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Roland Ferenczi, M.A.

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DAAD doctoral student

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Roland Ferenczi studied history at the University of Pécs and Indology at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), and who is a PhD student of the Ancient History Doctoral Programme at the ELTE and a DAAD research fellow at the Asien-Afrika Institut of Hamburg Universität under the supervision of Prof. Dr. György Németh and co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Eva Wilden. His research interest focuses on the Old Tamil Caṅkam literature and the pre-modern trading system of the Indian Ocean, as well as the heroic puṟam poetry, the legitimacy and the mechanism of the ancient Tamil kingdoms and the transition between ancient kings’ cult and early medieval devotional poetry. The main intention of his PhD researches is to translate the Patiṟṟuppattu, the only existing anthology which was written exclusively for the early Cēra kings, to examine the political geography of the ancient Cēra kingdom and to introduce the South Indian background of the Indo-Roman trade from a Tamil-based, comparative perspective. His previous studies discussed the early Jewish settling attempts in South India, the Yavaṉa presence in the ancient Tamil kingdoms and the tantric rājarakṣā rite in the medieval Śaiva Siddhānta Dīptāgama and Sūkṣmāgama.

Publications

  • A Cēra király bőkezű ajándékai a Patiṟṟuppattu-ban, avagy miről ismerszik meg egy igazi hős? [The generous gifts of the Cēra kings in the Patiṟṟuppattu or how to identify a real hero?, in Hung.] In: Ittzés Máté (szerk.) Hamārī adhyāpikā: Tanulmányok Indiáról Négyesi Mária tiszteletére (Studies on India in the honour of Mária Négyesi). ELTE Eötvös Kiadó: Budapest. 2018.
  • Gods and Goddesses in the Tamil Caṅkam literature. [in Eng. & Hung.] In: Válóczi Róbert (szerk.) GODDESS|WOMAN: Devi Cults and Traditional Female Roles in India. Szépművészeti Múzeum: Budapest. 2018.
  • Parallel narratives on Muziris / Muciṟi: A comparative literary close-up of an ancient South Indian port. In: Dániel Bajnok (ed.) Alia Miscellanea Antiquitatum: Proceedings of the second Croatian-Hungarian PhD conference on ancient history and archaelogy. Budapest – Debrecen. 2017.
  • A Malabár-part kalózai az indo-római kereskedelem idején. [The pirates of the Malabar Coast at the time of Indo-Roman trade]. In: Keletkutatás, 2016. tavasz. Kőrösi Csoma Társaság: Budapest. 2016.