Duty, language and exegesis in Prābhākara Mīmāṃs : including an edition and translation of Rāmānujācārya's Tantrarahasya, Śāstraprameyapariccheda astraprameyapariccheda / / By Elisa Freschi.

• Author: Freschi, Elisa.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English; Sanskrit
• Series: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (431 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The book is an introduction to key concepts of Indian Philosophy, seen from the perspective of one of its most influential schools, the Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā, which flourished from the 7th until the 20th c. AD. The book includes the critical edition and translation of Rāmānujācārya's Śāstraprameyapariccheda, which is part of his Tantrarahasya (written in South India, after the 14th c.). This text has never been translated before and it is one of the clearest elaboration of the Prābhākara thought. The book particularly aims at presenting the linguistic, deontic-ethic, hermeneutic and epistemo-logical thought of the Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā. Detailed glossary and indexes make it possible to use the book as a reference-tool for Indian philosophy and linguistics.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Author and Text -- Exhortation -- Exhortation and Duty -- Hermeneutics of Sacrifice -- Prescriptions and Apūrva -- Desire and Contrary-to-Duty Obligations -- Grammar and Exegesis -- Introduction to the Critical Edition of TR IV -- Annotated Text of the Śāstraprameyapariccheda, Together with its Sources. Annotated Translation -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages of TR IV -- General Index.