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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 and speculative patterns. This
collection brings an interdisciplinary approach to the examination
of possible relationships between different cultural and linguistic
systems of signification.
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 Kalpasutra, Vyakarana and Mimamsa, 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.
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