2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Use of belles-letres in the Basic Sanskrit Education in the Early Modern South Asia
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17K17835
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
KLEBANOV ANDREY 京都大学, 文学研究科, 特定外国語担当講師 (60794956)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | Sanskrit poetry / Sanskrit education / poetics / grammar / logic / online education / Early Modern India / Sanskrit literature |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Field research (30%).
I observed an important fact that was not thematised in other research ― that is, the importance of Internet as a medium for the traditionalist mode of Sanskrit education. With regard to my current research project, I looked into the ways, how poetry (and its place in Indian culture) is presented to the students of various online paathashaalaa-s. I have also continued interviewing (with varying frequency) advanced scholars concerning their memories of their education.
Textual research (70%).
In the past years I was able to establish (year 1) the importance of the commentarial tradition in propagation and active construction of the reading practices related to individual works and the genre of poetry as such; and (year 2) that scholars of two orthodox systems, logic and grammar, have assigned a selected group of poets with a very high authority. In this way, poetry often initiated complex technical discussions and, in this way, set in motion scientific creativity of Sanskrit grammarians and logicians.
During the last year, I turned my focus to the tradition of Sanskrit poetics. Hereby, I observed that this system offered an ideal “non-partial” ground for the above two schools to battle their ideas about language. As an example of such argument, I studied an unpublished poetological commentary written by a famous early modern grammarian Naagesha Bha.t.ta, in which he engages in elaborate attacks on logicians' views. The study of this text has become the main focus of a research seminar that I organised in February 2020 at the Kyoto University.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
1) in Aug '19, my daughter was born;
2) in Dec '19 I was invited to consult the WHO concerning implementation of the traditional Indian Medicine in the global health system. I had to slightly pause my research In order to prepare and to attend the meeting.
3) Initially, I planed to organise the final workshop in February 2020. However, the majority of key scholars could not attend (to a variety of reasons), so that instead I was able to organise only a research colloquium.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
- finalising the research;
- submission of several articles publishing the results of my research;
- launch of an online platform informing about traditional Sanskrit education in Early Modern India;
- concluding conference cum workshop at Kyoto University (if the pandemic situation improves).
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| Causes of Carryover |
General Research, Launch of a website (programming and design costs), Organising the final conference/ workshop at Kyoto University
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Research Products
(3 results)
