| ISBN |
9004219005 (hbk.) |
| 9789004219007 (hbk.) |
| Title |
Aspects of manuscript culture in South India / edited by Saraju Rath |
| Publisher |
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 |
| Physical desc. |
xv, 304, [16] p. of plates ; ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Brill's Indological library 40 |
| Note |
"This volume is an outcome of the workshop Production, distribution and collection of Sanskrit manuscripts in ancient South India, which was organized at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, on 20-21 April 2007" -- Preface. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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 / Gérard 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 palmleaf 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. |
| Subject |
Manuscripts, Indic -- India, South -- History -- Congresses |
| Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- India, South -- History -- Congresses |
| Palm-leaf manuscripts -- India, South -- Congresses |
| Manuscripts, Indic -- Collectors and collecting -- Congresses |
| Indic literature -- Manuscripts -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Rath, Saraju ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
International Institute for Asian Studies |
| Meeting Name |
Production, Distribution and Collection of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Ancient South India (Workshop) . (2007 : , Leiden, Netherlands) |
