Aspects of Manuscript Culture in South India
Biographical note
Saraju Rath, Ph.D. (1991) in Sanskrit Grammar, Pune University, has extensive research experience in Indian manuscripts since 1987. She has been teaching and lecturing on manuscriptology and on the history and development of ancient Indian scripts in India and Europe.
Readership
This volume will be of interest to indologists, manuscriptologists, paleographists, students of India's and of South Asia's cultural and intellectual history, and students of orality, memory culture and manuscript culture.
Table of contents
Preface
List of Contributors
1. Introduction: Manuscript Culture and Its Impact in “India”: Contours and Parameters - Jan Houben and Saraju Rath
2. On the Johan van Manen Collection: Its Origin and Background - Saraju Rath
3. 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
4. The South Indian Drama Manuscripts - Anna Aurelia Esposito
5. The Jaiminīya Sāmaveda Traditions and Manuscripts in South India - Masato Fujii
6. Texts and Communities: The Manuscripts of the Lost Yāmalāsṭakatantra - Cezary Galewicz
7. From Palmleaves to a Multimedia Databank – a Note on the ‘Bhāsa-project’ - Heike Moser
8. The Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tamilnadu - P. Perumal
9. Indian Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Manuscripts and Their Colophons - Kim Plofker
10. Varieties of Grantha Script: the Date and Place of Origin of Manuscripts - Saraju Rath
11. From my Grandfather’s Chest of Palmleaf Books - Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma
12. Rāmasubrahmaṇya’s Manuscripts: Intellectual Networks in the Kaveri Delta, 1693-1922 - Dominik Wujastyk
13. The Use of Manuscript Catalogues as Sources of Regional Intellectual History in India’s Early Modern Period - Kenneth G. Zysk
Index
Plates
List of Contributors
1. Introduction: Manuscript Culture and Its Impact in “India”: Contours and Parameters - Jan Houben and Saraju Rath
2. On the Johan van Manen Collection: Its Origin and Background - Saraju Rath
3. 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
4. The South Indian Drama Manuscripts - Anna Aurelia Esposito
5. The Jaiminīya Sāmaveda Traditions and Manuscripts in South India - Masato Fujii
6. Texts and Communities: The Manuscripts of the Lost Yāmalāsṭakatantra - Cezary Galewicz
7. From Palmleaves to a Multimedia Databank – a Note on the ‘Bhāsa-project’ - Heike Moser
8. The Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tamilnadu - P. Perumal
9. Indian Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Manuscripts and Their Colophons - Kim Plofker
10. Varieties of Grantha Script: the Date and Place of Origin of Manuscripts - Saraju Rath
11. From my Grandfather’s Chest of Palmleaf Books - Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma
12. Rāmasubrahmaṇya’s Manuscripts: Intellectual Networks in the Kaveri Delta, 1693-1922 - Dominik Wujastyk
13. The Use of Manuscript Catalogues as Sources of Regional Intellectual History in India’s Early Modern Period - Kenneth G. Zysk
Index
Plates
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