Epic & Argument in Sanskrit Literary History

DETAILS : 

• Author : Sheldon Pollock
  
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manohar Publishers and Distributors 
  
• Publication Date :1 January 2010
  
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
  
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 282 pages
  
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8173048657
  
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9788173048654
  
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 600 g

ABOUT THE BOOK 

Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History celebrates the distinguished career of the American Indologist Robert P. Goldman. The essays on Sanskrit literary history, which range from the danastuti in the Rgveda (Romila Thapar) to the transformation of literary theory in ninth century Kashmir (Sheldon Pollock) to the practice of philology in seventeenth-century Varanasi (Christopher Minkowski), reflect the wide range of interests of Professor Goldman himself, and the wide influence he has exerted on the field. Eight of the essays (by such leading scholars as Greg Bailey, John Brokington, James Fitzgerald, luis Gonzalez-Reimann, Phyllis Granoff, Alf Hiltebeitel, Adheesh Sathaye, and Sally Sutherland Goldman), concentrate on the epics and Puranas, and as an ensemble make for essential reading on the genre of Sanskrit literature to which Goldman, as editor-in-chief of the Ramayana Translation Project, has devoted the greater part of his career.

FROM THE JACKET

The Samba Purana is an ancient Hindu text dedicated to Surya, the sun god, comprising 84 chapters that detail creation, solar system, eclipses, geography and worship rituals. It's a Saura Upapurana, offering insights into Hindu cosmology, theology and practices. The text narrates Samba's journey to worship Surya and cure his leprosy, highlighting the significance of devotion and rituals. With Sanskrit text and English translation, this book provides a comprehensive guide to Surya worship and spiritual growth.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Sheldon Pollock is Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Columbia University. He is general editor of the Murty Classical Library of India (Harvard University Press), and author of, among other books, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (University of California Press). He is currently working on Liberation Philology (Harvard University Press) and Reader on Rasa: An Historical Sourcebook in Indian Aesthetics, for a new series of sourcebooks in classical Indian thought that he is editing for Columbia University Press. In 2009 he received the President’s Award for Sanskrit from the Government of India.