The Abhidharmakosa of Vasubandhu, Vol.1 (chapters I and II): an English transl. of the Sanskrit text edited by Prahlad Pradhan and the commentary annotated and rendered into Fre...

...from the Chinese by Louis De La Valle'e Poussin and both translated into English by Subhadra Jha.

Agnistoma: complete description of the normal form of Soma sacrifice in the Vedic cult, 2 vols. (bound in one), by W. Caland et al., tr from French into English by Ganesh Umakant..

...Thite et al. Agnistoma is the basic Soma-sacrifice, technically called Prakrti-yaga. It is described in detail by the Brahmana-texts and Srautasutras. It is very important to know the structure of this sacrifice in order to understand the Vedic ritual. In the present book, there is an exhaustive description of all the details of this sacrifice.

Contribution a l'etude d'Aiyanar-Sasta, (in French)

Adiceam, Marguerite E

ISBN: 9788189968229, 818996822X

Aiyanar-Sasta, a village deity or popular deity of South India, has many temples attributed to him in this region. One of his principal duties is to protect the land. Literary sources often describe him as a son of Siva. The present publication, using all documentation pertaining to the deity assembled by the French Institute of Pondicherry

The date of the historical Sakyamuni Buddha

Narain, AK (b.1925) (ed.)

ISBN: 9788176463539, 8176463531

The book includes fifteen articles on the date of the historical Sakyamuni Buddha, ten of which submitted by Indian scholars to a workshop on the subject held in 1990, three by scholars from outside and two English translations of old French articles of importance.

Descriptive catalogue of manuscripts in the French Institute of Pondicherry; Institut Francais de Pondichery: catalogue descriptiv des manuscrits, 4 vols., editors: F. Grimal et al

ISBN: 9788184700305, 818470030X

...(in Sanskrit, Tamil and English).;;;The manuscript collection of the French Institute of Pondicherry was started in 1955 with a view to collecting texts related to Saivism as practised in South India, especially in Tamil Nadu. The four volumes of the descriptive catalogue of manuscripts in the French Institute of Pondicherry describe 475 bundles of palm leaf manuscripts containing 3629 texts.

An ethnography of mysticism: the narratives of Abhishiktanan da: a French monk in india

Vishvathan, Susan

ISBN: 9788185952536, 8185952531

Freedom movement in French India: Mahe revolt of 1948

More, JBP

ISBN: 9788190016698, 8190016695

Water conduits in the Kathmandu valley, 2 vols

An introduction to the Shah-nameh of Firdousi from the French of Jules Mohl

Khandalawala, JD

Les sources et le temps: sources and time: a colloquium, Pondicherry 11-13 January 1997, ed. by F. Grimal (in English, Sanskrit, French)

ISBN: 9788184700992, 8184700997

The present volume gathers together the papers presented at the colloquium Sources and Time held in Pondicherry in the year 1997 under the joint auspices of the French Institute of Pondicherry and the local branch of the Ecole francaise d'Extreme Orient.The book contains 21 articles of which one in French, two in Sanskrit and the rest in English.

Parampara: a digital archive to the manuscripts in the French Institute of Pondicherry, (in English and Sanskrit) (CD-ROM)

Grimal, F et al.

ISBN: 9788184701029, 8184701020

The collection of manuscripts at the French Institute of Pondicherry comprising 8500 bundles of manuscripts on palm-leaf and 1144 bundles of transcripts of manuscripts on paper, constitute the most important collection of manuscripts in the world on the Saivasiddhanta school of thought, the agamas; the texts are in Sanskrit (most of them in Grantha script) and Tamil.

Passages: relationships between Tamil and Sanskrit, ed. by Kannan M, et al.

ISBN: 9788184701760, 8184701764

This volume is the outcome, independent, extended and enlarged, of an international conference, Affinities and Oppositions: relationship between Tamil and Sanskrit held on September 12th-14th, 2007 at the French Institute of Pondicherry.

PILC Journal of Dravidic Studies, Vol.11:1 & Vol.11:2, January and July 2001, ed. by P. Marudanayagam et al

Selected contents: 1. K. Achla Misri Raina: Optimality of language design: towards a unification. 2. Aditi Ghosh: Distribution of mid-vowels in Bengali and French. 3. Anuradha Sudharsan: Reported speech: Kannada vs English. 4. Dieter B. Kapp: Basic color terms in South Dravidian tribal languages. 5. George Tharakan et al.: Kinship terminology among the Syrian, Christians of Kerala: a analysis. ...

Problems of interpretation and translation of philosophical and religious texts

Raman, NSS

ISBN: 9788179860410, 8179860418

The peculiarities of grammar, syntax, diction, style and metaphor in various languages and their forms of expression like prose, poetry, dialogue, drama, aphorisms etc. in both the Indian and western traditions have been subjected to scrutiny with special reference to texts in English, German, French, Greek, Sanskrit and Pali.

Signification: in language and culture

Gill, Harjeet Singh (ed.)

ISBN: 9788179860151, 8179860159

Papers presented during the International symposium on signification in Buddhist and French Traditions held at the Indian Institute of Advanced study, Shimla in September 2001.

The six perfections: an abridged version of E. Lamotte's French tr. of Nagarjuna's Mahaprajnaparamitasastra, chapters XVI-XXX, Seried ed. Tadeusz Skorupski

Skorupski, Tadeusz

ISBN: 9780951542491, 0951542494

ISBN: 9788120841635

Imaging the Isle across cintage photography from Ceylon

Matthan, Ayesha et al.

ISBN: 9788186921722, 8186921729

The history of photography in South Asia is a story of itinerant practitioners, seeking to expand the eye of the lens by exposure to the farthest corners of the world.Though Ceylon came under British rule only in 1815, it followed the maritime expansion of the Portuguese, the Dutch, Danes and the French--the first of which identified it in their sea-charts as Zeilon, from which the modern name ...

Streams of language: dialects in Tamil

Kannan, M (ed.)

This volume is the outcome, independent, extended and enlarged, of an international conference, Dialects in Tamil held on August 23-25th 2006 at the French Institute of Pondicherry. Dialects in Tamil emerge from a configuration of the following elements shared by people: caste, region, landscape and the material culture which sustains them. This book os arranged in sections with the idea that r...