Of Gods and Books. Ritual and Knowledge Transmission in the Manuscript Cultures of Premodern India
India has been the homeland of diverse manuscript traditions that do not cease to impress scholars for their imposing size and complexity. Nevertheless, many topics concerning the study of Indian manuscript cultures still remain to receive systematic examination. Of Gods and Books pays attention to...
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| description | India has been the homeland of diverse manuscript traditions that do not cease to impress scholars for their imposing size and complexity. Nevertheless, many topics concerning the study of Indian manuscript cultures still remain to receive systematic examination. Of Gods and Books pays attention to one of these topics - the use of manuscripts as ritualistic tools. Literary sources deal quite extensively with rituals principally focused on manuscripts, whose worship, donation and preservation are duly prescribed. Around these activities, a specific category of ritual gift is created, which finds attestations in pre-tantric, as well as in smārta and tantric, literature, and whose practice is also variously reflected in epigraphical documents. De Simini offers a first systematic study of the textual evidence on the topic of the worship and donation of knowledge. She gives account of possible implications for the relationships between religion and power. The book is indsipensible for a deeper understanding of the cultural aspects of manuscript transmission in medieval India, and beyond. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-551472022-01-31T10:43:54Z Of Gods and Books. Ritual and Knowledge Transmission in the Manuscript Cultures of Premodern India De Simini, Florinda BL1-2790 PK1-9601 Z Kannada Cult of the book Book history South-Asia Hinduism India ritual practices Sanskrit India has been the homeland of diverse manuscript traditions that do not cease to impress scholars for their imposing size and complexity. Nevertheless, many topics concerning the study of Indian manuscript cultures still remain to receive systematic examination. Of Gods and Books pays attention to one of these topics - the use of manuscripts as ritualistic tools. Literary sources deal quite extensively with rituals principally focused on manuscripts, whose worship, donation and preservation are duly prescribed. Around these activities, a specific category of ritual gift is created, which finds attestations in pre-tantric, as well as in smārta and tantric, literature, and whose practice is also variously reflected in epigraphical documents. De Simini offers a first systematic study of the textual evidence on the topic of the worship and donation of knowledge. She gives account of possible implications for the relationships between religion and power. The book is indsipensible for a deeper understanding of the cultural aspects of manuscript transmission in medieval India, and beyond. 2021-02-11T21:34:42Z 2021-02-11T21:34:42Z 2017-01-25 13:33:32 2016 book 20209 2365-970X 9783110477764 9783110478815 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/55147 eng Studies in Manuscript Cultures image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110478815 De Gruyter 10.1515/9783110478815 10.1515/9783110478815 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 9783110477764 9783110478815 xi, 477 open access |
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