EFEO - Blogs - Pondicherry

Venkataraja Sarma, receiving an award from President Abdul Kalam in Delhi

Departure of Professor V. Venkataraja Sarma

31 DECEMBER 16

In the field of Sanskrit grammar, V. Venkataraja Sarma has long been working in collaboration with François Grimal on the Dictionary of Examples of Paninian Grammar, the ...

Kunthea Chhom, straight out of Chennai airport, examines the digraphic inscription of the Atiraṇacaṇḍeśvara temple in Mahabalipuram, at the beginning of her first stay in Pondicherry in 2004

Doctoral defence of Kunthea Chhom's thesis on Khmer epigraphy

16 DECEMBER 16

Kunthea Chhom defended her thesis, entitled Le rôle du sanskrit dans le développement de la langue khmère : une étude épigraphique du VIe au XIVe siècle ...

Ruptures and Breakdowns in Temple Life

07 DECEMBER 16

Valerie Gillet and Anne Casile (IRD / IFP) organised an international workshop entitled "Ruptures and Breakdowns in Temple Life" at the EFEO Centre in Pondicherry from 7 to 9 ...

Maintenance of 19, Dumas Street

05 DECEMBER 16

Gradual replacement of cement with lime-plaster

R. Sathyanarayanan in Tokyo

02 DECEMBER 16

R. Sathyanarayanan visited Tsukuba University, Tokyo, Japan as a visiting professor from 19th to 28th of November 2016 to instruct Japanese students in transcribing the ...

Maintenance of 19, Dumas Street

22 NOVEMBER 16

Gradual replacement of cement with lime-plaster.

Maintenance of 19, Dumas Street: the annex

16 NOVEMBER 16

Following a plan most generously drawn up and offered to the EFEO by the architect Jean-Louis Cardin, work is underway to replace the annex that was dangerously damaged by ...

Maintenance of 19, Dumas Street

11 NOVEMBER 16

Removal of a layer of cement for replacement with lime plaster

Antony Boussemart, Shanty Rayapoullé and Clément Froehlicher

Visit of Clément Froehlicher and Antony Boussemart

10 NOVEMBER 16

Clément Froehlicher, head librarian of the EFEO, and Antony Boussemart, head of the Japanese collection of the EFEO's library in Paris, visited Pondicherry to work with ...

The site of the annex at 19 Dumas Street

07 NOVEMBER 16

The site after the removal of the weakened annex at 19 rue Dumas

Recruitment of Kamal Sharma

01 NOVEMBER 16

Kamal Sharma joined the EFEO as watchman on 1st November 2016. He replaces Lal Bahadur Chokhal.

The EFEO celebrates Sarasvatī

18 OCTOBER 16

The yearly festivities in honour of Sarasvatī, the Hindu goddess of eloquence and learning, were held in the Pondicherry centre on Friday 7 october. The ceremony of worship ...

Vishal Sharma in Pondicherry

30 SEPTEMBER 16

Vishal Sharma, a DPhil student at the University of Oxford (Department
of Oriental Studies), stayed in Pondicherry from July till ...

The site of the annex at 19 Dumas Street

02 SEPTEMBER 16

Discussing the past and the future on the site of the ruined annex...

Setting up solar panels

01 SEPTEMBER 16

Mr Saswat Das explains the use of the solar panels now installed on the roof of 16, Dumas Street (a project put in place by Valérie Gillet).

The Annex at 19, Dumas Street

20 AUGUST 16

The Annex at 19, Dumas Street, has been dangerously weakened by the construction of a five-storey hotel next door and needs to be replaced. The work begins ...

Workshop on Bhartṛhari’s Vākyapadīya

19 AUGUST 16

A workshop on Bhartṛhari’s Vākyapadīya, one of the fundamental treatises of
traditional Sanskrit grammar, is taking place in the Pondicherry Centre from
the ...

Presidential Award for S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma

15 AUGUST 16

Among the Sanskrit scholars to whom the President of India is pleased to award a Presidential Certificate of Honour for the year 2016 is S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma.

Visit of Anshel Cohen

25 JULY 16

Anshel Cohen, a student of Religion at the University of Cambridge (UK), stayed in the Pondicherry Centre for two weeks, between the 11th and 25th July. During his stint in India, ...

New publication in the “Early Tantra Series”

28 MARCH 16

Tantric Studies. Fruits of a Franco-German project on Early Tantra.Edited by Dominic Goodall and Harunaga Isaacson, Collection Indologie n°131; Early Tantra Series ...

A caturmukha-liṅga outside the Bhuvaneśvarī shrine Deopatan, Kathmandu

Lecture by Nina Mirnig on the Śivadharmaśāstra

24 MARCH 16

Dr. Nina Mirnig, of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, who is currently visiting the Pondicherry Centre and joining the daily Śaiva reading sessions, will be giving a lecture at ...

Visit of Anna Kavaleuskaya

23 MARCH 16

Anna Kavaleuskaya, an M.A. student at the University of Hamburg, is currently in Pondicherry with a three-month EFEO scholarship in order to participate in daily ...

Devaki Sabkota says her farewells

Departure of Nirajan Kafle and Devaki Sabkota

07 MARCH 16

Nirajan Kafle and Devaki Sabkota, who have been active participants in the intellectual life of the Centre over the past year, left today for the Netherlands. Both have made ...

Recipients of bursaries from the Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvarur

02 MARCH 16

As part of the NETamil project, the first recipients of bursaries at the Central
University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvārūr, came to study with the Tamil-specialists of the Centre ...

Lecture by Kunthea Chhom

26 FEBRUARY 16

Kunthea CHHOM, doctoral student at the École pratique des hautes études and head of the Preah Norodom Sihanouk Angkor Museum, will give a lecture entitled ...

Lecture by Marie-Hélène Gorisse

17 FEBRUARY 16

Dr. Marie-Hélène Gorisse (Ghent University, SOAS University of London) gave a lecture entitled « The Jaina theory of ‘tarka': a contribution to ...

Emmanuel Francis, Babu (N. Ramaswamy), V. Vijayavenugopal and the priest at the Vaiṣṇava temple at Eṇṇāyiram

Field-trip to Eṇṇāyiram

16 FEBRUARY 16

As part of the NETamil project, Emmanuel Francis (CNRS) made a field-trip to Eṇṇāyiram to identify the famous inscription that speaks of the arrangements that were put in ...

S.A.S. Sarma and Hugo David addressing the students of Thripunithura Sanskrit College

Visit of Thripunithura Sanskrit College

15 FEBRUARY 16

A group of teachers and students from the Government Sanskrit College in
Thripunithura, Kerala, came to visit the EFEO Centre in Pondicherry as part of a motivational ...

Participants at the Workshop in the garden of 19, Dumas Street

Conclusion of the 5th NETamil Workshop on Multilingualism in the South

12 FEBRUARY 16

Launch of S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma's book at Shringeri

07 FEBRUARY 16

The latest book of S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma was launched on 7th February at the Srimath in Shringeri by Jagadguru Sri Sri Bharathi Teertha Mahaswamiji and Sri Sri Vidhushekhara ...

S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma expounding a grammar of Telugu written in Sanskrit at the 5th NETamil workshop

NETamil Workshop on "Aspects of Multilingualism in South India"

05 FEBRUARY 16

The 5th Workshop of the European project NETamil, led by Eva Wilden, has been organised at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO from 2nd to 12th February 2016. ...

Hugo David, Dominic Goodall, and Valérie Gillet

Changes at the Centre

01 FEBRUARY 16

There have been a number of changes in the staff at the EFEO Centre in Pondicherry in the last few months. François Grimal, who has been in Pondicherry for several decades, ...

K.S. Bindiya, R. Sathyanarayanan and Giovanni Ciotti

Visit of K.S. Bindiya

28 JANUARY 16

Bindiya K. S., Assistant Professor, Department of Sanskrit Vyakarana, Govt. Sanskrit College, Thiruvananthapuram, was selected for an internship of FLAIR (Fostering ...

R. Sathyanarayanan, Mekhola Gomes and Nirajan Kafle study a Kadamba inscription.

Visit of Mekhola Gomes

06 JANUARY 16

Mekhola Gomes, doctoral student at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and scholar of the EFEO, is visiting the Pondicherry Centre for 3 months to pursue her studies for her ...

Detail of a manuscript of the Raghupañcikā in Śāradā script.

Raghuvaṃśa readings

04 JANUARY 16

Csaba Kiss and Csaba Dezső (both of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and both also participating in the British Museum's ERC project "Beyond ...