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Title Aspects of manuscript culture in South India / edited by Saraju Rath
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Series Brill's Indological library ; v. 40
Brill's Indological library ; v. 40.
Contents Manuscript culture and its impact in "India" : contours and parameters / Jan E.M. Houben and Saraju Rath -- On the Johan van Manen Collection : its origin and background / Saraju Rath -- A cultural encounter in the early 18th century : the collection of South Indian manuscripts by the French Jesuit fathers of the Carnatic Mission / Gerard Colas -- The South Indian drama manuscripts / Anna Aurelia Esposito -- The Jaiminiya Samaveda traditions and manuscripts in South India / Masato Fujii -- Texts and communities : the manuscripts of the lost Yamalastakatantra / Cezary Galewicz -- From palmleaves to a multimedia databank : a note on the 'Bhasa-Project' / Heike Moser -- The Sanskrit manuscripts in Tamilnadu / P. Perumal -- Indian exact sciences in Sanskrit manuscripts and their colophons / Kim Plofker -- Varieties of Grantha script : the date and place of origin of manuscripts / Saraju Rath -- From my grandfather's chest of palm leaf books / Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma -- Ramasubrahmanya's manuscripts : intellectual networks in the Kaveri delta, 1693-1922 / Dominik Wujastyk -- The use of manuscript catalogues as sources of regional intellectual history in India's early modern period / Kenneth G. Zysk
Summary This volume deals with South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts, predominantly on palm leaf and rarely older than three to four centuries, and their role in a manuscript culture that had a significant impact on Indian intellectual history for around two millennia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Manuscripts, Indic -- India, South -- History -- Congresses
Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- India, South -- History -- Congresses
Palm-leaf manuscripts -- Congresses
Manuscripts, Indic -- Collectors and collecting -- Congresses
Indic literature -- Manuscripts -- Congresses
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- General.
Indic literature -- Manuscripts
Manuscripts, Indic
Manuscripts, Sanskrit
Palm-leaf manuscripts
South India
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Rath, Saraju.
LC no. 2011043268
ISBN 9789004223479
9004223479