Mapping the Chronology of Bhakti: Milestones, Stepping Stones, and Stumbling Stones
Mapping the Chronology of Bhakti: Milestones, Stepping Stones, and Stumbling Stones
Proceedings of a workshop held in honour of Paṇḍit R. Varadadesikan
Gillet (Valérie)


Collection : Collection Indologie
Numéro de collections : 124
Langue : Anglais
Lieu d'édition : Pondichéry
Support : Papier
Editeur : EFEO / Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)
Prix (Euros) : 48
Etat : Disponible
Distributeur : EFEO Pondichéry Contact : shanti@efeo-pondicherry.org / distributeur online : scholarswithoutborders@gmail.com / distributeur Chennai : jibh.rkc@gmail.com


Description :
Pondichéry : IFP / EFEO, 2014, 381 p.

ISBN (IFP) : 978-81-8470-199-9

ISBN (EFEO) : 978-2-85539-138-0

Résumé :
Starting around the sixth century of the common era, a new form of fervent religiosity seems to be discernible in the Tamil-speaking South that is often termed the “Bhakti movement”. The eleven essays gathered in this volume all deal with South Indian primary sources related to the various phenomena that can be grouped together under the head of “Bhakti”, which may be broadly defined as personal devotion between a devotee and his god. What characterized the early phase of this “movement”, which in subsequent centuries swept across the whole sub-continent and transformed popular religion in every place that it reached, was the emphasis placed upon the emotional aspect of the relation between the devotee and his chosen deity: the Tamil hymns regularly underline the message that salvation can be attained just through such devotion.
The chronology of the appearance, growth and development of this transformative movement is riddled with uncertainties, whether we consider literary or archaeological evidence. Each of the contributions to this volume addresses some aspect of the history of this movement in the
South, and so, drawing on a wide range of disciplines — linguistics, philology, epigraphy, archaeology — they together contribute, each in its own way, to the mapping of the chronology of Bhakti. This volume is dedicated to our esteemed colleague Paṇḍit R. Varadadesikan, a specialist of the Tamil sources of Vaiṣṇavism, who recently retired after dedicating forty-four years of his life to a career in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO working to further understanding of Tamil and Maṇipravāḷam literature.

Aux alentours du VIe siècle de notre ère, une nouvelle forme de ferveur religieuse apparaît dans le pays tamoul, généralement qualifiée de “mouvement de Bhakti”. Les onze essais rassemblés dans ce volume se consacrent tous à des sources primaires sud-indiennes reliées aux divers phénomènes de Bhakti, communément définie comme une dévotion personnelle entre un dévot et son dieu. La phase la plus ancienne de ce “mouvement”, qui, au cours des siècles suivants se répandit dans tout le sous-continent indien et transforma profondément la religion populaire, fut caractérisée par l'emphase mise sur la relation entre le dévot et sa divinité d'élection : les hymnes tamouls soulignent souvent les pouvoirs salvateurs d'une telle dévotion.
La chronologie des débuts et du développement de ce mouvement demeure encore incertaine, que l'on considère les corpus littéraires ou archéologiques. Chaque contribution à ce volume étudie l'un des aspects de l'histoire de ce mouvement, à travers diverses disciplines telles que la linguistique, la philologie, l'épigraphie, l'archéologie, toutes contribuant partiellement à l'établissement d'une chronologie de la Bhakti. Ce volume est dédié au Paṇḍit R. Varadadesikan, spécialiste de littérature tamoule viṣṇuïte, parti à la retraite récemment après avoir dédié une carrière de 44 ans à l'exploration des textes de la littérature tamoule et maṇiprāvaḷam au Centre EFEO de Pondichéry.

Table des Matières :


Preface

Introductory Note
by Valérie Gillet

Biography and Bibliography of Paṇḍit R. Varadadesikan
by S.A.S Sarma

A Note on Time: Veṅkaṭanātha’s conception of time
by Marcus Schmücker

Metres in Tamil Bhakti Literature and the Problem of their (occasional) Description in Treatises (Studies in Tamil Metrics-2)
by Jean-Luc Chevillard

Royal and Local Bhakti under the Pallavas
by Emmanuel Francis

Jīvakacintāmaṇi’s Contribution to Periyapurāṇam
by T.S. Gangadharan

Tracking Traces of Gods: the site of Tirupparaṅkuṉṟam
by Valérie Gillet

The Sacred Landscape of Tamil Śaivism: Plotting Place in the Realm of Devotion
by Leslie C. Orr

Life after Death: From Mortal Remains to Monuments
by K. Rajan

The Edifice of Bhakti: towards an “archaeological” reading of Tēvāram and Periyapurāṇam
by Charlotte Schmid

Vaiṣṇava Literature in Tamil
by R. Varadadesikan

From Ancient Poetics to Applied Poetics: Continuance and Change in Tamil Bhakti Poetry (With special reference to Nammāḻvār’s akam poems)
by G. Vijayavenugopal

Nammāḻvār as a Master of tiṇaimayakkam—Transposition Techniques in the akam Songs of the Tiruvāymoḻi
by Eva Wilden

Śrīvaiṣṇava Topoi: Constructing a South Indian Sect through Place
by Katherine Young

About the Contributors

Index
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