2016 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
An Early and Unpublished Text on Sun-worship
| Project/Area Number |
25370057
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | Sun-worship / Manuscriptology / Tantricism / Hinduism |
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| 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.
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