2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Caryapada Manuscript and the Oral Tradition in South Asia
| Project/Area Number |
21720019
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Indian philosophy/Buddhist studies
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| Research Institution | Osaka University (2011-2012)
The Eastern Institute (2009-2010) |
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Principal Investigator |
KITADA Makoto 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科, 准教授 (60508513)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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| Keywords | 新期インド・アーリア語 / ネワール / ベンガル / 民族音楽 / 仏教タントラ / バウル / アパブランシャ |
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| Research Abstract |
Texts written in the early forms of the Eastern Indo-Aryan dialects such as Bengali are preserved in the Kathmandu Valley situated at the margin of South Asia. Above all some songs in Apabhransa and Old Bengali contained in the Caryapada and the Hevajratantra have been handed down from generation to generation by the priests of Newari Vajrayana Buddhism and are still performed as ritual accompaniment called ‘caca’. In this project, a Newari priest who hands down the caca songs was interviewed as an informant, and the mutual influences between manuscripts and oral tradition as much as the process of textual transmission were elucidated.
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