Rule-extension Strategies in Ancient India: Ritual, Exegetical and Linguistic Considerations on the "tantra"- and "prasaṅga"-Principles
Author:
Elisa Freschi, Tiziana Pontillo
ISBN:
9783631628720
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2013
Pages:
187
Size:
15 x 23 cm
Weight:
345 grams
Price:
INR
3100.00
This study focuses on the devices implemented in Classical Indian texts on ritual and language in order to develop a structure of rules in an economic and systematic way. These devices presuppose a spatial approach to ritual and language, one which deals for instance with absences as substitutions within a pre-existing grid, and not as temporal disappearances. In this way, the study reveals a key feature of some among the most influential schools of Indian thought.The sources are Kalpasūtra, Vyākaraṇa and Mīmāṃsā, three textual traditions which developed alongside each other, sharing – as the volume shows – common presuppositions and methodologies. The book will be of interest for Sanskritists, scholars of ritual exegesis and of the history of linguistics.
Molly A. Daniels
Molly A. Daniels is the founder-director of a school of writing that has produced over fifteen hundred writers in the Chicago area. She holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago, and is the author of a novel, two novellas, short stories, a book of criticism, and a manual for writers, containing four hundred exercises and lessons. She edits The Clothesline Review, and Father Gander Rhymes and Other Poems. She won the Illinois Arts Council Award for Best Criticism, and Best Fiction.