Text, Translation, and Interpretation of the Early Krishna Story: The Cardiff Harivamsha Project

早期克里希纳故事的文本、翻译和解释：卡迪夫 Harivamsha 项目

• 批准号: AH/I022651/1
• 负责人: William Johnson
• 金额: $ 27.21万
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI022651%2F1
• 关键词: Text; Translation; Interpretation; Early; Krishna

This project will fill a serious lacuna in scholarship by producing a reliable modern English prose translation of the Harivamsha. An English translation of the Harivamsha has been a desideratum for decades, and will be of great value in many fields of Indology.The Harivamsha is a text in Sanskrit from the early centuries CE, closely linked to the Mahabharata. It has 118 chapters in three sections: the Harivamshaparvan (about the line of Hari, i.e. Krishna), the Vishnuparvan (about Vishnu, i.e. Krishna), and the Bhavishyatparvan (about the future). The Vishnuparvan tells of Krishna in his own family context -- his home affairs; his foreign affairs being treated in the Mahabharata, most famously in the Bhagavadgita. As Krishna is one of the most celebrated figures in all of human culture, an English-language paperback Harivamsha will have appreciable effects in many dimensions of UK culture.This project will translate, from Sanskrit into English, the Harivamsha as reconstituted in 6073 verses by P.L. Vaidya after he undertook a detailed survey of 37 selected manuscripts ('The Harivamsha, being the khila or supplement to the Mahabharata, for the first time critically edited', vol. 1, Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1969). The method that Vaidya used to reconstitute the text is used in Sanskrit studies and more widely in textual studies with considerable success; it yields a reconstituted text that is often seen as the ancestor of all manuscript versions. The reconstituted Harivamsha is very different from the manuscript versions, but since it remains untranslated, the benefits of Vaidya's work have yet to penetrate fully into teaching and research. Some scholars have doubted the applicability of the text-critical method to certain old Sanskrit texts. This project will thus probe the suitability of applying that method to the Harivamsha, and clarify the status of the resulting text. The project will also re-evaluate the relationship between the Harivamsha and certain other old Indian texts, especially the Mahabharata. If the reconstituted Harivamsha is viewed as an ancient text, its production in the early centuries CE has implications for our understanding of its original context and purpose. The reconstituted Mahabharata claims the Harivamsha as a part; but was it always an integral part, or was it incorporated only latterly, and if so, why? Study of the reconstituted Harivamsha will have important effects within Mahabharata studies -- which up to now have often overlooked it -- and more widely in Indology.The project will result in a compact paperback English translation of the Harivamsha in the 'Oxford World's Classics' series, with a short introduction contextualising the text and encouraging the reader to approach it as a story of universal human interest. The project team will use the book launch for this publication as a knowledge transfer event promoting wider interest in Sanskrit narrative literature; the launch will feature four short talks by leading figures -- academics and non-academics -- on aspects of the Krishna tradition. Readings from the new translation will also be featured at an international storytelling festival in 2014.The research team's wider findings will be explored in a series of five seminars held in Cardiff during the three-year project, discussed in two UK and one international conference papers, and published in two refereed articles -- one aimed at scholars of many languages other than Sanskrit, and one written for a specialised Indological audience. Thus although focusing primarily upon a single text, the project will utilise several different research methods and its outputs will serve several different audiences, some within academia, some without. It represents a fruitful, innovative, and timely combination of philological scholarship on textual and translation issues, and more searching literary and contextual interpretation.

该项目将通过制作可靠的《哈里凡莎》的现代英语散文译本来填补学术上的严重空白。《圣训》的英文译本几十年来一直备受欢迎，在印度学的许多领域都会有很大的价值。《圣训》是公元早期几个世纪的梵文文本，与《摩诃婆罗多》密切相关。它有三节118章：哈里温沙帕凡(关于哈里线，即奎师那)，毗湿奴帕凡(关于毗湿奴，即奎师那)，和Bhavishyatparvan(关于未来)。《毗湿奴》讲述了奎师那在他自己的家庭背景下的故事--他的家庭事务；他的外交事务在《摩诃婆罗多》中得到处理，最著名的是在《薄伽梵歌》中。由于奎师那是人类文化中最著名的人物之一，一本英文平装书《哈里文沙》将在英国文化的许多方面产生可观的影响。该项目将把P.L.瓦迪亚在对37份精选手稿进行详细调查后重新编写的《哈里文沙》从梵文翻译成英语，共6073节(《哈里文沙，是希拉或摩诃婆罗多的补充，第一次经过批判性编辑》，第1卷，Poona：Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute，1969)。Vaidya用来重建文本的方法被用于梵文研究和更广泛的文本研究，并取得了相当大的成功；它产生了重组文本，这通常被视为所有手稿版本的鼻祖。重新组合的哈里凡沙与手稿版本有很大的不同，但由于它仍然没有被翻译，Vaidya工作的好处还没有完全渗透到教学和研究中。一些学者怀疑文本批评方法是否适用于某些古老的梵文文本。因此，该项目将探讨将这一方法应用于哈里瓦姆沙的适宜性，并澄清结果文本的状况。该项目还将重新评估《哈里凡沙》与其他一些印度古籍，特别是《摩诃婆罗多》之间的关系。如果重建的哈里凡沙被视为一部古老的文本，那么它在公元早期几个世纪的制作对于我们理解它的原始背景和目的具有重要意义。重组后的《摩诃婆罗多》声称哈利文沙是其中的一部分，但它是一直是一个不可分割的部分，还是直到最近才被合并，如果是这样，为什么？对重建的哈里凡沙的研究将在摩诃婆罗多研究中产生重要影响--到目前为止，它经常被忽视--更广泛地在印度学中。该项目将导致《牛津世界经典》系列中哈里文沙的紧凑平装英译本，并有一个简短的引言，将文本与背景联系起来，鼓励读者将其视为一个普遍人类感兴趣的故事。项目团队将利用这本出版物的新书发布会作为一次知识传授活动，促进人们对梵语叙事文学的更广泛兴趣；发布会将有四个主要人物--学术界和非学术界--就克里希纳传统的各个方面进行的简短演讲。新译本的读物还将在2014年的国际故事节上亮相。在这个为期三年的项目期间，研究团队将在加的夫举行的一系列五次研讨会上探索更广泛的发现，在两篇英国会议论文和一篇国际会议论文中进行讨论，并以两篇经评审的文章发表--一篇针对梵语以外的多种语言的学者，另一篇针对专门的印度学读者。因此，尽管该项目主要侧重于单一的文本，但它将利用几种不同的研究方法，其成果将服务于几个不同的受众，一些在学术界，一些不在学术界。它代表着在文本和翻译问题上的语言学学术与更具探索性的文学和语境解释的富有成果、创新和及时的结合。

项目成果

Harivamsha

哈里瓦姆沙

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Brodbeck S

Argument and Design: the Unity of the Mahabharata

论证与设计：《摩诃婆罗多》的统一

• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Brodbeck S