Andrew Ollett
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 712810 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Ollett |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Ollett |
| FIRMA | OLLETT A |
| AFILIACIONES | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2425-2806 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A Revisionist Account of the Campū
The Sanskrit word campū is usually understood to refer to a literary composition that combines prose and verse. I argue that this sense of the word was not available before the tenth century CE , and the vast majority of compositions that have been called campū s, either in premodern commentaries or in modern scholarship, were not and could not have been so called by their authors. This is true of almost the entirety of so-called “ campū literatu…
Double South Asian Studies
The field of South Asian studies, despite selective growth in the past couple of decades, urgently needs to double in size. Otherwise, it will be unable to meet an array of challenges—some long familiar to area studies, some new to the twenty-first-century world. If it cannot function as a field for the production of new knowledge, the humanities and social sciences will remain trapped by the theories and historical experience of other areas, abo…
First Hundred Light Years
The written responses to Mammaṭa's Light on Literature (Kāvyaprakāśa) constitute the largest corpus of works on Sanskrit poetics, with no other corpus even coming close. Yet, with a few exceptions, it is virtually unstudied. This essay focuses on the wave of responses to the Light composed during the first hundred years after its appearance, during which it attracted an unprecedented number of written responses of various types: sketchy notes, co…
Plumbing the depths
Nārāyaṇa, a student of Mēlputtūr Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa, wrote a commentary on Rāma’s Last Act ( Uttararāmacaritam ) by Bhavabhūti that “must be counted among the more careful and perceptive ever produced for a Sanskrit play” (Pollock). This essay examines the ways in which Nārāyaṇa related local meanings (of words, phrases, sentences, and verses) to the themes of the play as a whole, which Nārāyaṇa called its “deeper meanings.” Nārāyaṇa belongs to a tr…
The application of Mīmāṁsā interpretive concepts in commentaries on plays
This article examines a Sanskrit commentary on Śaktibhadra’s Crown Jewel of Amazement ( Āścaryacūḍāmaṇiḥ ) that systematically uses concepts from Mīmāṁsā to explain the “overall meaning” ( tātparyam or paryavasānam ) of specific passages. The anonymous author of this commentary, from early modern Kerala, describes himself as a follower of Kumārila and quotes him several times. After reviewing the model that the commentator borrows from Mīmāṁsā, w…
Attempted Iconoclasm
Dhanapāla's hymn to the image of Mahāvīra at Sanchore, composed in Apabhramsha around the beginning of the eleventh century, has been recognized to contain the earliest reference in an Indian language to Maḥmūd of Ghazna's raids in northwestern India in 1024, culminating in his destruction of the temple of Shiva at Somnath, in Gujarat. This hymn has been read as referring to another act of iconoclasm—or rather attempted iconoclasm, since it was u…
Non-Canonical Subjects in the Prakrit of Kōūhala's Līlāvaī
Kōūhala's Līlāvaī, a romance in Prakrit verse from around 800 CE, has two types of constructions that present "syntactical difficulties" (according to the text's first editor): the use of mhi (I am) in the meaning of maē (by me), and the use of amhēhi (by us) and tumhēhi (by you) in the meanings of amhē (we) and tumhē (you). This article reviews the phenomena and puts them into the context of expressions of agency in related Indic languages, argu…
Making It Nice
Ritual Texts and Literary Texts in Abhinavagupta’s Aesthetics
Evidence of laryngeal coloring in Proto-Indo-Iranian
Past scholarship has made almost no mention of the effects in the Indo- Iranian languages of ‘laryngeal coloring’, the putatively Indo-European development according to which */e/ is ‘colored’ into */a/ or */o/ by an adjacent */h2/ or */h3/, respectively. And for good reason: the merger of nonhigh vowels in Proto-Indo-Iranian would have effaced these distinctions in any case. In this paper I survey the etyma in which laryngeal coloring could have…
Ghosts from the past
What is Paiśācī and how does it fit into a larger history of language and literature in pre-modern India? A re-examination of the sources suggests three points: first, that when people first started talking about Paiśācī in the mid-first millennium CE, it was not thought to be a language in the same sense that Sanskrit and Prakrit were languages; second, that Paiśācī was integrated into Indian classifications of language at a later stage (ninth–t…
What is Bhāvanā
What is Bhāvanā
Evidence of laryngeal coloring in Proto-Indo-Iranian
Past scholarship has made almost no mention of the effects in the Indo- Iranian languages of ‘laryngeal coloring’, the putatively Indo-European development according to which */e/ is ‘colored’ into */a/ or */o/ by an adjacent */h2/ or */h3/, respectively. And for good reason: the merger of nonhigh vowels in Proto-Indo-Iranian would have effaced these distinctions in any case. In this paper I survey the etyma in which laryngeal coloring could have…
Ghosts from the past
What is Paiśācī and how does it fit into a larger history of language and literature in pre-modern India? A re-examination of the sources suggests three points: first, that when people first started talking about Paiśācī in the mid-first millennium CE, it was not thought to be a language in the same sense that Sanskrit and Prakrit were languages; second, that Paiśācī was integrated into Indian classifications of language at a later stage (ninth–t…
Ritual Texts and Literary Texts in Abhinavagupta’s Aesthetics
Making It Nice
Plumbing the depths
Nārāyaṇa, a student of Mēlputtūr Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa, wrote a commentary on Rāma’s Last Act ( Uttararāmacaritam ) by Bhavabhūti that “must be counted among the more careful and perceptive ever produced for a Sanskrit play” (Pollock). This essay examines the ways in which Nārāyaṇa related local meanings (of words, phrases, sentences, and verses) to the themes of the play as a whole, which Nārāyaṇa called its “deeper meanings.” Nārāyaṇa belongs to a tr…
The application of Mīmāṁsā interpretive concepts in commentaries on plays
This article examines a Sanskrit commentary on Śaktibhadra’s Crown Jewel of Amazement ( Āścaryacūḍāmaṇiḥ ) that systematically uses concepts from Mīmāṁsā to explain the “overall meaning” ( tātparyam or paryavasānam ) of specific passages. The anonymous author of this commentary, from early modern Kerala, describes himself as a follower of Kumārila and quotes him several times. After reviewing the model that the commentator borrows from Mīmāṁsā, w…
Attempted Iconoclasm
Dhanapāla's hymn to the image of Mahāvīra at Sanchore, composed in Apabhramsha around the beginning of the eleventh century, has been recognized to contain the earliest reference in an Indian language to Maḥmūd of Ghazna's raids in northwestern India in 1024, culminating in his destruction of the temple of Shiva at Somnath, in Gujarat. This hymn has been read as referring to another act of iconoclasm—or rather attempted iconoclasm, since it was u…
Non-Canonical Subjects in the Prakrit of Kōūhala's Līlāvaī
Kōūhala's Līlāvaī, a romance in Prakrit verse from around 800 CE, has two types of constructions that present "syntactical difficulties" (according to the text's first editor): the use of mhi (I am) in the meaning of maē (by me), and the use of amhēhi (by us) and tumhēhi (by you) in the meanings of amhē (we) and tumhē (you). This article reviews the phenomena and puts them into the context of expressions of agency in related Indic languages, argu…
A Revisionist Account of the Campū
The Sanskrit word campū is usually understood to refer to a literary composition that combines prose and verse. I argue that this sense of the word was not available before the tenth century CE , and the vast majority of compositions that have been called campū s, either in premodern commentaries or in modern scholarship, were not and could not have been so called by their authors. This is true of almost the entirety of so-called “ campū literatu…
Double South Asian Studies
The field of South Asian studies, despite selective growth in the past couple of decades, urgently needs to double in size. Otherwise, it will be unable to meet an array of challenges—some long familiar to area studies, some new to the twenty-first-century world. If it cannot function as a field for the production of new knowledge, the humanities and social sciences will remain trapped by the theories and historical experience of other areas, abo…
First Hundred Light Years
The written responses to Mammaṭa's Light on Literature (Kāvyaprakāśa) constitute the largest corpus of works on Sanskrit poetics, with no other corpus even coming close. Yet, with a few exceptions, it is virtually unstudied. This essay focuses on the wave of responses to the Light composed during the first hundred years after its appearance, during which it attracted an unprecedented number of written responses of various types: sketchy notes, co…
History (10 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (7 obras) · Linguistics (7 obras) · Literature (7 obras) · Epistemology (6 obras) · Sanskrit (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 obras)