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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Sanskrit"”.
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Topics in Sanskrit phonology.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Modern Languages. Thesis. 1965. Ph.D.
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Cosmopolitan Encounters: Sanskrit and Persian at the Mughal Court
… dissertation, I analyze interactions between Sanskrit and Persian literary cultures at the Mughal court during the years 1570-1650 C.E. During this period, the Mughals rose to prominence as one of the most powerful dynasties of the early modern world and patronized Persian as a language of …
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Translingual nostalgias in modern Sanskrit and Indian poetry in English
… English in the Indian nationalist imagination: Sanskrit. Contrary to popular perception, Modern Sanskrit continues to produce an ample but vastly understudied body of literature that invites us to rethink familiar debates about South Asian multilingualism as well as nostalgia. My dissertation …
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The Discourse Functions of Subordinate Constructions in Classical Sanskrit Narrative Texts
Thus, identifying the discourse functions of the subordinate constructions is useful for understanding the contribution of individual grammatical constructions to textual presentation, as well as for understanding the contribution of a discourse perspective to syntactic description.
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Rendition Techniques in the Chinese Translation of Three Sanskrit Buddhist Scriptures
… some translators are similar in rendering the Sanskrit terms based on three factors: first, they followed their precursors' renditions; second, they lived at close periods in history; third, they came from the same regions or countries. It is also found that Xuan-Zang's fourth principle of …
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A New Public Theology: Sanskrit and Society in Seventeenth-century South India
This dissertation documents the earliest stages in the emergence of the Smarta Saiva sectarian community of south India as captured by the theological writings of prominent Saiva theologians. I examine the sectarianization of Hinduism in microcosm by telling the story of a particular Hindu sect in …
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Case-linking : a theory of case and verb diathesis applied to classical Sanskrit.
Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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Free word-order syntax: The challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to contemporary formal syntactic theory
Vedic Sanskrit, the early Indo-European language spoken by the Aryan invaders of India in the 2nd millenium B.C.E., is a language showing little if any evidence for levels of syntactic organization between that of lexical items and that of maximal projections of those items. But the large corpus of …
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Predication in non-clausal domains: a configurational approach to Sanskrit bahuvrīhi compounds and their Italian equivalents
… puzzles: i. why is the internal order of Sanskrit bahuvrīhis with a nominal/ adjectival qualifier determined by the dependency holding between the bahuvrīhi’s external referent and one of the bahuvrīhi-members? ii. why can’t the adjective which realizes the …
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Teaching Through Devotion: The Poetics of Yaśaskara’s Devīstotra and Premodern Kashmir
… is a little studied and heretofore untranslated Sanskrit text from Kashmir. This thesis not only provides the first English translation and close reading of selections from the text, it uses the Devīstotra along with current research on its literary, cultural, and political contexts to illustrate …
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The Gaṇitatilaka and its commentary by Siṃhatilakasūri: An annotated translation and study
… analysis of the Gaṇitatilaka by Śrīpati and its Sanskrit commentary by the Jaina monk Siṃhatilakasūri (14th century CE). The Gaṇitatilaka is a Sanskrit mathematical text written by Śrīpati, an astronomer-mathematician who hailed from 11th century CE Maharashtra. It has come down to us together …
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Poetry and Prayer: Stotras in the Religious and Literary History of Kashmir
… prayer in South Asia by studying the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir. It offers a broad introduction to the history and general features of the stotra genre, and it charts the course of these literary hymns in Kashmir from the ninth century to the present. Historically, …
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VOICES OF SELF-SURRENDER: RELIGIOUS MULTILINGUALISM IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA
… onward) as a paradigmatic case. It analyzes the Sanskrit and Manipravalam, a mixture of Tamil and Sanskrit, production of theological treatises on the doctrine of self-surrender—a defining feature of the Śrīvaiṣṇavas—to reveal the dynamic interplay between the development of self-surrender and …
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Limits of the real: A hypertext critical edition of Bhartṛhari's Dravyasamuddeśa, with the commentary of Helārāja
… the Vākyapadīya of Bhartṛhari, a 5th-century Sanskrit philosopher of language. It also deals with the 10th-century commentary of Helārāja, which was highly influential in shaping the interpretation of the text by later authors. Although the Vākyapadīya is a treatise on Sanskrit grammar, and …
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The birth and growth of Indo-Anglian literature and its contributions to English literature
… of her literary activity, up from the early Sanskrit Vedas of 1500 B.C. to the present time, when Sanskrit works still continue to be written side by side with modern works in English, whose modes of thought and expression are different from those of the West, because of their Sanskrit …
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Sustainable traditions: A reappraisal of the Vaiyākaraṇasiddhāntakaumudī’s utility in vyākaraṇa pedagogy using the foundations of the tiṅanta prakriyā
… curriculum within the departments of traditional Sanskrit studies while also setting the foundation for further studies on the development of Sanskrit traditions in modern Indian society.
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THE AESTHETICS OF AUTHORITY: EMOTIONS, DEVOTION AND POWER IN THE SINHALA BUDDHIST LITERATURE OF MEDIEVAL SRI LANKA
… in aesthetic philosophy from Pali Buddhist and Sanskrit literature to that of medieval Sri Lanka. Special attention is given to the association of moral authority with the capacity for literary and artistic production, and the means by which persons are so entitled. The project concludes with …
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Opening the Heart
… influence on me as an artist. The mandala, Sanskrit word for circle or center, is found in a majority of my pieces, either literally or symbolically. My interest in and subsequent use of the mandala began twenty years ago and continues to this day. The mandala is a primordial image found in …
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A Comparative Study of Yoga’s Most Foundational Scriptures and Relevant Biblical Passages
… and the Bhagavad Gītā (BG) in their original Sanskrit. My thesis is that these yogic scriptures contradict sound, biblical teaching. The significance of this thesis is that, insofar as a yoga practice adheres to its own scriptures, that practice is impermissible for Christians. The existing …
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