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Modes of Philology in Medieval South India

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AvWhitney Cox

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Philology was everywhere and nowhere in classical South Asia. While its civilizations possessed remarkably sophisticated tools and methods of textual analysis, interpretation, and transmission, they lacked any sense of a common disciplinary or intellectual project uniting these; indeed they lacked a word for ‘philology’ altogether.Arguing that such pseudepigraphical genres as the Sanskrit purāṇas and tantras incorporated modes of philological reading and writing, Cox demonstrates the ways in which the production of these works in turn motivated the invention of new kinds of śāstric scholarship. Combining close textual analysis with wider theoretical concerns, Cox traces this philological transformation in the works of the dramaturgist Śāradātanaya, the celebrated Vaiṣṇava poet-theologian Veṅkaṭanātha, and the maverick Śaiva mystic Maheśvarānanda.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-10-13
Mått155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt451 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilological Encounters Monographs
Antal sidor196
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004331679

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA note on the transliteration, presentation, and citationof primary textsI. Introduction: towards a history of Indic philologyPhilology?Indian philology?Existing studiesParametersII. Textual Pasts and FuturesThe southern pseudepigrapha: an overviewA case study: the SūtasaṃhitāMethods of the anonymous philology: the ‘toolkit’Appropriation and adaptation: Cekkiḻār’s PĕriyapurāṇamConclusions: looking aheadIII. Bearing the Nāṭyaveda: Śāradātanaya’s BhāvaprakāśanaIntroduction: nāṭya as a form of knowledgeAt Śāradā’s side: the author and his workBharatavṛddha, Śiva, Padmabhū, Vāsuki‘Following the Kalpavallī’“Lost or as good as lost”IV. Veṅkaṭanātha and the limits of philological argumentSnakes versus EaglesRite and ContaminationEarlier canons of Vaiṣṇava textual criticismOn the shores of the milk ocean: Veṅkaṭanātha’s poetry as philologyV. Flowers of language: Maheśvarānanda’s MahārthamañjarīThe dreamThe pleasures of the textAmbiguity and auto-philologyWriting, reading, and the hermeneutical yoginMaheśvarānanda’s GītāVI. Conclusions: philology as politics, philology as scienceContext one: philology in and as temple-state politicsContext two: Indic philology and the history of science1. Non-reductive historicism2. The refusal of teleology3. The agency of the non-humanProblems and prospectsBibliography