Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India

Ollett, Andrew

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“…Mathura was an important trade nexus between the uttara-and dakṣiṇa-pathas linking south and central 50 Asia (Neelis 2010;Ollett 2017).…”

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Poles apart? From Wrestling and Mallkhāmb to Pole Yoga

McCartney¹

2023

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Mallkhāmb (malla-khāmba, “wrestler-pole”) is today popularly referred to as “Pole Yoga” and it is recognised as the so-called “Authentic Indian Sport.” However, its history is confusing to trace. Some speculate that the source of pole yoga is neither the Marathi mallkhāmb nor the similar Sanskrit mallastambha, or neither stambha-śrama (“pole-exercise”). Rather, myths of Śiva’s stambha are imagined across dissonant and dislocated biographies, which appear to be poles apart and appear to represent an ever-increasing historical polarity. The aim of this chapter is to provide clarity about, and if possible pin, mallkhāmb’s connections to haṭhayoga’s suite of āsanas (“postures”). This thorough analysis of mallkhāmb’s primary textual sources is based on a close reading of the Mallapurāṇa and Mānasollāsa, through which it is determined that the wrestler’s āsana has very little, if anything at all, to do with the contemporaneous concept of āsana as stretching. Instead, it serves as an integral part of a wrestler’s path towards defeating his opponent.

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“…Mathura was an important trade nexus between the uttara-and dakṣiṇa-pathas linking south and central 50 Asia (Neelis 2010;Ollett 2017).…”

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Poles apart? From Wrestling and Mallkhāmb to Pole Yoga

McCartney¹

2023

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“…This paper expands upon Jha's (2017) explanation of how studies of language politics in north India tend to focus on the Hindi-Urdu debate. This debate builds on a centuries-old development of language order in premodern India (Ollet 2017), taking on communalist narratives. This culminated in the nineteenth century around which of these mutually intelligible languages -Hindu and Urdu, which derive from Hindustani, but use different scripts, respectively, Devanāgarī द्रे वनागररी and Nastaʾlīq ‫نستعلیق‬ -should become the national language.…”

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15B). With respect to the latter, particular attention to the Western reception and the problem related to the reconstruction of a possible archetype, adopting the guidelines provided by Gérard Fussman, are provided.Carnesale's paper deals with the semantic/pragmatic-syntactic interplay of Hindi predicative possessive constructions, especially taking into account the concept of linguistic iconicity. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to show that each possessive construction in the largest new Indo-Aryan language of modern South Asia is customised to encode specific semantic properties.I wish to thank the members of the Editorial Board, in particular E. Annamalai, Hans Henrich Hock and Silvia Luraghi for their welcome notes, the reviewers of this first issue, the entire staff of Edizioni Ca' Foscari, and the

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Bridge Essay: Vernacularization and World Literature: The Language of Women in the World of God

Eisner¹

2019

A Companion to World Literature

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Given Dante's prominent place in discussions of vernacularization, this chapter reconsiders the substance of Dante's theories and their relationship to his poetic practice. It proposes an investigation of vernacularization that encompasses not only the choice to write in the vernacular but also the decision to transmit those works. Taking up Dante's definition of the vernacular as the language of women, it argues that while Dante can use the vernacular in the world of God, the interventions of other mediators (scribes, editors, commentators) are necessary for the work to survive across time and communicate to future generations.

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Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India

Cited by 28 publications

References 57 publications

Poles apart? From Wrestling and Mallkhāmb to Pole Yoga

Poles apart? From Wrestling and Mallkhāmb to Pole Yoga

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Bridge Essay: Vernacularization and World Literature: The Language of Women in the World of God

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