Aspects of Manuscript Culture in South India
- Editor Saraju Rath
- Subjects: Asian Studies
- Keywords: intellectual; Indian; literature; scripts; culture; culturual; Vedic; history; collection; Sanskrit
- Publication Year : 2012
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004223479
- E - ISBN : 9789004223479
- Imprint: Brill
- Collections: Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012
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This volume deals with South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts, predominantly on palm leaf and rarely older than three to four centuries, and their role in a manuscript culture that had a significant impact on Indian intellectual history for around two millennia.
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Preliminary Material
- pp. i–xv
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Introduction: Manuscript Culture and Its Impact in “India”: Contours and Parameters
- pp. 1–53 (53)
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On the Johan van Manen Collection: Its Origin and Background
- pp. 55–67 (13)
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A Cultural Encounter in the Early 18th Century: The Collection of South Indian Manuscripts by the French Jesuit Fathers of the Carnatic Mission
- pp. 69–80 (12)
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The South Indian Drama Manuscripts
- pp. 81–97 (17)
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The Jaiminīya Sāmaveda Traditions and Manuscripts in South India
- pp. 99–118 (20)
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Texts and Communities: The Manuscripts of the Lost Yāmalāṣṭakatantra
- pp. 119–138 (20)
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From Palmleaves to a Multimedia Databank: A Note on the ‘Bhāsa-Project’
- pp. 139–155 (17)
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The Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tamilnadu
- pp. 157–172 (16)
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Indian Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Manuscripts and Their Colophons
- pp. 173–185 (13)
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Varieties of Grantha Script: The Date and Place of Origin of Manuscripts
- pp. 187–206 (20)
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From my Grandfather’s Chest of Palmleaf Books
- pp. 207–233 (27)
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Rāmasubrahmaṇya’s Manuscripts: Intellectual Networks in the Kaveri Delta, 1693-1922
- pp. 235–252 (18)
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The Use of Manuscript Catalogues as Sources of Regional Intellectual History in India’s Early Modern Period
- pp. 253–287 (35)
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