An introduction to the Sanskrit language from many different view points. In this book, Sanskrit is described from two points of view: what the native speakers knew and felt about their language, and what the foreign scholars discovered in their historical and comparative quest.
Author(s): Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat; translated from the French by T.K. Gopalan.
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: Indica Books
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 135
City: Varanasi, India
Tags: Sanskrit
Introduction
Chapter I. The Language
I. The history of the language
1. The Vedic language
2. Evolution and preservation of Vedic. The recitation of the Vedas
3. Panini, Katyayana, Patanjali
4. Stabilization of Sanskrit
II. The structure of Sanskrit
1. The name of Sanskrit
2. The Paninian structures
3. The script
Chapter II. Representations of Sanskrit and philosophy of speech
I. Sanskrit and other languages
II. The place given to Sanskrit in the world and in society
III. Sanskrit and the transcended speech
1. Sanskrit, the eternal word
2. The transcended word
3. Sanskrit as a way to religious salvation
Chapter III. The users of Sanskrit
I. Sanskrit as everyday language
II. The Sanskrit man of letters, or pandit
1. The Vedic poet
2. The traditional pandit
A) The training of the pandit
B) The living conditions and functions of the pandit
C) Characterisation of the Sanskrit pandit
a) The oral tradition
b) Memorisation and concentration
c) Communication and dialectic
d) Poetry
e) The dharma of the pandit and his responsibility
f) Orthodoxy and creativity
Chapter IV. The uses of Sanskrit
I. Spoken language
II. Language of communication
III. Scientific and technical language
IV. Literary language
V. Religious language
1. Language of the religious sources
2. The concept of mantra
Chapter V. The expansion of Sanskrit
I. The expansion in India
II. The expansion outside India
Conclusion
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