Studies in Memory of Pandit N. R. Bhatt (Melanges a la memoire de Pandit N. R. Bhatt)

edited by Pierre Sylvain Filliozat, Dominic Goodall and Peter Pasedach

ISBN 10: 8184702442 / ISBN 13: 9788184702446

Published by Institut Francais de Pondichery, 2022

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This collection of essays honours the memory of the late Pandit N.R. Bhatt, who contributed to pioneering research into the history of Saivism in the French institutions of research in Pondicherry, notably through his editions of Sanskrit works of the Saivasiddhanta and through his work of gathering the largest collection of Saiva manuscripts worldwide, recognised as a Memory of the World collection by UNESCO in 2005. After a preface about N.R. Bhatt s life and a bibliography of his uvre, sixteen contributions by colleagues and disciples cover aspects of the history of tantrism, of Saiva ritual and doctrine. Two more articles deal with iconography and one last contribution publishes an eighteenth-century account of the siege of Pondicherry in 1778.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Studies in Memory of Pandit N. R. Bhatt (Melanges a la memoire de Pandit N. R. Bhatt)
• Publisher: Institut Francais de Pondichery
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8184702442
• ISBN 13: 9788184702446
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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This collection of essays honours the memory of the late Pandit N.R. Bhatt, who contributed to pioneering research into the history of Saivism in the French institutions of research in Pondicherry, notably through his editions of Sanskrit works of the Saivasiddhanta and through his work of gathering the largest collection of Saiva manuscripts worldwide, recognised as a Memory of the World collection by UNESCO in 2005. After a preface about N.R. Bhatt's life and bibliography of his oeuvre, sixteen contributions by colleagues and disciples cover aspects of the history of tantrism, and of Saiva ritual and doctrine. Two more articles deal with iconography and one last contribution published an eighteenth-century account of the siege of Pondicherry in 1778.