Peter C. Bisschop’s research while affiliated with Leiden University and other places

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Publications (13)


Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal , by Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz
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October 2023

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Indo-Iranian Journal

Peter C. Bisschop

The Ascetics of Mount Aṭṭhāvaya Become Jain Monks: Approaches to the Interpretation of an Āvaśyaka Cūrṇi Narrative
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August 2023

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Indo-Iranian Journal

This study presents a detailed analysis of the narrative of Goyama and the ascetics of Mount Aṭṭhāvaya in the Āvaśyaka Cūrṇi , including text and translation. By identifying a range of themes, intertexts and allusions in the narrative, a variety of Jain perspectives on the nature of asceticism are uncovered. Topics covered include the Āvaśyaka Cūrṇi as “commentary”, the Āvaśyaka Niryukti background to the Āvaśyaka Cūrṇi narrative, some possible Śaiva allusions in the narrative, the significance of Goyama’s physical appearance, Goyama’s explanation of the canonical story of Puṃḍarīa, and Goyama’s power of bestowing limitless food. In addition to the narrative told in the Āvaśyaka Cūrṇi , its earliest metrical version in the Uttarādhyayana Niryukti is discussed and translated as well.

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What is Ailing Purāṇic Studies?

May 2021

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Indo-Iranian Journal

Commencing from a critical reading of two recent publications on the Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa and the Devīmāhātmya , this article argues that, contrary to what is maintained by the author of the two books under review, what is ailing Purāṇic studies is not a reliance on traditional modes of textual criticism, but a misunderstanding about its utility for accessing the dynamic history of Purāṇic text corpora.


Idiom and innovation in the ‘Gupta Period’: Revisiting Eran and Sondhni

February 2021

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The Indian Economic & Social History Review

To show how kingship was enacted and materialised in specific contexts within the ‘Gupta Ecumene’, writ large, this article presents a detailed analysis of two sites that served as centres for political performance, devotional practice, and artistic production between the fourth and the sixth century CE: Eran and Sondhni in the Indian heartland of Madhya Pradesh. Eran is commonly held to be a key site for the study of Gupta art and architecture and holds several important inscriptions from the beginning to the end of the Gupta period, including one issued by Samudragupta. Sondhni is marked by two inscribed columns of Yaśodharman, a former Gupta subordinate who challenged the imperial rulers using metaphors borrowed from Samudragupta’s Allahabad Pillar Inscription. Examining these two sites in dialogue presents an opportunity to identify a shared cultural realm in which local polities participated and developed a transregional ‘Gupta’ political discourse. This study normalises a Gupta-centred imperial history and, in doing so, participates in a wider departure from dynastic history by emphasising the ways in which localised polities and rulers negotiated the political idioms of their day, challenged them, and created spaces for innovation.




Figure 1: Diagram of four types of East Asian bell in Kungnip Kyŏngju Pangmulgwan, Sŏngdŏk Taewang Sinjong (Gyeongju: Kungnip Kyŏngju Pangmulgwan, 1999), vol. 1, 211.
Figure 2: Photograph of the Sŏngdŏk Bell in Kungnip Kyŏngju Pangmulgwan, Sŏngdŏk Taewang Sinjong (Gyeongju: Kungnip Kyŏngju Pangmulgwan, 1999), vol. 2, 13.
Figure 4: Terracotta plaque from Ahichhatrā ACI, measuring 65 x 73 x 9 cm. National Museum, New Delhi.
Figure 5: Detail of the centauress plaque from Ahichhatrā ACI. Note the tripatā ka mudrā made by both characters.
Figure 6: Ellora Cave 16 (Kailasa). Photo: Elizabeth A. Cecil.

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Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia

September 2020

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Lucas den Boer

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Elizabeth A. Cecil

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Laxshmi Rose Greaves

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Citations (4)


... This identification was introduced by Gopal in his 1973 edition of the text. Given that a number of other Kadamba records 101 On this feature of Gupta epigraphic self-fashioning see Cecil and Bisschop (2021); Pollock (2006), 240. On the sharing of political idioms and imitation as a mode of learning to being 'imperial' see Pollock (2006). ...

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Kāma at the Kadamba Court: The Guḍnāpur Pillar Inscription of Ravivarman as a Text-Monument
Idiom and innovation in the ‘Gupta Period’: Revisiting Eran and Sondhni
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  • February 2021

The Indian Economic & Social History Review

... As Peter Bisschop has observed in a recent review, current scholarship on the Arthaśāstra and its redactional history has not taken note of the reference to Viṣṇugupta and his Nīti in the Guḍnāpur inscription. See, Bisschop (2020 Gai (1996), 26; Suvrathan (2013) 25, 279. About the Koṅgāḷas we have found little information. ...

The History of the Arthaśāstra. Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India, by Mark McClish
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Indo-Iranian Journal