As part of the Śivadharma Project (“Translocal Identities: The Śivadharma and the Making of Regional Religious Traditions in Premodern South Asia”) a 5-year ERC Starting Grant Project (2018-2023, grant agreement n° 803624) headed by Florinda De Simini (University of Naples “L’Orientale”), the first reading workshop is to be held at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO from 28th January to 7th February 2020.  Passages from the various editions underway of Sanskrit works belonging or related to the Śivadharma corpus will be read through and discussed, as well as passages from a Tamil translation of the Śivadharmottara produced in the sixteenth century, and from other Tamil works that incorporate paraphrases of works of the corpus.  All interested scholars are welcome.

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