Vienna Journal Of South Asian Studies

A forum for scholars engaged in the study of modern Islamic and non-Islamic societies in South Asia.

Aus dem Inhalt: Reinhold Grünendahl: Post-philological Gestures - "Deconstructing" Textual Criticism Wendy J. Phillips-Rodriguez - Christopher J. Howe - Heather F. Windram: Some Considerations about Bifurcation in Diagrams Representing the Written Transmission of the Mahabharata Pascale Haag: Problems of Textual Transmission in Grammatical Literature: The pratyahara Section of the Kasikavrtti Philipp A. Maas: Computer Aided Stemmatics - The Case of Fifty-Two Text Versions of Carakasamhita Vimanasthana 8.67-157 Christina Pecchia: Transmission-specific (In)utility, or Dealing with Contamination: Samples from the Textual Tradition of the Carakasa'hita Birgit Kellner: Towards a Critical Edition of Dharmakirti's Prama'avarttika Yasutaka Muroya: A Study on the Marginalia in Some Nyayamañjari Manuscripts: The Reconstruction of a Lost Portion of the Nyayamañjari- granthibhanga Anna Aurelia Esposito: Some Aspects of Textual Criticism Concerning the Keralite Drama Manuscripts Stanislav Jager: Editing Rajanaka Ratnakantha's Suryastutirahasya and Ratnasataka Takahiro Kato: Bhaskara's Brahmasutrabhasya - An Unpublished Edition by J.A.B. van Buitenen

HERMAN TIEKEN: The Dissemination of Asoka's Rock and Pillar Edicts; UTE HÃ_SKEN: Zu einer vergleichenden Studie der Texte Therigatha und Theragatha; LAMBERT SCHMITHAUSEN: Ein weiteres Fragment aus dem Prakarana: SHT VII 1697; EVA WILDEN: Towards an Internal Chronology of Old Tamil Cankam Literature Or How to Trace the Laws of a Poetic Universe; GYULA WOJTILLA: Materials for a Critical Edition of the Kuttanimata; FRANZ-KARL EHRHARD: The Register of the Reliquary of Lord Ran-rig Ras-pa; Archiv fuer indische Philosophie: ELI FRANCO: Towards a Reconstruction of the Spitzer Manuscript - The Dialectical Portion; TAKASHI IWATA: The Pramanaviniscaya on the Purpose of the Division of Reasons into Nine Types in the Hetucakra.

Contents include: G. Jan Meulenbeld, A Quest for Poison Trees in Indian Literature, Along with Notes on Some Plants and Animals of the Kautiliya Arthasastra; Eva Allinger, A Pala-Period Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Manuscript Distributed Between Five Collections; Philipp Maas, The Concepts of the Human Body and Disease in Classical Yoga and Ayurveda; Cristina Pecchia, Is the Buddha Like "a Man in the Street"? Dharmakirti's Answer; Ernst Steinkellner, Further Remarks on the Compound avinabhavaniyama in the Early Dharmakirti; Ernst Steinkellner, Miszellen zur erkenntnistheoretisch-logischen Schule des Buddhismus X: Corrigenda 2 et addenda to Dharmakirti's Pramanaviniscaya.