Rule-extension strategies in ancient India

Ritual, Exegetical and Linguistic Considerations on the "tantra"- and "prasaṅga"-Principles

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• Elisa Freschi

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• 177 pagine
• 7 ore di lettura

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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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2013