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Modes of philology in medieval South India / by Whitney Cox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cox, Whitney, author.
- Series:
- Philological encounters monographs ; volume 1.
- Philological encounters monographs ; volume 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philology, Modern--Research--India, South.
- Philology, Modern.
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit--India, South--History.
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Discourse analysis, Literary--India, South.
- Discourse analysis, Literary.
- Language and languages--Study and teaching--India, South.
- Language and languages.
- Sanskrit language--History and criticism.
- Sanskrit language.
- Literature and society--India--History.
- Literature and society.
- History.
- Language and languages--Study and teaching.
- Philology, Modern--Research.
- India.
- South India.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 196 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
- Summary:
- Philology was everywhere and nowhere in classical South Asia. While its civilizations possessed remarkably sophisticated tools and methods of textual analysis, interpretation, and transmission, they lacked any sense of a common disciplinary or intellectual project uniting these; indeed they lacked a word for 'philology' altogether. Arguing that such pseudepigraphical genres as the Sanskrit 'puranas' and tantras incorporated modes of philological reading and writing, Cox demonstrates the ways in which the production of these works in turn motivated the invention of new kinds of 'sastric' scholarship. Combining close textual analysis with wider theoretical concerns, Cox traces this philological transformation in the works of the dramaturgist Saradatanaya, the celebrated Vaisnava poet-theologian Venkatanatha, and the maverick Saiva mystic Mahesvarananda.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Towards a History of Indie Philology 1
- Philology? 3
- Indian Philology? 6
- Existing Studies 11
- Parameters 16
- 2 Textual Pasts and Futures 26
- The Southern Pseudepigrapha: An Overview 26
- A Case Study: The Sutasamhita 33
- Methods of the Anonymous Philology: The 'Toolkit' 40
- Appropriation and Adaptation: Cekkilar's Pěriyapuranam 43
- Conclusions: Looking Ahead 54
- 3 Bearing the Natyaveda: Śaradatanaya's Bhavaprakaśana 56
- Introduction: Natya as a Form of Knowledge 56
- At Śarada's Side: The Author and His Work 60
- Bharatavrddha, Śiva, Padmabhu, Vasuki 63
- "Following the Kalpavalli" 75
- "Lost or as Good as Lost" 83
- 4 Venkatanatha and the Limits of Philological Argument 91
- Snakes versus Eagles 93
- Rite and Contamination 97
- Earlier Canons of Vaisnava Textual Criticism 100
- On the Shores of the Milk Ocean: Venkatanatha's Poetry as Philology 111
- 5 Flowers of Language: Maheśvarananda's Maharthamañjari 115
- The Dream 115
- The Pleasures of the Text 119
- Ambiguity and Auto-Philology 125
- Writing, Reading, and the Hermeneutical yogin 135
- Maheśvarananda's Gita 139
- 6 Conclusions: Philology as Politics, Philology as Science 149
- Context One: Philology in and as Temple-State Politics 151
- Context Two: Indie Philology and the History of Science 157
- 1 Non-Reductive Historicism 159
- 2 The Refusal of Teleology 160
- 3 The Agency of the Non-Human 165
- Problems and Prospects 170.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cox, Whitney, author. Modes of philology in medieval South India
- ISBN:
- 9789004331679
- 9004331670
- OCLC:
- 967530454
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