Ideology and Status of Sanskrit

Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language

Edited by Jan E.M. Houben

July 1996
ISBN:9789004106130
Hardback (x, 502 pp. 1 map)
List price: 184.- / $240.Language:English
Brill's Indological Library, 13
Imprint:BRILL

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Asian StudiesSouth Asia

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The present volume is the outcome of a seminar on the Ideology and Status of Sanskrit
held in Leiden under the auspices of the International Institute for Asian Studies. The
book contains studies of crucial periods and important areas in the history of the
Sanskrit language, from the earliest, Vedic and pre-Vedic periods, through the period in
which the (restricted) use of Sanskrit spread over practically all of South (including part
of Central) and Southeast Asia (sometimes referred to as the period of "Greater India"),
up to the recent history of Sanskrit in India.
The contributions of this volume are divided into three sections: (1) Origins and
Creation of the "Eternal Language"; (2) Transculturation, Vernacularization,
Sanskritization; (3) The Sanskrit Tradition: Continuity from the past or Construction
from the present?

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