Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SSIIE (Sanskrit Śaiva Intellectuals in the Empire: Innovations, Textual Practices and Religious Interactions in the Late Vijayanagara Period)
Période du rapport: 2017-04-01 au 2019-03-31
"Beyond Polemics: The Śaiva Career of Appaya Dīkṣita." Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, October 25th 2018.
"Śākta and Pratyabhijñā Sources in Vīraśaiva Vedānta." World Sanskrit Conference 2018, Vancouver, July 12th 2018.
"The Vedānta of Vīraśaivas." Sanskrit Reading Room, SOAS (University of London), February 28th 2018.
"Reading from Sudarśanasūri's Śrutaprakāśikā." Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (Vienna), October 10th 2017.
"Reading from Vīraśaivasāroddhara with Somanātha's commentary." Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (Vienna), October 11th 2017. Co-authored with Dr Nina Mirnig.
"Debating the Unspeakable: Non-dualism, deconstructionism and the problem of time in medieval India." Delivered at Charles University (Prague), May 9th 2017; and at Universita di Napoli l"Orientale" (Italy), May 29th 2017.
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I have also published two research articles, written during the period covered by this project:
"On Appaya Dīkṣita’s Engagement with Vyāsatīrtha’s Tarkatāṇḍava,"Journal of Indological Studies 27 (2019).
"Śrīharṣa on the Indefinability of Time." In Space, Time and Limits of Understanding, edited by Shyam Iyengar and Giancarlo Ghirardi (Springer, Frontier Series, 2017). Co-authored with Prof. Krishnamurti Ramasubramanian (IIT Bombay, India).
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I have also a number of forthcoming publications for articles I have written during the period covered in this project:
The entry "Śivādvaita Vedānta" for the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion (accepted for publication in 2019).
"Navya-Nyāya in the Late Vijayanagara Period: Appaya Dīkṣita’s Revision of Gaṅgeśa’s īśvarānumāna," forthcoming in a special issue I co-edit with Dr. Hugo David, entitled “‘Navya-Nyāya in Interaction with Other Knowledge-systems.’’ To be submitted in February 2019 to the Journal of Indian Philosophy.
"Reuse and Adaptation of Appaya Dīkṣita's Śivārcanacandrikā in a Vīraśaiva Ritual Manual." In Editors of Sanskrit Texts: Materials for a History of Philology in South Asia, edited by Cristina Pecchia (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna, forthcoming 2019).
"On the Reception of Rāmānuja’s School in Śivādvaita Vedānta." In One God, One śāstra, edited by Marcus Schmücker and Elisa Freschi (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, forthcoming 2019).
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I have just completed the last chapter of my monograph, to be submitted to Oxford University Press by the end of the Summer.