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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

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The collected essays in this book are the result of a series of workshops held at the University of Cagliari in Italy; this work charts the evolution of key concepts on signless signification of traditional Indian grammar and deals with powerful mechanisms of meaning extension, including rituals and speculative patterns. This collection brings an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of possible relationships between different cultural and linguistic systems of signification.

Historical linguistics --- Indo-Aryan languages --- Indic languages (Indo-Aryan) --- Indo-Iranian languages --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Grammar. --- History

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Historical linguistics --- Indic languages

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This volume contains 18 papers presented at the International Conference "Mirabilia and violence around the Indus. The last years of Alexander the Great in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit literary reception", held at the University of Cagliari (8-10 March 2023). Divided into three thematic sections (Il mondo classico; L'India e la Cina; Medioevo e Rinascimento), the essays differ in the linguistic varieties of the primary sources analysed, in the chronological range from the first Hellenism to the Renaissance, and in the approach adopted, historical or philological-literary. However, a common thread runs through all the works: the reception of Alexander from a broad and multifocal perspective, ranging from the description of the mirabilia associated with the late Eastern campaign to the contrasting characterisation of the king as a 'philosopher in arms' and an unbridled conqueror. With contributions from several experts in the specific subject and in the various disciplines involved, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach that can stimulate scholars and students in a variety of fields.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Alexander, Macedonia, King. --- Classical antiquity. --- Indus. --- reception.

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Vratyas --- Hinduism and social problems --- Hinduism --- Rituals --- Vedas --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.