B. Jason Schwartz, a doctoral student at the University of California Santa Barbara, spent a year in India, most of which was based at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO, thanks to a scholarship from the American Institute of Indian Studies. A change of flights at the last moment prevented him from giving us an oft-rescheduled lecture he had prepared entitled: “The King must protect the difference: The juridical foundations of medieval religious diversity and its implications for the study of the Śaiva Age”. During his stay, he participated in many reading sessions of Sanskrit texts with Hugo David, as well as with Dominic Goodall, with whom he read passages from the Piṅgalāmata, an unpublished Śaiva tantra, and the Śivadharmavivaraṇa, an unpublished Sanskrit commentary on the Śivadharmaśāstra.

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