Publications Announcement

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Dear Indology List members,

 

I am glad to announce the release of a new book on behalf of the

French Institute of Pondicherry:

Diptagama. Tome 1. Chapitres 1 à 21. Edition critique Marie-Luce

Barazer-Billoret, Bruno Dagens et Vincent Lefèvre avec la

collaboration de S. Sambandha Sivacarya, Publications du

département

d'indologie 81.1, IFP, 2004, vi, 449 p., Rs. 600.

Languages: Sanskrit, French

As stated in the IFP's web page, <http://www.ifpindia.org/pubs.html>

this book, like the other Indological publications of the IFP, is

distributed by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi.

Please find below a summary of the book and author-blurb.

With best wishes

T. Ganesan

 

Summary

The Diptâgama is a Sanskrit shaiva treatise pertaining to the

Saivasiddhânta religious system. It deals mainly with the

installation of images of gods in Siva temples: installation rituals

(pratistha), iconography, iconometry and architecture. It was

hitherto unpublished and the present critical edition (to be

published in 3 volumes) is based upon several manuscripts belonging

to the collection of the French Institute, Pondicherry. This first

volume deals especially with mantras and temple architecture as well

as with numerous iconographical descriptions and with the

installation of Sivalinga in the temple (Lingapratistha). The

Sanskrit text is printed in Nagari script with copious critical

apparatus. There is an Introduction and a detailed chapterwise

summary (in French).

Keywords: agamas; iconography; saivism; Sanskrit; temple

About the editors

Marie-Luce Barazer-Billoret (senior lecturer, Université

Paris-III),

specialist of southern shaivism, has authored several contributions

and, together with B. Dagens, a translation of the Rauravâgama

(2000,

Prix Bordin) and recently a book on Shiva (2004).

 

Bruno Dagens (Professor emer., Université Paris III), translator

of

Mayamatam has published numerous works about the Indian Temple in

South and Southeast Asia.

 

Vincent Lefèvre (PhD., curator at the Musée Guimet, Paris)

teaches

Indian art and archaeology at the Ecole du Louvre and is part of a

collaboration project with the museums of Bangladesh.

 

S. Sambandhan Sivacarya a pandit and acting temple officiating

priest, is attached to the French Institute since 1969.