{"id":2139,"date":"2026-07-13T13:04:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/?page_id=2139"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:04:56","slug":"sanne-dokter-mersch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/?page_id=2139","title":{"rendered":"SANNE DOKTER-MERSCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SANNE DOKTER-MERSCH<br>Leiden University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 s.mersch@hum.leidenuniv.nl <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EXTREME BORROWING: THE <em>BHAVI\u1e62YAPUR\u0100\u1e46A<\/em> AND THE <em>VI\u1e62\u1e46UDHARMA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>Bhavi\u1e63yapur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> is notorious for its borrowing from other sources. Whereas other Pur\u0101\u1e47as paraphrased the <em>Manusm\u1e5bti<\/em>, for instance, the <em>Bhavi\u1e63yapur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> rather directly copied large parts of the text. The same goes for borrowing from the <em>\u015aivadharma<\/em> corpus. Although several Pur\u0101\u1e47as have borrowed from <em>\u015aivadharma\u015b\u0101stra<\/em> chapter 10, the <em>Bhavi\u1e63yapur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> is the only one to include almost the entire chapter. The <em>Vi\u1e63\u1e47udharma<\/em> is another text that has been re-used more by the <em>Bhavi\u1e63yapur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> composers than by other Pur\u0101\u1e47a composers. In fact, according to Reinhold Gr\u00fcnendahl, no less than 1200 verses of the <em>Vi\u1e63\u1e47udharma<\/em> were copied into the <em>Bhavi\u1e63yapur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em>. Unfortunately, Gr\u00fcnendahl\u2019s wish to discuss these parallels never came to fruition. In this paper, I will celebrate Gr\u00fcnendahl\u2019s work on this material by taking up exactly this task. After collecting the parallels between the two texts, I will identify various modes of adaption by focusing on the extent to which an entire chapter is borrowed into the Bhavi\u1e63yapur\u0101\u1e47a; the embedding of the borrowing\/borrowed chapter within the two texts; and the content of the parallel in the <em>Bhavi\u1e63yapur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> compared to the <em>Vi\u1e63\u1e47udharma<\/em> (changes, additions and omissions). I will finish by addressing the question why the <em>Bhavi\u1e63yapur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> borrowed so heavily from the <em>Vi\u1e63\u1e47udharma<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANNE DOKTER-MERSCHLeiden University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 s.mersch@hum.leidenuniv.nl EXTREME BORROWING: THE BHAVI\u1e62YAPUR\u0100\u1e46A AND THE VI\u1e62\u1e46UDHARMA The Bhavi\u1e63yapur\u0101\u1e47a is notorious for its borrowing from other sources. Whereas other Pur\u0101\u1e47as paraphrased the Manusm\u1e5bti, for instance, the Bhavi\u1e63yapur\u0101\u1e47a rather directly copied large parts of the text. The same goes for borrowing from the \u015aivadharma corpus. Although several Pur\u0101\u1e47as have borrowed from \u015aivadharma\u015b\u0101stra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2139","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2139\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}