Power and Authority-Aspects of Kingship and Religious Traditions in Ancient India

本项目的目的是与印度学各领域的研究人员合作，调查有关古代印度王权的问题。回顾这一课题的研究历史，我们特别关注史诗文本《摩诃婆罗多》。因为这个巨大的文本提供了最重要的信息王权和有关的主题之间的第四世纪公元前和第四世纪公元当古典类型的王权将被建立。我们的研究包括两种类型的研究活动：一是参与该项目的研究人员的联合研究研讨会，二是从现有的梵文文献中建立古印度王权的数据文件。该项目的负责人组织了一次阅读梵文史诗文本的联合研讨会，该项目的所有研究人员都参加了这次研讨会。在三年的项目期间定期举行联合研讨会， ...更多信息 加起来是50美元。联合研讨会的主要文本是《摩诃婆罗多》第十二卷中的Rajadharma Parvan（国王职责部分），在那里可以获得关于王权的最佳安排信息。这一文本部分迄今尚未从文献学的角度进行仔细研究。我们的第一个意图是建立文本本身，并提供可靠的翻译。随着研讨会的进行，我们通过讨论积累了大量的报告材料，最终编辑出了一份长达一千页的详细注释的译文。虽然研究结果是以打印形式提供的，但我们决定也通过互联网，即通过计算机网络向更广泛的印度学和印度研究学者分发我们的结果。我们的研究成果将很快以HTML格式分发给研究人员。我们合作工作的第二部分是编译一个巨大的古印度王权梵文数据文件。为此，从各种梵语文献中摘录了有关王权主题的段落，从晚期吠陀文献、史诗和宇宙古史到政治文献。这一首次尝试以电子文本的形式编纂印度王权的庞大数据档案，已向国际印度学学者公布，受到他们的热烈欢迎。这份暂名为“古印度王权梵文档案”的文件将很快通过互联网公开，我们坚信，它将被不仅研究印度政治和行政的国际学者，而且那些研究文化史和宗教史的学者大量使用。少

The purpose of this project is to investigate problems regarding the kingship in ancient India with cooperation of reseatchers of various fields in Indology. Looking into the history of research on this subject, we have especially focused our attention upon the Epic text "Mahabharata", . since this gigantic text offers most important information on the kingship and concerned topics during the period between fourth century B.C.and fourth century A.D.when the classical type of kingship was going to be established. Our study consisted of two type of research activities : a joint research workshop of the researchers participated in this project and the build-up of data files on the ancient Indian kingship from the available Sanskrit literatures.The head of the project organized a joint seminar of reading Sanskrit text of the Epic, in which all the investigators of this project participated. The joint seminar was regularly held during the three-year's project and the total number of seminar … More s came up to fifty. The main text taken up in the joint seminar was the Rajadharma Parvan (The Section of King's Duty) in the twelfth volume of the Mahabharata, where the best arranged information on kingship is to be obatained. This text portion had so far not been closely studied from the philological point of view. Our first intention was to establish the text itself and to offer a reliable translation. With the advance of our seminar, we had piled up report materials through good discusiions and we could finally edited a translation with detailed notes of a thousand pages in total volume. While the research result is available in printed-out form, we decided to distribute our result also through internet, that is , through the computer network to the wider cicle of scholars of Indology and Indian studies. Our fruit of research will be shortly distributed to the researchers in HTML format.The second part of our join work has been to compile a gigantic Sanskrit data file of kingship in ancient India. For this purpose, passages on the concerned topics of kingship was extracted from various kind of Sanskrit literatures, ranging from late Vedic literatures, Epics and Puranas to the texts of politics. This first attempt to compile the enormous data file of Indian kingship in the form of electronic text has been announced to the international scholars of Indology and enthuastically welcomed by them. The file provisionally called "A Sanskrit File of Ancient Indian Kingship" will be made public through internet shortly and we strongly believe that it will be heavily utilized by the international scholars working not only on Indian politics and administration, but those on cultural history and religious history. Less