Herman Tieken
Biographic Data
| ID | 705026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herman Tieken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herman |
| FAMILY NAME | Tieken |
| SIGNATURE | TIEKEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Raṅgapīṭha and Raṅgaśīrṣa
The terms raṅgapīṭha and raṅgaśīrṣa are found in the description of the stage in the second chapter of the Nāṭyaśāstra , which is dedicated to the construction of the theatre building. The current interpretation of the two terms has been based on the commentator Abhinavagupta, who took them to refer two different sections of the stage. According to an alternative interpretation we would be dealing with two synonyms for “stage”. However, a close r…
The Composition of Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra
The Moment the Mahāvīra Attained Omniscience
In the accounts of the Mahāvīra’s life in the first suyakkhaṃdha of the Āyāra(ṃga) and the Jinacaritra several turning points are mentioned. As will be shown, the periods between these turning points are delimited in a highly exact way, which accounts for the intercalary months. However, the modern translators have failed to recognize the terms involved. And so have the authors of the texts themselves and the subsequent copyists, which in the cas…
The vīthī, lāsya and nāṭikā, and the daśarūpa List in the Nāṭyaśāstra
This article aims to show that the term vīthī, the tenth in the daśarūpa list of plays found in the early dramatic treatises, does not refer to a play but to a number of small-scale dramatic scenes. As such, the vīthī is an exception in the list, which otherwise is made up of fully-fledged plays. However, as a collection of scenes, it does form a group with numbers 8 and 9, the prahasana and bhāṇa, each of which has two lives, namely as complete …
Translating Tamil Caṅkam Poetry
as, to a lesser extent, from those by
Being a Slave. Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean
This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean. The volume discusses a variety of qualitative data on the experience of being a slave in order to recover ordinary lives and, crucially, to place this experience in its Asian local context. Building on the rich scholarship on the slave trade, this volume offers a unique perspective th…
Ebeling, Sascha, Colonizing the Realm of Words
Blaming the Brahmins
Tamil literary history abounds in legends about texts lost and found. The theme resurfaces in modern literary history in descriptions of the rediscovery of classical Can.kam poetry at the end of the nineteenth century. If this poetic corpus has never been literally lost but has merely been invisible, circulating in the small circle of scholars, it is said to have been kept away by brahmins from its rightful owner, the Tamil people. Instead, the b…
The Process of Vernacularization in South Asia
In a fascinating, recent monograph Sheldon Pollock investigates two suc cessive and related processes in Indian culture: the adoption of Sanskrit, the Old Indian language of ritual and liturgy, in worldly, public docu ments, which started around the beginning of our era, and next, its gradual replacement in this domain by the local, or vernacular, languages which began at the end of the first millennium.3 Both developments were not restricted to …
Strauch, Ingo, Die Lekhapaddhati-Lekhapañcāśikā. Briefe und Urkunden im mittelalterlichen Gujarat. Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar, Glossar (Sanskrit-Deutsch-Englisch). [Monographien zur indischen Archäo…
The Indo-Iranian Journal (IIJ), founded in 1957, is a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the ancient and medieval languages and cultures of South Asia and of pre-Islamic Iran. It publishes articles on Indo-Iranian languages (linguistics and literatures), such as Sanskrit, Avestan, Middle Iranian and Middle & New Indo-Aryan. It publishes specialized research on ancient Iranian religion and the Indian religions, such as the Veda, Hinduism, Jaini…
Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi Gabriella, The Maze of Fantasy in Tamil Folk Tales
Kāvya in South India
The Dissemination of Aśoka’s Rock and Pillar Edicts
HERMAN TIEKEN: The Dissemination of Aœoka's Rock and Pillar Edicts; UTE HÜSKEN: Zu einer vergleichenden Studie der Texte Therīgāthā und Theragāthā; LAMBERT SCHMITHAUSEN: Ein weiteres Fragment aus dem Prakaraṇa: SHT VII 1697; EVA WILDEN: Towards an Internal Chronology of Old Tamil Caṅkam Literature Or How to Trace the Laws of a Poetic Universe; GYULA WOJTILLA: Materials for a Critical Edition of the Kuṭṭanīmata; FRANZ-KARL EHRHARD: The Register of…
The Yavanas' Clothes in Old Tamil Literature
No Abstract
Old Tamil Cahkam literature and the so-called Cankam period
The reconstruction of the early history of Tamilnadu has been based mainly on the so- called Cankam poetry. This poetry is generally taken to provide descriptions of Tamilnadu by contemporary poets during the period before the rise of the Pallavas and the introduction of Sanskrit culture in the South. However, the argument is basically circular, that is to say, Cankam poetry is dated before the Pallavas because it does not mention the Pallavas an…
The Buddhist Pavāranā Ceremony According to the Pāli Vinaya
Kavya in South India
The Arrangement of the Second Śrutaskandha of the Āyāramga
Bruin, Hanne de, Kattaikkūttu, The Flexibility of a South Indian Theatre Tradition
No Abstract
The Place of the Mālavikāgnimitra within Kālidāsa's oeuvre
No Abstract
On the use of rasa in studies of Sanskrit drama
No Abstract
Yogīndu. Lumièere de l'Absolu
No Abstract
The Ghatikā of the Twice-Born in South Indian Inscriptions
No Abstract
Vít Bubeník, A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhramśa)
No Abstract
Aśoka and the BuddhistSamgha
In the legendary accounts of the Buddhist canon concerning the growth and development of Theravaāa Buddhism (Norman, 1987) Aśoka plays an important role. In support of these legends modern scholars have quoted Aśoka's own so-called Schism Edict from Allahabad (Kauśāmbī), Sanchi and Sarnath, in which the emperor would claim to have acted against schisms in the Buddhist Church (e.g. Alsdorf, 1959). However, Bechert has convincingly shown that in th…
Being a Slave. Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean
This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean. The volume discusses a variety of qualitative data on the experience of being a slave in order to recover ordinary lives and, crucially, to place this experience in its Asian local context. Building on the rich scholarship on the slave trade, this volume offers a unique perspective th…
The Process of Vernacularization in South Asia
In a fascinating, recent monograph Sheldon Pollock investigates two suc cessive and related processes in Indian culture: the adoption of Sanskrit, the Old Indian language of ritual and liturgy, in worldly, public docu ments, which started around the beginning of our era, and next, its gradual replacement in this domain by the local, or vernacular, languages which began at the end of the first millennium.3 Both developments were not restricted to …
Old Tamil Cahkam literature and the so-called Cankam period
The reconstruction of the early history of Tamilnadu has been based mainly on the so- called Cankam poetry. This poetry is generally taken to provide descriptions of Tamilnadu by contemporary poets during the period before the rise of the Pallavas and the introduction of Sanskrit culture in the South. However, the argument is basically circular, that is to say, Cankam poetry is dated before the Pallavas because it does not mention the Pallavas an…
On the use of rasa in studies of Sanskrit drama
No Abstract
Poetique du theatre Indien
The Dissemination of Aśoka’s Rock and Pillar Edicts
HERMAN TIEKEN: The Dissemination of Aœoka's Rock and Pillar Edicts; UTE HÜSKEN: Zu einer vergleichenden Studie der Texte Therīgāthā und Theragāthā; LAMBERT SCHMITHAUSEN: Ein weiteres Fragment aus dem Prakaraṇa: SHT VII 1697; EVA WILDEN: Towards an Internal Chronology of Old Tamil Caṅkam Literature Or How to Trace the Laws of a Poetic Universe; GYULA WOJTILLA: Materials for a Critical Edition of the Kuṭṭanīmata; FRANZ-KARL EHRHARD: The Register of…
The Buddhist Pavāranā Ceremony According to the Pāli Vinaya
The Place of the Mālavikāgnimitra within Kālidāsa's oeuvre
No Abstract
The Ghatikā of the Twice-Born in South Indian Inscriptions
No Abstract
Aśoka and the BuddhistSamgha
In the legendary accounts of the Buddhist canon concerning the growth and development of Theravaāa Buddhism (Norman, 1987) Aśoka plays an important role. In support of these legends modern scholars have quoted Aśoka's own so-called Schism Edict from Allahabad (Kauśāmbī), Sanchi and Sarnath, in which the emperor would claim to have acted against schisms in the Buddhist Church (e.g. Alsdorf, 1959). However, Bechert has convincingly shown that in th…
Poetique du theatre Indien
The Distribution of the Variant Endings -U, -Aü and -Ā in the Apabhramśa Verses in Hemacandra's Prākrit Grammar
No Abstract
Theatres indiens
On the use of rasa in studies of Sanskrit drama
No Abstract
Yogīndu. Lumièere de l'Absolu
No Abstract
The Ghatikā of the Twice-Born in South Indian Inscriptions
No Abstract
Vít Bubeník, A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhramśa)
No Abstract
Aśoka and the BuddhistSamgha
In the legendary accounts of the Buddhist canon concerning the growth and development of Theravaāa Buddhism (Norman, 1987) Aśoka plays an important role. In support of these legends modern scholars have quoted Aśoka's own so-called Schism Edict from Allahabad (Kauśāmbī), Sanchi and Sarnath, in which the emperor would claim to have acted against schisms in the Buddhist Church (e.g. Alsdorf, 1959). However, Bechert has convincingly shown that in th…
Kavya in South India
The Arrangement of the Second Śrutaskandha of the Āyāramga
Bruin, Hanne de, Kattaikkūttu, The Flexibility of a South Indian Theatre Tradition
No Abstract
The Place of the Mālavikāgnimitra within Kālidāsa's oeuvre
No Abstract
The Buddhist Pavāranā Ceremony According to the Pāli Vinaya
The Dissemination of Aśoka’s Rock and Pillar Edicts
HERMAN TIEKEN: The Dissemination of Aœoka's Rock and Pillar Edicts; UTE HÜSKEN: Zu einer vergleichenden Studie der Texte Therīgāthā und Theragāthā; LAMBERT SCHMITHAUSEN: Ein weiteres Fragment aus dem Prakaraṇa: SHT VII 1697; EVA WILDEN: Towards an Internal Chronology of Old Tamil Caṅkam Literature Or How to Trace the Laws of a Poetic Universe; GYULA WOJTILLA: Materials for a Critical Edition of the Kuṭṭanīmata; FRANZ-KARL EHRHARD: The Register of…
The Yavanas' Clothes in Old Tamil Literature
No Abstract
Old Tamil Cahkam literature and the so-called Cankam period
The reconstruction of the early history of Tamilnadu has been based mainly on the so- called Cankam poetry. This poetry is generally taken to provide descriptions of Tamilnadu by contemporary poets during the period before the rise of the Pallavas and the introduction of Sanskrit culture in the South. However, the argument is basically circular, that is to say, Cankam poetry is dated before the Pallavas because it does not mention the Pallavas an…
Strauch, Ingo, Die Lekhapaddhati-Lekhapañcāśikā. Briefe und Urkunden im mittelalterlichen Gujarat. Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar, Glossar (Sanskrit-Deutsch-Englisch). [Monographien zur indischen Archäo…
The Indo-Iranian Journal (IIJ), founded in 1957, is a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the ancient and medieval languages and cultures of South Asia and of pre-Islamic Iran. It publishes articles on Indo-Iranian languages (linguistics and literatures), such as Sanskrit, Avestan, Middle Iranian and Middle & New Indo-Aryan. It publishes specialized research on ancient Iranian religion and the Indian religions, such as the Veda, Hinduism, Jaini…
Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi Gabriella, The Maze of Fantasy in Tamil Folk Tales
Kāvya in South India
The Process of Vernacularization in South Asia
In a fascinating, recent monograph Sheldon Pollock investigates two suc cessive and related processes in Indian culture: the adoption of Sanskrit, the Old Indian language of ritual and liturgy, in worldly, public docu ments, which started around the beginning of our era, and next, its gradual replacement in this domain by the local, or vernacular, languages which began at the end of the first millennium.3 Both developments were not restricted to …
Blaming the Brahmins
Tamil literary history abounds in legends about texts lost and found. The theme resurfaces in modern literary history in descriptions of the rediscovery of classical Can.kam poetry at the end of the nineteenth century. If this poetic corpus has never been literally lost but has merely been invisible, circulating in the small circle of scholars, it is said to have been kept away by brahmins from its rightful owner, the Tamil people. Instead, the b…
Ebeling, Sascha, Colonizing the Realm of Words
Translating Tamil Caṅkam Poetry
as, to a lesser extent, from those by
Being a Slave. Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean
This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean. The volume discusses a variety of qualitative data on the experience of being a slave in order to recover ordinary lives and, crucially, to place this experience in its Asian local context. Building on the rich scholarship on the slave trade, this volume offers a unique perspective th…
The vīthī, lāsya and nāṭikā, and the daśarūpa List in the Nāṭyaśāstra
This article aims to show that the term vīthī, the tenth in the daśarūpa list of plays found in the early dramatic treatises, does not refer to a play but to a number of small-scale dramatic scenes. As such, the vīthī is an exception in the list, which otherwise is made up of fully-fledged plays. However, as a collection of scenes, it does form a group with numbers 8 and 9, the prahasana and bhāṇa, each of which has two lives, namely as complete …
Art (20 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (16 works) · History (15 works) · Literature (14 works) · History (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (8 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (8 works) · Tamil (8 works)