TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cox,Whitney
TI  - Modes of philology in medieval South India
T2  - Philological Encounters Monographs
SN  - 9789004331679 (hardback) 
U1  - 491.1 COX 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Philology, Modern
KW  - Research
KW  - India, South
KW  - Manuscripts, Sanskrit
KW  - History
KW  - Discourse analysis, Literary
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Sudy and teaching
KW  - Sanskrit language
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - India
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Philology was everywhere and nowhere in classical South Asia. While its civilizations possessed remarkably sophisticated tools and methods of textual analysis, interpretation, and transmission, they lacked any sense of a common disciplinary or intellectual project uniting these; indeed they lacked a word for 'philology' altogether. Arguing that such pseudepigraphical genres as the Sanskrit 'puranas' and tantras incorporated modes of philological reading and writing, Cox demonstrates the ways in which the production of these works in turn motivated the invention of new kinds of 'sastric' scholarship. Combining close textual analysis with wider theoretical concerns, Cox traces this philological transformation in the works of the dramaturgist Saradatanaya, the celebrated Vaisnava poet-theologian Venkatanatha, and the maverick Saiva mystic Mahesvarananda.
ER  -