Nalini Balbir
{{Short description|French Indologist (born 1955)}}
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| fields = Indo-Aryan languages, sanskrit, pali, prakrit, apabhramsha
| workplaces = École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
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| education = Paris-Sorbonne University); Goethe-Institut Munich
| alma_mater = University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle
| thesis_title = Etudes d'exégèse jaina: les Āvaśyaka
| thesis_year = 1986
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Nalini Balbir (born 1955) is a French Indologist who lives in Paris. She is a scholar of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism. She was previously a student of Indologist Colette Caillat. She is known for her work on the publication of the Catalogue of the Jain Manuscripts of the British Library published by the Institute of Jainology.{{cite journal
|title = Jaina Studies
|journal = Newsletter of Centre of Jaina Studies
|issue = 2
|publisher = School of Oriental and African Studies
|location = University of London
|date = March 2007
|url = http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies/newsletter/file25135.pd
|access-date = 17 Dec 2009
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Biography
Nalini Balbir was born of a French mother and an Indian father. She started her career as a teacher of French, Latin and Greek in secondary schools (1977 to 1980), before completing her PhD in Indian Studies (Études indiennes) with the edition and annotated translation of the Danastaka-katha, a book of Jain narratives in Sanskrit, which was published in 1982.{{cite book
| last =Granoff
| first =Phyllis
| title = The clever adulteress and other stories: a treasury of Jaina literature
| publisher = Motilal Banarsidass Publ
| year =1993
| location =New Delhi
| isbn =81-208-1150-X
}} p. 4 Between 1982 and 1988 she was a Research scholar in the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, where she completed her DLitt in Indian Studies with a magisterial work on the complex Jaina Avasyaka literature which was published in 1993 under the title Avasyaka Studien.*{{cite web | last =Larson | first =Gerald James | title =The Controlled Strength of the Jina | work =Passage to India, Module 6 | publisher =Bloomington: Indiana University | url =http://www.indiana.edu/~isp/cd_rom/mod_06/mod_06.htm | access-date =May 15, 2010 }} In recognition of her outstanding contributions to classical and modern Indian philology she became Professor of Indian Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of New Sorbonne) in 1988. Dr Balbir is currently Professor for Indian Studies (Études Indiennes) at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris-3), and since the year 2000 also Directeur d'Études for Middle-Indian Philology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques). As a trained philologist, her main areas of research are Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Theravada Buddhism, Jainism, and Hindi language and literature of the 20th century. She is also a member of Pali text society in London and editor since 1983 of Bulletin d'Études Indiennes, an Indology Journal.{{cite book
| author =Hans Bakker
| author2 =Johannes Bronkhorst
| author2-link =Johannes Bronkhorst
| title = The History of sacred places in India as reflected in traditional literature: papers on pilgrimage in South Asia
| publisher = BRILL
| year =1990
| location =New York
| isbn =90-04-09318-4
}} p. 208
Publications
- Balbir, N. (1983). Prakrit versions of a Pan-Indian tale; the Monkey and the Tailor-bird, and their use in Jaina Books of discipline. OCLC Number: 469255352
- Balbir, N. (1984). "Normalizing trends in Jaina narrative literature." Indologica Taurinensia 12 (1984): 25–38. OCLC Number: 469255335
- Balbir, N., Oberlies, T., & Leumann, E. (1993). Āvaśyaka-Studien. Alt- und neu-indische Studien, 45, 1–2. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. {{ISBN|3-515-06149-5}}, {{ISBN|978-3-515-06149-0}} OCLC Number: 30675632
- Renou, L., Balbir, N., & Pinault, G.-J. (1997). [1. Védique et sanskrit - 2. Tradition grammaticale]. Choix d'études indiennes / Louis Renou. Réunis par Nalini Balbir et Georges-Jean Pinault, Tome 1. Paris: École Française d'Extrême-Orient. OCLC Number: 246231389
- British Library (London), & Balbir, N. (2006). Catalogue of the Jain manuscripts of the British Library 1 Vol. 1 Introduction, bibliography, appendices, indexes, plates. {{ISBN|0-7123-4711-9}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7123-4711-2}} OCLC Number: 263433372
- Caillat, C., & Balbir, N. (2008). Jaina Studies. Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. {{ISBN|978-81-208-3247-3}}, {{ISBN|81-208-3247-7}} OCLC Number: 470840899
- Balbir, N., & Pinault, G.-J. (2009). Penser, dire et représenter l'animal dans le monde Indien. Paris: Champion. {{ISBN|978-2-7453-1903-6}}, {{ISBN|2-7453-1903-5}} OCLC Number: 406150083
- {{cite book | author =Acarya Nemicandra | author2 =Nalini Balbir | title =DRAVYASAMGRAHA | publisher =Hindi Granth Karyalay | year =2010 | location =Mumbai | version =(in Prakrit and English) Pandit Nathuram Premi Research Series | isbn =978-81-88769-30-8}}
- {{cite book |author =Nalini Balbir | title =Assimil: Le Sanskrit | publisher =Assimil | year =2013 | location =Paris| language =fr | isbn =9782700580433
}}
References
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