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'The fish on Mount Meru': regionalism and Sanskrit cosmopolism in Pandya identity and dynastic auto-perception from the Cankam age to the 17th century CE

2019/32/C/HS2/00048

Keywords:

Pandyas South India cosmpolism regionalism kingship

Descriptors:

  • HS2_1: History of literature (incl. ancient, modern, contemporary; national and world literature), literary criticism and interpretation
  • HS2_14: Cultural studies (incl. contemporary cultural studies and cultural-anthropological studies)
  • HS3_1: Early history (ancient, medieval, early modern history), modern and contemporary history (19th - 20th c.)

Panel:

HS2 - Culture and cultural production: literary theory and comparative literature, history of literature, linguistics, library science, cultural studies, arts, architecture

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Filologiczny

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr David Pierdominici Leão 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 1

Call: SONATINA 3 - announced on 2018-12-14

Amount awarded: 500 799 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2019-11-15

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2023-11-14

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (3)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (1)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. Shattering the crown of the god: violence as a formative and legitimasing element in the Pāṇḍya dynastic narrative
    Authors:
    David Pierdominici Leão
    Academic press:
    Cracow Indological Studies (rok: 2024, tom: 26(2), strony: ), Wydawca: Księgarnia Akademicka
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  2. A New House for the God in Tenkasi: Divine Dreams and Kings in 15th–16th-century Pāṇṭiya Inscriptions and Sanskrit Courtly Production
    Authors:
    David Pierdominici Leão
    Academic press:
    Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia (rok: 2021, tom: 34, strony: 295-312), Wydawca: Polish Academy of Sciences
    Status:
    Published
  3. Singing a(n) (a)laukika body: A Note on the Theorization of utprekṣā and Its Application in the Pāṇḍyakulodayamahākāvya
    Authors:
    David Pierdominici Leão
    Academic press:
    Cracow Indological Studies (rok: 2020, tom: 22 (2), strony: 79-102), Wydawca: Księgarnia Akademicka
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.12797/CIS.22.2020.02.05 - link to the publication
  1. Unfolding politics, merging into the sacred: liminality and transfiguring digvijayas in the Pāṇḍyakulodayamahākāvya
    Authors:
    David Pierdominici Leão
    Conference:
    Liminal Spaces, and Identity Transformations in Indian Cultural History, International Seminar (rok: 2023, ), Wydawca: Ledizioni
    Data:
    konferencja 19-21.09.2019
    Status:
    Published
  1. Breaking the crown of Indra: the Pāṇḍyas and their dynastic identity in the South Indian context
    Authors:
    David Pierdominici Leão
    Book:
    Breaking the crown of Indra: the Pāṇḍyas and their dynastic identity in the South Indian context (rok: 2024, ), Wydawca: Brill
    Status:
    Submitted