{"product_id":"modes-of-philology-in-medieval-south-india-9789004331679","title":"Modes of Philology in Medieval South India","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilology was everywhere and nowhere in classical South Asia. While its civilizations possessed remarkably sophisticated tools and methods of textual analysis, interpretation, and transmission, they lacked any sense of a common disciplinary or intellectual project uniting these; indeed they lacked a word for ‘philology’ altogether.  Arguing that such pseudepigraphical genres as the Sanskrit purāṇas and tantras incorporated modes of philological reading and writing, Cox demonstrates the ways in which the production of these works in turn motivated the invention of new kinds of śāstric scholarship. Combining close textual analysis with wider theoretical concerns, Cox traces this philological transformation in the works of the dramaturgist Śāradātanaya, the celebrated Vaiṣṇava poet-theologian Veṅkaṭanātha, and the maverick Śaiva mystic Maheśvarānanda.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents Acknowledgments\t A note on the transliteration, presentation, and citation\t of primary texts I. Introduction: towards a history of Indic philology\t Philology?\t Indian philology?\t Existing studies\t Parameters\t II. Textual Pasts and Futures\t The southern pseudepigrapha: an overview\t A case study: the Sūtasaṃhitā\t Methods of the anonymous philology: the ‘toolkit’\t Appropriation and adaptation: Cekkiḻār’s Pĕriyapurāṇam\t Conclusions: looking ahead\t III. Bearing the Nāṭyaveda: Śāradātanaya’s Bhāvaprakāśana\t Introduction: nāṭya as a form of knowledge\t At Śāradā’s side: the author and his work\t Bharatavṛddha, Śiva, Padmabhū, Vāsuki\t ‘Following the Kalpavallī’\t “Lost or as good as lost”\t IV. Veṅkaṭanātha and the limits of philological argument\t Snakes versus Eagles\t Rite and Contamination\t Earlier canons of Vaiṣṇava textual criticism\t On the shores of the milk ocean: Veṅkaṭanātha’s poetry as philology\t V. Flowers of language: Maheśvarānanda’s Mahārthamañjarī\t The dream\t The pleasures of the text\t Ambiguity and auto-philology\t Writing, reading, and the hermeneutical yogin\t Maheśvarānanda’s Gītā\t VI. Conclusions: philology as politics, philology as science\t Context one: philology in and as temple-state politics\t Context two: Indic philology and the history of science\t 1. Non-reductive historicism\t 2. The refusal of teleology\t 3. The agency of the non-human\t Problems and prospects\t Bibliography","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210695565655,"sku":"9789004331679","price":104.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modes-of-philology-in-medieval-south-india-9789004331679","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}