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

这个项目将填补一个严重的学术空白，产生一个可靠的现代英语散文翻译的哈里瓦姆沙。几十年来，《哈里瓦姆沙》的英文翻译一直是一个迫切需要，在印度学的许多领域都将具有巨大的价值。《哈里瓦姆沙》是公元前几个世纪早期的梵文文本，与《摩诃婆罗多》密切相关。它有118章分为三个部分：Harivamshaparvan（关于哈瑞的路线，即克里希纳），Vishnuparvan（关于毗湿奴，即克里希纳），和Bshyatparvan（关于未来）。《毗瑟奴婆罗多》讲述了克里希纳在他自己家庭的背景下--他的家庭事务;他的外交事务在《摩诃婆罗多》中被处理，最著名的是在《博伽梵歌》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本Harivamsha将在英国文化的许多方面产生可观的影响。这个项目将把P.L. Vaidya在他对37份精选手稿进行了详细调查后（“The Harivamsha，being the khila or supplement to the Mahabharata，for first time critically edited”，第1卷，Poona：Bhandarkar东方研究所，1969年）。Vaidya用来重建文本的方法被用于梵文研究，更广泛地用于文本研究，取得了相当大的成功;它产生了一个重建的文本，通常被视为所有手稿版本的祖先。重建的《哈里瓦姆沙》与手稿版本有很大不同，但由于它仍然没有翻译，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对某些古老梵语文本的适用性。因此，本项目将探讨将该方法应用于Harivamsha的适用性，并澄清所产生文本的地位。该项目还将重新评估Harivamsha和其他一些古老的印度文本，特别是摩诃婆罗多之间的关系。如果重建的Harivamsha被视为一个古老的文本，它在公元前几个世纪的生产对我们理解其原始背景和目的有影响。重建的摩诃婆罗多声称哈里瓦姆沙是一个部分;但它一直是一个不可分割的部分，还是只是最近才被纳入，如果是这样，为什么？对重构后的《哈里瓦姆沙》的研究将在摩诃婆罗多研究中产生重要影响--迄今为止，这些研究往往忽视了它--并在印度学中产生更广泛的影响。该项目将在“牛津世界经典”系列中推出《哈里瓦姆沙》的紧凑平装英文译本，并附有简短的介绍，将文本置于上下文环境中，鼓励读者将其视为一个普遍人类兴趣的故事。项目小组将利用这一出版物的新书发布会作为一次知识转让活动，促进对梵文叙事文学的更广泛兴趣;发布会将由学术界和非学术界的主要人物就克里希纳传统的各个方面进行四次简短的演讲。新译本的阅读材料也将在2014年的一个国际讲故事节上展出。在为期三年的项目期间，研究小组将在卡迪夫举行的一系列五次研讨会上探讨更广泛的发现，在两份英国和一份国际会议论文中讨论，并发表在两篇参考文章中-一篇针对梵语以外的许多语言的学者，还有一本是为专门的印度学读者写的因此，虽然主要集中在一个单一的文本，该项目将利用几种不同的研究方法，其产出将服务于几个不同的受众，一些在学术界，一些没有。它代表了一个富有成效的，创新的，及时的结合文字和翻译问题的语言学奖学金，更搜索文学和语境的解释。

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.