Brahmanical Theories of the Gift - A Critical Edition Annotated Translation of Danakanda of

Informationen zum Autor David Brick is Senior Lecturer in the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University. Zusammenfassung Brahmanical Theories of the Gift constitutes the first critical edition and translation into any modern language of a dananibandha, a classical Hindu legal digest devoted to the culturally and religiously important topic of gifting. David Brick has included an extensive historical introduction to the text and its subject matter.

Product details

• Assisted by: David Brick (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2015
• EAN: 9780674088481
• ISBN: 978-0-674-08848-1
• No. of pages: 765
• Series: Harvard Oriental Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, Literature: history and criticism, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, HISTORY / Asia / South / General