Early Saiva Mythology

早期赛瓦神话

• 批准号: AH/H500138/1
• 负责人: Peter Bisschop
• 金额: $ 9.86万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH500138%2F1
• 关键词: Early; Saiva; Mythology

The study of Saiva mythology has made significant progress during the last two decades with the 'discovery' of the original Skandapurana. This anonymous 6th/7th-century text stands as a model of an early Saiva Purana, presenting an integrated view of the cosmos and its affairs in which the god Siva is regarded as supreme. Our project aims at bringing to light the formative period of this mythology, by investigating developments culminating in the production of the first Saiva Puranas. Saiva mythology of this period will be studied in Sanskrit texts of a number of different genres: epic, Puranic, poetic (Kavya), and Tantric. Apart from these textual sources, epigraphic, art-historical, archaeological and numismatic materials will also be taken into account. While previous research has tended to proceed on the basis of structuralistic models, it is our strong conviction that mythology, for all that it may be argued to have universal and timeless characteristics, is rooted in sociohistorical contexts, and that its research needs to take account of these. It is expected that our collaborative approach, predominantly philological (text-based) but making use of evidence of other kinds as well, will reveal, much more clearly than before, the significant changes that took place in the development from epic towards Puranic Saivism. Our project will thus provide the basis for a more historically informed understanding of the development of Saiva mythology, and by extension of Hindu mythology as a whole.

在过去的二十年里，随着原始Skandapurana的“发现”，对Saiva神话的研究取得了重大进展。这本6/7世纪的匿名文本是早期湿婆往世书的典范，它提出了一种关于宇宙及其事务的综合观点，其中湿婆神被认为是至高无上的。我们的项目旨在通过调查第一部《湿婆往世书》的制作过程，揭示这一神话的形成时期。这一时期的湿婆神话将在一些不同类型的梵语文本中进行研究：史诗，古兰，诗歌（Kavya）和密宗。除了这些文本来源，金石，艺术史，考古和钱币材料也将被考虑在内。虽然以前的研究往往是在结构主义模型的基础上进行的，但我们坚信，神话尽管可能被认为具有普遍和永恒的特征，但它植根于社会历史背景，它的研究需要考虑这些因素。预计我们的合作方法，主要是语言学（基于文本），但也利用其他种类的证据，将比以前更清楚地揭示从史诗到Puranic Saivism发展中发生的重大变化。因此，我们的项目将提供一个更历史的了解湿婆神话的发展，并通过整个印度教神话的延伸的基础。