UID:
almahu_9949702500802882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004223479
Series Statement:
Brill's Indological library ; v. 40
Content:
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
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminary Material /
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Introduction: Manuscript Culture and Its Impact in "India": Contours and Parameters /
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On the Johan van Manen Collection: Its Origin and Background /
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A Cultural Encounter in the Early 18th Century: The Collection of South Indian Manuscripts by the French Jesuit Fathers of the Carnatic Mission /
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The South Indian Drama Manuscripts /
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The Jaiminīya Sāmaveda Traditions and Manuscripts in South India /
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Texts and Communities: The Manuscripts of the Lost Yāmalāṣṭakatantra /
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From Palmleaves to a Multimedia Databank: A Note on the 'Bhāsa-Project' /
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The Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tamilnadu /
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Indian Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Manuscripts and Their Colophons /
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Varieties of Grantha Script: The Date and Place of Origin of Manuscripts /
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From my Grandfather's Chest of Palmleaf Books /
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Rāmasubrahmaṇya's Manuscripts: Intellectual Networks in the Kaveri Delta, 1693-1922 /
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The Use of Manuscript Catalogues as Sources of Regional Intellectual History in India's Early Modern Period /
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Index /
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Plates /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Aspects of manuscript culture in South India. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2012 ISBN 9789004219007
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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