TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elisa Freschi
AU  - Tiziana Pontillo
PY  - 2013
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653030488
TI  - Rule-extension Strategies in Ancient India
T2  - Ritual, Exegetical and Linguistic Considerations on the "tantra"- and "prasaṅga"-Principles
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-03048-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046496
N2  - 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.
KW  - tantra principles, ritual tradition, Classical Indian text, kalpasutra, Mimamsa, prasanga principles
LA  - English
ER  -