A Lovely Journey to Hell: Kenji’s Experience of Editing the 7th Chapter of the Śivadharmottara with R. Sathyanarayana

Cambridge Manuscript Add. 1645, 57r. available at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01645/1 Since April 2020, R. Sathyanarayana (EFEO, Pondicherry) and Kenji Takahashi (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) have been working together to edit the 7th chapter of the Śivadharmottara describing the journey to hell after death and the cruel torments that sinners suffer therein. Our…

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Time for collation and emendation!

The spring and most of the autumn of 2020 was spent in confined spaces by most of us. This made us realize that our philological work is sometimes similar to the labour of mediaeval monks working in scriptoria. Monk working in a scriptorium, engraving after a 15th-century manuscript. (Source: https://www.britannica.com/art/scriptorium)…

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