Aspects of Manuscript Culture in South India

Abstract

Preface List of Contributors 1. Introduction: Manuscript Culture and Its Impact in India: Contours and Parameters - Jan Houben and Saraju Rath 2. On the Johan van Manen Collection: Its Origin and Background - Saraju Rath 3. A Cultural Encounter in the Early 18th century: the Collection of South Indian Manuscripts by the French Jesuit Fathers of the Carnatic Mission - Gerard Colas 4. The South Indian Drama Manuscripts - Anna Aurelia Esposito 5. The Jaiminiya Samaveda Traditions and Manuscripts in South India - Masato Fujii 6. Texts and Communities: The Manuscripts of the Lost Yamalastakatantra - Cezary Galewicz 7. From Palmleaves to a Multimedia Databank - a Note on the 'Bhasa-project' - Heike Moser 8. The Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tamilnadu - P. Perumal 9. Indian Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Manuscripts and Their Colophons - Kim Plofker 10. Varieties of Grantha Script: the Date and Place of Origin of Manuscripts - Saraju Rath 11. From my Grandfather's Chest of Palmleaf Books - Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma 12. Ramasubrahmanya's Manuscripts: Intellectual Networks in the Kaveri Delta, 1693-1922 - Dominik Wujastyk 13. The Use of Manuscript Catalogues as Sources of Regional Intellectual History in India's Early Modern Period - Kenneth G. Zysk Index Plates