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ANNOUNCEMENT: Senji (Gingee) Fort, recently designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, represents a significant milestone in recognizing South India’s heritage. To commemorate this, the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) highlights its publication Senji: A Fortified City in the Tamil Country by Dr. Jean Deloche. This authoritative study remains a vital resource for researchers and history enthusiasts.
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Charmes védiques. Édition, traduction et commentaire du livre 3 de la Paippalādasaṁhitā de l’Atharvaveda avec un essai critique sur la « magie » dans l’Atharvaveda et sur l’usage rituel de ses hymnes
| Author | par Carmen Sylvia Spiers |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 621 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚165 |
| Language | French, Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-258-3 (IFP); 978-2-85539-299-8 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1500.00 INR (48.00 EUR) |
Paṇḍitarājaśataka. An Anthology of Poems Ascribed to Paṇḍitarāja Jagannātha
| Author | New Edition and First English translation with Critical Introduction by Timothy C. Cahill & Nirajan Kafle |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 310 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚163 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-256-9 (IFP); 978 2 85539 297 4 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1000.00 INR (32.00 EUR) |
The Dattātreyayogaśāstra
| Author | James Mallinson |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | xiv, 200 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚162 / Haṭha Yoga Series n° 5 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-255-2 (IFP); 978-2-85539-296-7 (EFEO) |
| Price | 650.00 INR (22.00 EUR) |
The Tamil Veda And Tangled Tales: A New Approach To Śrīvaiṣṇava History
| Author | Katherine Young |
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| Publisher | Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | xxxvii, 424 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 160 ; NETamil Series n˚ 10 |
| Language | English, Tamil |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-253-8 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-294-3 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1400.00 INR (44.00 EUR) |
Naṭarājapaddhati of Rāmanāthaśiva. A First Critical Edition of the Earliest Śaivapaddhati composed in the Tamil Country. Vol. 1 Nityavidhi
| Author | by T. Ganesan, S.A.S. Sarma |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | xix, 176 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚159 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English, Tamil |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-252-1 (IFP); 978-2-85539-293-6 (EFEO) |
| Price | 550.00 INR (20.00 EUR) |
Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice
| Author | by Jason Birch |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | xvi, 247 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚161 / Haṭha Yoga Series n° 4 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-254-5 (IFP); 978-2-85539-295-0 (EFEO) |
| Price | 650.00 INR (22.00 EUR) |
Tirumaṅkai Āḻvār’s Periya Tirumoḻi: Prayers of Place
| Author | Text with annotated translation by Lynn Ate |
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| Publisher | Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient / Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | x, 763 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 158 ; NETamil Series n˚ 9 |
| Language | English, Tamil |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-251-4 (IFP) / 978-2-85539-292-9 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1500.00 INR (48.00 EUR) |
The Amaraugha and Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga
| Author | A critical edition and annotated translation by Jason Birch |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 176 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚157 / Haṭha Yoga Series n° 3 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-250-7 (IFP); 978-2-85539-263-9 (EFEO) |
| Price | 600.00 INR (21.00 EUR) |
The Holy Island in the Kāverī: a Hagiotopography. Critical Edition and Translation of the Śrīraṅgamāhātmya
| Author | R. Sathyanarayanan, Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz |
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| Publisher | Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Year | 2023 |
| Pages | 230 p. |
| Series | Collection Indologie n˚ 156 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| ISBN | 978-81-8470-248-4 (IFP); 978-2-85539-262-2 (EFEO) |
| Price | 1000.00 INR (33.00 EUR) |
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) |
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) |
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) |