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Berliner Indologische Studien, Band 26
ISBN 978-3-89693-795-7 (11/2023)
286 Seiten, 22 x 15 cm, 127 Abb., Kt., EUR 48,00
Die acht Beiträge in Band 26 (2023) behandeln verschiedene Aspekte südasiatischer Kultur. Nach einer vollständigen Publikationsliste des im Jahr 2023 verstorbenen und in Berlin ansässigen Kunsthistorikers und früheren Professors an der FU Berlin, Adalbert J. GAIL, zusammengestellt von Gerd J.R. MEVISSEN (Berlin), präsentiert die indische Indologin Elora TRIBEDY (z. Zt. Rajgir, Indien) in ihrem Beitrag „From Tribal to Sacred: The Changing Gaze on Godhā (Indian Monitor Lizard) in Antiquity“ einen Überblick über die Rezeption, Darstellungen sowie Fehleinschätzungen der Eidechsenart Varanus Monitor in verschiedenen indischen Regionen, Literaturen, Sprachen, Kulturen und historischen Zeiten. Der indische Ingenieur und Religionswissenschafter Murali N. Kadiramangalam (Pune, z.Zt. Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, Indien) begibt sich in seinem Aufsatz „The Cidambaram Type as the Progenitor of Āgamic Nṛttamūrti Forms; the Dating of the Tillai Icon and How Naṭarāja Worship Spread Outwards from Cidambaram“ auf die Suche nach dem Ursprung des Nataraja-Kultbildes von Cidambaram. Auch Gerd J.R. MEVISSEN behandelt in seinem Beitrag „On the Former Location of Some Dislodged Sculptures at Cidambaram, Tamil Nadu“ einen Aspekt des südindischen Cidambaram-Tempels. Noor Bano SATTAR (Chandannagar, West Bengal, Indien) präsentiert in „Chuchura Navagraha Sūrya Image“ eine bisher weitgehend unbekannte Darstellung des von Planetengottheiten umgebenen Sonnengottes aus Bengalen. Gerd J.R. MEVISSEN setzt in seinem Beitrag „Revised Corpus of Jaina Stone Sculptures Bearing Graha Figures, Part II: Eastern India (Odisha/Orissa)“ die Aktualisierung seiner früheren, in BIS 13/14 (2000) erschienenen Liste von Darstellungen jinistischer Steinskulpturen mit Planetengottheiten fort, deren erster Teil in BIS 25 (2021) erschienen war. Chandreyi BASU (Canton, NY, USA) rezensiert den ersten Band der Republikation gesammelter Aufsätze der Indologin und Kunsthistorikerin Doris Meth SRINIVASAN, „Listening to Icons. Vol. I: Indian Iconographic & Iconological Studies. New Delhi, 2016“. Den letzten Beitrag in diesem Band bildet der Nachdruck der von Gerda HARTMANN im Jahre 1932 an der Universität Kiel eingereichten Dissertation „Beiträge zur Geschichte der Göttin Lakṣmī“, mit einer Einführung von Gerd J.R. MEVISSEN.
The eight contributions in Volume 26 (2023) treat different aspekts of South Asian culture. Starting with the complete list of publications (compiled by Gerd J.R. MEVISSEN) by Adalbert J. GAIL, the eminent Art Historian and former University Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, who had lived in Berlin and died in 2023. The following article, From Tribal to Sacred: The Changing Gaze on Godhā (Indian Monitor Lizard) in Antiquity", authored by the Indian Indologist Elora TRIBEDY (Rajgir, India), presents observations regarding the reception, representations as well as misconceptions of the lizard type Varanus Monitor in different Indian regions, literatures, languages, cultures, and historical times. The Indian Engeneer and Historian of Religions, Murali N. Kadiramangalam (Pune and Thanjavur, India) deals in his article "The Cidambaram Type as the Progenitor of Āgamic Nṛttamūrti Forms; the Dating of the Tillai Icon and How Naṭarāja Worship Spread Outwards from Cidambaram" with the evolution and early history of the dancing Siva image, Nataraja, the cult image of the south Indian temple at Cidambaram. Gerd J.R. MEVISSEN presents another aspect of the Cidambaram temple in his article "On the Former Location of Some Dislodged Sculptures at Cidambaram, Tamil Nadu". Noor Bano SATTAR (Chandannagar, West Bengal, India), in her article "Chuchura Navagraha Sūrya Image", concentrates on a hitherto little known image of the Sun god from Bengal, surrounded by the planetary deities. Gerd J.R. MEVISSEN, in his contribution "Revised Corpus of Jaina Stone Sculptures Bearing Graha Figures, Part II: Eastern India (Odisha/Orissa)", continues the update started in the last volume of BIS (25.2021) of his previous list of Jaina images accompanied by figures of the planetary deities (published in BIS 13/14.2000). Chandreyi BASU (Canton, NY, USA) reviews the first volume of the republication of articles written by the Indologist und Art Historian Doris Meth SRINIVASAN, "Listening to Icons. Vol. I: Indian Iconographic & Iconological Studies. New Delhi, 2016". The last contribution in this volume is a reprint of a doctoral dissertation, submitted by Gerda HARTMANN in 1932 to the University of Kiel, titled "Beiträge zur Geschichte der Göttin Lakṣmī", with an introduction by Gerd J.R. MEVISSEN.
Inhalt / Table of Contents
GERD J.R. MEVISSEN (comp.): Publications by Adalbert J. GAIL (* 11 August, 1941; 7 May, 2023)
ELORA TRIBEDY: From Tribal to Sacred: The Changing Gaze on Godhā (Indian Monitor Lizard) in Antiquity
MURALI N. KADIRAMANGALAM: The Cidambaram Type as the Progenitor of Āgamic Nṛttamūrti Forms; the Dating of the Tillai Icon and How Naṭarāja Worship Spread Outwards from Cidambaram
GERD J.R. MEVISSEN: On the Former Location of Some Dislodged Sculptures at Cidambaram, Tamil Nadu
NOOR BANO SATTAR: Chuchura Navagraha Sūrya Image
GERD J.R. MEVISSEN: Revised Corpus of Jaina Stone Sculptures Bearing Graha Figures, Part II: Eastern India (Odisha/Orissa)
CHANDREYI BASU: Review: Doris Meth SRINIVASAN, Listening to Icons. Vol. I: Indian Iconographic & Iconological Studies. New Delhi, 2016
GERDA HARTMANN: Nachdruck/Reprint: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Göttin Lakṣmī, with an introduction by Gerd J.R. MEVISSEN
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