Indian Philology and South Asian Studies
Latest release: March 20, 2017
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5
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No detailed description available for "The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia".
The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity
Book 1 · Oct 2012 ·
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No detailed description available for "The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia".
A Handbook of Pali Literature
Book 2 · Mar 2017 ·
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The Handbook surveys the whole of Pali Theravada Buddhist literature (Ceylon, South East Asia). It reviews previous research in the field, and then concentrates on new methodological approaches and a treatment of later Pali literature (after the twelfth century).
Pali: A Grammar of the Language of the Theravada Tipitaka. With a Concordance to Pischel's Grammatik der Prakrit-Sprachen
Book 3 · Apr 2011 ·
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The grammar presents a full decription of Pali, the language used in the Theravada Buddhist canon, which is still alive in Ceylon and South-East Asia. The development of its phonological and morphological systems is traced in detail from Old Indic. Comprehensive references to comparable features and phenomena from other Middle Indic languages mean that this grammar can also be used to study the literature of Jainism.
The Laghukatha: A Historical and Literary Analysis of a Modern Hindi Prose Genre
Book 4 · Feb 2013 ·
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The book presented here is the first work of Western literary criticism to examine the Hindi laghukathā - a modern Indian prose genre that has been published since the 1970s in Hindi newspapers and magazines and is characterised by its concise form (500 words on average) and socio-political agenda. The importance of the genre within the Hindi literary scene lies in the fact that the laghukathā is based on indigenous genres which have been modernised, whereas the Hindi short story and the novel are Western genres that have been appropriated and Indianised.
A thorough investigation of around 280 primary texts accompanied by an evaluation of the relevant Hindi criticism gives a comprehensive literary analysis of this genre and its historical development. This allows, in conclusion, to delineate an "ideal type" of laghukathā, suggesting a range of compulsory, desirable and optional features. English translations of almost 50 representative Hindi texts complete the picture and thus provide an insight into this genre so far unknown to a Western audience.
A Grammar of Epic Sanskrit
Book 5 · Oct 2012 ·
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Die beiden großen Epen des (alten) Indiens, das Mahābhārata und das Rāmāyaņa, sind in einer Sprache verfaßt, die sich in vielen Einzelheiten von der Hochsprache des (sog.) klassischen Sanskrit unterscheidet. Die Grammar of Epic Sanskrit bietet nun zum ersten Mal, und dies auf der Grundlage der beiden kritischen Editionen, eine (möglichst) vollständige Zusammenstellung solcher Abweichungen. In aller Regel ist dabei der Kontext, in dem eine unregelmäßige Form oder Konstruktion steht, im Originaltext und in Übersetzung gegeben. Damit transparent wird, wie es zur Entstehung der phonologischen, morphologischen und syntaktischen Besonderheiten des epischen Sanskrit gekommen ist, sind in jedem einzelnen Falle sprachwissenschaftliche Erklärungen beigegeben. Darüber hinaus finden sich in einem Anhang all die Verbformen (unter Angabe der Textstellen) verzeichnet, die innerhalb des Sanskrit zum ersten Mal im Epos belegt sind. Umfangreiche Indizes erschließen das Werk. Durchgehend angebrachte Verweise auf die entsprechenden Paragraphen der Standard-Grammatiken des Sanskrit erhöhen den praktischen Wert des Buches für den Benutzer.