Indology

Field:Sanskrit grammatical tradition
Country of origin: Italy
Period of stay at IIAS: May-June 2008
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Research topic: The metalinguistic chapters of Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa’s Prakriyāsarvasva
Field:Indology, Vedic and Indo-European ritual studies
Country of origin: the Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 July 2008 - 31 December 2009
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris
Research topic: Vedic ritual in Asian and European contexts
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Field:Early Javanese history, Indonesian epigraphy, Austronesian, Indo-European, Vedic and Avestan studies
Country of origin: Russia
Period of stay at IIAS: 9 January - 9 April 2006
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Australian National University
Research topic: The Evolution of Austronesian Social Terminology and Early State Formation in Nusantara
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Field:Classical Indian Philosophy, different problems of ontology and epistemology
Country of origin: Russia
Period of stay at IIAS: 2 September - 30 October 2006; 10 January -10 March 2007
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Institute of philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
Research topic: Project "Indian Thinkers on Direct and Indirect Perception. Anthology of Texts with Introduction and Notes"
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Field:Indology
Country of origin: UK
Period of stay at IIAS: Sept 1 - Dec 1 2004
Status: Gonda Fellow
Home institute: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. 2007: Clay Sanskrit Library, Wolfson College, Oxford University
Research topic: When It Is Good To Be Bad: Sexual Initiation Into Tantric Buddhism.

Saraju Rath

Field: Sanskrit Indology Manuscriptology
Country of origin: India
Period of stay at IIAS: 05/01/2004 - 31/03/2011
Status: Research fellow
Home institute: Vaidika Samshodhana Mandal, Pune, Maharashtra
Research topic: Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts

Anna Ślączka
Field:Indology (Sanskrit and South Asian art)
Country of origin: Poland / The Netherlands
Period of stay at IIAS: 06.11.2006 - 06.05.2007
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Institute Kern, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Research topic: Indian Shaivism and the religion among the Khmers during the Angkor Period: the study of mutual relations
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Field:Indian history
Country of origin: Russia
Period of stay at IIAS: 3 May 2009 – 14 June 2009
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS
Research topic: Early Medieval North Indian Copper-plate Land Grants
Field:Sanskrit Literature
Country of origin: Poland
Period of stay at IIAS: 15 June 2009 – 31 August 2009
Status: Affiliated fellow, sponsored by the J. Gonda Foundation
Home institute: Institute of Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University
Research topic: History and Society as depicted by South Indian Poetesses: Gangādevi, Tirumalāmbā, Rāmabhadrāmbā and Madhuravānī
Field:History of Indian Buddhism
Country of origin: France
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 December 2008 – 30 April 2009
Status: Affiliated Fellow, sponsored by the J. Gonda Foundation
Home institute: École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
Research topic: The Mahāvastu-Avadāna's first part (ed. I.1-338) and the conception of the bodhisattva career in Mahāsāṃghika milieu : A study of the Bahubuddhaka Sections.
Field:Indology
Country of origin: Italy
Period of stay at IIAS: March 1, 2007 – July 1, 2007
Status: Gonda Fellow
Home institute: Facoltà di Studi orientali, Università la Sapienza, Rome
Research topic: An annotated translation of the Sādhanasamuddeśa (Chapter on the factors of action, Part I) of Bhartṛhari’s Vākyapadīya
Field:Indology; Sanskrit language and literature; History of science and medicine; Indian intellectual history
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 March - 31 July 2009
Status: Affiliated Fellow, sponsored by the J. Gonda Foundation
Home institute: Independent scholar
Research topic: Medical argument and dissent in seventeenth century India.