Ideology and Status of Sanskrit: Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit LanguageJan E. M. Houben 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? |
Contents
Instances of treatment of Sanskrit | 10 |
Origins and Creation of the Eternal Language | 13 |
The early history of Sanskrit as supreme language | 59 |
What was Sanskrit for? Metadiscursive strategies | 87 |
the Buddhist contribution | 109 |
Jain attitudes towards the Sanskrit language Paul Dundas | 137 |
Sociolinguistic attitudes reflected in the work | 157 |
Transculturation Sanskritization Vernacularization | 195 |
The introduction of Indian Prosody among the Thais | 307 |
Do you speak Sanskrit? On a class of Sanskrit texts | 327 |
Sanskrit and Hindu national identity in nineteenth | 347 |
from | 367 |
Position of Sanskrit in public education and scientific | 383 |
Features | 401 |
Bibliography | 439 |
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in Tantric literature Teun Goudriaan | 265 |
More on the Kārakasamgraha a Sanskrit grammatical | 289 |
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