See also the notion of āśrayaparivṛtti/parāvṛtti; one of its earliest
meanings is gender change. The best and most extensive study remains
H. Sakuma, Die āśrayaparivṛtti-Theorie in der Yogācārabhūmi.
Stuttgart, 1990.
All the best,
Eli
Zitat von Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <[email protected]>:
Please don’t forget the goddess chapter of the
Vimalakīrtinirdeśasūtra, a real gender-bender (intentionally so).
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On Friday, 03/13/26 at 22:27 Дмитрий Комиссаров via INDOLOGY
<[email protected]> wrote:
By the way, in Samudramathana by Vatsaraja this story about Mohini
is retold in a funny way.
Best regards,
Dmitrii Komissarov
сб, 14 мар. 2026 г., 00:19 Дмитрий Комиссаров <[email protected]>:
By the way, in Samudramathana by Vatsaraja this story about Mohini
is retold in a funny way.
Best regards,
Dmitrii Komissarov
сб, 14 мар. 2026 г., 00:15 Valerie Roebuck via INDOLOGY
<[email protected]>:
What an interesting topic. If divine figures are included, there
is Viṣṇu’s appearance as Mohinĩ (Mahãbhãrata etc). If she wants
to look beyond Sanskrit, we have the story of Soreyya/Soreyyã in
the Pali commentarial literature.
Valerie J Roebuck
Manchester, UK
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On 13 Mar 2026, at 20:47, Marco Franceschini via INDOLOGY
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear friends and colleagues,
one of my students is writing her undergraduate thesis on the
theme of gender change in pre-modern Sanskrit literature.
So far, we have identified the following cases:
- Ila/Sudyumna-Ilā (Rāmāyaṇa, Bhāgavatapurāṇa, Viṣṇupurāṇa, Vāyupurāṇa)
- Bhaṅgāsvana (Mahābhārata)
- Śikhaṇḍin (Mahābhārata)
- Mūladeva (Vetālapañcaviṃśati)
- Rūpāvatī (Divyāvadāna)
- Arjuna (Mahābhārata)
As for studies on the subject, we have been able to identify
only these three:
- M. Bloomfield, On the Art of Entering Another's Body: A Hindu
Fiction Motif
- N. Brown, Change of Sex as a Hindu Story Motif
- R. Goldman, Transsexualism, Gender, and Anxiety in Traditional India
I would be grateful for any additional suggestions you might
wish to provide.
Thank you in advance for your suggestions.
Best wishes,
Marco
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