A śabda reader : language in classical Indian thought /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Sanskrit |
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Columbia University Press,
2019
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| Series: | Historical sourcebooks in classical Indian thought |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction: General observations about philosophy in India -- The Brahmanical background -- Buddhist thought : source of inspiration -- The grammarian Patanjali -- The special place of Sanskrit and the Veda -- Self-contradictory sentences -- Do words affect cognition? -- Words and sentences -- Other denotative functions of the word -- Part II. Reader -- The Brahmanical background -- Buddhist thought : source of inspiration -- The grammarian Patanjali -- The special place of Sanskrit and the Veda -- Self-contradictory sentences -- Do words affect cognition? -- Words and sentences -- Other denotative functions of the word.