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This volume contains a critical edition, English translation and essays on the initial section of the Kasikavrtti (7th c. CE), the oldest complete commentary on the Astadhyayi of Panini.

Sanskrit language --- Abbreviations, Sanskrit. --- Sanskrit abbreviations --- Grammar. --- Abbreviations --- Vāmana, --- Pāṇini.

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This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.

Manuscripts, Indic.

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Cet ouvrage d’essais se propose de reconstruire les échanges, les réactions, les affinités et les ruptures qui se sont produits entre les univers culturels sanskrit et tamoul au cours de la période médiévale. Les intellectuels qui créèrent les oeuvres au sein de ces deux univers circulaient aisément entre ces domaines que l’indianisme a souvent eu tendance à compartimenter. Les onze contributions qui composent ce volume tentent de dépasser cette perspective trop étroite, valorisant ainsi la richesse et la complexité de la synthèse culturelle qui prit forme dans l’Inde du Sud à cette époque. Grâce à l’examen attentif de l’articulation des identités, des pratiques et des savoirs dans des textes de genres divers composés en tamoul ou en sanskrit (autant qu’en prakrit et en malayalam), ces essais offrent un tableau unique de par sa profondeur historique et sa complexité conceptuelle de l’Inde du Sud au moyen âge et, tout en utilisant des démarches novatrices dans la façon d’étudier et d’interroger les phénomènes transculturels, rendent compte de l’énorme quantité de travail qui reste à faire dans ce domaine. This collection of essays aims to trace the exchanges, responses, affinities and fissures between the worlds of Sanskrit and Tamil literary cultures in the medieval period. The literati who produced the works in these languages moved freely between domains that earlier Indological scholarship has tended to compartmentalise. The eleven studies presented in this volume strive to move beyond this narrow perspective and thus do justice to the richness and complexity of the cultural synthesis that took shape in South India in this period. By looking at the articulation of identities, practices, and discourses in texts of a range of genres composed in Tamil and Sanskrit (as well as Prakrit and Malayalam), these essays supply a picture of South India in the medieval period that is unique in its historical depth and conceptual complexity and demonstrate innovative ways to…

Discourse analysis, Literary --- Sanskrit --- Tamil --- Comparative literature --- Discourse analysis. --- Tamil and Sanskrit. --- Sanskrit and Tamil. --- Discourse analysis, Literary - India --- Sanskrit - Discourse analysis --- Tamil - Discourse analysis --- Comparative literature - Tamil and Sanskrit --- Comparative literature - Sanskrit and Tamil --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Literary discourse analysis --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- History and criticism --- cultural history --- medieval period --- intellectual history --- transculturation --- Sanskrit language