Papers by Gunilla Gren-Eklund
Ad Fontes. Festskrift till Olof Andrén på 100-årsdagen., 2015
The character of the methods of historiography of Eusebios of Caesarea and his roots in the ways ... more The character of the methods of historiography of Eusebios of Caesarea and his roots in the ways of recording history in the world of the antiquity, compared with church history in Swedish academic learning in later times, with certain examples from the 17th and 19th centuries.
"Nödder att bo vid Fyriså". Värmlänningar i Uppsala under fyra århundraden. (Nationen och Hembygden, 17), pp. 10-30., 2006
Jordanus Edenius (1624–1666) was professor of theology at Uppsala University. When the students f... more Jordanus Edenius (1624–1666) was professor of theology at Uppsala University. When the students from 1663 were organised according their home counties he came to be the first inspector for the students from Värmland, he himself being born and raised in the village Edane in the county of Värmland.
(An outline of the basic philosophical features of Indian culture), 2024
En översikt byggd på undervisning med fördjupad läsning av filosofiska sanskrittexter under flera... more En översikt byggd på undervisning med fördjupad läsning av filosofiska sanskrittexter under flera decennier från och med 1970-talet, sammanställd 2023 från anteckningar.
Unpublished paper, only in Swedish. Freely available.
Orientalia Suecana vol.71, 2022
Some scholars of Indology in the 2010s came across one long-hidden manuscript, with a title page ... more Some scholars of Indology in the 2010s came across one long-hidden manuscript, with a title page in Devanāgarī script dated to 1703, in the Historical Archive of Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome. Despite being entitled Thesaurus Linguae Indianae, the manuscript does not contain a dictionary. Still, its central part is a complete grammar of the Hindustani language, dated 1704 and written by a Capuchin friar and missionary to India, François Marie de Tours. The finding later led to a rediscovery in Paris of two manuscripts, dated 1703, of the Thesaurus missing in the Rome manuscript by the same author. One is supposedly the original, and the other is a later copy produced in 1784. These three manuscripts in Rome and Paris have a common but forgotten history by scholars in the field. In this article, their relation and history will be revealed in detail and contextualised, firstly in a section in which the manuscripts are closely described, and secondly in a section about the author as much as is known. A third section will follow the history of the Thesaurus manuscripts in Paris up to the present day.
The complete Thesaurus has, through a project at Uppsala University, been made freely available online for linguistic research at https://www.webonary.org/hindustani/en/
Orientalia Suecana : An International Journal of Indological. Iranian, Semitic and Turkic Studies
Orientalia Suecana : An International Journal of Indological, Iranian, Semitic and Turkic Studies
Att konstruera historia: exemplet Heliga Birgittas födelseplats
A study of nominal sentences in the oldest Upaniṣads
Kultur och samhälle i språkets spegel (Culture and society in the mirror of language)
The Understanding of Europe: Variety and Continuity (Att förstå Europa : mångfald och sammanhang. Humanistdagarna vid Uppsala universitet 1994
The Understanding of Europe: Variety and Continuity (Att forsta Europa : mangfald och sammanhang.... more The Understanding of Europe: Variety and Continuity (Att forsta Europa : mangfald och sammanhang. Humanistdagarna vid Uppsala universitet 1994
South East Asia - India maior and the following (Sydostasien - India maior och vidare)
Poesis : On Creating Art according to Aristotle andSanskrit Poetics
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Book review: Etienne Lamotte, Opera Indologica
Värmlands nation i Uppsala 1595-1677 : Matrikel upprättad av Erik Gren
and k a vya "…[que] un système de logique (et a fortiori une langue) est encore un des modes d'ex... more and k a vya "…[que] un système de logique (et a fortiori une langue) est encore un des modes d'expression d'une culture qui ne peut être étudié en dehors d'elle et [que] les valeurs de cette culture s'y répercutent d'une manière ou d'une autre." (Madeleine Biardeau 1968, p. 76)
In Swedish with a short summary in English.
Indologica Taurinensia XII, 1984
Every philosophical approach implies some method of arranging and evalu ating those concepts by m... more Every philosophical approach implies some method of arranging and evalu ating those concepts by means of which the universe is compre hen ded. When a philosophical question concerning the mutual relations of individual matters is to be asked, this question seems, sooner or later, to be formulated in terms of causality, viz. as the question: « What is the cause of this?». Causality is one of the inevitable thought patterns that outline the reality, and this causality may be analysed in many ways. In the minds of western thinkers, however, causality mostly implies a genetic relation and also a time relation between the con cepts involved.
Orientalia Suecana, Jan 1, 1999
Here will be given only a preliminary sketch of a topic which must be much further investigated; ... more Here will be given only a preliminary sketch of a topic which must be much further investigated; further material, relevant to the issue, must be perused before any final and decisive conclusions can be reached. Work is planned for a study of an essential concept of both Indian philosophy and grammar, namely, padārtha. The most important point on this occasion is that a comparative method will be applied as a start, primarily aiming at understanding of a Sanskrit term by telling from a Western point of view what the term does not mean. More generally, the aim is to meet a special challenge to the indologist, namely, to try to abolish such prejudices as are based on the constraints of words and their translations. To question whether the words, and especially the technical terms, used for ideas and abstract concepts should be regarded as being on every occasion and for ever attached to the concepts concerned is indeed to start a very Indian kind of debate, in fact, suggesting the topic of śabda as nitya or anitya.
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Papers by Gunilla Gren-Eklund
Unpublished paper, only in Swedish. Freely available.
The complete Thesaurus has, through a project at Uppsala University, been made freely available online for linguistic research at https://www.webonary.org/hindustani/en/