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Power and Authority-Aspects of Kingship and Religious Traditions in Ancient India

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09410011
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 印度哲学(含仏教学)
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

IKARI Yasuke  Kyoto Univ., Inst.for Research in Humanities, Professor, 人文科学研究所, 教授 (40142012)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) FUJII Masato  Kyoto Univ., Inst.for Research in Humanities, Assoc.Professor, 人文科学研究所, 助教授 (50183926)
TOKUNAGA Muneo  Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学研究科, 教授 (70143998)
AKAMATSU Akihiko  Kyushu University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (80159326)
WATASE Nobuyuki  Tokai University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (00056110)
YANO Michio  Kyoto-Sangyo Univ., Int.Research for Linguistics, Professor, 国際言語科学研究所, 教授 (40065868)
荒牧 典俊  京都大学, 人文科学研究所, 教授 (30027536)
Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1999
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Keywordsancient India / Mahabharata / Santi Parvan / Rajadharma / Indian kingship / Indian polity / Sanskrit literature / electronic text / ヒンドゥー法典 / マハーバーラダ / アルタシャーストラ / 古典インド / インド法典 / ダルマ / 王法 / インド / ダルマシャーストラ
Research Abstract

The purpose of this project is to investigate problems regarding the kingship in ancient India with cooperation of reseatchers of various fields in Indology. Looking into the history of research on this subject, we have especially focused our attention upon the Epic text "Mahabharata", . since this gigantic text offers most important information on the kingship and concerned topics during the period between fourth century B.C.and fourth century A.D.when the classical type of kingship was going to be established. Our study consisted of two type of research activities : a joint research workshop of the researchers participated in this project and the build-up of data files on the ancient Indian kingship from the available Sanskrit literatures.
The head of the project organized a joint seminar of reading Sanskrit text of the Epic, in which all the investigators of this project participated. The joint seminar was regularly held during the three-year's project and the total number of seminar … More s came up to fifty. The main text taken up in the joint seminar was the Rajadharma Parvan (The Section of King's Duty) in the twelfth volume of the Mahabharata, where the best arranged information on kingship is to be obatained. This text portion had so far not been closely studied from the philological point of view. Our first intention was to establish the text itself and to offer a reliable translation. With the advance of our seminar, we had piled up report materials through good discusiions and we could finally edited a translation with detailed notes of a thousand pages in total volume. While the research result is available in printed-out form, we decided to distribute our result also through internet, that is , through the computer network to the wider cicle of scholars of Indology and Indian studies. Our fruit of research will be shortly distributed to the researchers in HTML format.
The second part of our join work has been to compile a gigantic Sanskrit data file of kingship in ancient India. For this purpose, passages on the concerned topics of kingship was extracted from various kind of Sanskrit literatures, ranging from late Vedic literatures, Epics and Puranas to the texts of politics. This first attempt to compile the enormous data file of Indian kingship in the form of electronic text has been announced to the international scholars of Indology and enthuastically welcomed by them. The file provisionally called "A Sanskrit File of Ancient Indian Kingship" will be made public through internet shortly and we strongly believe that it will be heavily utilized by the international scholars working not only on Indian politics and administration, but those on cultural history and religious history. Less

Report

(4 results)
  • 1999 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • 1997 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (17 results)

All Other

All Publications (17 results)

  • [Publications] 赤松明彦: "ウッディヨータカラの思想-NV研究(3)-"『インドの文化と論理』,pp.667-683,2000.. 667-683 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Fujii,Masato: "On the Formation and Transmission of the Jaiminiya-Upanisad-Brahmana"Inside the Texts, Beyond the Texts, New Approaches to the Study of the Vedas (ed.M.Witzel), Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora Vol.2. 89-102 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ikari,Yasuke: "Towards a 'Critical' Edition of the Vadhula Srautasutra-A Report on the New Manuscripts"Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik. 20. 145-168 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tokunaga,Muneo: "Structure of the Rajadharma Section (i.309-368) in the Yajnavalkyasmrti"Memoirs of Faculty of Letters (Kyoto University). 33. 135-160 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tokunaga,Muneo: "Shift of Caesura in the TriSTubh of the Mahabharata"Japanese Studies on South Asia No.V : The Way to Liberation. (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Yano,Michio: "Distance of Planets in Indian Astronomy"Oriental Astronomy from Guo Shoujing to King Sejong (ed.NHA I-S., and F.R.Stephenson). (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 赤松明彦: "古典インドの言語哲学1,2"平凡社(東洋文庫). 650 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 井狩彌介,渡瀬信之(編訳): "ヤージュニャヴァルキヤ法典"平凡社(東洋文庫). 350 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Akamatsu, Akihiko: "Uddyotakara's Thought-NV Studies(3)"Culture and Logic in India. 667-683 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Fujii, Masato: "On the Formation and Transmission of the Jaiminiya-Upanisad-Brahmana"Inside the Texts, Beyond the Texts, New Approaches to the Study of the Vedas (ed.M.Witzel), Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minor. 2. 89-102 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ikari, Yasuke: "Towards a 'Critical' Edition of the Vadhula-Srautasutra-A Report on the New Manuscripts"Studein zur Indologie und Iranistik. 20. 145-168 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tokunaga, Muneo: "Structure of the Rajadharma Section (i.309-368) in the Yajnavalkyasmrti"Memoirs of Faculty of Letters, (Kyoto Univ.). 33. 135-160 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tokunaga, Muneo: "Shift of Caesura in the TriSTubh of the Mahabharata"Japanese studies on South Asia No.V : The Way to Liberation. (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Yano, Michio: "Distance of Planets in Indian Astronomy"Oriental Astronomy from Guo Shoujing to King Sejong (ed.NHA I-S, and F.R.Stephenson. 154-166 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Akamatsu, Akihiko: "Philosophy of Linguistics in Ancient India (Jap.) (2 Vols.)"650 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ikari, Yasuke & Watase, Nobuyuki (ed.tr.): "Yajnavalkya Smrti (Jap.)"350 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 井狩弥介・渡瀬信之(編著): "ヤージュニャヴァルキア法典"平凡社(東洋文庫). 300 (2000)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report

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