Indian Semantic Analysis: The Nirvacana Tradition (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, Series Number 55) - Hardcover

Kahrs, Eivind

 
9780521631884: Indian Semantic Analysis: The Nirvacana Tradition (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, Series Number 55)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521631882 ISBN 13: 9780521631884
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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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Review

"...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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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521631882
ISBN 13 
9780521631884
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
322