Prof. Dr. Annette Schmiedchen
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Edition und Übersetzung der Sanskrit-Inschriften der frühmittelalterlichen Rastrakuta-Dynastie von Manyakheta (8. bis 10. Jahrhundert)
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe) Zeitraum: 04/2011 - 03/2014 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Annette Schmiedchen
Erinnerungsarchiv der Altstadt von Srinagar
Quelle ↗Förderer: Einstein Guest Researcher (Wissenschaftsfreiheit) Zeitraum: 05/2023 - 05/2026 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. phil. Nadja-Christina Schneider, Prof. Dr. Annette Schmiedchen
The Domestication of ‘Hindu’ Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia (DHARMA)
Quelle ↗Förderer: Horizon 2020: ERC Synergy Grant Zeitraum: 05/2019 - 10/2026 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Annette Schmiedchen
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Publikationen25
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8 Zitationen · DOI
In Herrschergenealogie und religiöses Patronat, Annette Schmiedchen analyses some 250 inscriptions from the time of the early medieval royal dynasties of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, Śilāhāras, and Yādavas, who reigned in central India from the 8th to the 13th centuries. The information derived from copper-plate charters and stone inscriptions primarily consists of genealogies of the ruling kings as well as of data regarding their religious foundations and endowments and the donations of other members of society. Annette Schmiedchen shows how genealogical accounts were modified to legitimize individual claims to power, and she convincingly proves that the 10th and 11th centuries were a period of religious change, which witnessed a shift in patronage patterns and a closer link between Vedic Brahmanism and Hindu temple worship.
The Atharvaveda and its Paippalādaśākhā : historical and philological papers on a Vedic tradition
2007HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 6 Zitationen
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Endowment Studies · 4 Zitationen · DOI
This article serves as an introduction to the new journal Endowment Studies ( ends ). Besides laying out the scope and goals of the periodical, it also charts the broader arc of historical scholarship on endowments. More specifically, the development of the research on foundations is summarized in four fields, namely Medieval Studies, Byzantine Studies, Islamic Studies and Indology. Furthermore, a general vocabulary for the core features of foundations is also proposed.
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Medieval Endowment Cultures in Western India: Buddhist and Muslim Encounters – Some Preliminary Observations was published in Encountering Buddhism and Islam in Premodern Central and South Asia on page 203.
SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository · 3 Zitationen
The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration · 2 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract The term “India” will be used to denote the geographical extent of premodern Indian culture, comprising mainly the territories of the present Indian Union, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, but also Nepal and Sri Lanka. The Middle Ages in India were particularly characterized by migrations of political‐military, economic, and religious motivations. There is plenty of evidence for migrations to and within India, as well as – although to a lesser degree – from India to other regions.
Maitrakas
2021The Encyclopedia of Ancient History · 1 Zitationen · DOI
The Maitraka dynasty was one of the royal lines which gained strength in the western part of North India in the period from the sixth to the eighth centuries; they ruled from their capital Valabhī over Surāṣṭra, i.e., the Kathiawar Peninsula in Gujarat. The most reliable sources for the reconstruction of the sociopolitical history of the Maitrakas are epigraphic records. These inscriptions were almost exclusively copper‐plate charters, recording royal endowments of land in favor of religious donees, and containing panegyric descriptions of the royal family. Besides evidence for repeated collateral succession, the genealogies of the Maitrakas contain mainly conventional, metaphorical praise of ideal kingship, with the obvious goal of demonstrating that the rulers fulfilled the requirements of perfect kings. From the seventh century, the genealogical accounts of the Maitrakas, the naming conventions, and the use of religious epithets illustrate their anxiety regarding the homogenization of the presentation of their dynastic tradition. Sixteen out of nineteen Maitraka kings were exclusively labeled as “highly devoted to Śiva.” The Maitraka endowments, however, reveal a patronage pattern that predominantly favored Brahmins (with no apparent institutional Śaiva or Vaiṣṇava affiliation) and Buddhist monasteries (for monks and nuns). The kings of this dynasty only made very few endowments for Hindu temples. Despite the role Gujarat played in the medieval history of Jainism, no Maitraka grants in favor of Jaina institutions have been discovered so far.
Endowment Studies · 1 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract The phenomenon of interreligious patronage on the Indian subcontinent in the pre-modern period is best attested in royal inscriptions recording religious endowments. It is striking that most pre-Islamic Indian rulers patronised priests, monks, ascetics, and religious establishments of multiple faiths. The personal religious affiliations of the kings often contrasted remarkably with the patronage patterns followed by them according to the testimony of their epigraphs. The strongest indication for the individual confessions of rulers is given by the religious epithets among their titles. While the ambivalent relationship between the personal beliefs of the kings and their donative practices has been repeatedly described as an expression of Indian religious “tolerance” or of the specific character of Indian religious traditions, this paper emphasises that there were several reasons for the dichotomy. This will be investigated on the basis of the epigraphic material of the Maitraka dynasty, which ruled in Gujarat from the 5th to the 8th centuries. The article also contains an edition and translation of the hitherto unpublished Yodhāvaka Grant of Dharasena iv .
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Imperial Rulers and Regional Elites in Early Medieval Central India (8th to 13th centuries) was published in Die Interaktion von Herrschern und Eliten in imperialen Ordnungen des Mittelalters on page 147.
Indo-Iranian Journal · 1 Zitationen · DOI
Southern Gujarat and north-western Maharashtra constituted a highly contested region in the early medieval period, between the 5th and 8th centuries. The majority of the royal grants were in favour of Vedic Brahmins without any specific Śaiva, Vaiṣṇava, or other sectarian leanings, the rest in favour of Hindu temples. Whereas the Traikūṭakas had been Vaiṣṇavas, Kaṭaccuri Kṛṣṇarāja is described as ‘devoted to Paśupati’. Not only among the Kaṭaccuris, but also among the Gurjaras, Sendrakas, and Lāṭa Calukyas, there was a strong tendency to use the religious epithet paramamāheśvara , ‘worshipper of Śiva’, homogeneously. Individual Gurjara and Sendraka charters record endowments for the worship of Āśramadeva and Alaṅghyeśvara, and one prince of the Lāṭa Calukyas is said to have worshipped a religious mendicant whose name ended in °śivabhaṭṭāraka . But it was not before the 11th century that the epigraphic evidence for the institutionalization of Śaivism in the region increased remarkably.
Asien- und Afrika-Studien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. · DOI
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Introduction
2024Asien- und Afrika-Studien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. · DOI
Asien- und Afrika-Studien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. · DOI
Endowment Studies · DOI
Abstract This paper will focus on Sanskrit references to maṭha s and maṭhikā s in the early medieval epigraphical corpora of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, Śilāhāras and Yādavas, ruling in the Deccan from the eighth to the thirteenth centuries. The most prominent evidence is provided by the five famous Chinchani copper-plate charters covering a period from 926 to 1053 ce , when the Rāṣṭrakūṭas and later the Śilāhāras and their subordinates ruled over the region north of Mumbai. A few late-twelfth-century Śilāhāra stone inscriptions from Kolhapur in south Maharashtra shed light on the multi-functional character of maṭha s. Finally, a Yādava-period stone epigraph from northwestern Maharashtra testifies to the existence of and the endowment for a very special maṭha in 1207 ce .
Endowment Studies · DOI
Abstract This short introduction prefaces an ends special issue devoted to the topic of “interreligious founding”, whose contributions stem from an online workshop held April 8 th –9 th , 2021. This workshop was planned as a continuation of the dialogue on charitable foundations held between experts of various academic disciplines in Tokyo (2019) and Singapore (2020). As a result of discussions begun at these venues, it has become apparent that the scholarship on endowments, which has unfolded to the greatest extent within Medieval Studies and therefore with the context of the medieval Latin West foremost in mind, has not adequately addressed the phenomenon of interreligious patronage, that is the participation in foundation activities by persons of different religious traditions.
SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository
From late antiquity onwards, the relationship between imperial rulers and regional elites, particularly the subordinates, was expressed by a specific trans-regional Sanskrit vocabulary. The key-term sāmanta defined a structural phenomenon characteristic of the early medieval period in India. Since the 6th century, this expression was used with a narrower technical connotation, meaning ‘subdued regional prince who acknowledges the suzerainty of another king’. It has been mostly translated as ‘feudatory’ or ‘vassal’. The main historical sources for early medieval India are inscriptions: royal stone epigraphs and copper-plate charters. They regularly contain genealogies of rulers and subordinate kings and thus provide highly interesting information on the political activities of imperial rulers and regional elites. Strategic considerations regarding the relationship with the vassals are often also the topic of genealogies. Time and again, the rulers had to decide whom to establish in newly conquered territories: members of their own dynasty, of the previously reigning line, or of the regional elites. The prime object of almost all inscriptions engraved on copper plates and of a large number of stone epigraphs was to record religious endowments. There is plenty of evidence from different parts of medieval India that imperial rulers made endowments after being requested by subordinate princes; vassals, on the other hand, made religious grants with the consent of their overlords. Many rulers responded to the diverse interests of their wider courtly surroundings with specific religious grants.
Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) · DOI
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V&R unipress eBooks · DOI
Royal epigraphs recording religious endowments of villages and/or land constitute the main sources for questions related to rule and power in premodern (or rather, pre-Islamic) South Asia. Most of the medieval title deeds were written in Sanskrit and engraved on copper plates. Beside the details of a specific endowment, these copper-plate charters contain the titles of the royal donors and their immediate predecessor(s), as well as the panegyric genealogies of their dynasties. The latter reveal a great deal of information about various aspects of the legitimation of Indian kings and about concepts of a ‘good’ ruler. One of the criteria for ‘good’ rule is also manifested in the main objective of copper-plate charters: (the recording of) royal grants in favour of religious donees. On the basis of epigraphic material from central India issued by the Rāṣṭrakūṭa dynasty (eighth to tenth centuries), as well as by the S´ilāhāra and Ya¯dava dynasties (tenth to thirteenth centuries), this article explores the mechanisms of the self-representation of the rulers in their charters. It attempts to show that the genealogical and panegyric descriptions played a very important role in legitimation policies. Each of the dynasties mentioned above used several different versions of the metrical descriptions of their pedigrees in order to explain their claim to the throne in disputes, thus strengthening their own legitimation and weakening that of their rivals. Furthermore, the copper-plate charters also provide an insight into several aspects of the stabilization policies pursued by the rulers: refined structures of vassalage, systematic matrimonial alliances, and the almost comprehensive settlement of Brahmins in all regions of the kingdoms, which led to their large-scalemigration within the subcontinent. Brahmins were preferred recipients of endowments of land as they acted as a supraregional foundation for the legitimation of the rulers; and it was also Brahmins who drafted the dynastic genealogies at the royal courts.
. After first noting the scarcity of Indian sources that evoke the sea, the author describes a panorama of ports depicted in literary and archeological sources from Sindh to the Bengal coast by way of the Sri-Lankan ports. She highlights the economic importance of the Coromandel Coast in liaison with the politics of the Cola dynasty and the Ceylon coasts that profited from the large volume of commerce between China and the Arab world.RÉSUMÉ. L'auteur, après avoir noté la rareté des sources indiennes évoquant la mer, donne un panorama des ports connus par les sources littéraires et l'archéologie, depuis le Sindh jusqu'à la côte du Bengale, en passant par les ports du Sri Lanka ; elle montre l'importance économique des côtes du Coromandel, en liaison avec la politique de la dynastie des Cola, et des côtes de Ceylan, bénéficiant du grand commerce entre la Chine et le monde arabe.
Boydell and Brewer eBooks · DOI
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