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Since the time of the Upanishads, the Indian tradition of semantic elucidation known as nirvacana analysis has been a powerful tool in the interpretation of Sanskrit texts. By drawing on the appropriate literature and deploying the model provided by the tradition itself, the author explains how it was used and why it became so significant. The book will be an important reference tool for students of Sanskrit and Indian studies, as well as to those in the field of indigenous Indian linguistics.
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"...this book is a richly documented, successful effort to find a place for Yaska and the nirvacana tradition of semantic analysis that can rightly be claimed as their own. Handsomely produced, it contains all the standard resources (e.g., lists of abbreviations, bibliography, and index) expected in a first-rate scholarly work." Anthropological Linguistics
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0521631882
- ISBN 13 9780521631884
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages322
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The Indian tradition of semantic elucidation known as nirvacana analysis represented a powerful hermeneutic tool in the exegesis and transmission of authoritative scripture. Nevertheless, it has all too frequently been dismissed by modern scholars as anything from folk-etymology to a primitive forerunner of historical linguistics. Eivind Kahrs argues that such views fall short of explaining both its acceptance within the sophisticated grammatical tradition of vyakarana and its effective usage in the processing of Sanskrit texts. He establishes his argument by investigating the learned Sanskrit literature of Saiva Kashmir and explains the nirvacana tradition in the light of a model substitution, used at least since the time of the Upanisads and later refined in the technical literatures of grammar and ritual. According to this model, a substitute (adesa) takes the place (sthana) of the original placeholder (sthanin). On the basis of a searching analysis of Sanskrit texts, the author argues that this sthana 'place' can be interpreted as 'meaning', the model thereby providing favourable circumstances for reinterpretation and change. In a searching analysis, the author examines the Indian tradition of semantic elucidation known as nirvacana analysis. The book will be an important reference tool for students of Sanskrit and Indian studies, as well as for those in the field of indigenous Indian linguistics. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780521631884
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