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An Early and Unpublished Text on Sun-worship

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25370057
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Chinese philosophy/Indian philosophy/Buddhist studies
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

ACHARYA DIWAKAR  京都大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (90612698)

Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Discontinued (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
KeywordsSun-worship / Manuscriptology / Tantricism / Hinduism / Tantrism / Manuscript studies / Nepal / Sun worship / Philology / History of religion / Pre-modern Nepal / philology
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

In April 2016, I finally verified readings of the Saurasamhita at some problematic places against the transcript of the text kept in Wellcome Library, London. And thus, after three years and one month from the beginning of my research project, I finalised a critical edition of the entire text of the Saurasamhita using the 10th century palm-leaf manuscript and three paper manuscripts which are in fact historical transcripts of the former.
I further prepared a summary of the Sanskrit text, and also a first draft of the introduction to the text.
While working on this project, I collaborated with a number of international scholars and provided training to my students in Japan and elsewhere. I was invited to Yale University, Heidelberg University, and Vienna University to give lectures. I visited manuscript archives and libraries in Asia, Europe and USA. I also consulted traditional scholars in Nepal and India and gathered information on the Tantric tradition of sun worship. I am fully satisfied with the progress made by now.
I continue working on this project and hope to prepare within a year or two a publishable volume with the Sanskrit text, an English summary, an introduction with a short history of sun worship in India. I am also presenting an edition of 250 verses from the Bhavisya Purana in as an appendix. Further, I have a plan to publish this volume from Pondicherry, India, in the series "Collection Indologie" published by Ecole fraincais d'Extreme Orient and French Institut.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2016 2015 2014 2013 Other

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 4 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 2 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Invited: 4 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Three Fragmentary Folios of a 9th-Century Manuscript of an Early Bhutatantra Taught by Mahamahesvara.2016

    • Author(s)
      Diwakar Acharya
    • Journal Title

      D. Goodall & H. Isaacson: Tantric Studies. Fruits of a Franco-German Collaboration on Early Tantra. Collection Indologie.

      Volume: 131

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Remarriage, Adultery and Reproduction in Ancient Nepal.2016

    • Author(s)
      Diwakar Acharya
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Nepalese History and Society (SINHAS).

      Volume: Vol. 19,2 (Dec. 2014) Pages: 269-288

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] The Upanisadic Method of Neti neti and the Jaina Doctrine of Anekanta.2014

    • Author(s)
      Acharya Diwakar
    • Journal Title

      Buddhist and Jaina Studies. Proceedings of the Conference in Lumbini, February 2013. Lumbini International Research Institute.

      Volume: LIRI Seminar Proceedings 6. Pages: 299-317

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] An Investigation into the Background of the Saiva Siddhanta Concept of Innate Impurity (mala)2014

    • Author(s)
      ACHARYA Diwakar
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Indian Philosophy

      Volume: 42.1 Issue: 1 Pages: 9-25

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10781-013-9209-0

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] How to behave like a Bull? New Insight into the Origin and Religious Practices of Pasupatas2013

    • Author(s)
      ACHARYA Diwakar
    • Journal Title

      Indo-Iranian Journal

      Volume: 56.2 Issue: 2 Pages: 101-131

    • DOI

      10.1163/15728536-0000001

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] A preliminary report on two Sanskrit texts of the Astamivratakatha.2016

    • Author(s)
      Diwakar Acharya
    • Organizer
      Buddhist Studies Talk Series.
    • Place of Presentation
      3401 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley. (USA, Berkeley)
    • Year and Date
      2016-01-28
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] A Debt-Clearance Certificate from the 17th Century Mithila.2015

    • Author(s)
      Diwakar Acharya
    • Organizer
      Documents in Pre-Modern South Asia and Beyond.
    • Place of Presentation
      Heidelberg Academy (Germany, Heidelberg)
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-04
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] On the meaning and function of adesa in the early Upanisads

    • Author(s)
      ACHARYA Diwakar
    • Organizer
      South Asia at Yale
    • Place of Presentation
      Yale Macmillan Center, Yale University
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Changing Notion of atman in the Brhadaranyaka Upanisad

    • Author(s)
      ACHARYA Diwakar
    • Organizer
      Yale Asian Religions
    • Place of Presentation
      Department of Religious Studies, Yale University
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] Early Tantric Vaisnavism. Three Newly Discovered Works of the Pancaratra: The Svayambhuvapancaratra, Devamrtapancaratra, and Astadasavidhana. Critically edited from their 11th- and 12th-century Nepalese palm-leaf manuscripts with an Introduction and Notes2015

    • Author(s)
      Acharya Diwakar
    • Publisher
      Institut Francais de Pondicherry/ Ecole francaise d'Extreme Orient/ Hamburg University
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-07-25   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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