From Beyond the Eastern Horizon : Essays in Honour of Professor Lokesh Chandra

Contents: Foreword/Karan Singh. Preface/Manjushree. I. Sacred Designs: 1. Candi Kalasan’s Mahayana Buddhist Panthen: a comparative analysis based on design principles presented in the Manjusri Vastuvidyasastra/Mark Long. 2. Space and order in Prambanan/Subhash Kak. 3. The temple of Dong Duong and the Karandavyuha Sutra/Hiram Woodward. 4. Non-duality in the narrative design of the Sutasoma/Kate O’Brien. 5. More on the archaeological mapping of the fourteenth-century Royal City of Majapahit based on a Balinese description in the Kidung Pamancangah/Amrit Gomperts. II. Language and literature: 1. A note on the problem of Sanskrit loanwords in Malay/Stuart Robson. 2. The Old Javanese Bhomantaka and its floridity/A. Teeuw and W. van der Molen. 3. Echoes of the ecumene: the wrestling match in the Kiratarjuniya of Bharavi and the Arjunawiwaha of Mpu Kanwa/Thomas M. Hunter. 4. Javanese manuscripts of the Tattvajnana/Andrea Acri. III. Ancient Javanese Politics: 1. Majapahit’s Sri Maharaja Jayanagara and an Old Javanese temple model of politics/Donald E. Weatherbee. 2. The Old Sundanese Carita Parahyangan, King Warak, and the fracturing of the Javanese polity, c. 803 A.D/Jeffrey Sundberg. IV. Indian Goddesses in Java and Bali: 1. Ritu Kidul and Manimekhala: relations between South India and Java/Michaela Appel. 2. The demonic image of the Goddess Durga in Bali/Ni Wayan Pasek Aryati. V. Art History: 1. A Khmer Visnu image in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Robert L. Brown. 2. Sudhana and Manohara: a story of love, loss and redemption at Candi Borobudur/Cecelia Levin. 3. A new date of a painting of the Siwaratrikalpa/Peter Worsley. 4. King Arjuna Sasrabahu dances in Java/Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen. 5. Preliminary notes on shared peculiarities of the Ramayana in ninth century Tibet and Java/Malini Saran. 6. Once again the statues from the Kombeng Cave, East Kalimantan/Endang Sri Hardiati. 7. Rama, Ratu Kidul and Buddha/Roy Jordaan. List of contributors and congratulators. A list of works/publications by Prof. Lokesh Chandra.

From Beyond the Eastern Horizon is a collection of essays published in honour of Professor Lokesh Chandra, on the opportune occasion of him having witnessed a thousand full moons, which in the tradition of the East earns him the epithet Sahasra Candradarsi.

Following a biographical sketch of Prof. Chandra by his niece Manjushree, the book offer a varied range of papers written by scholars who are all known for their contributions to the study of ancient Indian cultural influences abroad, particularly insular and mainland Southeast Asia. Their essays cover the fields of art history, temple architecture, Old Javanese and Sanskrit literature, religion and ancient politics. The rich texture of this felicitation volume is a fitting tribute to Professor Chandra, Director of the International Academy for Indian Culture, who has authored volumes of path-breaking research works, including the well-known series of Cultural Horizons of India. Focusing on the eastern horizon of Southeast Asia, this volume covers only a segment of Prof. Chandra’s wide-ranging scholarly activities and achievements.