Science and society in the Sanskrit world / edited by Christopher T. Fleming, Toke L. Knudsen, Anuj Misra, Vishal Sharma.

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[2023]
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"Science and Society in the Sanskrit World lauds the remarkable career of Christopher Z. Minkowski, the erstwhile Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Balliol College, University of Oxford. The volume contains seventeen essays, written by Professor Minkowski's colleagues and students, that explore a kaleidoscopic array of classical Sanskrit scientific disciplines, such as grammar, jurisprudence, theology, and hermeneutics. Individually, these essays offer substantive contributions to the many fields of Sanskritic inquiry that piqued Professor Minkowski's professional interest. Collectively, however, this volume foregrounds a unifying theme to Minkowski's intellectual oeuvre: that scholars' scientific endeavors are inseparable from the social worlds that shaped those scholars' lives. Contributors are: Anne Blackburn, Johannes Bronkhorst, Jonathan Duquette, Robert Goldman, Setsuro Ikeyama, Stephanie Jamison, Takanori Kusuba, John Lowe, Clemency Montelle, Valters Negribs, Rosalind O'Hanlon. Patrick Olivelle, Deven Patel, Kim Plofker, Frederick Smith, Barbora Sojkova, Thomas Trautmann, Elizabeth Tucker, Anand Venkatkrishnan, and Dominik Wujastyk"-- Provided by publisher.

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

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xxviii, 480 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Personal Reflections on the Intellectual Life of Christopher Z. Minkowski: Recollections from Ithaca / Anne Blackburn -- Śāstradīpaka: Christopher Minkowski and the Boden Professorship / Anand Venkatkrishnan -- Introduction / Christopher T. Fleming -- Part I. The Vedic World: 1. When Cows Sacrifice / Barbora Sojkova -- 2. A sūkta of the Paippalāda Atharvaveda about the symptoms and causes of tetanus / Elizabeth Tucker -- 3. Another, Unrecognized, cvi Construction in the Rigveda, with Cautionary Remarks on the Supposed Origin of the Construction / Stephanie W. Jamison -- 4. Hann iti han / John J. Lowe -- Part II. Astral and Medical Sciences: 5. A Meru as a Mathematical Tool / Takanori Kusuba -- 6. Calculation and Correction for the Mean Position of the Planets in the Jyotirmīmāṃsā / Setsuro Ikeyama -- 7. Integrating logarithm concepts into syntheses of Sanskrit, Muslim and European astronomy in 18th-century Jaipur / Clemency Montelle and Kim Plofker -- 8. Cyclical time in Brahmanical India: origin and development / Johannes Bronkhorst -- 9. Caraka on the Human Being: A New Translation of Carakasaṃhitā, Śārīrasthāna, Chapter 1 / Dominik Wujastyk -- Part III. Statecraft and Jurisprudence: 10. To Kill or Not to Kill: The Hermeneutics of the Ethical Axiom ahiṃsā / Patrick Olivelle -- 11. Ascetics as Royal Advisors in the Mahābhārata / Valters Negribs -- 12. Real Settlement and Constructed Wilderness? Grāma and araṇya revisited / Frederick M. Smith -- 13. Forest people in the Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra / Thomas R. Trautmann -- Part IV. Sanskrit Intellectuals and Their Communities: 14. Guardians of Truth: Commentarial Interventions in Support of the Heroes of the Sanskrit Epics / Robert P. Goldman -- 15. Disruptive Readings: Sanskrit Literary Commentary as Translation / Deven M. Patel -- 16. Debates Around the Delta: God's Unity in Modern Advaita Vedānta / Jonathan Duquette -- 17. Public fasting in Parasuram's temple: Gautambaids suit in seventeenth century Maharashtra / Rosalind O'Hanlon -- Index.

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Text in English, with selections in original Sanskrit and translated English.

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  • 9789004522312
  • 900452231X