Wiener Zeitschrift Fur Die Kunde Sudasiens Band 52 53 2009 2010 Vienna Journal Of South Asian Studies 52 53 2009 2010

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Editing Rajanaka Ratnakantha's Suryastutirahasya and Ratnasataka Takahiro Kato: Bhaskara's Brahmasutrabhasya - An Unpublished Edition by J.A.B. van Buitenen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 HUSKEN: 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 fur 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.

If by monotheism we mean the idea of a single transcendent God who creates the universe out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo), as in the Abrahamic religions, then that is not found in the history of Hinduism. But if we mean a supreme, transcendent deity who impels the universe, sustains it and ultimately destroys it before causing it to emerge once again, who is the ultimate source of all other gods who are her or his emanations, then this idea does develop within that history. It is a Hindu monotheism and its nature that is the topic of this Element.

This volume explores aspects of yoga over a period of about 2500 years. In its first part, it investigates facets of the South Asian and Tibetan traditions of yoga, such as the evolution of posture practice, the relationship between yoga and sex, yoga in the theistic context, the influence of Buddhism on early yoga, and the encounter of Islam with classical yoga. The second part addresses aspects of modern globalised yoga and its historical formation, as for example the emergence of yoga in Viennese occultism, the integration of yoga and nature cure in modern India, the eventisation of yoga in a global setting, and the development of Patañjali’s iconography. In keeping with the current trend in yoga studies, the emphasis of the volume is on the practice of yoga and its theoretical underpinnings.

Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of ‘manuscript studies’ has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.