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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38144371 Title: Indian semantic analysis : the nirvacana tradition Author: Eivind Kahrs Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN/ISSN: 0521631882 9780521631884 OCLC:38144371

  
  

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Indian semantic analysis : the nirvacana tradition

Author:	Eivind Kahrs
Publisher:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Series:	University of Cambridge oriental publications, no. 55.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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 of substitution, used at least since the time of the Upanisads and later refined in the technical literatures of grammar and ritual.  Read more...
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Subjects	Sanskrit language -- Semantics. Sanskrit language -- Philosophy. Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) View all subjects
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