Rule-extension Strategies in Ancient India

Rule-extension Strategies in Ancient India

Ritual, Exegetical and Linguistic Considerations on the "tantra"- and "prasanga"-Principles

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This study focuses on the devices implemented in Classical Indian texts on ritual and language in order to develop a structure of rules in an economic and systematic way. These devices presuppose a spatial approach to ritual and language, one which deals for instance with absences as substitutions within a pre-existing grid, and not as temporal disappearances. In this way, the study reveals a key feature of some among the most influential schools of Indian thought. The sources are Kalpasutra, Vyakarana and Mima sa, three textual traditions which developed alongside each other, sharing - as the...