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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bruno Dagens |
Saivagamaparibhasamañjari de Vedajñana. Le florilège de la doctrine sivaïte |
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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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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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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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Jean Filliozat |
Yogasataka. Texte médical attribué à Nagarjuna |
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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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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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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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