{"title":"OUP accepted manuscript","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/jhs/hiac003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiac003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60821896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Renegotiating Sectarian Space through the Realia and Monasteries of Early Medieval Bengal","authors":"B. J. Fleming","doi":"10.1093/JHS/HIAB020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/JHS/HIAB020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44627443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Material History of the Daśanāmī Maṭha of Bodhgaya","authors":"A. Amar","doi":"10.1093/JHS/HIAB010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/JHS/HIAB010","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This short essay examines the history of the Daśanāmī Giri maṭha of Bodhgaya, which has been largely ignored because of the focus on the Buddhist history of this site. Through a comparative study of nineteenth-century colonial accounts and documents, and material remains, this essay explores its claimed history and emergence as an important religio-political institution in the colonial period. In doing so, it specifically investigates network of samādhis across the villages of Gaya district and their role in establishing its position as an important zamindar.","PeriodicalId":42357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45295180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Daśanāmī samādhis in West Bengal: Preliminary Observations","authors":"Brian A. Hatcher","doi":"10.1093/JHS/HIAB013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/JHS/HIAB013","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay provides a summary of research on the history and material legacy of a Daśanāmī monastic network established in modern Bengal. Centred on the pilgrimage centre of Tārakeśvar, at its peak this network area covered much of southwestern Bengal, integrating disparate temples and economic centres. The essay calls special attention to the role of samādhis (burial monuments) in anchoring Daśanāmī monasteries (maṭhas) in the local landscape and also illustrates the challenge of documenting sites when these material markers have deteriorated, vanished, or been renovated.","PeriodicalId":42357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42283961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tradition and Innovation: The Samādhi of Naraharināth Yogī in Mṛgasthalī (Nepal) in Historical Context","authors":"Gudrun Bühnemann","doi":"10.1093/JHS/HIAB012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/JHS/HIAB012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In 2003 Naraharināth Yogī passed away at the Gorakhnāth Maṭha in Mṛgasthalī, a forested hill across from the sacred Paśupatināth temple in Kathmandu. Naraharināth was a prominent figure among the Nāth (sometimes called Kānphaṭā) Yogīs, a predominantly Śaiva ascetic movement in India and Nepal. Three years after his demise a memorial was inaugurated for him above the place where he was interred. The commemorative space, which has been expanding over the years, incorporates traditional features but is innovative in its layout. In this article I will trace the development of this single burial monument (samādhi) and compare it to the structures of other Nāth burials.","PeriodicalId":42357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/JHS/HIAB012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47967393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the utility of the category of ‘Hinduism’ in Thailand","authors":"N. McGovern","doi":"10.1093/JHS/HIAB003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/JHS/HIAB003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Although earlier scholarship on Southeast Asia focused on the legacy of Hinduism in that region, the recent turn away from models of syncretism and toward explaining Buddhism in terms of the ‘Pali imaginaire’ has led to a sharp de-emphasis of ‘Hinduism’ as a valid category for understanding religion in Buddhist countries of Southeast Asia such as Thailand. In this article, I argue that ‘Hinduism’ still has a utility for the study of religion in Thailand as long as it is used correctly—that is, not to label something as ‘non-Buddhist’. I argue that we must study Theravāda Buddhism and the Pali imaginaire as embedded in a broader world context that includes Hinduism within it. In particular, certain historical continuities between the Sanskrit Cosmopolis that once reigned over Southern Asia and the Pali Cosmpolis that formed in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia after the former's collapse have resulted in a space for Hinduism to have ongoing agency within Pali Buddhism.","PeriodicalId":42357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43456291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ambivalence of the Hindus: The Buddha as Avatāra of Viṣṇu in the Mahāpurāṇas and Beyond","authors":"Bradley S. Clough","doi":"10.1093/JHS/HIAB006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/JHS/HIAB006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines the formation of Vaiṣṇava theology’s conception of the Buddha as an avatāra or ‘divine incarnation’ of their Supreme Lord Viṣṇu, with a focus on the mahāpurāṇas. My aim is to move beyond the synthetic kinds of treatment that have typified most of the scholarly investigations of this phenomenon, by attending more closely to the dynamic historical development of the Buddhāvatāra idea than previous efforts appear to have done. Contrary to conclusions drawn by earlier studies, which assert that this concept followed decidedly unidirectional and unvarying patterns of development, the thesis that I will support maintains that great variety and ambivalence is evident in this idea’s creation and articulation in these vitally central Hindu scriptures.","PeriodicalId":42357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/JHS/HIAB006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46778296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commands and the Doctrine of the Apūrva in Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā","authors":"Patrick T. Cummins","doi":"10.1093/jhs/hiaa017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiaa017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article argues that Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā’s cornerstone doctrine on the apūrva has gone unrecognized in the field, both in terms of the theory’s mechanics and its intellectual history. Śālikanātha (fl. c. 900 CE?) positions the apūrva, the sacrifice’s enduring capacity to trans-temporally produce results, at the top of the language hierarchy within his theory of the archetypal Vedic command: svargakāmo yajeta (‘The man desiring heaven must sacrifice’). Śālikanātha argues against Kumārila (fl. c. 660 CE?), for whom the apūrva is an extra-linguistic postulate. By integrating the ontologically superordinate apūrva within the language hierarchy, Śālikanātha subordinates Kumārila and Maṇḍana’s theories of bhāvanā, ‘bringing into being’, while incorporating their philosophical resources. Śālikanātha’s new doctrine of the apūrva is nowhere to be found in the Bṛhatī of Prabhākara himself (fl. c. 690 CE?). Śālikanātha’s model becomes the baseline for the subsequent textual tradition of Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā, which rises to dominate the field of philosophy of language in his wake.","PeriodicalId":42357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"203-261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49400440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The End of the Pāṇḍavas’ Year in Disguise","authors":"S. Brodbeck","doi":"10.1093/JHS/HIAA019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/JHS/HIAA019","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article discusses an ambiguity in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata concerning whether or not the Pāṇḍavas maintained their disguises for a full year. It argues that the text uses this ambiguity in order to provide a psychologically realistic explanation for the war – the war that is mandated in advance as part of a divine plan to address the Earth’s reported afflictions, and that is ensured in real time by the actions of divinities in the form of human beings. The ambiguity at the end of the year in disguise makes a success of the text’s strategy of presenting a divine plan simultaneous with the human action. The article shows that both human sides – Duryodhana and Yudhiṣṭhira – adhere closely to the dharma of the covenant made at the second dicing match.\u0000 Discussion focuses on the recognition of Arjuna by the Kauravas in the Virāṭaparvan, and on the narrative effects of that recognition. Various characters’ perspectives on this recognition event are presented and examined. Bhīṣma says the year was already over, so the Pāṇḍavas are not accused of breaching the covenant. The second half of the article explores the implications of this as they unfold in the Udyogaparvan.","PeriodicalId":42357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"320-346"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46422716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Vernacular Pulse of Sanskrit: Metre and More in Songs of the Gītagovinda and Bhāgavata Purāṇa","authors":"Heidi Pauwels","doi":"10.1093/jhs/hiaa018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiaa018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the metrical patterns of Gītagovinda’s songs, to investigate what they reveal about their origin and inspiration, building on previous scholarly research into the vernacular nature of the songs. Seemingly abstruse, metre lies at the heart of the performative nature of the text, but is often overlooked in a quest for meaning. The article starts with the approach of Sanskrit commentators, focusing on Mahārāṇā Kumbhakarṇa of Mewar’s fifteenth-century Rasikapriyā, interrelating with his theoretical work on music, the Saṃgītarāja. This reveals the problem of the discrepancy between metrical theory, or śāstra, and praxis, or prayoga, problematising the metrical pundits’ focus on classification and static definitions at the expense of rhythmical processes of actual performance. The article proposes an alternative by analysing Gītagovinda’s songs instead through the lens of New Indo-Aryan (NIA) poetry, which significantly enhances appreciation of the poetic craft of the author. Finally, comparison with selected Gopīgītas, or ‘Songs of the Gopīs’, from the ninth-century classic scripture of Krishna devotion, Bhāgavata Purāṇa, reveals parallels in both metre and oral formulae. Reading Gopīgītas in conjunction with Gītagovinda’s songs opens up a new perspective, revealing a vernacular pulse underlying some of the best-known and best-loved Sanskrit literature.","PeriodicalId":42357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hindu Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"294-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/jhs/hiaa018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42465117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}