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A Grammar of Epic Sanskrit

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Item Code: NBZ948
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publications, Delhi
Author: Thomas Oberlies
Language: English
Edition: 2021
ISBN: 9788195055357
Pages: 647
Cover: HARDCOVER
Other Details 9.00 X 6.00 inches
Weight 950 gm
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The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are composed in a form of Sanskrit that differs from the Paninian norm. Though closely akin to Paninian Sanskrit with which it shares a huge amount of forms and syntactical constructions this is a language of a different type. It does contain frequent violations of the usual Sanskrit rules, affecting phonology, morphology and syntax. These epic peculiarities, however, are not simply a large set of individual cases. By far the greater part of them can be categorized as belonging to one or another of a small number of types, making them amenable to systematic study. The book at hand tries to give such a comprehensive and systematically organized description of the peculiarities of the Epic language and the features that distinguish it from Vedic and standard Paninian Sanskrit. Every form and construction cited in the grammar was located in the Critical Editions of the Epics and is discussed in detail, giving also references to secondary literature. The book consists of a detailed introduction and thirteen chapters, the last two of which contain an extensive bibliography, indices, and concordances.

About the Author

Thomas Oberlies has been Professor of Indology and Tibetan Studies at the University of Gottingen, Germany, since 2002, and a full member of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences since 2009. After studying Indology, Comparative Religion and Classical Philology at the universities of Tuebingen and Hamburg he received his PhD from the University of Tuebingen for his dissertation “A Study of the Candravyakarana” (Stuttgart 1989). He was Professor of Indology at the University of Wuerzburg from 1991 through 1998, and at the University of Freiburg from 1998 to 2002. For his work about the structure of the Soma hymns of the Rgveda, which was published as the second volume of his “Die Religion des Rgveda” (Vienna 1999), he was awarded the prestigious Heisenberg professorship. He has worked and published in all fields of classical Indology. His major publications are: Avasyaka-Studien Band II: Glossar ausgewahlter Worter zu E. Leumanns 'Die Avasyaka-Erzahlungen', Stuttgart 1993; A Historical Grammar of Hindi, Graz 2005; Der Hinduismus, Frankfurt 2008 (Second edition: Frankfurt 2012); Der Rgveda and seine Religion, Berlin 2012; Pali Grammar, The language of the canonical texts of Theravada Buddhism, Vol. I: Phonology and Morphology / Vol. II: Conspectus of verbs and verb forms, indexes and bibliography, Bristol 2019.

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