Les sources et le temps. Sources and time - A colloquium. Pondicherry 11-13 January 1997

by F. Grimal

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 instruments of criticism and the more indigenous readings of texts. The main historical questions asked were: which sources for which history and how to conduct a proper inquiry by way of ever-widening variety of sources not susceptible to a uniform approach. The book contains 21 articles of which one in French, two in Sanskrit and the rest in English.