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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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)