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Diptagama - Volume I |
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| Diptagama is one of the 28 canonical treatises pertaining to the Southern saivite school known as saivasiddhanta. It deems itself a treatise on installations. The critical edition of this hitherto unpublished text relies on manuscripts kept in the library of the French Institute of Pondicherry. The present edition will comprise 3 volumes. The first volume released in 2004 deals with mantras, installation of the main Lin?ga in the temple, and even more with architecture and iconography. The... |
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Diptagama - Volume II |
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| Diptagama is one of the 28 canonical treatises pertaining to the Southern saivite school known as saivasiddhanta. It deems itself a treatise on installations. The critical edition of this hitherto unpublished text relies on manuscripts kept in the library of the French Institute of Pondicherry. The present edition will comprise 3 volumes. The first volume released in 2004 deals with mantras, installation of the main Lin?ga in the temple, and even more with architecture and iconography. The... |
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Bruno Dagens |
Entre Alampur et Srisailam. Recherches archéologiques en Andhra Pradesh - 2 Volumes |
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| This book was written just before the construction of the srisailam Dam in Andhra Pradesh. It intends to give a detailed inventory of the many temples (more than 400) which the srisailam Project was to cause to be transplanted or destroyed and which cover the history of the region from the 7th c. onward. The detailed description of the temples is given together with a huge documentation made up of more than 900 photos and numerous drawings. History, architectural typology and iconography of the... |
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Sayida Surriya Hussain |
Garcin de Tassy. Biographie et étude critique de ses oeuvres |
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| The School of Living Oriental languages was founded in Paris in 1795. Garcin de Tassy held the chair of Hindustani there, which was created in 1828. Many important works are attributed to this great scholar, who was equally well-versed in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. He was interested primarily in the Muslim religion and the Urdu language. The present volume first gives a historical introduction to Indian studies in Europe in the 18th-19th centuries A.D. It then traces the career of this... |
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Claude Jacques |
Gaya Mahatmya |
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| The Gay? M?h?tmya belongs to the literary genre of the m?h?tmya, popular texts extolling the virtues of the many religious sites in India. Composed in Sanskrit, it praises Gay?, one of the famous centres of holy pilgrimage and amongst the oldest cited in the religious history of India. There exist several texts with the same name; the present publication, accompanied by a translation in French, presents the Gay? M?h?tmya of the V?yu-pur?n?a. The introduction describes Gay? and its pilgrimage... |
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François Grimal |
Hariharaviracita Malatimadhavatika. Le commentaire de Harihara sur le Malatimadhava de Bhavabhuti |
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| The present work is a first annotated edition of the oldest known commentary (end of 12th or early 13th cent. A.D.) of the M?lat?m?dhava of Bhavabh?ti (first half of 8th cent. A.D.). The t??k? is given here with the text of the play as edited by R.G. Bhandarkar. A first appendix gives the list of variants noted between the text of the M?lat?m?dhava edited by R.G. Bhandarkar and the text as it appears through the commentary of Harihara. A second appendix provides the list of variants of the play... |
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Denis Matringe |
Hir varis sah. Poème panjabi du XVIIIe siècle |
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| The bulk of the book consists in the thoroughly annotated French translation of the first 110 stanzas of Varis sah’s poem Hir, completed in 1767. The introduction (pp. 5-72) is about the conditions of literary creation in 18th century Panjab, the author, the legend of Hir and Ranjha which is the basis of the poem, the genre of the qissa (an epico-lyric narrative in rhymed stanzas), the poetics and the literary language of the work (characterized by its archaisms, its dialectal mixity, its low... |
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Historique et statistique de Karikal. Texte rédigé en 1825 par le Capitaine de Vaisseau Cordier |
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| These two volumes collect the different surveys made by J. Cordier in 1825. Volume 1 is composed of two parts. The first contains the historical account, including various reports of local administrators; the second is a statistical account composed of the physical description of the territory, census of population and the inventory of its resources (agriculture, industry, trade, etc). Volume 2 is devoted to various annexes dealing with specific surveys, such as notes on the 5 maganoms, notes... |
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Samuel Berthet |
Inde-France (1870-1962): enjeux culturels |
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| In the early nineteenth century, the elites of the sub-continent ruled by the British started to conceive French culture as an instrumental factor in modernity-making. From 1870 onwards, the attempts of the British authorities to contain their emancipation increased the interest of the Indian elites in the French language and culture. If this effort towards emancipation from British rule took the Indian elite closer to the country of the Revolution and of the lingua franca of the cosmopolitan... |
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Purushottam Joshi |
Industrialisation et société dans l'Inde du Nord |
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| This publication studies the factors of resistance to industrialization in North Indian society, which is that of a culture in transition from the traditional and preindustrial to the industrial system. Following an introduction outlining the problems addressed, it speaks of the traditional social structure as an impediment to a better quality of life. It then analyzes the factors of resistance or the causes of delay, ascribing these to the survival of the caste system. It examines the existing... |
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F. Gros et Kannan M. |
L’arbre nagalinga. Nouvelles d’Inde du Sud |
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| It is through the genre of short stories that contemporary Tamil attained world standards and entered modernity. This collection is not just an anthology. Coedited by the French Institute within its programme on Contemporary Tamilnadu, it offers texts very contrasted in style, written from 1935 to 1995. It is completed by a postface which chronicles critically different voices, from popular writers to literary establishment, and also reveals original authors, several of them not yet published... |
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Alix Raison |
La Haritasamhita - Texte médical sanskrit |
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| The Haritasamhita is attributed to Harita, one of the disciples of the sage atreya Punarvasu. It is also known by the names of Atrisamhita and atreyasamhita. The text known to us, differs from the one cited in the ancient period by the commentators of the major ayurvedic texts. It has survived in the form of a large number of manuscripts and has been edited several times, proof of the interest that it has generated. This text, known from Gujarat to Bengal, is presented here with a translation... |
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R. Dessigane |
La légende de Skanda selon le Kandapuranam tamoul et l'iconographie |
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| This volume describes a version of the legend of Skanda that is very popular in the south of India and that has provided themes for iconography and theatrical representations during religious ceremonies associated with the deity. The Kandapuranam is a Tamil text whose author, Kacciyappacivacariyasvami, belonged to Kancipuram in Tamil Nadu. It may date back to the 12th century A.D. Kacciyappa is believed to have based his sources on a Sanskrit text, the san?karasamhita. The Kandapuranam, which... |
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R. Dessigane |
La légende des jeux de Çiva à Madurai, d'après les textes et les peintures |
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| Madurai, capital of the kingdom of Pand?ya, with its famous temple, commonly known as the Minaksi temple, is considered as a vibrant centre of religion and a backdrop for the national legends of Tamil Nadu. A group of legendary deeds of siva, his ‘games’, have Madurai as their stage and constitute a marvellous story. The large temple describes this entire story to us in the form of a long series of modern mural paintings (19th century), while three literary works (two texts in Tamil entitled... |
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Par France Bhattacharya |
La victoire de Manasa. Traduction française du Manasavijaya, poème bengali de Vipradasa (XVe) |
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| By way of some surprising episodes that involve a multifarious range of characters, the Manasa Vijaya or Victory of Manasa (1495) portrays the cruel manner in which the Goddess of Serpents established a tradition of her worship in the world. This Bengali poem, intended for singing and recitation, belongs to the literary genre of the man?galkavya. Alongside Vedic, epic and Puranic myths, it borrows themes from the literature of Nath yogins, painting a large and vivid tableau of medieval Bengali... |
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Marie-Claude Porcher |
La Visvagunadarsacampu de Venkatadhvarin - Un poème satirique sanskrit |
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| Derived from the genre of campu (a mixture of prose and poetry), the entire volume is presented as a dialogue between two celestial beings (gandharvas), who traverse India from the north to the south flying in a celestial chariot. While one of them criticizes the citites, the inhabitants and the the gods, the other dwells on their qualities and the virtues. Reviving the theme of the aerial journey (on the lines of the Meghaduta and Kalidasa), the poem glorifies the principal places of worship... |
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Jean-Luc Chevillard |
Le commentaire de Cenavaraiyar sur le Collatikaram du Tolkappiyam. Sur la métalangue grammaticale des maîtres commentateurs tamouls médiévaux. Volume 1 |
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| This is a French translation of a commentary on the second part of the Tolkappiyam, the oldest preserved Tamil grammar. It deals mostly with the word (col) as a part of speech. The seven central chapters deal with the cases and the four types of words (nouns, verbs, particles and “proper words”). The commentary, probably composed around 1300 A.D., contains a word-for-word paraphrase of the sutra-s, examples drawn from classical literature and from ordinary language, and elaborate discussions.... |
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Dominique Forthomme |
Le Dhatukavya de Narayanabhatta. Un poème didactique sanskrit |
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| The present volume contains an edition, French translation and study of the Dhatukavya by Narayanabhatta, poet and grammarian of the 17th century and native of Kerala. The Dhatukavya is a Sanskrit poem of the sastrakavya genre of literature or didactic poetry. Woven around the narration of the assassination of Kamsa by Krsna in the Bhagavata-purana, it illustrates in the most refined of Sanskrit poetry, all the verbal roots recorded in the Paninian Dhatupatha (as transmitted by the... |
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Alain Daniélou |
Le Gitalamkara. L'ouvrage original de Bharata sur la musique |
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| This a first translation and critical edition of the G?t?lam?k?ra, a reference work and the oldest known treatise on the theory of music and its codification in India, cited by such later treatises as the N?t?ya ??stra. The G?t?lam?k?ra enables us to reconstruct the evolution of music in India through an archaic and singular terminology that identifies r?ga as varn?a, prior to Greek and Muslim influences. The interest of the study is threefold: historical, linguistic and musicological. It is... |
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Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat |
Le Mahabhasya de Patañjali avec le Pradipa de Kaiyata et l'Uddyota de Nagesa - Les 5 volumes |
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| The Mahabhasya of Patanjali, a commentary and interpretation of Panini’s grammar, has itself been commented upon abundantly in the past and is studied in traditional Sanskrit schools to this day. This text, along with its older written commentaries and its modern oral commentaries, constitutes an important document of Indian intellectual culture. The text is translated here in French along with the Pradipa of Kaiyata (prior to 1150 A.D.), a commentary that is based on that of Bhartrhari, and... |
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François Gros |
Le Paripatal - Texte tamoul |
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| Within a secular corpus, the Parip?t?al, composed around Madurai city and its river, Vaigai, contains unique devotional songs to M?l (Vis?n?u) and Cevv?l (Murukan?), the first to be written in classical Tamil, and conform to the Hindu lore. The date is controversial, but the horoscope which opens poem XI is discussed in the introduction with the help of Roger Billard, historian of Indian astronomy. It may well be a sheet anchor for the whole corpus of Sangam literature, as astronomical data... |
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Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat |
Le Prataparudriya de Vidyanatha avec le commentaire Ratnapana de Kumarasvamin |
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| The Prataparudriyasobhusana, “ornament to the glory of Prataparudra” or Prataparudriya, is a summary of the ‘science of literary adornments’ (alamkarasastra). Singing the praises of Prataparudra II, the last of the Kakatiya rulers of Warangal, the text was, in all likelihood, composed during the period of his reign, at the turn of the 14th century A.D. Using the traditional method consisting of verse (karika) and gloss (vrtti) for his theoretical treatise, the author, Vidyanatha, also composes... |
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M.L. Barazer-Billoret |
Le Rauravagama. Un traité de rituel et de doctrine sivaïtes |
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| Rauravagama is one of the 28 fundamental texts (mulagama) of the saivasiddhanta system. It deals with various subjects in 80 chapters: formation of mantras, daily rituals, temple festival, several ceremonies (installation of images, funeral rites, initiations, atonements etc.), iconography, architecture, etc. as well as tattvas, the sixfold path of liberation, saiva Yoga etc. Between 1961 and 1988, Pandit N.R. Bhat provided a critical edition of this huge corpus. The authors of the present... |
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Rasik Vihari Joshi |
Le rituel de la dévotion krsnaïte |
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| Krsna worship is one of the most popular manifestations of religiosity in India. The present study illustrates the ritual aspects of the Krsna cult based primarily on Sanskrit sources such as the Puranas and Tantras, the Pancaratrasamhitas and the Haribhaktivilasa. It deals with initiation (diksa), with the rosary and the rite of purascarana, the construction of the temple of Krsna, elaboration, consecration and worship of his images, and with the bhakta. It demonstrates how Krsna-worship has... |
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Madeleine Biardeau |
Le Tattvabindu de Vacaspatimisra |
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| The present publication is a critical edition and a translation into French of the Tattvabindu, a Sanskrit text by V?caspatimi?ra, belonging to the M?m?m?sa system and dealing with the philosophical aspect of speech. Dating back to the 9th century A.D, a time of great achievements in the schools of Indian metaphysics, the Tattvabindu presents the state of learning on the subject in a way that is rich with historical and philosophical information. The text attempts to confront the problematic of... |
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Vasundhara Filliozat |
Le temple de Tirumankaiyal_var à Hampi |
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| The Tamil saint, Tiruman?kaiyal?var (2nd half of the 8th century A.D.) has a place in all Visnu temples in Tamil Nadu, either with the other al?vars or in a special sanctuary located next to the principal deity. In Karnataka, he has an independent temple at Hampi, built during the reign of Sadasivaraya, which is very representative of the principal style of architecture and sculpture of Vijayanagar in the 16th century A.D. The present study in French describes the architecture of the temple,... |
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Jean Deloche |
Le vieux Pondichéry (1673-1824) revisité d’après les plans anciens |
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| The discovery of new cartographic material relating to the origins of the urban development and social structure of Pondicherry at crucial moments of its history considerably modifies our representation of the town. On the basis of all the documentation that is currently available in Archives in France and in the Netherlands, the author shows us how, from a simple town of craftsmen, this settlement became a metropolis structured according to a rigorous urban plan. He also shows us how the... |
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Evelyne Peterschmitt |
Les couvertures ferrallitiques des Ghâts occidentaux en Inde du Sud. Caractères généraux sur l'escarpement et dégradation par hydromorphie sur le revers |
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| Properties of ferrallitic soils have been investigated in the Indian Western Ghats on three different parent rocks in the escarpments and on precambrian schist in the backslope. All soils of the escarpment, though experiencing high weathering (ferralitization) due to rainfall above 4000 mm/year are deep, well-drained, rather juvenile (high silt/clay ratios) with substantial nutrient recycling by evergreen forest vegetation. Backslope is characterized by gentler slopes and by a land cover... |
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Bruno Dagens |
Les enseignements architecturaux de l'Ajitagama et du Rauravagama. (Etudes sur les agama sivaïtes, I) |
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| Ajitagama and Rauravagama, critically edited in the same series (above N° 24 et 18) by Pandit N.R. Bhatt are two saiva treatises pertaining to the saivasiddhanta school. Like several other agamas of the saivasiddhanta they comprise important and much detailed presentation of the architecture of siva temples together with that of their pavilions, gopuras, etc. In this book those chapters are analysed and their terminology is systematically studied. Thus the author gives a first tableau of the... |
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Suzanne Siauve |
Les hiérarchies spirituelles selon l'Anuvyakhyana de Madhva |
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| The Anuvy?khy?na, composed by Madhva at the start of the 14th century A.D., is a commentary on the Brahma-s?tras containing philosophical and theological developments. The present volume comprises passages from the last chapters of the text in which the personal reflections of the author can be distinguished from the exegesis. These passages deal with the doctrine of the hierarchy of the gods, one of the essential doctrines of Madhva’s theology. In a polytheist environment, questions must be... |
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B. Ferry |
Les humus forestiers des Ghâts occidentaux en Inde du Sud. Facteurs climatiques, édaphiques et biologiques intervenant dans le stockage de la matière organique du sol |
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| The soil organic matter was studied in 23 forests of the Western Ghats, characterized by varied conditions of altitude, pluviometry, length of the dry season, forest cover (evergreen to deciduous) and soil texture (sandy loam to clay). The storage of soil carbon appears mainly driven by the temperature and the soil texture. However, we observed also a complex effect of the length of the dry season. It would limit the storage of carbon when it is very long (more than six months), by shortening... |
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R. Dessigane |
Les légendes çivaïtes de Kañcipuram |
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| Kancipuram, in Tamil Nadu, is one of the principal permanent seats of Hinduism where Vaisnavism and saivism have coexisted since a very long time. The Kancipuranam, a text in Tamil dating back to the second half of the 18th century, narrates the various legends connected to the site. It is attributed to the poet Civananacuvami and was inspired from a Sanskrit Kancimahatmya said to belong to the Skandapurana. Though pan- Indian in its religious traditions, it is deeply rooted in and adapted to... |
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Suzanne Siauve |
Les noms védiques de Visnu dans l'Anuvyakhyana de Madhva |
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| The present volume is a sequel to the publication ‘La Voie vers la Connaissance de Dieu (Brahma-jijnasa) selon l’Anuvyakhyana de Madhva (PIFI, n°6). The Anuvyakhyana is a commentary on the Brahma-sutra composed by Madhva. The latter opines that all ancient scriptures speak only of Visnu and of his innumerable qualities. In the first of the Brahma- sutras that enjoins ‘the quest of the knowledge of Brahman’, he finds the principles of his theist Vedanta, his theology on grace and his philosophy... |
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G. Bourgeon |
Les sols rouges de l’Inde péninsulaire méridionale. Pédogenèse fersiallitique sur socle cristallin en milieu tropical |
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| characterization of the "red soils" occurring in Peninsular India and the study of their genesis. The "red soils" which are located to the East of the study area, i.e. in the driest zone, generally show carbonate concretions at medium depth. Under this calcium carbonate level, weathering processes are quite limited. Silicates hydrolysis and soil material desilication finally concern only the top layers. To the West, under a slightly more humid climate, soils profiles are generally deeper,... |
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F. Grimal |
Les sources et le temps. Sources and time - A colloquium. Pondicherry 11-13 January 1997 |
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| The present volume gathers together the papers presented at the colloquium Sources and Time held in Pondicherry in the year 1997 under the joint auspices of the French Institute of Pondicherry and the local branch of the Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient. The colloquium was attended both by philologists and historians, traditional Indian scholars and Western researchers. It therefore presented the unique opportunity to evaluate such interactions and to develop the interface between Western... |
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Françoise L'Hernault |
L'iconographie de Subrahmanya au Tamilnad |
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| This iconographic study of Lord Subrahman?ya (also known by the names of Skanda, K?rttikeya, Murugan?...) in Tamil Nadu is based on extensive documentation, referring also to all related myths, rituals and religious ceremonies. The heart of the work is divided into three parts corresponding to the three principal manifestations of the Lord: the young god, god of wisdom and god of war. Two chapters first undertake a study of the essential points in the mythology of Subrahman?ya in Sanskrit and... |
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M.S. Narasimhacharya |
Mahabhasya Pradipa Vyakhyanani - Commentaires sur le Mahabhasya de Patañjali et le Pradipa de Kaiyata |
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| Grammar in India can be equated with the study of Sanskrit (considered as Language par excellence), rigorous in research and description, and having attained the highest scientific level since antiquity. The interpretation of P?n?ini’s grammar following the guidelines defined by Patañjali is alive in traditional Sanskrit schools to this day. The Mah?bhasya of Patañjali is a model of the art of reasoning and has been abundantly commented upon over the centuries. The present edition is intended... |
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François Grimal |
Mahakavisribhavabhutipranitam Mahaviracaritam Viraraghavakrtaya Bhavapradyotinivyakhyaya samalamkrtam. Le Mahaviracarita de Bhavabhuti accompagné du commentaire de Viraraghava |
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| The present work is a first French translation of the Mah?v?racarita (The epic tale of the Great Hero), one of three plays composed in Sanskrit and Prakrit by the poet-playwright Bhavabh?ti in the 1st half of the 8th cent. A.D. The annotated translation is presented alongside the text. The play is accompanied by the Sanskrit commentary of V?rar?ghava (18th cent. A.D.), again annotated. The introduction studies the six notions of dramaturgy based on primary sources that reveal the structure of... |
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Textes Robert Dulau |
Maisons-palais du Sud de l’Inde. The palatial houses in the South of India |
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| This beautifully illustrated bilingual book (French / English) presents an extraordinary collection of Chettiar houses little known by the general public. In the first part, the author puts into historical context the adventure of the remarkable builders who, from the middle of the 19th century through to the 1950s, continued to build entire residential quarters in isolated villages. The unique character of these houses lies in the infinite recreation and interpretation of the colonial... |
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B. Dagens |
Mayamata. Traité sanskrit d'architecture |
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| The first complete critical edition and translation of the Mayamata, one of the most famous Sanskrit treatises dealing with architecture and iconography, this book comprises the first Sanskrit-French glossary of architectural terms. The Mayamata was written in the Tamil region during the Chola period (ca. 11th c.) : it comprises 36 chapters dealing with selection of site, town planning, architectural elements, carpentry work (following there the Keralite tradition), as well as with various... |
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Hélène Brunner-Lachaux |
Mrgendragama. Section des rites et section du comportement. Avec la Vrtti de Bhattanarayanakantha |
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| The Mr?gendr?gama is a ?aiva treatise in Sanskrit of the ?aivasiddh?nta school of thought. It had a considerable following, and a commentary was written upon it in the 10th century A.D. by N?r?yan?akan?t?ha. It has been much cited by teachers of both dualist and non-dualist schools. It is one of the rare ?gamas to have retained all four parts of which these texts are often supposed to be constituted: section on doctrine (vidy? or jñ?nap?da), on rites (kriy?p?da), on yoga and on discipline or... |
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Michel Hulin |
Mrgendragama. Sections de la doctrine et du yoga. Avec la Vrtti de Bhattanarayanakantha et la Dipika d'Aghorasivacarya |
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| In spite of its being a mere upagama (a “secondary” A.), the Mrgendra contains one of the most detailed accounts of dualistic saiva philosophy that have come down to us. It is recognized as authoritative both in the northern Kashmir tradition and the southern saivasiddhanta tradition. It deals with the emanation of tattva-s (“realities” or “principles”) from siva down to the element earth. It also describes the successive generation of Mantra-s, Mantresvara-s, etc. It devotes a lot of space to... |
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Pierre-Sylivain Filliozat |
OEuvres poétiques de Nilakantha Diksita I |
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| Nilakantha Diksita, literary figure of the 17th century, traditionally believed to have lived at the court of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, enjoyed tremendous prestige in the literary circles of his time. The majority of his work deals with spiritual themes. This publication presents ten of his poetical works in Sanskrit, accompanied by a translation into French. These are short collections of verses that define and extol the virtues of religious life and renunciation of worldly life: the... |
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M.S. Narasimhacharya |
Raghavayadaviya par Venkatadhvarin |
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| The Raghavayadaviya is a poem with two meanings (anuloma-viloma-kavya). All thirty stanzas, when presented in the habitual order, glorify Rama (recalling his important feats in the Ramayana) and, when read differently and in reverse order, they glorify Krsna (by narrating an episode in his legend, the abduction of the Parijata tree). The prosodic constraints imposed by this dual reading result in stylistic obscurity: accumulation of monosyllables, usage of rare terms etc. To overcome the... |
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Bruno Dagens |
Saivagamaparibhasamañjari de Vedajñana. Le florilège de la doctrine sivaïte |
$32.49 $22.74 |
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| The saivagamaparibhasamanjari is a Sanskrit anthology of saiva texts compiled in the 16th c. by a famous theologian from Cidambaram (Tamil Nadu). It intends to deal with all the facets of the saivasiddhanta school, but surprisingly, the matter is distributed in ten chapters which are not topic-wise but number-wise; moreover it never contains any indication on the origin of quotations which form the bulk of its text. The publication herein described comprises a critical edition as well as a... |
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P.Z. Pattabiramin |
Sanctuaires rupestres de l'Inde du Sud - Volume I |
$12.95 $9.07 |
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| The present publication presents a series of photographs of caves in South India that were transformed in the olden days into shrines or temples. It tries to complete the research already published on the subject and to inform archeologists outside of India about the interest of these cave-temples. These cave-temples bear testimony to the practice of converting caves into shrines not only prior to the appearance of constructed temples but also at much later periods. The first volume is devoted... |
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P.Z. Pattabiramin |
Sanctuaires rupestres de l'Inde du Sud - Volume II |
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| The present publication presents a series of photographs of caves in South India that were transformed in the olden days into shrines or temples. It tries to complete the research already published on the subject and to inform archeologists outside of India about the interest of these cave-temples. These cave-temples bear testimony to the practice of converting caves into shrines not only prior to the appearance of constructed temples but also at much later periods. The first volume is devoted... |
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Jean Deloche |
Senji (Gingi). Ville fortifiée du pays tamoul |
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| Senji, immortalized by Desing's ballad, still popular in South India, is a significant place in Tamil Nadu. Successively occupied by the Hindus of Vijayanagar, the Nayakas, the Muslims of Bijapur, the Marathas, the Mughals and finally by the French in 1750, it was, at the end of the 16th century, one of the biggest cities of the peninsula. This site is particularly interesting for the student of military architecture, because it is the only one in India where a full sequence of the defence... |
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Tara Michaël |
Sivayogaratna de Jñanaprakasa. Le joyau du Siva-Yoga |
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| This book presents an edition and French translation of the Sanskrit ?ivayogaratna. Its author, a ?udra born in Shalivati (Sri Lanka) in the 16th century, first travelled to Cidambaram, then to Bengal where he took lessons from a Brahmin teaching Ved?nta. Put to the test by his guru, he surprised the latter by his intelligence and became his disciple. Returning to the South, he was initiated into the ?gamas and became a sanny?sin. He is the author of one of the six old Tamil commentaries on the... |
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Jean-Luc Chevillard (Ed.) |
South Indian horizons. Felicitation volume for François Gros on the occasion of his 70th birthday |
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| This volume, a tribute to Francois Gros and a celebration of the field of Tamil studies, demonstrates the international nature of this area and its wide range of topics. The contributors stem from sixteen different countries. They are literary historians and critics, philologists, linguists, cultural anthropologists, political and social historians, archaeologists, epigraphists, numismatists, art and architecture historians, some of them assuming two of these guises, and some having an interest... |
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Achille Bédier |
Statistiques de Pondichéry (1822-1824) |
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| In this book the first part is devoted to the statistical accounts of Pondicherry in 1823- 24 by A. Bédier. It analyses the physical conditions of the territory (water, topography), the census of population, agriculture, fishery, maritime trade. The second part is a survey made by J. Cordier in 1822 of the three districts of Pondicherry, Villianur, Bahur. For each village in the districts are given the amount of farm lease, the nature of the cultivated land and the revenue expected by the... |
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Alain Daniélou |
Textes des Purana sur la théorie musicale - Vol. 1 |
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| The Pur?n?as are later compilations of more ancient texts. They therefore often furnish remarkable historical information, as in the case of these three texts on music derived from the V?yu-Pur?n?a, the M?rkan?d?eya-Pur?n?a and the Vis?n?u- Dharmottara. This critical edition uses a vast corpus for reconstructing the corrupted texts of these Pur?n?as. The musical system described in them closely resembles that of the N?t?ya ??stra and already employs terms such as jati, gamaka, r?ga, ?ruti, etc,... |
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Neelakanta Sarma |
Textes sanskrits et tamouls de Thaïlande |
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| In Thailand and in Cambodia are found a community of so-called ‘Brahmans’ specializing in the art of performing ‘Hindu’ rites during official religious functions. The present volume gathers together Sanskrit and Tamil texts preserved for the most part at the Vajiranana library in Bangkok which belonged to them. These manuscripts are in Grantha script, used for writing Sanskrit in Tamil Nadu, but modified both in form, for certain characters, and in usage, following Khmer and Siamese writing... |
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Bruno Dagens |
Traités, temples et images du monde indien - Etudes d’histoire et d’archéologie |
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| Prof. Bruno Dagens who from the end of the fifties has carried out research on temple architecture and iconography in Afghanistan, Southeast Asia and India, and in doing so dealt with several aspects of the history of the Indianised world, its art, its religious practice, its ideology … The first part of the book comprises two general contributions dealing, one, with the history and the spreading of Indian art and, the other, with results of several joint field and theoretical researches. The... |
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Jean Filliozat |
Un texte de la religion Kaumara. Le Tirumurukarruppatai |
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| The Tirumurukar?r?uppatai is a Tamil text of the Sangam period. The poem is devoted to Lord Murugan (also known as Subrahmanya, Skanda, Kumara…) whose cult is extremely popular in Tamil Nadu. It invokes the deity in the holy places where he resides, describing his characteristics, praising his dance in the mountains and inviting the reader to worship him. The text became extremely renowned and the object of several commentaries. It is accompanied here by a translation into French; an... |
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François Gros |
Uttarame¯ru¯r. Légendes, histoire, monuments |
$22.49 $15.74 |
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| The book is first a resurvey of the famous inscriptions of Uttaram?r?r, around the sabh? of the village and its functioning. The most original contribution deals with the theoretical reconstruction of the layout of the village, according to ?gamas and v?stu ??stra in the distribution of temples and space, erection and iconography of temples, and the projection of mythology and king’s paraphernalia on the patterns of roads and irrigation channels. It confirms the political organisation of the... |
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Christine Chojnacki |
Vividhatirthakalpah. Regards sur le lieu saint jaina |
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| The Vividhat?rthakalpah?, a composite work attributed in large part to the monk Jinaprabhas?ri (between 13th and 14 cent. A.D.), is a text devoted to various Jaina holy places (t?rtha). In the Jaina tradition these t?rtha-s are associated most often with the 24 T?rthankaras and the places where they have lived the great events of their lives. In 63 independent compositions (kalpa), the Vividhat?rthakalpah? celebrates the various t?rtha-s in the Indian tradition of the mah?tmya. In this book the... |
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Jean Filliozat |
Yogasataka. Texte médical attribué à Nagarjuna |
$25.95 $18.17 |
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| on ayurvedic medicine comprising about one hundred ‘combinations’ (yoga), i.e. therapeutic formulas. Several of its manuscripts survive and the text was translated into Tibetan and Kuchean, signs of its popularity and wide spread. More a collection of recipes than a treatise, it explains, amongst other things: cures for fever, general therapeutics, care for the eyes, remedies for poisoning, for maladies attributed to demons, and for those that affect children, aphrodisiacs, elixirs of youth and... |
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