Daniele Cuneo, former member of the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Vienna University, left Pondicherry on November 4th, after a one-month stay, with an EFEO scholarship, in order to continue his research on the Taṇṭiyalaṅkāram, a (probably) 12th-century Tamil translation and adaptation of the 7th-century Sanskrit Kāvyādarśa by Daṇḍin, a seminal work of Sanskrit poetics, whose influence has far outreached the boundaries of the Sanskritic milieu. Daniele Cuneo's study will be particularly focused on the author's translational choices and on his conscious attempts to adapt the Sanskrit theoretical framework of interpretation to the concrete Tamil poetic culture of his time. Daniele Cuneo has read the texts he had selected with Dr. Eva Wilden and Dr. Vijayavenugopal (EFEO).

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