Re: [INDOLOGY] hyenas

I do not have at hand Stephanie Jamison’s book "The ravenous hyenas and the wounded sun: Myth and ritual in ancient India”, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991 (xxi, 336 pp.), and though I have read the book, I do not remember how closely the hyenas are described, but surely this is a book

[INDOLOGY] New Texts in the Resource Library for Dharmaśāstra Studies

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that several new electronic texts are now available in the Resource Library for Dharmaśāstra Studies at UT-Austin. The usual caveats about typos in these transcriptions apply. We want to

Re: [INDOLOGY] hyenas

Dear Péter, both words seem to be attested by Indian lexicographers only. As to depictions: Alexandra van der Geer, "Animals in Stone. Indian Mammals Sculptured Through Time", Leiden 2008, p. 427, mentions that the stripped hyena is totally absent from stone sculpture. So, I would be

Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit translation of Don Quixote rescued from oblivion | The Guardian

How do we know the original was not written in Sanskrit long ago and only later translated into Spanish?  ;-) Best, Dean On Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at 01:19:30 PM GMT+5:30, Richard Mahoney via INDOLOGY wrote: Not something I expected to find in the paper this evening, esp. after all

[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit translation of Don Quixote rescued from oblivion | The Guardian

Not something I expected to find in the paper this evening, esp.  after all we've been putting up with; thanks for the great news. :) ‘First modern novel – oldest language’: Sanskrit translation of Don Quixote rescued from oblivion | Miguel de Cervantes | The Guardian