A Sabda Reader

Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548311
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Śabda Reader written by Johannes Bronkhorst and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language (śabda) occupied a central yet often unacknowledged place in classical Indian philosophical thought. Foundational thinkers considered topics such as the nature of language, its relationship to reality, the nature and existence of linguistic units and their capacity to convey meaning, and the role of language in the interpretation of sacred writings. The first reader on language in—and the language of—classical Indian philosophy, A Śabda Reader offers a comprehensive and pedagogically valuable treatment of this topic and its importance to Indian philosophical thought. A Śabda Reader brings together newly translated passages by authors from a variety of traditions—Brahmin, Buddhist, Jaina—representing a number of schools of thought. It illuminates issues such as how Brahmanical thinkers understood the Veda and conceived of Sanskrit; how Buddhist thinkers came to assign importance to language’s link to phenomenal reality; how Jains saw language as strictly material; the possibility of self-contradictory sentences; and how words affect thought. Throughout, the volume shows that linguistic presuppositions and implicit notions about language often play as significant a role as explicit ideas and formal theories. Including an introduction that places the texts and ideas in their historical and cultural context, A Śabda Reader sheds light on a crucial aspect of classical Indian thought and in so doing deepens our understanding of the philosophy of language.

Author : Kedar Arun Kulkarni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9354351816
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India written by Kedar Arun Kulkarni and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India describes the way Marathi literary culture, entrenched in performative modes of production and reception, saw the germination of a robust, script-centric dramatic culture owing to colonial networks of literary exchange and the newfound, wide availability of print technology. The author demonstrates the upheaval that literary culture underwent as a new class of literati emerged: anthologists, critics, theatre makers, publishers and translators. These people participated in global conversations that left their mark on theory in the early twentieth century. Reading through archives and ephemera, Kedar Arun Kulkarni illustrates how literary cultures in colonised locales converged with and participated fully in key defining moments of world literature, but also diverged from them to create, simultaneously, a unique literary modernity.

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Publisher : Sanbun Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788189540319
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Conception of Sabda in Guru Granth Sahib written by and published by Sanbun Publishers. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kapil Kapoor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabda, Text and Interpretation in Indian Thought written by Kapil Kapoor and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift For Professor Kapil Kapoor Has 2 Parts - On Containing 14 Essays - The Other Relating To Ideas Which Has 7 Contributions - The Book Is An Attempt To Convey Something Of The Man And What He Stands For.

Author : Ross Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137217650
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound: A Reader in Theatre Practice written by Ross Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown explores relationships between sound and theatre, focusing on sound's interdependence and interaction with human performance and drama. Suggesting different ways in which sound may be interpreted to create meaning, it includes key writings on sound design, as well as perspectives from beyond the discipline.

Author : Franklin Edgerton
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120804813
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Reader written by Franklin Edgerton and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Reader is a collection of selections from the Mahavastu, Mahaparinirvana Sutra, Udanavarga and Lalitavistara which have been edited according to the principles to be adopted for Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. The purpose behind this work is to facilities the practical use of the author's Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary (2 vols.) by scholars and students as well as teachers interested in the language.

Author : Meenambal Narayan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nāgeśa and the Mahābhāṣya written by Meenambal Narayan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joginder Singh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351986341
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Pluralism in Punjab written by Joginder Singh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the heterogeneous modes of meditation, prayer, initiation, beliefs and practices, codes of conduct, ethics and life-style of the contemporary Sikh Sants, Babas, Gurus and Satgurus in Punjab.

Author : Annette Wilke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110240033
Total Pages : 1137 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound and Communication written by Annette Wilke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 1137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hindu India both orality and sonality have enjoyed great cultural significance since earliest times. They have a distinct influence on how people approach texts. The importance of sound and its perception has led to rites, models of cosmic order, and abstract formulas. Sound serves both to stimulate religious feelings and to give them a sensory form. Starting from the perception and interpretation of sound, the authors chart an unorthodox cultural history of India, turning their attention to an important, but often neglected aspect of daily religious life. They provide a stimulating contribution to the study of cultural systems of perception that also adds new aspects to the debate on orality and literality.

Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004315519
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Brahmins Won written by Johannes Bronkhorst and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE, transformed itself and spread all over South and Southeast Asia.