CEENIS CURRENT RESEARCH SERIES VOL. 1

ISBN: 978-83-7151-977-2

242 stron
format: B5
oprawa: miękka
Rok wydania: 2013

The present volume is the outcome of the 3rd CEENIS1 Conference, ‘-Indian Culture and Society in Current Research in Central and Eastern Europe (International Conference cum CEENIS Meeting on the Occasion of the 5th Anniversary of Setting up CEENIS)‘-, organized in 2011, 27-29 October, by the Chair of South Asian Studies of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland, with the financial support of the Rector of the University of Warsaw, the Faculty of Oriental Studies and the Embassy of India in Warsaw. That meeting, which gathered scholars representing all the member institutions of the network, was yet another realization of one of the CEENIS objectives of bringing together specialists in Indian studies and providing them with a suitable forum for academic interaction in the region.

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Introduction.1. Literature, Arts and Beyond1.1. Joanna Sachse, Some Remarks on the Fifth Bookof the Mahabharata1.2. Ivan Andrijanić, Historical Analysis of Textual Layersin Ancient Indian Literature and Indian Cultural History1.3. Sven Sellmer, Computer-Aided Detection of Unusual Passagesin the Mahabharata 1.4. Artur Karp, Who Sees Whom? A Note on dasane and thairain Asoka‘-s Rock Edict VIII1.5. Bożena Śliwczyńska, Death on the Stage in Sanskrit ClassicalTheatre: A Long-Sustained Misinterpretation 1.6. Monika Browarczyk, The Intimate Me in the Public Sphere:Contemporary Hindi Autobiographies by Women (MaitreyiPushpa and Prabha Khaitan)1.7. Danuta Stasik, The Indian Diaspora in Usa Priyamvada‘-s Fiction2. Linguistic Perspectives on India2.1. Mate Ittzes, Light Verb Constructions vs. Simple Verbs in Vedic:vimócanam krnute (RV 3,30,12d)2.2. Sabina Poparlan, The Ergative Construction and the Complexityof Hindi Syntax3. Religion and Society3.1. Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz, The Pratistha Ceremony(Installation of an Idol) in Some Pancaratrika Sources. 1493.2. Valdas Jaskunas, Imperial Temples, Puranic Sites. Argumentsin Support of the Historical Setting of the Agnipurana AmbulatoryTemple 3.3. Jacek Woźniak, The Image of Visnu as the Supreme Beingin Tirumankaiyalvar‘-s Matal Poems3.4. Pavel Hons, Literature - a Way of Strengthening Dalit Identity3.5. Zdenek Stipl, Christian Ashrams in India: A Bridge BetweenTwo Worlds?4. Indian Texts from a Cognitivist Perspective4.1. Joanna Jurewicz, How General and Abstract ConceptsWere Construed in the Rgveda (Based on the Exampleof the Concept amhas)4.2. Anna Trynkowska, Political Metaphors in the mahakavya:The Conceptual Metaphor the state is cultivated land