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The Language of the Gods in the World of Men - Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (Hardcover)
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The Language of the Gods in the World of Men - Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (Hardcover)
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In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores
the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language,
as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments
of its transformation: the first around the beginning of the Common
Era, when Sanskrit, long a sacred language, was reinvented as a
code for literary and political expression, the start of an amazing
career that saw Sanskrit literary culture spread from Afghanistan
to Java. The second moment occurred around the beginning of the
second millennium, when local speech forms challenged and
eventually replaced Sanskrit in both the literary and political
arenas. Drawing striking parallels, chronologically as well as
structurally, with the rise of Latin literature and the Roman
empire, and with the new vernacular literatures and nation-states
of late-medieval Europe, "The Language of the Gods in the World of
Men" asks whether these very different histories challenge current
theories of culture and power and suggest new possibilities for
practice.
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