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Author:   Sheldon Pollock
Publisher:   Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Imprint:   Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Weight:   0.664kg
ISBN:  

9788173048654

ISBN 10:   8173048657
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   26 March 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Vidyasagarah Suvarnapurusah: A Brief Survey of Robert P. Scholarship; Hermeneutical Glosses on Scholarly Work on the Mahabharta & the Puranas; Is the Script Relevant? Further Evidence from a Nevari-script Ramanaya Manuscript; The Boy Slowpoke as a Deep Thinker: In Defence of Straying Wives against Fathers Uxoricidal Rage; Time in the Mahabharata & the Time of Mahabharata; Karma, Curse, or Divine Illusion: The Destruction of the Buddhas Clan & the Slaughter of the Yadavs; Mapping Bhakti through Friendship in the Sanskrit Epics; Ill Wash Out Your Mouth with My Boot: A Guide to Philological Argument in Mughal-era Banaras; What was Bhatta Nayaka Saying? The Hermeneutical Transformation of Indian Aesthetics; The Other Kind of Brahman: Rama Jamadagnya & the Psychological Construction of Brahman Power in the Mahabharata; Illusory Evidence: The construction of Maya in Valmikis Ramayana; The Dan-stuti Hymns of the Rgveda; Memories of Bob.

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Sheldon Pollock is Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Columbia University. He is the general editor of the Murty Classical Library of India (Harvard University Press), and author of, among other books, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (University of California Press). He is currently working on Liberation Philology (Harvard University) and Reader on Rasa: An Historical Sourcebook in Indian Aesthetics, for a new series of sourcebooks in classical Indian thought that he is editing for Columbia University Press. In 2009 he received the Presidents Award for Sanskrit from the Government of India.

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