ABSTRACT

First published in 1997. The International Institute for Asian Studies (lIAS) is pleased to introduce a new series 'Studies from the International Institute for Asian Studies'. This present volume, India and Beyond; Aspects of Literature Meaning, Ritual and Thought, contains more than 30 contributions from well-established scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds. These essays are in honour of one of the founding fathers of the lIAS, Frits Staal, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and South Asian Languages, University of California at Berkeley. This volume is edited by Dick van der Meij, editor of the Indonesian-Netherlands Cooperation in Islamic Studies Programme at Leiden University.

chapter IV|5 pages

Hindu Revival in Fifteenth-Century Java

chapter 1|21 pages

Early Vedic Thought

chapter 2|2 pages

The Nirukta of Yāska

chapter 3|3 pages

Pānini’s View of Linguistic Units

chapter 7|1 pages

Conclusion

chapter |4 pages

References

chapter |2 pages

Notes

chapter 1|1 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|7 pages

Magical Transformations: Ilā

chapter 3|4 pages

The Enchantress and the Goddess: Mohinī

chapter 4|2 pages

Lethal Transsexuality

chapter 6|1 pages

Bisexuality and Androgyny

chapter |3 pages

Notes

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction: In Search of a New Model

chapter 2|8 pages

The City of God: Heaven in the Purānas

chapter 3|2 pages

The Temple as Map of Heaven

chapter |4 pages

Notes

part XII|1 pages

Metrical Verse in the Psalms

chapter 1|3 pages

On the Nature of Metrical Verse

chapter 2|12 pages

On Syllable Counting Verse in the Bible

chapter |1 pages

References

chapter |2 pages

Notes

part XIII|17 pages

The Losing of Tapas

chapter |2 pages

References

chapter |4 pages

Notes

chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|5 pages

The Term Bhāsyasūtra

chapter 5|1 pages

Conclusion

chapter |1 pages

Abbreviations of Sanskrit Sources

chapter |5 pages

References

chapter |8 pages

Notes

chapter XVI|27 pages

Becoming a Veda in the Godavari Delta

chapter |1 pages

Introduction

chapter |3 pages

Citralaksana

chapter |5 pages

Visnudharmottara Purāna

chapter |2 pages

Conclusions

chapter |1 pages

References

chapter |3 pages

Notes

chapter 1|1 pages

Preface

chapter 2|1 pages

Śankara’s View of Buddhism

chapter 3|1 pages

Śankara’s Opponents’ View of Advaita

chapter 4|1 pages

Śankara and Vijñānavādins

chapter 8|3 pages

Conclusion

chapter 1|2 pages

Die Fragestellung

chapter 2|3 pages

Bisherige Betrachtungsweisen

chapter 3|4 pages

Versuch Einer Lösung

chapter |2 pages

Notes

chapter XXIX|12 pages

Linear Time in Historical Texts of Early India

part XXX|16 pages

On Mantras and Frits Staal

chapter |4 pages

References

chapter |4 pages

Notes

part XXXI|14 pages

Tibetan Expertise in Sanskrit Grammar (3): on the Correct Pronunciation of the Ineffable

chapter |2 pages

Appendices

chapter |3 pages

References

chapter |3 pages

Notes

part XXXIV|18 pages

Theology and the Academic Study of Religion in the United States

chapter |2 pages

References

chapter |5 pages

Notes

chapter XXXV|20 pages

Bibliography Frits Staal

chapter |1 pages

Abbreviations