{"title":"Somānanda on the Meaningfulness of Language","authors":"J. Nemec","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06203002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06203002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The present article examines Somānanda’s understanding of the denotative capacity of speech (śabda) as presented in his Śivadṛṣṭi, āhnika four. Somānanda argues that this denotative capacity is innate in words because based in a real sāmānya or universal; that a permanent connection links śabda and its object (artha), not convention (saṃketa); and that the referent of speech is an object innately imbued with linguistic capacity in the form of an ever-present, innate sāmānya. Each of these positions is also supported by the Mīmāṃsā, and Somānanda, citing both Śabara and Kumārila, assents to their positions on these points on the understanding that they may only be accepted as philosophically sound if one presumes the existence of a Śaiva non-duality of all as Śiva-as-consciousness. These positions, in turn, are all deployed as arguments against those of the Buddhist Pramāṇa Theorists, whose views in each of these three areas Somānanda contests.","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06203002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49016649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translations, by Richard Salomon","authors":"J. Silk","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06202005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06202005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06202005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42368985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charting ‘Wilderness’ (araṇya) in Brahmanical and Buddhist Texts","authors":"P. Visigalli","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06202002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06202002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The essay demonstrates the longevity and pervasiveness of Indic and Indic-derived etymological analyses (nirvacana) across literary traditions, in Sanskrit, Pāli, and Chinese. To exemplify different indigenous approaches to etymology, the essay explores emic analyses of the word araṇya ‘wilderness’. It traces the analyses found in Chāndogya Upaniṣad (8.5) and in the works of the etymologists (Nirukta) and grammarians (vyākaraṇa; uṇādisūtra). It also considers Paramārtha’s nirvacana-inspired analysis of Chinese alianruo 阿練若 (araṇya), and identifies a similar analysis in Aggavaṃsa’s Saddanīti. The essay shows etymological analyses’ sophistication and variety of purposes.","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06202002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42383086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temple Design in Six Early Śaiva Scriptures. Critical Edition and Translation of the prāsādalakṣaṇa-portions of the Bṛhatkālottara, Devyāmata, Kiraṇa, Mohacūrottara, Mayasaṃgraha & Piṅgalāmata, by Libbie Mills","authors":"P. Bisschop","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06202006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06202006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06202006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47374859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Prakaraṇapañcikā de Śālikanātha, chapitre 6, section 1, Le moyen de connaissance valide et la perception, Traité Mīmāṃsaka d’ epistémologie, by Jean-Marie Verpoorten","authors":"M. Kapstein","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06202003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06202003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06202003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41716982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editors’ Note","authors":"Jonathan A. Silk, Peter Bisschop","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06202007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06202007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06202007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48873232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trans-Sectual Identity","authors":"J. Silk, P. Szántó","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06202001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06202001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Praśnottararatnamālikā is a small tract containing 62 questions, paired with their answers. It is extraordinary that this text has been transmitted within Hindu, Jaina and Buddhist traditions, in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Tibetan, variously attributed to different authors. The present study examines what is known of the text, which from early on drew the attention of modern scholars, and presents editions of its Sanskrit and Tibetan versions, along with a translation and annotations.","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06202001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48472825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sins and vices: their enumerations and specifications in the Veda","authors":"H. Bodewitz","doi":"10.1007/S10783-008-9077-Y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S10783-008-9077-Y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":"50 1","pages":"317-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/S10783-008-9077-Y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46772582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pits, Pitfalls and the Underworld in the Veda","authors":"H. Bodewitz","doi":"10.1163/000000099124993400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/000000099124993400","url":null,"abstract":"Dans les Veda, surtout dans les textes post vediques, les enfers et l'enfer sont souvent designes par des mots signifiant puits, fosse ou trou, et en general le fait de tomber est souvent associe avec le fait d'aller en enfer et le resultat des peches, encore que parfois il s'agisse d'une chute sociale ou morale. Mais pourquoi l'enfer ou les enfers sont-ils appeles trou ou puits ? Et comment devrait-on interpreter certains passages vediques dans lesquels une chute dans un puits ne peut pas se referer au fait d'aller en enfer ? Afin de trouver une reponse a ces questions, le present article examine en premier les exemples bien concrets ou quelqu'un tombe dans un puits ainsi que les metaphores s'y rapportant, puis il etablit le sens exact des mots representant de quelque maniere puits ou trou, car l'emploi metaphorique est encore plus eclairant que les quelques cas concrets de chute dans un puits.","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":"42 1","pages":"211-226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/000000099124993400","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48850821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}