The DHARMA workshop will take place from 24^th to 26^th  September 2024 in the room 50, ground-floor of the EHESS research building, in Aubervilliers. As announced in the call for papers, the workshop will focus on the Gift protection in South and Southeast Asia. Sixteen speakers, internal or external members of the project, will explore this topic, drawing on a variety of sources from Nepal to Java, as well as from various regions of India.

Presentation

The DHARMA workshop will take place from 24th to 26th  September 2024 in the room 50, ground-floor of the EHESS research building, in Aubervilliers (2 cours des Humanités, 93322 Aubervilliers cedex; practical information available here)

As announced in the call for papers, the workshop will focus on the Gift protection in South and Southeast Asia. Sixteen speakers, internal or external members of the project, will explore this topic, drawing on a variety of sources from Nepal to Java, as well as from various regions of India.

Registration

The event will be held in person and online. To attend online, please write to amandine.bricout@gmail.com before 20thSeptember.

Program

Tuesday 24, September

Starting from 1. pm

Welcome coffee

[Gift Protection in Literary and Epigraphic Sources]

• 2.00 – 2.40 The Vaiṣṇavadharmaśāstra Appended to the Mahābhārata and Donated Land Protection Kengo Harimoto, Università degli Studi di Napoli « L'Orientale »
• 2.40 – 3.20 Protecting Sacred Gifts: Perpetuance in Śaiva Texts and Kerala Inscriptions SAS Sharma, EFEO Pondicherry

Coffee Break

[Protecting through threats]

• 4.00 – 4.40 What are the Consequences Outlined in Dharma Nibandhas for Individuals Who Violate the Principles of Gift Protection or Misuse of Gifted Assets? Satyanarayanan, R., École Française d’Extrême-Orient, Pondichéry
• 4.40 – 5.20 A Carrot and Stick Approach: a Survey of the Lexical Fields Used in Benedictive and Exhortatory Stanzas Amandine Wattelier-Bricout, Centre d’études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes CESAH – CNRS, Aubervilliers

Wednesday 25, September

[Gift Protection in Indian Epigraphy]

• 9.00 – 9.40 Who Will Protect Donations? Exhortation Clauses in Bengal Charters in their Social Contexts Ryosuke Furui, University of Tokyo
• 9.40 – 10.20 The Protection Strategy for Royal Religious Endowments under the Rāṣṭrakūṭas:Role Models of Donor Kings and Expectations on Future Rulers Annette Schmiedchen, Humboldt Universität, Berlin

Coffee Break

• 11.00 – 11.40 Exhortatory Stanzas: what’s all the fuss about? Dániel Balogh, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
• 11.40 – 12.20 Protection and Renewal of Endowments in Early Kalyāṇa Cālukya Inscriptions Samana Gururaja, Humboldt Universität, Berlin

Lunch Break

[Impact of Terminology on the Preservation]

• 2.00 – 2.40 The Importance of Secular Institutions and Systems in the Formation and Preservation of Religious Endowments in the Early Western Deccan (ca. 1st c. BCE - 3rd c. CE) Kelsey Martini, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München
• 2.40 – 3.20 Gift Terminology and Protection Formulas in Javanese Royal Epigraphy Arlo Griffiths, École Française d’Extrême-Orient, Jakarta

Coffee Break

• 4.00 – 4.40 What Were Grant Charters Good For? Religious, Political, and Legal Implications in South and Southeast Asia Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University
• 4.40 – 5.20 Donations to Śiva and his ascetics: the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai ātīṉam copper-plates (15-19th century) Margherita Trento, Institut Français de Pondichéry (IFP), Centre d’études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes (CESAH) – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Thursday 26, September

[Actors of Gift Protection]

• 9.00 – 9.40 Fractioning lands: The role of Tamil kaṇakkars in the medieval Tamil country Renato Dávalos, Centre d’études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes CESAH – CNRS, Aubervilliers
• 9.40 – 10.20 Expressions on the concept of Gift Protection in Tamil Inscriptions of Pondicherry G.Vijayavenugopal, French School of Asian Studies, Pondicherry

Coffee Break

[Protective Formulas in Tamil South]

• 11.00 – 11.40 Gift Protection in the Tamil South (4th–15th c.) Emmanuel Francis, Centre d’études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes CESAH – CNRS, Aubervilliers
• 11.40 – 12.20 Manuscript Circulation Through Borrowing in Early Modern Tamil Nadu Marco Franceschini and Giovanni Ciotti, Università di Bologna

Lunch Break