Puspika. Volume 4 : tracing ancient India through texts and traditions : contributions to current research in Indology / edited by Lucas den Boer, Daniele Cuneo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

den Boer, Lucas, editor.

Cuneo, Daniele, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic literature--History and criticism.

Indic literature.

Indic literature--To 1500--History and criticism--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017.

Summary:

Pu?pik? Volume 4 contains the proceedings of the seventh International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Leiden 2015). The fourteen papers included here cover a rich variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of South Asia such as grammar, poetry and philosophy, examined from a plurality of disciplinary perspectives, with a particular emphasis on philology, history and sociology.The first four articles of focus on the Sanskrit language, from the strictly linguistic and historical perspective to the wider political issue of its uses and abuses. The second section deals with issues in poetry, aesthetics and performative arts, ranging from classical Sanskrit mah?k?vyas to contemporary Kathak dance. The third section is focused on the philosophical traditions of South Asia (and beyond), with an eye to both a strictly historical approach and a more argumentative and evaluative one. Finally material culture and its relations to both the historical and the ideological are the themes treated in the last section of the volume.

Contents:

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Contents

Preface

Peter C. Bisschop: 150 Years of Sanskrit Studies in the Netherlands: The Karṇapurāṇa

Dániel Balogh: The Abominable Yati: Or, An Intriguing Relic of the Prehistory of Sanskrit Verse

Małgorzata Sulich-Cowley: What do Sanskrit Adpositions Really Do and What Do They Mean? The Analysis of Prati

Martina Palladino: Welcome with Open Arms: Iranian Loanwords in the Purāṇic Lexicon

Patrick McCartney: Speaking of the Little Traditions Agency and Imposition in 'Sanskrit-Speaking' Villages in North India

Judith Unterdörfler: Nature and Character Emotions in the Śrīgovindavilāsamahākāvya, Sarga 1

Lidia Szczepanik-Wojtczak: How to Teach Sanskrit Grammar: The Case of the Perfect System in the Bhaṭṭikāvya

Prakash Venkatesan: Vaṇṇam: Tracing an Ancient Tamil Music Tradition

Katarzyna Skiba: Kathak as a Śāstrīya Nṛtya: The Rediscovery of the Nāṭyaśāstra and the Invention of Classicism in Indian Dance

Jooyoung Lim: Charting the Sāṃkhya Commentarial Literature: A Study of the Lists of Types of Supernatural Power (aiśvarya)

Lucas den Boer: Guṇaratna's Refutation of the Cārvāka Perspective on the Soul: An Argumentative Analysis of Tarkarahasyadīpikā 49.98-134

J. M. A. Eijsermans: The Benign Overlord and the Restorer of Dharma: Two Cases of Viṣṇu as Political Expression in Ancient Khmer Inscriptions and Images

Elizabeth A. Cecil: Power and Piety in 'Emplaced Polities': Temple Patronage and Donative Practice Under the North Konkan Śilāhāras (Ninth to Twelfth Century CE).

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785707599

1785707590

9781785707575

1785707574