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Ideology and Status of Sanskrit Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language Edited by Jan E.M. Houben July 1996 · ISBN: 9789004106130 · Hardback (x, 502 pp. 1 map) · List price: €184.- / $240.- · Language: English · Brill's Indological Library, 13 · Imprint: BRILL · Subject Asian Studies › South Asia E-Book booksandjournals.brillonline.com offers online access to Brill's books and journals. BRILL Phone (NL) +31 (0)71-53 53 500 Phone (US) +1-617-263-2323 Email: [email protected] The present volume is the outcome of a seminar on the Ideology and Status of Sanskrit held in Leiden under the auspices of the International Institute for Asian Studies. The book contains studies of crucial periods and important areas in the history of the Sanskrit language, from the earliest, Vedic and pre-Vedic periods, through the period in which the (restricted) use of Sanskrit spread over practically all of South (including part of Central) and Southeast Asia (sometimes referred to as the period of "Greater India"), up to the recent history of Sanskrit in India. The contributions of this volume are divided into three sections: (1) Origins and Creation of the "Eternal Language"; (2) Transculturation, Vernacularization, Sanskritization; (3) The Sanskrit Tradition: Continuity from the past or Construction from the present? The volume should be of interest to Sanskritists, linguists, anthropologists, and to historians and sociologists of South, Central and Southeast Asia. READERSHIP: For more information see http://www.brill.com/ideology-and-status-sanskrit View full information on http://www.brill.com/
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Ideology and Status of SanskritContributions to the History of the Sanskrit LanguageEdited by Jan E.M. Houben
July 1996ISBN:9789004106130Hardback (x, 502 pp. 1 map)List price: 184.- / $240.-Language:EnglishBrill's Indological Library, 13Imprint:BRILL
Subject
Asian StudiesSouth Asia
E-Bookbooksandjournals.brillonline.com
offers online access to Brill's
books and journals.
BRILL
Phone (NL) +31 (0)71-53 53 500
Phone (US) +1-617-263-2323
Email: [email protected]
The present volume is the outcome of a seminar on the Ideology and Status of Sanskrit held in Leiden under the auspices of the International Institute for Asian Studies. The book contains studies of crucial periods and important areas in the history of the Sanskrit language, from the earliest, Vedic and pre-Vedic periods, through the period in which the (restricted) use of Sanskrit spread over practically all of South (including part of Central) and Southeast Asia (sometimes referred to as the period of "Greater India"), up to the recent history of Sanskrit in India.The contributions of this volume are divided into three sections: (1) Origins and Creation of the "Eternal Language"; (2) Transculturation, Vernacularization, Sanskritization; (3) The Sanskrit Tradition: Continuity from the past or Construction from the present?
The volume should be of interest to Sanskritists, linguists, anthropologists, and to historians and sociologists of South, Central and Southeast Asia.
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For more information see http://www.brill.com/ideology-and-status-sanskrit
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