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The French Institute of Pondicherry publishes scientific books, articles, maps and CDs in the fields of Indology, Ecology and Social Sciences.
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Vidhiviveka of Maṇḍanamiśra with its commentary Nyāyakaṇikā of Vācaspatimiśra and its commentaries Juṣadhvaṅkaraṇī and Svaditaṅkaraṇī of Parameśvara
| Author | Critically edited from available manuscripts, testimonia and paraphrases by Elliot M. Stern |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2023 |
| Pages | 2 vols (cxxiv, 1104 p.) |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 155 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-247-7 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-261-5 (EFEO) |
| Price | 3900.00 INR (124.00 EUR) |
Kīrai Putuccēri Maṟṟum Tamiḻnāṭṭiṉ Uṇavu Kalāccāram [The Keerai Project: Leafy Greens in the Food Culture of Puducherry and its Bioregion. Tamil version]
| Author | By Hélène Guétat-Bernard, Brigitte Sébastia, Balachandran Natesan & Thaniya Kanaka Mahalakshmi S ; Translated into Tamil by G. Venkatasubramanian, A. Anthony Raj ; Designed by Thaniya Kanaka Mahalakshmi S |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 76 p. |
| Series | Science & Society n˚2 |
| Language | Tamil |
| Price | 300.00 INR (13.00 EUR) |
Putuccēri Uyirccūḻal Pakutiyil Nāṭṭuttēṉīkkaḷum Makarantac Cērkkaiyum [Native Bees and Pollination in the Puducherry Bioregion. Tamil version]
| Author | Written & Edited by Ammel Sharon ; Project & Scientific Coordination K. Anupama & H. Guétat-Bernard ; Inputs Ecology S. Prasad, J. Lazar, A. Indhu ; Social Science Amuthavalluvan V. & F. Landy ; Geomatics Narpavi, S. & J. Andrieu ; Economics N. Gallai ; Illustrator Kiran Joan ; Book Design Gopinath Sricandane ; Translated into Tamil by Amuthavalluvan V. |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | xiii, 68 p. |
| Series | Science & Society n˚1 |
| Language | Tamil |
| Price | 200.00 INR (10.00 EUR) |
The Sumatipañjikā: A Commentary On Cāndravyākaraṇavṛtti 1.1 and 1.4
| Author | Critically edited by Ramhari Timalsina |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | xx, 424 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 153 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-245-3 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-259-2 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1200.00 INR (40.00 EUR) |
The East Mebon Stele Inscription from Angkor (K. 528). A Sanskrit Eulogy of the tenth-century Khmer Sovereign Rājendravarman
| Author | Dominic Goodall |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 331 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚154 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-246-0 (IFP); 978-2-85539-260-8 (EFEO) |
| Price | 900.00 INR (30.00 EUR) |
Mélanges à la mémoire de Pandit N. R. Bhatt / Studies in Memory of Pandit N. R. Bhatt
| Author | Edited by Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat, Dominic Goodall, Peter Pasedach |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | xxiv, 497 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚152 |
| Language | English, French |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-244-6 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-246-2 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1200.00 INR (40.00 EUR) |
Native Bees and Pollination in the Puducherry Bioregion [English version]
| Author | Written & Edited by Ammel Sharon ; Project & Scientific Coordination K. Anupama & H. Guétat-Bernard ; Inputs Ecology S. Prasad, J. Lazar, A. Indhu ; Social Science Amuthavalluvan V. & F. Landy ; Geomatics Narpavi, S. & J. Andrieu ; Economics N. Gallai ; Illustrator Kiran Joan ; Book Design Gopinath Sricandane |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 55 p. |
| Series | Science & Society n˚1 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 200.00 INR (10.00 EUR) |
The Keerai Project : Leafy Greens in the Food Culture of Puducherry and its Bioregion
| Author | By Hélène Guétat-Bernard, Brigitte Sébastia & Balachandran Natesan ; Co-Authored, Designed and Illustrated by Thaniya Kanaka Mahalakshmi S |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 74 p. |
| Series | Science & Society n˚2 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 300.00 INR (13.00 EUR) |
Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇam. The Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇa of Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa with the Nirañjanī commentary by Ramyatna Shukla and Prakāśa explanatory notes by K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu. Part IV (from Śaktinirṇaya to Sphoṭavāda).
| Author | Critically edited by K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Shree Somnath Sanskrit University, Veraval, Gujarat / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | xxxv, xxxv, 829 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚151; Shree Somnath Sanskrit University Shastra Grantha series n˚ 8 |
| Language | Sanskrit (with a preface in English) |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-243-9 (IFP) / 978-93-83097-49-4 (SSSU) / 978-2-85539-258-5 (EFEO) |
| Price | 2000.00 INR (64.00 EUR) |
The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla. The Earliest Texts of the Haṭhayoga Tradition
| Author | Critically edited and translated by James Mallinson and Péter-Dániel Szántó |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 203 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚150 / Haṭha Yoga Series n° 2 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-242-2 (IFP); 978-2-85539-245-5 (EFEO) |
| Price | 500.00 INR (19.00 EUR) |
The Vārāṇasīmāhātmya of the Bhairavaprādurbhāva: A Twelfth-Century Glorification of Vārāṇasī
| Author | by Peter C. Bisschop |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | iv, 190 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚148 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-240-8 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-243-1 (EFEO) |
| Price | 500.00 INR (19.00 EUR) |
Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇam. The Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntabhūṣaṇa of Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa with the Nirañjanī commentary by Ramyatna Shukla and Prakāśa explanatory notes by K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu. Part III (Samāsaśaktinirṇaya)
| Author | Critically edited by K.V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Shree Somnath Sanskrit University, Veraval, Gujarat / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | xxxiii, 547 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚149; Shree Somnath Sanskrit University Shastra Grantha series n˚ 7 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-241-5 (IFP) / 978-93-83097-46-3 (SSSU) / 978-2-85539-244-8 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1400.00 INR (45.00 EUR) |
The Yoga of the Matsyendrasaṃhitā. A critical edition and annotated translation of chapters 1–13 and 55
| Author | Csaba Kiss |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 608 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n° 146 / Haṭha Yoga Series n° 1 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-239-2 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-241-7 (EFEO) |
| Price | 900.00 INR (32.00 EUR) |
Linguistic and Textual Aspects of Multilingualism in South India and Sri Lanka
| Author | Edited by Giovanni Ciotti and Erin McCann |
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| Publisher | Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | xiii, 817 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚147; NETamil Series n˚8 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-238-5 (IFP); 978-2-85539-242-4 (EFEO) |
| Price | 2000.00 INR (64.00 EUR) |
The Five French Settlements in India as Recorded in Eighteenth-Century Plans (1673-1824) [Exhibition catalogue]
| Author | Jean Deloche |
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| Publisher | Institut français de Pondichéry / Alliance française de Pondichéry / École française d'Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 32 p. (largely ill.) |
| Language | English |
| Price | 100.00 INR (7.00 EUR) |
The Peruṅkuṟiñci (Kuṟiñcippāṭṭu). A critical edition of the text, with the commentary of Nacciṉārkkiṉiyar
| Author | T. Rajeswari |
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| Publisher | Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | clxxxii, 364 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚142; NETamil Series n˚6 |
| Language | Tamil (with an introduction in English) |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-233-0 (IFP); 978-2-85539-237-0 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1000.00 INR (34.00 EUR) |
Niśvāsamukhatattvasaṃhitā, A Preface to the Earliest Surviving Śaiva Tantra (on non-Tantric Śaivism at the Dawn of the Mantramārga). Critical Edition, with Introduction & Annotated Translation and an Appendix containing Śivadharmasaṅgraha 5–9.
| Author | Edited by Nirajan Kafle with a foreword by Dominic Goodall |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 555 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 145 / Early Tantra Series n˚ 6 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-237-8 (IFP) ; 978-2-85539-240-0 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1000.00 INR (43.00 EUR) |
Flowers in Cupped Hands for Śiva. A critical edition of the Śambhupuṣpāñjali, a seventeenth-century manual of private worship by Saundaranātha
| Author | edited by Deviprasad Mishra with the help of the late S. Sambandhaśivācārya and with an introduction by Dominic Goodall |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 416 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 144 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-236-1 (IFP) ; 978-2-85539-239-4 (EFEO) |
| Price | 900.00 INR (38.00 EUR) |
Pondicherry: A Social and Political History
| Author | David Annoussamy |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 218 p. |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | ISBN: 978-81-8470-235-4 |
| Price | 700.00 INR (28.00 EUR) |
The Commentary Idioms of the Tamil Learned Traditions
| Author | Edited by Suganya Anandakichenin and Victor D’Avella |
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| Publisher | Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | iv, 603 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 141 ; NETamil Series n˚ 5 |
| Language | English, Tamil |
| ISBN | ISBN: 978-81-8470-232-3 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-236-3 (EFEO). |
| Price | 1000.00 INR (43.00 EUR) |