LEADER 03561nam 22005292 450 001 9910130595803321 005 20230828215518.0 010 $a9788884537300 010 $a8884537304 035 $a(CKB)3400000000020535 035 $a(ItFiC)it 08634238 035 $a(MH)012827884-6 035 $a(Perlego)3249801 035 $a(EXLCZ)993400000000020535 100 $a20091204g20089999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCollected essays /$fPatrick Olivelle 210 $aFirenze $cFirenze University Press$d2008- 215 $a1 online resource (v.) 225 0$aBiblioteca scientifica universale ;$v2 300 $aCollected writings. 300 $aFirst publ. 2005, now with a new preface. 311 08$a9788884537294 311 08$a8884537290 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. : Language, texts and society ... - 2008. - 419 p. 330 8 $aThe first volume of Collected Essays brings together research papers of Olivelle published over a period of about ten years. The unifying theme of these studies is the search for historical context and developments hidden within words and texts. Words and the cultural history represented by words that scholars often take for granted as having a continuous and long history are often new and even neologisms and thus provide important clues to cultural and religious innovations. Olivelle's book on the A?u?ramas, as well as the short pieces included in this volume, such as those on a?nanda and dharma, seek to see cultural innovation and historical changes within the changing semantic fields of key terms. Closer examination of numerous Sanskrit terms taken for granted as central to Hinduism, provide similar results. Indian texts have often been studied in the past as disincarnate realities providing information on an ahistorical and unchanging culture. This volume is a small contribution towards correcting that method of textual study. Patrick Olivelle is the Chair, Department of Asian Studies, at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions. Among his recent publications are The Samnyasa Upanisads (Oxford, 1992), The A?rama System (Oxford, 1993), Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism (State University of New York Press, 1994), The Early Upanisads: Annotated Text and Translation (Oxford 1998), Dharmasu?tras: Annotated Text and Translation (Motilal Banarsidass, 2000), Manu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Manava-Dharma?astra (Oxford, 2005), and Dharmasu?tra Parallels (Motilal Banarsidass, 2005). His translations of Upanisads, Pancatantra, Dharmasu?tras, and The Law Code of Manu were published in Oxford World's Classics in 1996, 1997, 1999, 2004. 517 $aCollected essays 517 $aCollected Essays. 1 606 $aHinduism 606 $aSanskrit language 607 $aIndia$xCivilization 615 0$aHinduism. 615 0$aSanskrit language. 676 $a294 700 $aOlivelle$b Patrick$0441894 801 0$bItFiC 801 1$bItFiC 801 2$bMH 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910130595803321 996 $aCollected essays$92434491 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress