Language and reality : on an episode in Indian thought / / by Johannes Bronkhorst ; translated from the French by Michael S. Allen and Rajam Raghunathan.

• Superior document: Brill's Indological library, v. 36
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Bronkhorst, Johannes, 1946-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Rev. and with a new appendix.
• Language: English; French
• Series: Brill's Indological library ; v. 36.
• Physical Description: xiii, 170 p.

Table of Contents

Aim of the lectures -- Early Brahmanical literature -- Panini's grammar -- A passage from the Chandogya Upanisad -- The structures of languages -- The Buddhist contribution -- Vaisesika and language -- Verbal knowledge -- The contradictions of Nagarjuna -- The reactions of other thinkers -- Sarvastivada Samkhya -- The Agamasastra of Gaudapada -- Sankara -- Kashmiri Saivism -- Jainism -- Early Vaisesika -- Critiques of the existence of a thing before its arising -- Nyaya -- Mimamsa -- The Abhidharmakosa bhasya of Vasubandhu -- The Abhidharmasamuccaya of Asanga and its bhasya -- Bhartrhari -- The problem of negation -- Dignaga and verbal knowledge -- The Bodhisattvabhumi -- Prajnakaragupta -- Indian thinkers and the correspondence principle -- Appendix. The Mahaprajnaparamitasastra and the Samkhya tanmatras.