Aspects of manuscript culture in South India / edited by Saraju Rath.

• Superior document: Brill's Indological library, v. 40
• Author: International Institute for Asian Studies.
• TeilnehmendeR: Rath, Saraju.; International Institute for Asian Studies.; ProQuest (Firm); Production, Distribution and Collection of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Ancient South India (Workshop) (2007 : Leiden, Netherlands)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Indological library ; v. 40.
• Physical Description: xv, 304 p., [16] p. of plates :; col. ill., col. maps.
• Notes: "This volume is an outcome of the workshop 'Production, distribution and collection of Sanskrit manuscripts in Ancient South India' which was organized at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, on 20-21 April 2007"--Preface.

Table of Contents

Manuscript culture and its impact in "India" : contours and parameters / Jan E.M. Houben and Saraju Rath -- On the Johan van Manen Collection : its origin and background / Saraju Rath -- A cultural encounter in the early 18th century : the collection of South Indian manuscripts by the French Jesuit fathers of the Carnatic Mission / Gerard Colas -- The South Indian drama manuscripts / Anna Aurelia Esposito -- The Jaiminiya Samaveda traditions and manuscripts in South India / Masato Fujii -- Texts and communities : the manuscripts of the lost Yamalastakatantra / Cezary Galewicz -- From palmleaves to a multimedia databank : a note on the 'Bhasa-Project' / Heike Moser -- The Sanskrit manuscripts in Tamilnadu / P. Perumal -- Indian exact sciences in Sanskrit manuscripts and their colophons / Kim Plofker -- Varieties of Grantha script : the date and place of origin of manuscripts / Saraju Rath -- From my grandfather's chest of palm leaf books / Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma -- Ramasubrahmanya's manuscripts : intellectual networks in the Kaveri delta, 1693-1922 / Dominik Wujastyk -- The use of manuscript catalogues as sources of regional intellectual history in India's early modern period / Kenneth G. Zysk.