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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Sanskrit literature"”.
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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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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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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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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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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 …