For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India, starting with the Ghurids in the 1190s through the fracturing of the Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth century. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they have neglected the many histories that India’s learned elite wrote about Indo-Musl...(展开全部)

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 ...(展开全部)

Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies 32nd Lionel Trilling Award, Columbia College and Flora Levy Foundation of Lafayette, La. 2006 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division Awards for Excellence in Literature, Language, & Linguistics, The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) In this work of i...(展开全部)

This book is the first detailed description of the phonetics of Buddhist Sanskrit as shown in the textual tradition of the Buddhist sect known as Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottoravādins. The texts use the language which undoubtedly bears the marks of Middle Indian influence, mostly of Pāli. However, as widely recognized, this language is not identical with Pāli or any other Middle Indian ...(展开全部)