Philology and criticism : a guide to Mahābhārata textual criticism

Authors:Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee

Summary:The first book to present a comprehensive review of the Mahābhārata Critical Edition, with overviews of stemmata (textual trees), how the logic of the stemmata determined editorial choices, and an in-depth analysis of the edition’s strengths and drawbacks. An invaluable asset to any scholar working contemplating serious work on the Mahābhārata.

Print Book, English, 2018

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Publisher: Anthem Press, London, 2018

Series:

Cultural, historical and textual studies of South Asian religions

Physical Description:XXXII, 536 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm

ISBN:

9781783085767, 9781783085781, 9781783085774, 1783085762, 1783085789, 1783085770

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1050950529

Subjects:

Mahābhārata / Criticism, interpretation, etc

Contents:

List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter Summaries; Introduction Ad Fontes, Non Ultra Fontes!; Chapter One Arguments for a Hyperarchetypal Inference; Chapter Two Reconstructing the Source of Contamination; Chapter Three Confusions Regarding Classification; Conclusion: Textual Criticism and Indology; Epilogue; Appendices; Glossary; Annotated Bibliography; Index.