Search Results for sanskritization

..., anthropologists talk about language, and classical Indologists about culture. A recent example is the concept of Sanskritization, introduced by anthropologists with obvious reference to Sanskrit, the language to which the main attention of classical Indologists has always been directed. As a student of Sanskrit...

...M. N. Srinivas Abstract The concept of “Sanskritization” was found useful by me in the analysis of the social and religious life of the Coorgs of South India. A few other anthropologists who are making studies of tribal and village communities in various parts of India seem to find the concept...

...Richard Salomon Epigraphical Hybrid Sanskrit: Its Rise, Spread, Characteristics and Relationship to Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit . By Th. Damsteegt . Leiden : E. J. Brill (Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina Vol. 23), 1978 . xiv, 345 pp. Abbreviations, Notes, Index. D.Glds. 96. Copyright ©...

...Robert P. Goldman Ideology and Status of Sanskrit: Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language . Edited by Jan E. M. Houben . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1996 . x, 501 pp. $158.25 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 1126 THE JOURNAL...

.... University of Washington A New History of Sanskrit Literature. By KRISHNA CHAITANYA. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1962. x, 490. References. $10.00. The author's express purpose in writing this new history of Sanskrit literature is admittedly vague. He strives for completeness and balance...

... and nuances of this complex work will likely appeal to scholars of Mughal history and Persian and Sanskrit literary studies. Truschke's emphasis on the need to train multilingual scholars to study the Persianate and Mughal contexts is also a useful reminder to graduate programs in the diverse disciplines...

..., the comprehensiveness of the work indicates that the author has steeped himself in Gandhian literature, and the book provides a concise, carefully organized summary of Gandhian political thought. BLAIR B. KLING University of Illinois Vidyakara's "Subhasitaratnakosa." An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry. Translated...

...Guy Richard Welbon A Concise Elementary Grammar of the Sanskrit Language . By Jan Gonda . Translated by Gordon B. Ford Jr. , University, Alabama : University of Alabama Press , 1966 . viii, 152 pp. Glossary. $5.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969...

...Stella Kramrisch Silpa Prakāśa: Medieval Orissan Sanskrit Text on Temple Architecture . By Rāmacandra Kaulācāra . Translated and annotated by Alice Boner and Sadāśiva Rath Śārmā . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1966 . lvii , 166 , 102 pp. Plates, Illustrations, Sanskrit Text. 150 Guilders...

...Kenneth Chen The Śatapañcāśatka of Mātrceta : Sanskrit Text, Tibetan translation and commentary, and Chinese translation . Edited by D. R. Shackleton Bailey , with an introduction, English translation and notes. Cambridge : The University Press , 1951 . xi, 237 p. Copyright ©...

...M. B. Emeneau Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 The Indian Heritage: An Anthology of Sanskrit Literature . Selected and translated by V. Raghavan . Bangalore : Indian Institute of Culture , 1956 . lxxv, 447 . $5.00. BOOK REVIEWS 349 The Indian Heritage...

...Dorothy Figueira The Modernity of Sanskrit . By Simona Sawhney . Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press , 2009 . xi, 213 pp. $22.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Contrary to the claims of Clinton Seely on the jacket cover...

...Frederick M. Smith This useful volume deserves to be consulted by classicists and scholars of modern Hinduism alike. The impact of the Sanskrit epics on modern India cannot be understated, and these studies assist greatly in our understanding of how this came about. Paolo Magnone writes...

...Aditya Adarkar The Sanskrit Hero: Karn.a in Epic Mahabharata . By Kevin McGrath . Leiden and Boston : Brill , 2004 . xii , 260 pp. $87.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 783 in depth on the hereditary...

...Donald K. Swearer Buddhist Monastic Discipline: The Sanskrit Prātimokṣa Sūtras of the Mahāsāṃghikas and Mūlasarvāstivādins . By Charles S. Prebish . University Park and London : The Pennsylvania State University Press , 1975 . 156 PP. Notes, Appendix, Bibliography. $ 13.00. Copyright...

...Kenneth E. Bryant Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Purānas . Edited and translated by Cornelia Dimmitt and J. A. B. van Buitenen . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1978 . xiii, 373 pp. Glossary, Notes on Sources, Index. $17.50 (cloth); $9.95 (paper...

...Richard A. Williams Sanskrit Love Poetry . Translated by W. S. Merwin and J. Moussaieff Masson . Introduction by J. Moussaieff Masson . New York : Columbia University Press , 1977 . xii, 204 pp. Notes to Introduction, Bibliography, Index of Texts. $15.00. Copyright ©...

...Kathryn Hansen Sanskrit Drama in Performance . Edited by Rachel Van M. Baumer and James R. Brandon . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1981 . xiv , 318 pp. Photographs, Notes, Glossary, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS...

...David Shulman The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India . By Sheldon Pollock . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2006 . 703 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007...

...Lawrence McCrea Śāstrārambha: Inquiries into the Preamble in Sanskrit . Edited by Walter Slaje . Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag , 2008 . xv , 255 pp. €64.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 This volume, based on a panel convened...