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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... |
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Pierre-Sylivain Filliozat |
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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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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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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... |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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