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Pali
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

Pali

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 Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2004
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2004

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. The considerable body of linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale. Despite this, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst South Asian linguists. The YEARBOOK OF SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability. Each volume of...

A Grammar of Epic Sanskrit
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 688

A Grammar of Epic Sanskrit

The two great epics of (old) India, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, are written in a language, which differs from so-called classical Sanskrit in many details. Both texts still are of an enormous importance in India and other countries. Because of this, a grammar describing all the different characteristics of epic Sanskrit has been missed until now. The Grammar of Epic Sanskrit will now close this gap.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Hindu Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 425

The Bloomsbury Companion to Hindu Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-16
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Originally published as The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies, this Companion offers the definitive guide to Hinduism and study in this area. Now available in paperback, The Bloomsbury Companion to Hindu Studies covers all the most pressing and important themes and categories in the field - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active areas of research. Specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, valuably, how the various topics intersect through detailed reading paths. Featuring a series of indispensible research tools, including a detailed list of resources, chronology and diagrams summarizing content, this is the essential tool for anyone working in Hindu Studies.

Studies in the Kāśikāvṛtti
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Studies in the Kāśikāvṛtti

This volume contains a critical edition, English translation and essays on the initial section of the Kasikavrtti (7th c. CE), the oldest complete commentary on the Astadhyayi of Panini.

The Indo-Aryan Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1086

The Indo-Aryan Languages

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-07-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each chapter on the individual language covers the phonology and grammar (morphology and syntax) of the language and its writing system, and gives the historical background and information concerning the geography of the language and the number of its speakers.

Jñāndev Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Jñāndev Studies

In Maharastra sind viele der Anschauungen und Praktiken der mittelalterlichen Nath-Yogis noch lebendig bzw. wurden von der visnuitischen Varkari-Bewegung absorbiert, die heute eine der wichtigsten religi�sen Gruppierungen des Landes ist. In Band I sind die Yoga-Lehren ausfuehrlich dargelegt anhand von 150 erstmals kritisch edierten und in eine westliche Sprache uebersetzten Liedern, die dem Nationalheiligen J�andev zugeschrieben werden. Dabei wird auch die seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts viel diskutierte Autorschaftsfrage unter Beruecksichtigung sprachlicher und inhaltlicher Faktoren behandelt, und in Band II auf 50 Lieder visnuitischer Pr�gung ausgeweitet.

The Mahabharata, Volume 7
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 851

The Mahabharata, Volume 7

The second-longest poem in world literature, this is an epic tale, replete with legends, romances, theology, and metaphysical doctrine written in Sanskrit. One of the foundational elements of Hindu culture, this work in its entirety consists of 75,000 stanzas in eighteen books, and this volume marks the resumption of its first complete modern English translation.--From book jacket.

Classical Philology and Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 782

Classical Philology and Linguistics

There is a long-standing debate over the relation of historical linguistics and classical philology, especially within the purview of the renewed interest in it during the last decades and the recent trends that characterize philological and linguistic studies. Ever since its appearance in the nineteenth century, the history of this debate testifies to a turbulent coexistence and fertile collaboration of the two disciplines, but at times also moving along centrifugal paths. The essays in this volume address this debate and cover various aspects of linguistic and philological research of Greek and Latin, moving in the middle ground where language, linguistics and philology crosscut and cross-fertilize each other highlighting the application of linguistic theory to the study of classical texts and drawing on fields such as syntactic theory and pragmatics, historical semantics and the lexicon, reconstruction and etymology, dialectology, editorial practices, the use of corpora, and other interdisciplinary approaches that function as hinges between philology and linguistics.

The glorious Tantra King who cut off all secrets - Shri Guhya Sarvacchinnata Tantraraja
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 65

The glorious Tantra King who cut off all secrets - Shri Guhya Sarvacchinnata Tantraraja

The following text belongs to the Supreme Yogatantra of Tibetan Buddhism. It dates back to the 11th century . It was created by a team of Tibetan and Indian scholars around Drokmi and Gayadhara. Drokmi is known as Lotsava Shakya Yeshe. This is Eye of the World from Sanskrit. Texts of this kind are very precious and rare. I am very thankful that this text felt in my hands. In our courses that have been set up over the years in our group around Khen Rinpoche Pema Samten we have reached the point where we can begin the meditation of the Completion stage. Users of this text should have experience with the Supreme Yogatantra. Then the meditation of the text can be extremely beneficial. Beginners in Buddhism should practice the basic practice first.