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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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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 The critical edition of this hitherto unpublished text relies on manuscripts kept in the library of the French Institute of Pondicherry.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 The critical edition of this hitherto unpublished text relies on manuscripts kept in the library of the French Institute of Pondicherry.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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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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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 |
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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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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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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B. Dagens |
Mayamata. Traité sanskrit d'architecture (2 Vols.) |
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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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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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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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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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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... |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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