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Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages - Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations (Hardcover): Vincenzo Vergiani,... Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages - Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations (Hardcover)
Vincenzo Vergiani, Daniele Cuneo, Camillo Alessio Formigatti
R6,512 Discovery Miles 65 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.

Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions (Paperback): Lucas Den Boer, Daniele Cuneo Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions (Paperback)
Lucas Den Boer, Daniele Cuneo
R927 R850 Discovery Miles 8 500 Save R77 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Puspika Volume 4 contains the proceedings of the seventh International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Leiden 2015). The fourteen papers included here cover a rich variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of South Asia such as grammar, poetry and philosophy, examined from a plurality of disciplinary perspectives, with a particular emphasis on philology, history and sociology. The first four articles of focus on the Sanskrit language, from the strictly linguistic and historical perspective to the wider political issue of its uses and abuses. The second section deals with issues in poetry, aesthetics and performative arts, ranging from classical Sanskrit mahakavyas to contemporary Kathak dance. The third section is focused on the philosophical traditions of South Asia (and beyond), with an eye to both a strictly historical approach and a more argumentative and evaluative one. Finally material culture and its relations to both the historical and the ideological are the themes treated in the last section of the volume.

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