Vālmīki’s Sanskrit

Bibliographic Details

Title: Vālmīki’s Sanskrit
Author: L. A. van Daalen
Series: Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina, Volume 25
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Place of Publication: Delhi, India
Publication Year: 2004
Originally Published: Brill, Leiden, 1980
Language: English, with Sanskrit textual examples
Format: Hardcover
Pagination: 315 pages
ISBN-10: 81-208-1925-X
ISBN-13: 978-81-208-1925-2

Description

Vālmīki’s Sanskrit is a specialized study of the language and textual history of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa. L. A. van Daalen investigates the grammatical and metrical irregularities preserved in the epic’s manuscript tradition, drawing principally upon the text and critical apparatus of the Critical Edition of the Rāmāyaṇa.

The study considers whether irregular forms belonged to the earliest recoverable text or entered the tradition during subsequent transmission and revision. Rather than attempting to reconstruct the original poem in its entirety, van Daalen develops a method for evaluating what the manuscript evidence may reveal about the archetype and the language of the poet.

Detailed discussions of textual criticism, metre, manuscript agreement and variant readings are accompanied by collected examples from different books of the Rāmāyaṇa. The volume also provides references to individual textual passages and an index of modern scholars.

Originally published by Brill in the scholarly series Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina, this work is intended for advanced study and research. It is particularly relevant to collections in Sanskrit philology, textual criticism, historical linguistics, epic literature and Rāmāyaṇa studies.

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