On October 7th–8th Kengo Harimoto travelled to Paris to participate as an auditor and discussant in the workshop of the ANR/DFG-sponsored project ‘Texts Surrounding Texts”.
The project aims at cataloguing the imposing collections of South Asian manuscripts held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)—where we discovered three more manuscripts of the Civatarumōttaram!— and at the state and university library of Hamburg (Staats- und Universitäts-bibliothek Carl von Ossietzky, i.e. Stabi). Kengo used this opportunity also to work with Charles Lee, of the TST project, who is advising the Śivadharma Project on the methods to create digital critical editions of the Śivadharma texts.
The programme of the workshop can be found at this link: https://tst.hypotheses.org/paris-workshop-october-2021
