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This study focuses on the devices implemented in classical Indian texts on ritual and language in order to develop a structure of rules in an economic and systematic way. These devices presuppose a spatial approach to ritual and language, one which deals for instance with absences as substitutions within a pre-existing grid, and not as temporal disappearances. In this way, the study reveals a key feature of some among the most influential schools of Indian thought. The sources are Kalpasūtra, Vyākaraṇa and Mīmāṃsā, three textual traditions which developed alongside each other, sharing - as the volume shows - common presuppositions and methodologies. The book will be of interest for Sanskritists, scholars of ritual exegesis and of the history of linguistics. - Cover.

Tantrism --- Prāsaṅgika --- Philosophy, Indic --- Śrautasūtras --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Prāsaṅgika. --- Philosophy, Indic. --- Tantrism. --- Ritual. --- Indische Philosophie. --- Hinduismus. --- Mimamsa. --- Hiraṇyakeśī Satyāṣādha. --- Śrautasūtras --- Śrautasūtras. --- Śrautasūtra. --- India. --- Hinduismus --- Śrautasūtra --- India --- Prāsaṅgika. --- Śrautasūtras. --- Tantrism - India --- Ritual