The Sanskrit Language: An Overview : History and Structure, Linguistic and Philosophical Representations, Uses and UsersThis book has the rare distinction of being both an introductorybook and a new ground-breaking study. It is an introductorybook because the reader gets an accurate overview ofthe language, and it is also a ground-breaking study becauseFilliozat s approach harmonizes two different and complementarystands that often have been at war: the Western historicaland comparative approach and the indigenous pa!Çitatradition. Sanskrit is described here from these two points ofview: what the native speakers knew and felt about theirlanguage, and what the foreign scholars discovered in theirhistorical and comparative quest. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Representations of Sanskrit | 53 |
The users of Sanskrit | 67 |
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