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  • - A Pratisakhya of the Saunakiya Atharvaveda
     
    737,95 kr.

    A detailed discussion by the editor complements this critical edition and translation of the phonetical treatise (Pratisakhya) of the Saunaka Samhita, one of two versions of the second oldest Indian text, the Saunaka Atharvaveda. This contemporary reevaluation helps to re-establish the textual tradition of the Atharvaveda.

  • af Georg Buddruss
    373,95 kr.

    Georg Buddruss collected source texts in the Prasun Valley in 1956 and 1970, in several dialectal varieties. The present volume is the outcome of extensive work on this text corpus, and represents a major contribution to studies of Nuristani and other languages of the Hindukush-Karakoram region.

  • - The Bstan pa rgyas pa rgyan gyi nyi 'od of Bcom Idan ral gri
     
    425,95 kr.

    This study and edition of Bcom Idan ral gri's (1227-1305) Bstan pa rgyas pa rgyan gyi nyi 'od was likely composed in the late 13th century. It is a systematic list of Sutras, Tantras, Shastras, and related genres translated primarily from Sanskrit and other Indic languages, holding a vital place in the history of Buddhist literature.

  • - Poetry, Context, and Commentary
    af John Stratton Hawley
    885,95 kr.

    Into Sur's Ocean picks up many threads from Sur's Ocean, a volume in the Murty Classical Library of India, translated by John Stratton Hawley. In this book, Hawley provides a substantial introduction to Surdas, the great sixteenth century Hindi poet; an overview of editions; an analysis of the translation; and commentary on 433 poems.

  • - Sanskrit and Tibetan Critical Editions of the Verses and Autocommentary; An English Translation and Annotations
     
    286,95 kr.

    Jonathan A. Silk provides the most comprehensive philological accounting of this fundamental work of Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu. The edition and translation of the Sanskrit text includes core verses and author commentary based directly on manuscript evidence, accompanied by texts from the Tibetan Tanjurs and a manuscript from Dunhuang.

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    652,95 kr.

    Prasun is a non-literary, unwritten language spoken in the Prasun Valley that varies from village to village. The texts in this volume were collected in 1956 and 1970. Included are all the texts collected, a German translation, a glossary, lists of numbers, place and personal names, the Prasun calendar system, and a brief Introduction in English.

  • - A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Danakanda of the Krtyakalpataru
    af David Brick
    512,95 kr.

    Brahmanical Theories of the Gift constitutes the first critical edition and translation into any modern language of a dananibandha, a classical Hindu legal digest devoted to the culturally and religiously important topic of gifting. David Brick has included an extensive historical introduction to the text and its subject matter.

  • - The Samkhya and Vedanta Chapters of the Madhyamakahrdayakarika and Tarkajvala
    af Olle Qvarnstrom
    425,95 kr.

    The Madhyamakahrdayakarika along with its auto-commentary, the Tarkajvala, is the earliest work to examine Sravaka, Yogacara, Samkhya, Vaisesika, Vedanta, and Mimamsa in detail. Olle Qvarnstroem provides a critical edition and English translation of the Samkhya and Vedanta chapters of this treatise and a historical introduction.

  • - Fr. Henriques' Arte da Lingua Malabar: Translation, History, and Analysis
    af Jeanne Hein
    470,95 kr.

    Arte da Lingua Malabar, a sixteenth-century grammar of Tamil written in Portuguese by a Jesuit missionary, reflects the first linguistic contact between India and the West. This English translation by Jeanne Hein and V. S. Rajam also includes analysis of the grammar and a description of the political context in which it was written.

  • - The Buddhist Yogacarabhumi Treatise and Its Adaptation in India, East Asia, and Tibet
    af Ulrich Timme Kragh
    834,95 kr.

    The fourth-century Sanskrit treatise Yogacarabhumi is the largest Indian text on Buddhist meditation. In this book, leading Buddhist scholars from across the globe offer a critical summary of the work, elaborate on its compositional background, and reveal its reception history in India, China, and Tibet.

  • af Madhav M. Deshpande
    425,95 kr.

    This is a critical edition of the Kramapatha and Jatapatha forms of recitational permutations of sections of the Saunakiya Atharvaveda available in six rare manuscripts found in Pune, India. As these variations are no longer available in the surviving oral tradition in India, the texts provide rare access.

  • af B. R. Sharma
    885,95 - 930,95 kr.

    The Samaveda contains the earliest tradition of music from India. It presents largely Rigvedic textual material in a form arranged for singing in the solemn Srauta ritual. This edition is based on manuscripts collected from all over India and Europe. B. R. Sharma presents the accented text, its Padapatha, and commentaries.

  • - A Translation and Commentary
    af Gosvami Krsnadasa Kaviraja
    875,95 kr.

  • af Bhoja
    928,95 kr.

    This edition is based on new manuscripts of this important treatise on classical Sanskrit poetics by the famous 11th-century King Bhoja of Malwa. The text is important because of the theoretical treatment of the erotic sentiment (srngara) in classical Sanskrit texts, and also as a mine of quotations from Sanskrit and Prakrit poetical texts.

  • - A Metrically Restored Text with an Introduction and Notes
    af Barend Van Nooten
    398,95 kr.

    This edition of Rig Veda presents the text (in Roman characters) in its original metrical arrangement and closely approximates the pronunciation of the time of its composition. Restorations deviating from the received Samhita text are printed in italics, so the traditional text can easily be reconstituted without reference to other editions.

  • af Gregory G. Maskarinec
    885,95 kr.

    Containing three representative repertoires and over 250 texts, this bilingual (Nepali and English) volume includes both publicly chanted recitals and privately whispered spells of Western Nepal's three leading shamans, annotated with extensive notes.

  • - The Earliest Extant Source of the Sikh Canon
    af Gurinder Singh Mann
    350,95 kr.

    This volume explores the earliest available version of the Sikh canon. The book contains the first critical description and partial edition of the Goindval Pothis, a set of proto-scriptural manuscripts prepared in the 1570s. The manuscripts also contain a number of hymns by non-Sikh saints, some of them not found elsewhere.

  • - Vidykara's "Subhitaratnakoa"
     
    545,95 kr.

  • af Lawrence J. Mccrea
    564,95 kr.

    This book examines the revolution in Sanskrit poetics initiated by the ninth-century Kashmiri Anandavardhana. Anandavardhana replaced the formalist aesthetic of earlier poeticians with one stressing the unifunctionality of literary texts, arguing that all components of a work should subserve the communication of a single emotional mood (rasa).

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    885,95 kr.

    This volume is a bilingual collection of shaman oral texts from the Bhuji Valley of Western Nepal, in the original Nepali and with line-by-line English translation. Accompanying the book is a DVD of audio recordings of the texts, supplementary texts, videos of shaman performances, and additional video and photographic documentation.

  • - A Contribution to our Knowledge of South and Southeast Asian Indigenous Peoples mainly based on field research in the Southern Chittagong Hill Tracts
    af Lorenz G. Loffler
    703,95 kr.

    This book interprets the ethnography of the Mru and Khumi, Tibeto-Burmese speaking horticulturalists who practice swidden agriculture in the hills straddling Bangladesh, India, and Burma. Their material and spiritual cultures are described in detail here, from dwellings to religious rituals. Nearly a hundred color photographs provide illustration.

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    705,95 kr.

    This book presents the earliest South Indian inscriptions (ca. second century B.C. to sixth century A.D.), written in Tamil in local derivations of the Ashokan Brahmi script. The work includes texts, transliteration, translation, detailed commentary, inscriptional glossary, and indexes.

  • - A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Vaisnava-Dharmasastra
     
    468,95 kr.

    "The Law Code of Visnu" ("Vaisnava-dharmasastra") is one of the of the ancient Indian legal texts composed around the seventh century ce in Kashmir. This title contains a critical edition of the Sanskrit text based on fifteen manuscripts, an annotated English translation, and an introduction evaluating its textual history.

  • - Study, Script Tables, and Facsimile Edition
    af Dragomir Dimitrov
    198,95 kr.

    Discusses the Bhaiksuki manuscript of the Candralamkara ("Ornament of the Moon"), a commentary of the twelfth century based on the Candravyakarana, Candragomin's seminal Buddhist grammar of Sanskrit (fifth century). This title describes the discovery of the Bhaiksuki script and of available written sources.

  • - Chapters 4 and 5 of the Verses on the Heart of the Middle Way
    af Malcolm David Eckel
    532,95 kr.

    Bhaviveka's (ca 500-560 CE) "Verses on the Heart of the Middle Way" (Madhyamakahrdayakarika) with their commentary, known as "The Flame of Reason" ("Tarkajvala"), give an account of the intellectual differences that stirred the Buddhist community. This title offers a translation of Chapters 4 and 5 of this text.

  • - Kiranti Oral Texts
    af Karen H. Ebert
    288,95 kr.

    The more than two dozen Rai languages in eastern Nepal, which make up the larger part of the Kiranti language family, are linguistically highly varied. This volume for the first time brings together different variants of myths from various Rai languages, presenting them with linguistic glossings in interlinear translations.

  • - Critical Edition with a Translation into German and an Introduction
     
    373,95 kr.

    Dating to the first half of the first millennium BCE, the Katha Aranyaka is a ritualistic and speculative text that deals with a dangerous Vedic ritual that provides its sponsor with a new body after death. In a new critical edition, Michael Witzel presents this work which transitions the Vedic ritual into the philosophy of the Upanishads.

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