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| Date: | 2014 |
| Title: | Epistemology of Textual Re-use in the Nyāyamañjarī |
| Author: | Institut fur Sudasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde, Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultat, University of Vienna Graheli, Alessandro |
| Description: | The epistemology of śabda is one of the main themes in Bhaṭṭa Jayanta’s Nyāyamañjarī, and, in the hypotheses explored in this paper, also the conceptual basis of Jayanta’s textual re-use. The sixth chapter of the Nyāyamañjarī contains a debate between Vaiyākaraṇas and Mīmāṃsakas who, respectively, advocated an holistic or atomistic theory of language. Selected Jayanta’s re-uses from Vyākaraṇa, Mīmāṃsā, and Nyāya sources are here surveyed and analyzed, with a focus on their meaning and on the context. The method of analysis is partially following Moravcsik’s scheme for a classification of citations, as well as Small’s classification by symbolic functions. By re-using texts Jayanta not only imparted authority to his own arguments, but also reassessed the relation of his tradition with other ones. Re-used ideas and words stand for symbols of those authors’ tenets, and those authors represent symbols of their respective traditions. Moreover, by quoting a certain author Jayanta often anointed him with a symbolic status of trustworthy authority, and his statement with a status of śabdapramāṇa. |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/65609 |
| Other Identifier: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-014-9234-7 http://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:386727 |
| AMAD ID: | 582615 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
