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The study of vrātya culture, in the modern period, was investigated by Sontheimer who focused his... more The study of vrātya culture, in the modern period, was investigated by Sontheimer who focused his research on the area of northern Karnataka, in particular on the village of Devaraguḍḍa. According to Sontheimer, in Devaraguḍḍa there are families of Kurubas community who traditionally dedicate one or more children in each family as Vaggayas to serve Mailār. They serve the god as “dogs”, which means begging in his name and praising him. Through the Kuruba-Vaggayas in Devaraguḍḍa, the god Mailār maintains his traditional link with tribals. The servants of god dress in a particular and recognizable way, in fact they are wearing a long, black, woollen overcoat, sandals and peculiar headgear. All these elements were read already by Sontheimer as remnants of vrātya culture. Our intention is to find traces of the vrātya culture during the Medieval period (from the twelfth to the end of the thirteenth century) in the modern State of Karnataka, the cradle of Hoysaḷa dynasty. This choice emerges from the correlation between the dynasty and the Kuruba community. In fact, from the studies conducted by Derrett and Coelho on the origins of the Hoysaḷa dynasty, we learn that “the Hoysaḷas were purely of an indigenous origin”. Moreover, Sontheimer and Derrett through the analyses of the royal epithet (maleparoḷgaṇḍar = champions among the hill kings) supposed that this dynasty belonged to the predatory communities: they emerged from the brigand chiefs of the Bedars/Dhangar, inside which is contained the Kuruba community, whoare famous devotees of Khaṇḍobā/Mailār. The tribal origin of theHoysaḷa dynasty is celebrated in the royal sacred space, tīrtha, at Beḷūr and in the tīrtha we are going to analyse the local element with the aim to search the ancient, tribal element of the Kuruba community and the consequent reminiscence of the vrātya culture.
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Proceedings of the first Coffee Break Conference. Published on a special issue of the Rivista di ... more Proceedings of the first Coffee Break Conference. Published on a special issue of the Rivista di Studi Orientali (LXXXIV, 1.4, 2011). Edited by me (general editor) with Matilde Adduci, Cristina Bignami, Daniele Cuneo, Camillo Formigatti, Artemij Keidan, Elena Mucciarelli.
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Elisa Freschi, General Introduction;
Camillo Formigatti, Manuscript Studies: Crisis on Infinite Methods; Michela Clemente, From manuscript to block printing: in the search of stylistic models for the identification of tibetan xylographs;
Mark Schneider, The Difference Engine: Manuscripts, Media Change and Transmission of Knowledge in Premodern Japan;
Kengo Harimoto, In search of the oldest Nepalese manuscript;
Alessandro Graheli, The choice of the best reading in Bhatta Jayanta's Nyayamanjari;
Daniele Cuneo, Thinking literature: Emic and ethic approaches;
Elisabetta Benigni, Encounters between Arabic and Western literatures: emic translations and the etic formation of literary canons;
Elisa Ganser, Thinking Dance Literature from Bharata to Bharatanatyam;
Luca Milasi, History as it is or history ignored? The search for a "new" Historical Fiction in Meiji Japan;
Matilde Adduci, The Development Question in Asia: Policies and Processes;
Claudia Castiglioni, Economic Development and Political Authoritarianism: The Pahlavi Iran Path to Modernisation in the Framework of the Cold War;
Valentina Prosperi, Doing research among construction workers in Delhi;
Francesca Congiu, Taiwan: the Organized Labour Movement and its Obstacles;
Artemij Keidan, Language and linguistics as an analytic tool for the study of (oriental) cultures;
Luca Alfieri, A Radical Construction Grammar Approach To Vedic Adjective;
Carlo Vessella, Reconstructing Phonologies of Dead Languages. The Case of Late Greek ‹n›;
Artemij Keidan, The karaka-vibhakti device as a heuristic tool for the compositional history of Panini's Astadhyayi;
Leonid Kulikov, The Proto-Indo-European case system and its reflexes in a diachronic typological perspective: evidence for the linguistic prehistory of Eurasia;
Elena Mucciarelli, Earliest texts. How to interpret them;
Frank Kohler, Rgveda 1.160: The enigma of revealing and concealing identities;
Rosa Ronzitti, Sakti: Indo-European Horizons and Indian Peculiarities;
Paola Maria Rossi, Interpreting the term Rakti in the Vedic context;
Rosaria Compagnone, The Padmasamhita in the Pancaratra tradition: How texts and tradition are linked one to another?;
Cristina Bignami, Sources and artistic representation;
Elena Preda, The Sirohi Ragamalas: an Important Discovery;
Cristina Bignami, The Indian Huntresses: Nymphs or Goddesses?
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TOC:
Elisa Freschi, General Introduction;
Camillo Formigatti, Manuscript Studies: Crisis on Infinite Methods; Michela Clemente, From manuscript to block printing: in the search of stylistic models for the identification of tibetan xylographs;
Mark Schneider, The Difference Engine: Manuscripts, Media Change and Transmission of Knowledge in Premodern Japan;
Kengo Harimoto, In search of the oldest Nepalese manuscript;
Alessandro Graheli, The choice of the best reading in Bhatta Jayanta's Nyayamanjari;
Daniele Cuneo, Thinking literature: Emic and ethic approaches;
Elisabetta Benigni, Encounters between Arabic and Western literatures: emic translations and the etic formation of literary canons;
Elisa Ganser, Thinking Dance Literature from Bharata to Bharatanatyam;
Luca Milasi, History as it is or history ignored? The search for a "new" Historical Fiction in Meiji Japan;
Matilde Adduci, The Development Question in Asia: Policies and Processes;
Claudia Castiglioni, Economic Development and Political Authoritarianism: The Pahlavi Iran Path to Modernisation in the Framework of the Cold War;
Valentina Prosperi, Doing research among construction workers in Delhi;
Francesca Congiu, Taiwan: the Organized Labour Movement and its Obstacles;
Artemij Keidan, Language and linguistics as an analytic tool for the study of (oriental) cultures;
Luca Alfieri, A Radical Construction Grammar Approach To Vedic Adjective;
Carlo Vessella, Reconstructing Phonologies of Dead Languages. The Case of Late Greek ‹n›;
Artemij Keidan, The karaka-vibhakti device as a heuristic tool for the compositional history of Panini's Astadhyayi;
Leonid Kulikov, The Proto-Indo-European case system and its reflexes in a diachronic typological perspective: evidence for the linguistic prehistory of Eurasia;
Elena Mucciarelli, Earliest texts. How to interpret them;
Frank Kohler, Rgveda 1.160: The enigma of revealing and concealing identities;
Rosa Ronzitti, Sakti: Indo-European Horizons and Indian Peculiarities;
Paola Maria Rossi, Interpreting the term Rakti in the Vedic context;
Rosaria Compagnone, The Padmasamhita in the Pancaratra tradition: How texts and tradition are linked one to another?;
Cristina Bignami, Sources and artistic representation;
Elena Preda, The Sirohi Ragamalas: an Important Discovery;
Cristina Bignami, The Indian Huntresses: Nymphs or Goddesses?
TOC:
Elisa Freschi, General Introduction;
Camillo Formigatti, Manuscript Studies: Crisis on Infinite Methods; Michela Clemente, From manuscript to block printing: in the search of stylistic models for the identification of tibetan xylographs;
Mark Schneider, The Difference Engine: Manuscripts, Media Change and Transmission of Knowledge in Premodern Japan;
Kengo Harimoto, In search of the oldest Nepalese manuscript;
Alessandro Graheli, The choice of the best reading in Bhatta Jayanta's Nyayamanjari;
Daniele Cuneo, Thinking literature: Emic and ethic approaches;
Elisabetta Benigni, Encounters between Arabic and Western literatures: emic translations and the etic formation of literary canons;
Elisa Ganser, Thinking Dance Literature from Bharata to Bharatanatyam;
Luca Milasi, History as it is or history ignored? The search for a "new" Historical Fiction in Meiji Japan;
Matilde Adduci, The Development Question in Asia: Policies and Processes;
Claudia Castiglioni, Economic Development and Political Authoritarianism: The Pahlavi Iran Path to Modernisation in the Framework of the Cold War;
Valentina Prosperi, Doing research among construction workers in Delhi;
Francesca Congiu, Taiwan: the Organized Labour Movement and its Obstacles;
Artemij Keidan, Language and linguistics as an analytic tool for the study of (oriental) cultures;
Luca Alfieri, A Radical Construction Grammar Approach To Vedic Adjective;
Carlo Vessella, Reconstructing Phonologies of Dead Languages. The Case of Late Greek ‹n›;
Artemij Keidan, The karaka-vibhakti device as a heuristic tool for the compositional history of Panini's Astadhyayi;
Leonid Kulikov, The Proto-Indo-European case system and its reflexes in a diachronic typological perspective: evidence for the linguistic prehistory of Eurasia;
Elena Mucciarelli, Earliest texts. How to interpret them;
Frank Kohler, Rgveda 1.160: The enigma of revealing and concealing identities;
Rosa Ronzitti, Sakti: Indo-European Horizons and Indian Peculiarities;
Paola Maria Rossi, Interpreting the term Rakti in the Vedic context;
Rosaria Compagnone, The Padmasamhita in the Pancaratra tradition: How texts and tradition are linked one to another?;
Cristina Bignami, Sources and artistic representation;
Elena Preda, The Sirohi Ragamalas: an Important Discovery;
Cristina Bignami, The Indian Huntresses: Nymphs or Goddesses?