Thomas Oberlies Book order

Inhalt Willem Bollée Hemacandra's Lives of the Jain Elders (Parisis aparvan) Analysed in Keywords based on Richard C. C. Fynes' Translation - S. 1 Paromita das Grupta Foreign 'Spirits' in 'Native' Community: Temperance Agitations in Colonial Bengal - S. 109 Arian Hopf (Re)constructing the Origin. Countering European Critique with Historiography in Hali's Musaddas and Ameer Ali's The Spirit of Islam - S. 145 Per-Johan Norelius Crossing the waters of darkness. Solar imagery in the mythology of the Asvins - S. 185 R. K. K. Rajarajan Vallava , the Sacred Abode of Visnu. Formation and Transformation - S. 215 Stjaneshwar Timalsina The Monistic Sakta Philosophy in the Guhyopanisad - S. 247 Jolita Zabarskaite 'Greater India' in Indian Scholarship and in the Public Domain: Origins of an Expansionist Imagination, c. 1890-1921 - S. 259

The two great epics of (old) India, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, are written in a language, which differs from so-called classical Sanskrit in many details. Both texts still are of an enormous importance in India and other countries. Because of this, a grammar describing all the different characteristics of epic Sanskrit has been missed until now. The Grammar of Epic Sanskrit will now close this gap.

The grammar presents a full decription of Pali, the language used in the Theravada Buddhist canon, which is still alive in Ceylon and South-East Asia. The development of its phonological and morphological systems is traced in detail from Old Indic. Comprehensive references to comparable features and phenomena from other Middle Indic languages mean that this grammar can also be used to study the literature of Jainism.