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CURRICULUM VITAE SALLY J. SUTHERLAND GOLDMAN Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies University of California Berkeley, California 94720 (510) 642-2409 email [email protected] EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. Sanskrit. 1979. Ph.D. Graduate Research, Poona University, Poona, India. 1975–76. (Funded through a grant from the American Institute of Indian Studies). California State University, Fullerton, California. 1971. Linguistics. A.B., M.A. EMPLOYMENT University of California at Berkeley. Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies: Senior Lecturer 2012– Research Specialist 1995–1997; 2010– Associate Specialist 1991–1995 Lecturer 1980–2011 Acting Instructor 1976–79. Graduate Reader 1973–75. Research Assistant 1973–74. Center for South Asia Studies: Acting Program Coordinator 1989–90. The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Department of Asian Languages and Literatures: Visiting Assistant Professor 1979–80. Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Translation Project: Associate Editor 1980–. Visiting Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Winter Term 2010 [Jan–May] [Graduate Course: Epic History and the Indian Nation] Sutherland-Goldman2 HONORS AND AWARDS: Sarah Kailath Fellow in Indian Studies, 1996–97. American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship, 1991–92. BCL Language Travel Grant, 2005 BCL Language Travel Grant, 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California at Berkeley, 2012 PUBLICATIONS Books The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume VII, Uttarakāṇḍa: Introduction, Translation, and Annotation by Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume VI, Yuddhakāṇḍa: Translation and Annotation Robert P. Goldman, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, and Barend van Nooten. Introduction by Sally J. Sutherland Goldman and Robert P. Goldman). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Devavāṇīpravśikā: An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language. Indian Edition (Revised). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2009 (reprint with corrections 2011). Rámáyana V: Súndara by Valmíki. Robert P. Goldman and Sally Sutherland Goldman. Clay Sanskrit Library. New York: New York University Press, 2006. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Vol. I: Bālakāṇḍa. (Robert P. Goldman translator and editor, annotation with Sally J. Sutherland. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2006. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Vol. V: Sundarakāṇḍa (Translated, annotated, and edited with Sally. J. Sutherland Goldman.) Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2006. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume V, Sundarakāṇḍa: Introduction, Translation, and Annotation by Sally J. Sutherland Goldman and R. P. Goldman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume I, Bālakāṇḍa: Boyhood. Introduction and Translation by R. P. Goldman. Annotation by Robert Goldman and Sally Sutherland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Devavāṇīpraveśikā: An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language. Robert Goldman and Sally Sutherland. Berkeley: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. 2 Sutherland-Goldman3 1980 (2nd revised edition, 1986, reprint 1992, 3rd revised edition 1999; 2nd printing with corrections 2002; 3rd printing with corrections 2004). Reprint: Motilal Banarsidass: Delhi, 2011. Dissertation Śukrācārya: The Demons’ Priest: Aspects of Character Development in Sanskrit Mythological Literature. Berkeley: University of California, 1979. Books Edited Bridging Worlds: Studies on Women in South Asia. Edited with Introduction. Berkeley: Centers for South and Southeast Asia Studies, U. C. Berkeley 1991. Reprint: Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1991. (Associate Editor) The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume IV, Kiṣkindhakāṇḍa. Introduction, Translation, and Annotation by Rosiland Lefeber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume III, Araṇyakāṇḍa: The Forest. Introduction, Translation, and Annotation by Sheldon I. Pollock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume II, Ayodhyākāṇḍa: Introduction, Translation, and Annotation by Sheldon I. Pollock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Articles “A Heroine’s Journey.” In The Rāma Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe. Edited by Forrest McGill. Asian Art Museum Cheng-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, 2016, pp. 101–115 “Women at the Margins: Gender and Religious Anxieties in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa.” JAOS. Forthcoming, pp. “Of Daddies and Demons: The Rāmopākhyāna and the Rakṣovaṃśa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa.” In Argument and Design: The Mahābhārata as Literature. Edited by Vishwa Adluri. Leiden: Brill, 2016, pp. 161–186 “The Monstrous Feminine: Rākṣasīs and Other Others—The Archaic Mother of Bhāsa’s Madhyamavyāyoga.” In Frits Staal Memorial Volume. Edited by George Thompson. (Forthcoming.) 3 Sutherland-Goldman4 “The Legend of King Nimi and the Uttarakāṇḍa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa.” Sanskrit Studies, vol. 4. Edited by Upendra Rao. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2015, pp. 72–105. “Notes from Afar: Early Indian Religious and Narrative Traditions in Western Classical Opera.” In Culture, People and Power: India and Globalized World. Edited by H. Tiwari. Delhi: ICCR and Shipra Publications, 2014, pp. “ ‘When Everything Old is New Again’: Teaching Sanskrit in the New Millennium.” Proceedings of the 52nd World Sanskrit Conference, New Delhi, 2012. Edited by Chamu Krishna Shastry. New Delhi, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, (In Press). “Critical Evidence: Vālmīki’s Uttarakāṇḍa and the Critical Edition.” In The Churning of the Epics and Purāṇas at the 15th World Sanskrit Conference. Proceedings of the 15th World Sanskrit Conference, vol. 5. Edited by Adam Bowles, Simon Brodbeck, and Alfred Hiltebeitel. New Delhi, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, 2015, pp. 298–324. “Blessed Events: The Uttarakāṇḍa’s Construction of Sītā’s Pregnancy.” In Beyond the ‘Women Question’: Reconstructing Gendered Identities in Early India. Edited by Kumkum Roy. New Delhi: Pimus Press, Nov. 2014, pp. 71–99. “Sita.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism. Edited by Alf Hiltebeitel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013 (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/ view/document/obo-9780195399318/obo-9780195399318-0086.xml). “Interpretative Histories.” With Robert P. Goldman. Seminar, No. 608, April 2010, pp. 20–31. “Illusory Evidence: The Construction of Māyā in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa.” In Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History: Essays in Honor of R. P. Goldman Edited by Sheldon Pollock. New Delhi: Manorhar, 2010. pp. 209–33. “Nikumbhilā’s Grove: Rākṣasa Rites in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa.” In Battle, Bards and Brāhmins. Edited by J. L. Brockington. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas. 2012, pp. 255–75. Papers of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference. “Sītā’s War: Gender and Narrative in the Yuddhakāṇḍa of Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa,” In Proceedings of the XIIth World Sanskrit Conference, Helsinki 2003: Epic Studies. Edited with Muneo Tokunaga. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 2009, pp. 139– 168. “Gendered Narratives: Gender, Space, and Narrative Structures in Vālmīki's Bālakāṇḍa.” In The Ramayana Revisited. Edited by Mandakranta Bose. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 47–85. 4 Sutherland-Goldman5 “Anklets Away: The Symbolism of Jewelry and Ornamentation in Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa.” In A Varied Optic: Contemporary Studies in the Ramayana. Edited by Mandakranta Bose. Vancouver: Institute of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, 2000, pp.125–153. Reissued as The Ramayana Culture: Text, Performance and Iconography, edited by Mandakranta Bose. Reprint. New Delhi, D.K. Printworld, 2003, pp. “Re-siting Sītā: Gender and Narrative in Vālmīki's Sundarakāṇḍa.” Purāṇa XLV. no. 2, July 2003, pp. 115–135. “Sītā Speaks: The Voice of the Heroine in Sundarakāṇḍa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa.” In Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asia Tradition. Edited by Paula Richman, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 223–238; Delhi: OUP, 2001, pp. 223–238. “Speaking Gender: Vāc and the Vedic Construction of the Feminine.” In Invented Identities: The Interplay of Gender, Religion and Politics in India. Edited by Julia Leslie and Mary McGee. Delhi: OUP, 2000, pp. 57–83. “A Tale of Two Tales: The Episode of Hanumān’s Childhood in the Critical Edition.” Purāṇa, vol. xli, no. 21, 1999, pp. 132–153; JOIB Vo.l XLVIII, nos. 1– 4, Sept 1998 & June 1999, pp. 51–57. “Suttee, Satī and Sahagamana: An Epic Misunderstanding?”, Economic and Political Weekly, 29:26, 25 June, 1994, pp. 1595–1605. with Robert. P. Goldman. “Vālmīki’s Hanumān: Characterization and Occluded Divinity.” Rāmāyaṇa. Journal of Vaiṣṇava Studies, vol. 2, no. 4, 1994, pp. 31–54. “Frogs in a Well of Theory.” Review Article with Jeffrey M. Masson. [Seduction and Theory: Reading of Gender, Representation, and Rhetoric. Edited by Dianne Hunter, Urbana and Chicago: University of Chicago, 1989.] Semiotica 93:3/4 pp. 371–387. “The Text Which Is No Text: Critical Edition as Text.” In Translation East and West: A Cross-Cultural Approach. Edited by Cornelia N. Moore and Lucy Lower. Hawaii: East West Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, pp. 82–92, 1992. “Seduction and Counter-Seduction: Bedroom Politics in the Ancient Indian Epics,” JIP 20, pp. 243–251, 1992. “The Bad Seed: Senior Wives and Elder Sons.” In Bridging Worlds: Studies on
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    ORIENTALIA SUECANA 2020. Vol. 69: 1–28. UPPSALA UNIVERSITY Research article Simon Brodbeck* Daśaratha’s Horse Sacrifice in the Rāmāyaṇa https://doi.org/10. 06 /di!"#$0$6%& Abstract: This article discusses Daśaratha’s horse sacrifice at 1.8–16 in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa. Daśaratha’s rite seems to be a horse sacrifice, then a son-!roducing rite, then a !orrid"e-eating rite. The te#t has been seen as composite, but it $orks as a unit, using !oetic registers and narrati%e sym bols ali%e in the te#tual $orld o' its historical location – that is, in the Rāmāyaṇa alongside the Mahābhārata, Harivaṃśa, and earlier te#ts such as the (!aniṣads. The brahmin *śyaśṛ,"a, ke& offi ciant at Daśaratha’s rite, is !redisposed, b& the narration, to inseminate Daśaratha’s $i%es. This arti cle discusses Daśaratha’s rite "raduall&, $ith di"ressions and e#amples. .opics include Drau!adī’s conception, the putrikā or /ap!ointed dau"hter’, the horse sacrifice and the human sacrifice, the niyoga or /ap!ointment’ 0of a man to inseminate a $oman), the $ays in $hich the te#ts !resent se#, semen, and the masculinit& of the inseminator, and the $ays in $hich the& !resent "ods taking hu man 'orm. Keywords: Harivaṃśa, horse sacrifice, human sacrifice, insemination, Mahābhārata, masculinit&, Rāmāyaṇa, semen Introduction: Drupada’s Rite This article is not about Dru!ada or his offspring, but it is about the "etting of special offspring. The $ay Dru!ada "ets his special offspring is interesting and entertaining, and ser%es as an entr& and re' erence !oint 'or $hat 'ollo$s.
  • Radio Frequency Identification Based Smart Security System for Monitoring

    Radio Frequency Identification Based Smart Security System for Monitoring

    International Journal of Engineering Research in Computer Science and Engineering Engineering (IJERCSE) Vol 2, Issue 3, March 2015 Survey and Analysis of Computing for Sanskrit related to Text Search and Tutoring Ontologies Rajitha V.1, ,2 Kasmir Raja S. V,3 Meenakshi Lakshmanan 1 Dean – Research, SRM University Chennai 600 005, India 2 Department of Computer Science, Meenakshi College for Women Chennai 600 024, India 3 Research Scholar, Mother Teresa Women‘s University Kodaikanal 624 101, India. Abstract — There has been a lot of work done in computing for Indian languages over the past decades, and especially so in Sanskrit. The problem of comprehensively searching for words or phrases in Sanskrit text has posed a challenge for decades though its usefulness to a variety of users cannot be overemphasized. The sub-problems of sandhi-processing and vibhakti-processing in Sanskrit have been dealt with by a few researchers and their work is analyzed here. The authors have developed a new solution to the problems and a comparison of this with earlier work is also presented here. A novel and comprehensive sandhi-tutoring ontology has been developed by the authors, and its comparison with existing tutors has also been presented here. Index Terms — Sanskrit, Text search, ,sandhi, vibhakti, ontology, comparative study I. INTRODUCTION scholars would want to find quotations from different texts for a particular topic for the purpose of scholarly Mines of information are available in Sanskrit books. debate. Hence, dating of a text and fixing its authorship These include books on the Vedā, the Upaniṣads, with certainty, analyzingthe writing style of an author, purānās, epics, grammar, philosophy etc.