Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

Heleen De Jonckheere is a PhD candidate at the Department of Languages and Cultures of Ghent University in Belgium. Her research deals with Jain narratives and inter-religious, literary dialogues in medieval North India, focusing on the genre of Dharmaparīkṣās. Marie-Hélène Gorisse is a post-doctoral researcher and guest professor at Ghent University. She completed her PhD at Lille University. Her main research interests are Jainism and South Asian epistemology, hermeneutics and theories of argumentation. Agnieszka Rostalska is a doctoral researcher at Ghent University in Belgium and Gonda Fellow at IIAS, Leiden University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD from Pedagogical University of Kraków in Poland. She specializes in Indian philosophy and comparative and cross-cultural philosophy.

• PrefaceContributorsWinand M. CallewaertIndology Studies in Belgium: Armchair Scholars and TravellersAdrian Plau‘There Was a City Called Mithilā’: Are All Jain Rāmāyaṇas Really Purāṇas?Heleen De JonckheereTwo Buddhists, Two Jackals and a Flying Stupa: Examination of the Buddhists in the Jain DharmaparīkṣāSamani Pratibha PragyaBlurring the Distinction Between Dhyāna and Svādhyāya in Jayācārya’s Writings on MeditationChiara LivioDevotee, King and Creator: Kailāsa as ποιητής in Śrīkaṇṭhacarita IVAmandine Wattelier-BricoutThe Tree Adoption Ritual as Presented in the DharmanibandhasYūto KawamuraThe Vedic Idáṃ Bhū-Construction as a Precursor of the Compound Type X-BhūtaYiming ShenThe Paribhāṣā – Yadāgamās Tadguṇībhūtās Tadgrahaṇena Gṛhyante in the Paribhāṣāvṛtti of Nīlakaṇṭha DīkṣitaKarl-Stéphan BouthilletteReconsidering the Sarva-Siddhānta-Saṅgraha: Authorship, Doxography and Pedagogy