Mythical Discourse and Religious Agency in the Puranic Ecumene

Project Information

PURANA

Grant agreement ID: 101054849

DOI

10.3030/101054849

EC signature date 26 July 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 31 August 2027

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 331,00

EU contribution

€ 2 499 331,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Orality in a world of manuscripts: reconstructing Purāṇic composition, preservation and transmission on the basis of the Bhaviṣyapurāṇa

Author(s): Sanne Dokter-Mersch
Published in: Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC), Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 2752-3470
Publisher: Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures
DOI: 10.56004/v2.2sdm

Mythical and Historical Time in the Author Portraits of the Persian Puranic Translator Anandghan ‘Khwush’ (fl. 1790–1795)

Author(s): Ayelet Kotler
Published in: PURANA Media, Issue 1, 2025, ISSN 2998-6974
Publisher: Florida State University Libraries
DOI: 10.33009/FSOP_PURANA-MEDIA138688

Visnu’s Cakra as Narrative Weapon in the Skandapurana

Author(s): Sanne Dokter-Mersch
Published in: Religions of South Asia, Issue 17, 2023, ISSN 1751-2697
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
DOI: 10.1558/rosa.22984

The Social Life of a Manuscript

Author(s): Littunen , Olli-Pekka Antero
Published in: Textual Cultures, 2024, ISSN 1933-7418
Publisher: Society for Textual Scholarship
DOI: 10.14434/TC.V17I2.40320

Material Texts: Religion, Mobility, and Responsibility

Author(s): Elizabeth A. Cecil, Sonia Hazard
Published in: Textual Cultures, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1933-7418
Publisher: IUScholarWorks
DOI: 10.14434/TC.V17I2.40316

Pūrṇavarman's Prints

Author(s): Cecil, Elizabeth A.
Published in: Textual Cultures, 2024, ISSN 1933-7418
Publisher: Society for Textual Scholarship
DOI: 10.14434/tc.v17i2.40318

Purāṇa as a Way of Worldmaking

Author(s): Elizabeth A. Cecil, Peter C. Bisschop
Published in: PURANA Media, Issue 1, 2025, ISSN 2998-6974
Publisher: Florida State University Libraries
DOI: 10.33009/FSOP_PURANA-MEDIA139245

An Absence Made Present

Author(s): Bisschop, P.C.
Published in: Textual Cultures, 2024, ISSN 1933-7418
Publisher: Society for Textual Scholarship
DOI: 10.14434/TC.V17I2.40317

Avatāra as Embodied Practice: Narrative, Performance, Image

Author(s): Arya Adityan
Published in: PURANA Media, Issue 1, 2025, ISSN 2998-6974
Publisher: Florida State University Libraries
DOI: 10.33009/FSOP_PURANA-MEDIA138924

Retranslation in Mughal South Asia: The Impressive Failure of a Persian <i>Panchatantra</i>

Author(s): Ayelet Kotler
Published in: Iranian Studies, 2024, ISSN 1475-4819
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/IRN.2024.25

Beyond Borders: Navigating Cultural Sensitivities In Presenting Tulu Ritual Objects In Western Museums

Author(s): Arya Adityan
Published in: Museological Review, 2025, ISSN 1354-5825
Publisher: University of Leicester Open Journals
DOI: 10.29311/MR.VI27.4879

Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal

Author(s): Peter C. Bisschop
Published in: Indo-Iranian Journal, 2023, ISSN 1572-8536
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06604002

A Śaiva Happy Ever After: Viṣṇu as Pāśupata Ascetic

Author(s): Sanne Dokter-Mersch
Published in: Religions, 2022, ISSN 2077-1444
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/REL13121163

The Persian Translation of <i>Śivapurāṇa</i> and Eighteenth-Century North Indian Śaivism

Author(s): Ayelet Kotler
Published in: Journal of Hindu Studies, 2025, ISSN 1756-4263
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/JHS/HIAE017

Moving Mountains and Swallowing Seas: Śaiva Gurus as Ecological Agents in Early South and Southeast Asia

Author(s): Elizabeth A. Cecil
Published in: Ars Orientalis, 2024, ISSN 2328-1286
Publisher: Smithsonian National Museum of of Modern Art
DOI: 10.3998/ARS.7029

Monographic books (1)

Śaiva Rites of Fasting and the Gift of Cattle. A Study in Purāṇic and Tantric Appropriation

Author(s): Bisschop, P.C.; Kafle, N.; Kiss, C.
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Union Press
DOI: 10.6093/978-88-6719-301-1

Other (1)

Stone Works: The Religious Power of Lithic Media in Contemporary Cambodia

Author(s): Elizabeth A. Cecil
Published in: The Jugaad Project: Material Religion in Context, 2023
Publisher: The Jugaad Project