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	Language, Texts, And Society by Patrick Olivelle
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Language Texts and Society This collection brings together a series of Patrick Olivellesresearch papers, published over a period of about ten years, whoseunifying theme is the search for hidden historical context anddevelopments within words and texts. Words (and cultural historiesrepresented by words) that scholars often take for granted ashaving a continuous and long history are often new - sometimes evenbeing neologisms. They can thus provide important indications ofcultural and religious innovations. Olivelles book on the asramas,as well as the short pieces included in this volume, such as thoseon ananda and dharma, seek to see cultural innovation andhistorical changes within the changing semantic fields of keyterms. Closer examination of numerous Sanskrit terms taken forgranted as central to Hinduism provide similar results. Indiantexts have often been studied in the past as disincarnate realitiesproviding information on an ahistorical and unchanging culture.Language, Texts, and Society is a small contribution towardscorrecting this method of textual study. Contents Preface Abbreviations I.Young Svetaketu: A Literary Study of an Upanisadic Story II. dharmaskandhah and brahmasamsthah: A Study of ChandogyaUpanisad III. Orgasmic Rapture and Divine Ecstasy: The Semantic Historyof ananda IV. Amrta: Women and Indian Technologies of Immortality V. Power of Words: The Ascetic Appropriation and the SemanticEvolution of dharma VI. Semantic History of Dharma: The Middle and Late VedicPeriods Explorations in the Early History of Dharmasastra VIII. Structure and Composition of the Manava Dharmasastra IX. Caste and Purity: A Study in the Language of the DharmaLiterature X. Rhetoric and Reality: Womens Agency in the Dharmasastras XI. Manu and Gautama: A Study in Sastric Intertextuality XII. Manu and the Arthasastra: A Study in SastricIntertextuality XIII. Unfaithful Transmitters: Philological Criticism andCritical Editions of the Upanisads XIV. Sanskrit Comm ISBN - 9789380601656