Motilal Banarsidass
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Epic Undertakings: Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference Vol.2
The present volume places before the Indological community the sixteen learned papers presented at the conference by the distinguished group of scholars who were in attendance. The topics and methodologies of the authors are as varied and diverse as the contents of the monumental poems themselves but each contribution sheds new light on some aspect of the genetic and/or receptive history of these works, their relationship to each other and to other Indic texts, or the representation and analysis of specific characters and episodes in the poems.
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Literary and Historical Studies in Indology
This collection of research articlesa about Literary and Historical Studies in Indology deals with various problems of Sanskrit literature, ancient Indian history, art and architecture. Section I deals with problems presented by several Sanskrit works, namely the lower limit of the date of the original Harivamsa, Kalapriyanatha mentioned in Bhavabhuti’s plays the identification of the date of Dhananjaya the author of the Dvisandhana Kavya and the Namamala and the fixation of his date the historical background of Rajasekhara’s Viddhasalabhanjika etc. It gives also for the first time a detailed account for Soddhala’s Udayasundarikatha.
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Origin and Growth of the Puranic Text Corpus: With Special Reference to the Skandapurana
Origin and Growth of the Puranic Text Corpus: With Special Reference to the Skandapurana
The Purana panel that was part of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference that was held in Helsinki in July 2003 was intended to investigate deviations from the original Purana texts, and the papers that were presented at that panel are gathered in this collection. They concentrate mostly on the original Skandapurana, which is an excellent resource for research on the beginnings, development, and growth of the Purana writings as well as the theological advancements that these works depict.
The order in which the chapters of this book are presented has a purpose, even if each chapter may be read independently of the others. The first portion of Bakker’s contribution might be seen as a kind of introduction to the topic being discussed. The second component of the analysis focuses on a portion of the text in which the distinction between recension and other categories does not have a significant impact. Torzsok and Harimoto’s contributions centre on the transmission of the Purana and its evolution into a variety of recensions during the course of their research.
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Hans T. Bakker
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