A Śabda Reader : : Language in Classical Indian Thought / / ed. by Johannes Bronkhorst.

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• HerausgeberIn: Bronkhorst, Johannes,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Language (śabda) occupied a central yet often unacknowledged place in classical Indian philosophical thought. Foundational thinkers considered topics such as the nature of language, its relationship to reality, the nature and existence of linguistic units and their capacity to convey meaning, and th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Part I: Introduction
• General Observations About Philosophy in India
• Chapter One. The Brahmanical Background
• Chapter Two. Buddhist Thought: Source Of Inspiration
• Chapter Three. The Grammarian Patanjali
• Chapter Four. The Special Place Of Sanskrit And The Veda
• Chapter Five. Self-Contradictory Sentences
• Chapter Six. Do Words Affect Cognition?
• Chapter Seven. Words And Sentences
• Chapter Eight. Other Denotative Functions Of The Word
• Part II: Reader
• Chapter One. The Brahmanical Background
• Chapter Two. Buddhist Thought: Source Of Inspiration
• Chapter Three. The Grammarian Patanjali
• Chapter Four. The Special Place Of Sanskrit And The Veda
• Chapter Five. Self-Contradictory Sentences
• Chapter Six. Do Words Affect Cognition?
• Chapter Seven. Words And Sentences
• Chapter Eight. Other Denotative Functions Of The Word
• Index of Passages Translated or Referred To
• The Texts and Their Dates
• Tentative and Approximate Chronological Table of Authors and Works
• Editions Used
• Technical Terms and Their Equivalents in English
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• References
• Index