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The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India
Sheldon Pollock
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| #1156764 in Books | 2009-06-01 | 2009-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x1.77 x6.00l,2.10 | File type: PDF | 706 pages||5 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant Contribution to the Understanding of the History of Sanskrit as Language and Culture|By anil pandya|The author demonstrates amazing mastery over the subject. It is a serious work and will require active engagement with it to grasp the complexity of this ancient language which was also the mother of Latin and Greek; and its fascinating evolutionary history in India. D||
“The Language of the Gods . . . opens up a rich series of theoretical debates about language, modernity, culture, power and identity.”
In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beginning of the Common Era, when Sanskrit, long a sacred language, was reinvented as a code for literary and political expression, the start of an amazing career that saw Sanskrit literary culture spread from Afghanistan to J...
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