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Signless signification in ancient India and beyond
No full textPart I: Technical and speculative Reflections on Signless Signification
(Contributions by A. Pelissero; E.Freschi; M.P. Candotti; T. Pontillo; P. Corda); Part II: Reflections on signless Signification in Literature and Arts (Contributions by C. Pieruccini, M. Congedo, P. Rossi, P. Mureddu, R. Fais, P. Bhat, P. Bravi, I. Macchiarella
Proceedings of the conference "Patterns of Bravery". The figure of the hero in Indian literature, art and thought
No full textCONTENTS
Preface by Tiziana Pontillo p. 11
ALESSANDRO BATTISTINI
Cardboard Weapons: Rudraṭa,
The Goddess and the Origin of Citrakāvya p. 21
JOHANNES BRONKHORST
Reflections on the Fate of Northwestern Brahmins p. 37
EWA DĘBICKA-BOREK
The Bravery of Sāluva Narasiṃha and the Grace
of Narasiṃha Deity p. 62
ALEXANDER DUBYANSKIY
Patterns of Heroic Behavior in Old and Medieval Tamil Poetry p. 79
DANIELLE FELLER
The Epic Hero: Between Brahmin and Warrior p. 97
MARTIN HŘÍBEK
Heroes from the Margins in Contemporary Bengali Fiction p. 113
FRANK KÖHLER
Karṇa ̣and the Dharmik Evaluation of Character
in the Mahābhārata p. 131
CHIARA NERI – TIZIANA PONTILLO
Words Involving the Stem Brahman- Denoting the Achievement of Super-Human Status in Vedic and Sutta Piṭaka Sources p. 151
ALBERTO PELISSERO
Some Glimpses about the Semantic Domain of Vīra
in Indian Culture p. 195
DAVID PIERDOMINICI LEÃO
The Kavi as a Warrior: the Poetic Fight Between Aruṇagirinātha Diṇḍima and Śrīnātha as an Image
of Literary Changes in 15th Century Vijayanagara p. 205
CHIARA POLICARDI
Mastering Oneself, Meeting the Otherness: the Vīra
in the Early Tantric Yoginī Cult p. 217
CHETTIARTHODI RAJENDRAN
When the King is Captured: Perceptions Of Heroism
in the Pratijñāyaugandharāyaṇa Of Bhāsa p. 240
PAOLA M. ROSSI
The Sounds of the Warrior: the Vedic Drums between War and Poetry p. 253
BOŻENA ŚLIWCZYŃSKA
Bravery of the Durātman Hero – the Figure of Rāvaṇa on the Kūṭiyāṭṭam Stage p. 289
DANUTA STASIK
Immovable as Aṅgada: Īśvardās’s Aṅgad paij (1502) p. 300
LIDIA SUDYKA
The Chejarla Temple Myth Revisited: Self-decapitation in Medieval Andhra p. 318
LETIZIA TRINCO
Heroes Beyond the Texts: Sacrifice, Death and Afterlife in the Iconography of Southern Maharashtra’s
Hero-Stones p. 341
ANNA TRYNKOWSKA
The Making of a Hero: Kṛṣṇa in Mahābhārata 2.30-42 and in Māgha’s Śiśupālavadha p. 364
ALEKSANDRA TUREK
A Good Villain: the Bravery of the Dacoits from the Śekhāvaṭī Region of Rājasthān p. 377
JAROSLAV VACEK
Tamil Sangam ‘Man of War’ – His Activities and Aspirations p. 390
YAROSLAV VASSILKOV
The Indian Hero in Heaven and on Earth: on the Meaning of the Word Devaputra p. 43
Aims and functions of Vrātyastoma performances: a historical appraisal
No full textThis contributions examines a large survey of Vedic sources which deal with the Vrātyaṣṭomas. On the basis of texts which are apparently clear testimonies of a secondary Brāhmanically reformed tradition, the article proposes a tentative reading between the lines, in order to highlight an earlier stage of the Vrātyastoma. Accordingly, this rite might have been intended — on the speculative background of a special heroic scope for having access to heaven as gods — not only to forge an alliance between the members of the vrātya-brotherhood (and to appoint a leader), but also to redistribute the booty at the end of expeditions
Singling out the place where rules apply: materials from the discussion on Panini’s description of substitution
No full textThis paper aims at taking Panini’s substitution descriptive method out of its supposed limited domain of allomorphy (Kiparsky 2009: 86), to show that it is rather part of a broader conceptualization of linguistic units in spatial terms, i.e. as “places” where “things” i.e. linguistic phenomena described by rules, happen (following the lead indicated by Kahrs (1998: 184)). In particular, while discussing on the thirteen dosavarttikas (vts. 18–30) on A. 1.1.56, by mainly relying on the textual dimension of the As..ta ̄dhya ̄y ̄ı and on the usus scribendi of the author, we advanced that Pa ̄n.ini’s linguistic units are not endowed with a mandatory fixed status, a misunderstanding which instead prevented ancient and modern interpreters (e.g. Joshi and Rood- bergen 1985, 1990) from solving these supposed shortcomings in the mechanism of substitution. On the contrary, he might have envisioned the different units as scalar categories, whose prototypes were verbal bases and affixes on the one hand and the single meaningless phoneme on the other. Consistently, Panini’s explicit classification of rules again is not abstract and functional but based upon the explicit mention of a relevant linguistic “place” and the way in which it is, each time, described: Panini’s strategy encompasses both devices to shift the status of a linguistic unit from phone to morph and vice versa
Rule-extension-strategies in Ancient India: Ritual, exegetical and linguistic considerations on the tantra- and prasaṅga- principles
No full textThe authors focus their attention on the usage and cultural history of two crucial terms in Sanskrit technical literature, namely tantra and prasaṅga (here translated as ‘centralised joint application’ and ‘automatic involvement’). They belong to a class of devices used to ‘extend’ the validity of a given rule outside its proper domain. Their functioning thus entails an organized spatial dimension which transforms an absolute absence in a specific one. The sources on which this inquiry is based are the most ancient Indian aphoristic treatises on ritual, exegesis and grammar with their first commentaries. A noteworthy outcome of this research is the evidence that a common prehistory and an almost constant mutual influence of these traditions should be postulated for the questioned rules
What do Vrātyas have to do with long-stalked plants? Darbha, kuśa, śara and iṣīkā in Vedic and Classical sources
No full textOn the basis of recent contributions where different figures of Keśins are put
in relation with the vrātya warrior/ ascetic, the present paper is an attempt to spot additional
pieces of evidence of this connection. For this purpose almost 500 passages involving
the plant names darbha, kuśa, śara and iṣīkā have been surveyed and analyzed, starting
from the coincidence of the proper name Keśin Dālbhya with the first phytonym here listed.
Furthermore, the epithet keśin has been put in relation with some realia on the Vrātya, so
that in the former part, a fresh interpretation of the ascetic imagery involved in ṚV 10.136
has been advanced while in the latter, through the study of the abhicāra usage of the reeds,
the famous episode of Bhīṣma dying on his ‘bed of arrows’ (śaratalpa) is supposed as being
the consequence of a specific ascetic and heroic aspiration to heave
Where the sense is intended although the corresponding speech unit is not employed: the ekasesa case
No full textThe starting point of this communication is M I, 240 l. 27 - 241 l. 5 ad vt. 29 ad A 1.2.64, where lopa of the affix KviP, such as in the case of agnicit- and of somasut-, is mentioned as the standard exception to the often asserted need of a phisical input to cause verbal cognition. In fact the principle according to which “there is no understanding of a sense (arthasya gatih) without employing the word-form denoting that (antarena tadvacinah sabdasya prayogaṃ)” is dismissed only in a restricted number of cases. The dual or plural meaning which is realized thanks to the retention of only one form (ekasesa) is one among these exceptions, which is thus emphasized in the quoted passage. On the other hand, in a similar way Patanjali reflects on some bahuvrīhi-compounds, such as candramukhi “moon-faced ” (M I, 328 ll. 4-5 ad A 2.1.55), where currently there is understanding (saṃpratyayah) of a quality even when it has not been specified (anirdisyamanasyapi gunasya). As underlined by Patanjali, a further operation is here compulsorily implied, namely the selection of one out of many (though unmentioned) moon’s qualities which could be involved in the traditional corresponding vigraha.
How comes that an effect (the meaning) can be grasped in absence of its cause (the uttered word)? Why the risk of integrating a whatever speech-unit is regularly averted? The concept of prayogavisaya- “the specific usage-domain” of each sabda- seems to be crucial when this kind of meaning-processing has to be accounted for, as suggested e.g. in M I. 158 l. 11 ad vt. 2 ad A I.1.60.
Furthermore, with regard to the lopa-cases, the precise pattern of prasanga-procedure is explicitly resorted to by Patanjali commenting on vt. 4 ad A 1.1.60: as a rule a specific sabda actually does exist as an input, although it can be only perceived elsewhere. Focusing especially on the occurrences of the terms prasakta- and prasanga- in the M, this paper aims to tackle the question of the discrimen between zero-replacements and the other cases of denotatio in absentia pointed out by Patanjali
JOANNA JUREWICZ, Fire and Cognition in the Ṛgveda, Warszawa: Elipsa 2010, 485 p. (ISBN 978-83-7151-893-5)
No full textOur review's target is to explain how this work unequivocally aims at going beyond the strictly philological level of research, which however has been accurately carried out, in order to “concentrate on the metaphysical role of Agni” as a piece of evidence for the ancient “beginnings of abstract and general thought” in India and more generally in the ancient pre-Socratic world
Ultra high risk status and transition to psychosis in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
No full textThe 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is characterized by high rates of psychotic symptoms and schizophrenia, making this condition a promising human model for studying risk factors for psychosis. We explored the predictive value of ultra high risk (UHR) criteria in a sample of patients with 22q11DS. We also examined the additional contribution of socio-demographic, clinical and cognitive variables to predict transition to psychosis within a mean interval of 32.5 ± 17.6 months after initial assessment. Eighty-nine participants with 22q11DS (age range: 8-30 years; mean 16.1 ± 4.7) were assessed using the Structured Interview for Psychosis-Risk Syndromes. Information on Axis I diagnoses, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, level of functioning and IQ was also collected. At baseline, 22 (24.7%) participants met UHR criteria. Compared to those without a UHR condition, they had a significantly lower functioning, more frequent anxiety disorders, and more severe psychopathology. Transition rate to psychosis was 27.3% in UHR and 4.5% in non-UHR participants. Cox regression analyses revealed that UHR status significantly predicted conversion to psychosis. Baseline level of functioning was the only other additional predictor. This is the first study investigating the predictive value of UHR criteria in 22q11DS. It indicates that the clinical path leading to psychosis is broadly comparable to that observed in other clinical high-risk samples. Nevertheless, the relatively high transition rate in non-UHR individuals suggests that other risk markers should be explored in this population. The role of low functioning as a predictor of transition to psychosis should also be investigated more in depth
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