Cultural, Historical and Textual Studies of South Asian Religions – serie
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Signless Signification in Ancient India and Beyond
Av Tiziana Pontillo, Maria Piera Candotti
Inbunden, 2013
1190 kr
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The collected essays in this book are the result of a series of workshops held at the University of Cagliari in Italy; this work charts the evolution of key concepts on signless signification of traditional Indian grammar and deals with powerful mechanisms of meaning extension, including rituals …
Fortified Cities of Ancient India
A Comparative Study
Inbunden, 2013
1190 kr
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Authored by one of the leading scholars of German Indology, “Fortified Cities in Ancient India” offers a comparative exploration of the development of towns and cities in ancient India. Based on in-depth textual and archeological research, Professor Dieter Schlingloff’s work presents for the first …
Mahanubhavs
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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The ascetic devotional sect known as the Mahanubhavs – ‘Those of the Great Experience’ – arose in thirteenth-century Maharashtra and initially experienced a fairly rapid expansion across the northern and eastern areas of the region. However, by the end of the fourteenth century the sect had moved …
Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata
Inbunden, 2011
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‘Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata’ is the first attempt at a scientific study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist system of philosophy that flourished in ancient India between the eighth and the twelfth century CE. This study seeks to disprove certain notions about the Carvaka/Lokayata, …
Tradition, Veda and Law
Studies on South Asian Classical Intellectual Traditions
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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The essays presented in this volume constitute a progression from general considerations related to the ‘etic’ (in the geertzian sense of the word) approach to South Asian cultural productions, to peculiar and detailed investigations of them. Such a sequence is meant to develop a renovated and …
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America’s leading Sanskritists and historians of early India. Over the last four decades, the focus of his scholarship has been on the …
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle
Häftad, 2013
422 kr
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This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America’s leading Sanskritists and historians of early India. Over the last four decades, the focus of his scholarship has been on the …
Signless Signification in Ancient India and Beyond
Av Tiziana Pontillo, Maria Piera Candotti
Häftad, 2014
432 kr
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The collected essays in this book are the result of a series of workshops held at the University of Cagliari in Italy; this work charts the evolution of key concepts on signless signification of traditional Indian grammar and deals with powerful mechanisms of meaning extension, including rituals …
Philology and Criticism
A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism
Av Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee
Inbunden, 2018
1970 kr
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Philology and Criticism contrasts the Mahābhārata’s preservation and transmission within the Indian scribal and commentarial traditions with Sanskrit philology after 1900, as German Indologists proposed a critical edition of the Mahābhārata to validate their racial and nationalist views. Vishwa …
