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Philology and Criticism - A Guide to Mahabharata Textual Criticism

English · Hardback

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The first book to present a comprehensive review of the Mah¿bh¿rata Critical Edition, with overviews of stemmata (textual trees), how the logic of the stemmata determined editorial choices, and an in-depth analysis of the edition's strengths and drawbacks. An invaluable asset to any scholar working contemplating serious work on the Mah¿bh¿rata.

List of contents










List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter Summaries; Introduction Ad Fontes, Non Ultra Fontes!; Chapter One Arguments for a Hyperarchetypal Inference; Chapter Two Reconstructing the Source of Contamination; Chapter Three Confusions Regarding Classification; Conclusion: Textual Criticism and Indology; Epilogue; Appendices; Glossary; Annotated Bibliography; Index.


About the author










Vishwa Adluri holds PhDs in philosophy, Indology and Sanskrit from the New School for Social Research, Philipps-Universität Marburg and Deccan College. He teaches at Hunter College, New York, USA.

Joydeep Bagchee has a PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research and teaches at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.


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