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Mailing Address University of Louvain Oriental Institute Place Blaise Pascal 1 B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, BELGIUM

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Education Christophe A.M. Vielle, of Swiss ancestry, was born on the 5th of February 1967 in Brussels, Belgium. After a Master's degree in both Classical philology and Oriental studies at the University of Louvain, he concluded in 1996 a Doctoral degree in Oriental Philology and History devoted to the comparative mythology of Greek and Sanskrit epics. The work, issued in the Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain series (Peeters Press), won the 1994-96 Franz Cumont Prize from the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts. As postdoctoral researcher, he was elected to the 1998 Michael Coulson Research Fellowship in Indology at Wolfson College, Oxford, which gave him the opportunity to work on Sanskrit manuscripts at the Indian Institute, as well as, in London, at the Royal Asiatic Society and in the British Library (Oriental and India Office Collections).

Research Interests In 1998 Christophe Vielle started the Jaimini Epic and Puranic Project with Dr Petteri Koskikallio (from the University of Helsinki) and founded the interuniversity Belgian Association for Indology. In 1999, he was appointed as (full-time) Research Associate from the Belgian National Foundation for Scientific Research and became (part-time) Ordinary Lecturer in Sanskrit and classical Indology at the University of Louvain. His habilitation thesis was achieved in the beginning of 2007. His scientific interest lays in Puraa.na and Kaavya literature from Premodern Kerala, where he travelled in search for manuscripts during the years 2000, 2002 and 2004 (collection of about 10,000 photographies of Malayalam-script mss.). He is at the moment concluding the first volume of the editio princeps of the Jaiminiiyasa.mhitaa of the Brahmaa.n.dapuraa.na, an imporant forgotten work probably composed in a royal court of that region around 1300 AD. In 2005, he was elected to the International Board of the Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puraa.nas.

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Publications * Major indological Publications - La Jaiminiiyasa.mhitaa du Brahmaa.n.dapuraa.na, Madhyamabhaaga, vol. 1: Adhyaaya 1-15. Introduction, edition et traduction, Louvain : Peeters, Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain (in course of publication). - "From the Vaayuprokta to the Vaayu and Brahmaa.n.da Puaa.nas: Preliminary remarks towards a critical edition of the vaayuprokta Brahmaa.n.daapuraa.na", in Epics, khilas, and Puraa.nas: Continuities and ruptures. Proceedings of the Third Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puraa.nas, September 2002, ed. P. Koskikallio, Zagreb : Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2005, pp. 535-560. - with P. Koskikallio, "Epic and Puranic Texts attributed to Jaimini", Indologica Taurinensia 27, 2001, pp. 67-93.

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