| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Studies of Shaivism in the early mediaeval India have been in big progress during these decades as a result of discoveries of new material. Of the newly discovered material, I have been participating in the internationally joint project of editing and studying the Skandapurana, the oldest work that systematized the Shaiva mythology for the lay devotee. Under the research task at issue, the two volumes covering chapters 31-69, volume 2B jointly and volume 3 singly, have been published, and the basic study of this text, such as the date of its redaction, has been completed.Going side by side with the textual study, the field research on some of the Shaiva holy places described in the text was done, and the textual evidence of the spread of Shaivism around the time of the redaction of this text (6-7th cent.) was verified by the historical and archaeological material. In addition, I have unravelled the idea of the integration of Buddhism into Shaivism in a poem called Kapphinabhyudaya.
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