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Bhaikṣukī Manuscript of the Candrālaṃkāra
Study, Script Tables, and Facsimile Edition
Inbunden, 2010
220 kr
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This volume discusses the Bhaikṣukī manuscript of the Candrālaṃkāra (“Ornament of the Moon”), a commentary of the twelfth century based on the Cāndravyākaraṇa, Candragomin’s seminal Buddhist grammar of Sanskrit. The discovery of the Bhaikṣukī script and of all available written sources are …
Bhāviveka on Sāmkhya and Vedānta
The Sāmkhya and Vedānta Chapters of the Madhyamakahrdayakārikā and Tarkajvālā
Av Olle Qvarnström, Olle Qvarnström
Inbunden, 2016
391 kr
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For anyone interested in an epoch of almost unrivaled intellectual activity and debate in India, the sixth-century Madhyamakahrdayakārikā along with its auto-commentary, the Tarkajvālā, is an indispensable resource. This partly doxographical treatise, composed by the Madhyamaka philosopher …
Pūrvārcika
Av B. R. Sharma
Inbunden, 2001
861 kr
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The Samaveda contains the earliest tradition of music from India. It presents largely Rigvedic textual material in a form arranged for singing in the solemn Srauta ritual. Since the first editions by Theodor Benfey (1848) and Satyavrata Samasrami (1874–1899), there has been no complete, accented …
Uttarārcika
Av B. R. Sharma
Inbunden, 2002
818 kr
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The Sāmaveda contains the earliest tradition of music from India, which is largely Rigvedic textual material in a form arranged for singing in the solemn Srauta ritual. Since the first editions by Theodor Benfey (1848) and Satyavrata Samasrami (1874–1899), there has been no complete, accented …
Recitational Permutations of the Saunakiya Atharvaveda
Inbunden, 2002
450 kr
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This is a critical edition of the Kramapatha and Jatapatha forms of recitational permutations of several sections of the Saunakiya Atharvaveda available in six rare manuscripts found in Pune, India. Such recitational variations for the Atharvaveda are no longer available in the surviving oral …
Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D.
Inbunden, 2003
745 kr
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This book presents the earliest South Indian inscriptions (ca. second century B.C.E. to sixth century A.D.), written in Tamil in local derivations of the Ashokan Brahmi script. They are the earliest known Dravidian documents available and show some overlap with the early Cera and Pandya dynasties. …
Early Tibetan Survey of Buddhist Literature
The Bstan pa rgyas pa rgyan gyi nyi ‘od of Bcom Idan ral gri
Av Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp
Inbunden, 2009
450 kr
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This volume is a study and edition of Bcom Idan ral gri's (1227-1305) Bstan pa rgyas pa rgyan gyi nyi 'od. Likely composed in the last decades of the thirteenth century, this systematic list of Buddhist Sutras, Tantras, Shastras, and related genres translated primarily from Sanskrit and other Indic …
Katha Aranyaka
Critical Edition with a Translation into German and an Introduction
Inbunden, 2005
401 kr
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Dating to the first half of the first millennium BCE, the Katha Aranyaka is a ritualistic and speculative text that deals with a dangerous Vedic ritual that provides its sponsor with a new body after death. In a new, never-before-published critical edition, Michael Witzel, using available …
Sugata Saurabha
An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha
Av Chittadhar Hrdaya, Todd T. Lewis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
694 kr
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This poem belongs of the little-known Newari (Nepal Bhasha) language and literature, specifically to its even less known Buddhist version. It is one of the very rare cases that works in Newari language appear outside Nepal.In nineteen long cantos, the Sugata Saurabha tells of the life of the …
Rai Mythology
Kiranti Oral Texts
Av Karen H. Ebert, Martin Gaenszle
Inbunden, 2009
263 kr
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The more than two dozen Rai languages in eastern Nepal, which make up the larger part of the Kiranti language family, are linguistically highly varied. Due to this, intergroup solidarity has been relatively weak, and Rai ethnicity must be seen as constructed in recent history. However, it is …
Teleology of Poetics in Medieval Kashmir
Inbunden, 2009
596 kr
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This book examines the revolution in Sanskrit poetics initiated by the ninth-century Kashmiri Anandavardhana. Anandavardhana replaced the formalist aesthetic of earlier poeticians with one stressing the unifunctionality of literary texts, arguing that all components of a work should subserve a …
Law Code of Viṣṇu
A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Vaiṣṇava-Dharmaśāstra
Inbunden, 2010
498 kr
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The Law Code of Viṣṇu (Vaiṣṇava-Dharmaśāstra) is one of the latest of the ancient Indian legal texts composed around the seventh century CE in Kashmir. Both because the Vaiṣṇava-Dharmaśāstra is the only Dharmaśāstra that can be geographically located and because it introduces some interesting and …
Ethnographic Notes on the Mru and Khumi of the Chittagong and Arakan Hill Tracts
A Contribution to our Knowledge of South and Southeast Asian Indigenous Peoples mainly based on field research in the Southern Chittagong Hill Tracts
Inbunden, 2012
646 kr
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This book is a “thick” description and interpretation of the ethnography of the Mru and Khumi, who live in the Chittagong/Arakan Hills straddling Bangladesh, India, and Burma. They are Tibeto-Burmese speaking horticulturalists practicing swidden agriculture. The work is the outcome of several …
Brahmanical Theories of the Gift
A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Dānakānda of the Krtyakalpataru
Av David Brick
Inbunden, 2015
548 kr
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This volume constitutes the first critical edition and translation into any modern language of a dānanibandha, a classical Hindu legal digest devoted to the culturally and religiously important topic of gifting. Specifically, it is a critical edition—based upon all identifiable manuscripts—and …
Toda Landscape
Explorations in Cultural Ecology
Inbunden, 2015
562 kr
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The Todas are the oldest inhabitants of the Nilgiri Hills of South India. With their quaint barrel-vaulted architecture, embroidered cloaks, and long-horned buffaloes, they have fascinated the world ever since civilization stepped into the Nilgiris two centuries ago. Their culture revolves around …
Ritual Speech in the Himalayas
Oral Texts and Their Contexts
Inbunden, 2019
434 kr
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The traditions of oral ritual speech in the Himalayas have a lively existence alongside the written “great” traditions that predominate. However, as Martin Gaenszle shows, the oral traditions are still little known and even less understood. This collection of oral texts from Nepal, Bhutan, and …
Vaikhānasa Mantra Praśna V–VIII (Daivikacatuṣṭayam)
Inbunden, 2020
818 kr
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The Vaikhānasas are mentioned in many Vedic texts, and they maintain a close affiliation with the Taittirīya school of the Kṛṣṇa Yajur Veda. Yet they are Vaiṣṇavas, monotheistic worshipers of Viṣṇu. Generally, Vaiṣnavism is held to be a post-Vedic development. Thus, the Vaikhānasas bridge two key …
Veda in Kashmir, Volumes I and II
History and Present State of Vedic Tradition in the Western Himalayas
2021
1217 kr
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The Veda in Kashmir presents a detailed history and the current state of Veda tradition in Kashmir. It traces the vicissitudes of Vedic texts and rituals and their survival during some 400 years of Muslim rule. The peculiarities of the Śākalya Ṛgveda, Kaṭha Yajurveda, and Paippalāda Atharvaveda …
Utpaladeva on the Power of Action
A First Edition, Annotated Translation and Study of Īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛti, Chapter 2.1
Inbunden, 2021
433 kr
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The Recognition of the Lord (Īśvarapratyabhijñā) by the Kashmirian Utpaladeva (c. 925–975) is a landmark in the history of nondual Śaivism, and one of the masterpieces of Indian philosophy. The detailed commentary (Vivṛti) on it by the author himself was so far considered almost entirely lost, but …
Indian Theory of Defeasible Reasoning
The Doctrine of upādhi in the Upādhidarpaṇa
Inbunden, 2022
433 kr
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The anonymous pre-Gaṅgeśa Navya-Nyāya treatise Upādhidarpaṇa (UD) deals exclusively with the so-called upādhi, a key concept in the Navya-Nyāya theory of inference. The present volume contains the first published edition and translation of the only extant manuscript of the UD. Numerous notes have …
Fifth Prapāṭhaka of the Vādhūla Śrautasūtra
Introduction to the Edition, Translation, and Commentary. Critical Edition
Inbunden, 2022
433 kr
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The Fifth Prapāṭhaka of the Vādhūla Śrautasūtra includes a critical edition, followed by a translation and a commentary, of the fifth chapter (prapāṭhaka) of the Vādhūla Śrautasūtra. This chapter is dedicated to the description of the so-called “independent” animal sacrifice (nirūḍhapaśubandha) in …
Rājyābhiṣeka Manual for the Coronation of King Bīrendra of Nepal (1975)
Introduction and Facsimile Edition
Inbunden, 2023
433 kr
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The Rājyābhiṣeka Manual for the Coronation of King Bīrendra of Nepal contains the only extensive coronation manual available for a Hindu king. It was used in the Rājyābhiṣeka rituals of King Bīrendra in February 1975. Long regarded as highly secret, it can now be presented, after the abolition of …
Srngaraprakasa of Bhoja
Inbunden, 2023
743 kr
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This edition is based on new manuscripts of this important treatise on classical Sanskrit poetics. It was composed by the famous eleventh-century King Bhoja of Malwa (West India), a patron of traditional learning.The text has never received a complete critical edition. It is important not only …
Jesuit World Philology & the Birth of Comparative Grammar
The "Ianua Indica" of Ignazio Arcamone SJ
Inbunden, 2025
666 kr
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The Ianua Indica (Indian Gateway) of Ignazio Arcamone S.J. (ca. 1615–1683) is the first comparative grammar of two South Asian vernaculars, Konkani and Marathi. This volume offers a critical edition of the Latin original based on the two surviving manuscripts, a translation into English, and a …
Introduction to Reality
A Study of Śrīgupta’s Tattvāvatāravṛtti with a Critical Edition and Annotated Translation
Av Allison Aitken, Allison Aitken
Inbunden, 2026
802 kr
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Introduction to Reality offers the first comprehensive study, critical edition, and annotated English translation of Śrīgupta’s (c. 7th–8th century) Tattvāvatāravṛtti. As the earliest known synthesis of Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka metaphysics with the Dignāga-Dharmakīrti tradition of logic and …
Zafarnama of Guru Gobind Singh
Inbunden, 2027
860 kr
Kommande
In 1705, the tenth Sikh Guru Gobind Singh addressed a Persian verse letter to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. Known as the Ẓafarnāma, the “Epistle of Victory,” it is one of the most important documents in Sikh history, and one of the least reliably transmitted. Modern printed editions, most of them …
Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts
Inbunden, 1999
814 kr
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Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts is a bilingual (Nepali and English) critical edition of three complete, representative repertoires of shaman texts collected over the past twenty years in Jajarkot District, Western Nepal. Throughout that area, shamans continue to fulfill important therapeutic roles, …
Earliest Missionary Grammar of Tamil
Fr. Henriques' Arte da Lingua Malabar: Translation, History, and Analysis
Inbunden, 2013
447 kr
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Arte da Lingua Malabar is a grammar of the Tamil spoken in the sixteenth century by the Parava pearl fisher community on the east coast of South India between Kanyakumari and Rameswaram. Fr. Henrique Henriques, S.J., a Portuguese Jesuit missionary to South India, was the first diligent student of …
Texte und Glossar
Inbunden, 2016
623 kr
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Prasun (Wasi) is the most aberrant of the Nuristani languages, part of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. It is spoken in the Prasun Valley of the Pech River in northeast Afghanistan. Prasun is a non-literary, unwritten language, and it varies from village to village. Materialien …
Saunakiya Caturadhyayika
A Pratisakhya of the Saunakiya Atharvaveda
Inbunden, 1998
784 kr
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A detailed discussion by the editor complements this critical edition and translation of the phonetical treatise (Pratisakhya) of the Saunaka Samhita, one of two versions of the second oldest Indian text, the Saunaka Atharvaveda.The 19th century edition of the text by W.D. Whitney has long been out …
