Aspects of manuscript culture in South India [electronic resource] / edited by Saraju Rath.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Rath, Saraju.

International Institute for Asian Studies.

Conference Name:

Production, Distribution and Collection of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Ancient South India (Workshop) (2007 : Leiden, Netherlands)

Series:

Brill's Indological library ; v. 40.

Brill's Indological library, 0926-2916 ; v. 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Indic--India, South--History--Congresses.

Manuscripts, Sanskrit--India, South--History--Congresses.

Palm-leaf manuscripts--India, South--Congresses.

Manuscripts, Indic--Collectors and collecting--Congresses.

Indic literature--Manuscripts--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume, the outcome of a seminar organized at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, marks an important advancement in the study of South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts which are predominantly on palm leaf and rarely older than three to four centuries. Nevertheless, they continued a manuscript culture for around two millennia and had a profound impact on traditions of knowledge and culture. After an introductory essay (by J.E.M. Houben and S. Rath) addressing theoretical and historical issues of text transmission in manuscripts and in India’s remarkably strong oral memory culture, it contains twelve contributions dealing with South Indian manuscript collections in India and Europe (mainly of Vedic and Sanskrit texts) and with problems related to the scripts, the dating of manuscripts and India's literary and intellectual history. Contributors include: G. Colas, A.A. Esposito, M. Fujii, C. Galewicz, J.E.M. Houben, H. Moser, P. Perumal, K. Plofker, S. Rath, S.R. Sarma, D. Wujastyk, K.G. Zysk

Contents:

Manuscript culture and its impact in "India" : contours and parameters / Jan E.M. Houben and Saraju Rath

On the Johan van Manen Collection : its origin and background / Saraju Rath

A cultural encounter in the early 18th century : the collection of South Indian manuscripts by the French Jesuit fathers of the Carnatic Mission / Gerard Colas

The South Indian drama manuscripts / Anna Aurelia Esposito

The Jaiminiya Samaveda traditions and manuscripts in South India / Masato Fujii

Texts and communities : the manuscripts of the lost Yamalastakatantra / Cezary Galewicz

From palmleaves to a multimedia databank : a note on the 'Bhasa-Project' / Heike Moser

The Sanskrit manuscripts in Tamilnadu / P. Perumal

Indian exact sciences in Sanskrit manuscripts and their colophons / Kim Plofker

Varieties of Grantha script : the date and place of origin of manuscripts / Saraju Rath

From my grandfather's chest of palm leaf books / Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma

Ramasubrahmanya's manuscripts : intellectual networks in the Kaveri delta, 1693-1922 / Dominik Wujastyk

The use of manuscript catalogues as sources of regional intellectual history in India's early modern period / Kenneth G. Zysk.

Notes:

"This volume is an outcome of the workshop 'Production, distribution and collection of Sanskrit manuscripts in Ancient South India' which was organized at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, on 20-21 April 2007"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-99786-9

9786613769473

90-04-22347-9

OCLC:

799762648

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004223479 DOI