Christopher Minkowski
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 977358 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christopher Minkowski |
| PRENOMES | Christopher |
| SOBRENOME | Minkowski |
| ASSINATURA | MINKOWSKI C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Pathways into the Study of Ancient Sciences
Pathways into the Study of Ancient Sciences: Selected Essays. By David Pingree. Edited by Isabelle Pingree and John M. Steele. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 104, pt. 3. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press, 2014. Pp. xxii + 503
An Early Modern Account of the Views of the Miśras
In a doxography of views called the Ṣaṭtantrīsāra, a seventeenth century commentator and Advaitin, Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara, describes the doctrines of a group he calls the Miśras. Nīlakaṇṭha represents the doctrines of the Miśras as in most ways distinct from those of the canonical positions that usually appear in such doxographies, both āstika and nāstika. And indeed, some of the doctrines he describes resemble those of the Abrahamic faiths, conce…
Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices
In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. T…
Apūrvaṃ Pāṇḍityam
Appayya’s Vedānta and Nīlakaṇṭha’s Vedāntakataka
Social history in the study of Indian intellectual cultures
AcknowledgementsWe thank St Antony's College, Oxford, the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, for supporting the workshop that made these essays possible
Advaita Vedānta in early modern history
This essay considers the possibility of a social history of Advaita Vedānta in early modern India by doing five things: surveying the principal literary works, authors, and trends in Advaita in the fifteenth through early eighteenth centuries; mapping the networks connecting the authors of those works through pedagogical and familial ties; locating Advaita in the human geography of early modern India; tracing the linkages of Advaitins with the so…
The Study of Jyotiḥśāstra and the Uses of Philosophy of Science
What makes people who they are? Pandit networks and the problem of livelihoods in early modern Western India
The question ‘Who is a Brahman?’ was the focus of sustained and intense debate among the many small and competing Brahman communities of western India's Konkan littoral during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This debate ranged over history, lineage, reputation, social relationships, modes of livelihood and customary practices. It was conducted along the intellectual and social networks that linked the shrine towns and sacred centres of t…
Nīlakantha's instruments of war
The seventeenth century Benares-based intellectual, NīlakanÚha Caturdhara, wrote what is still the most widely used Sanskrit commentary on the Mahābhārata. In the commentary Nīlakantha sometimes explains the epicÌs instruments of war in contemporary terms-as cannons and muskets, for example. He also uses terms from vernacular, even ÎbarbarousÌ, languages in his glosses. Rather than ÎtypicalÌ of ÎtraditionalÌ Sanskrit commentators, such interpreta…
On Suryadasa and the Invention of Bidirectional Poetry (vilomakavya)
The subject of this communication is the small but well-known genre of bidirectional poetry in Sanskrit called vilomakavya, in which a poem is composed in such a way that it can be read meaningfully from left to right, and from right to left, and in which two different narratives are sustained in the two directions. Here I argue four points: (1) It is reasonable to suppose that this genre had a beginning; to suppose, that is, that someone invente…
Astronomers and their Reasons
Nilakantha Caturdhara's Mantrakasikhanda
Christopher Minkowski, Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara's Mantrakāśīkhaṇḍa, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, No. 2, Indic and Iranian Studies in Honor of Stanley Insler on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Apr. - Jun., 2002), pp. 329-344
The Interrupted Sacrifice and the Sanskrit Epics
The Broken World of Sacrifice
Evám, Evá, and Ācārya Gāṇagāri
Dans la Rgveda, la particule eva a deux utilisations generales, comme postpositive et comme proposition-initial. Dans cette seconde utilisation, elle peut prendre le sens de ainsi, et est alors remplacee par la particule evam. Dans les passages des Khilas et jusqu'a la Rgveda, evam et eva sont employees alternativement. Les textes datent d'une periode ou les deux termes sont en competition. L'histoire de la particule eva montre que dans la Rgevda…
The Rathak?ra's eligibility to sacrifice
The Rathakāra's eligibility to sacrifice
C H R I S T O P H E R M I N K O W S K I T H E R A T H A K . A R A ' S E L I G I B I L I T Y T O S A C R I F I C E In the section of the Taittiriya Brfihmana devoted to the Agnyfidhfina t h e r e . is a passage that lists the mantras to be used by various men when they establish the sacred fires. W h a t is at stake
Janamejaya's Sattra and Ritual Structure
Both of the frame stories of the Mahdbhdrata, gaunaka's and Janamejaya's, are set in sattras, extended ritual actions. The ritual setting is appropriate for thematic and pragmatic reasons, but it also reveals the source for the epic's most characteristic narrative technique-the embedding of stories. Embedding and the use of frame stories in the Mahabhdrata depend on a model of hierarchy and sequence that reflects the structure of Vedic rituals. I…
What makes people who they are? Pandit networks and the problem of livelihoods in early modern Western India
The question ‘Who is a Brahman?’ was the focus of sustained and intense debate among the many small and competing Brahman communities of western India's Konkan littoral during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This debate ranged over history, lineage, reputation, social relationships, modes of livelihood and customary practices. It was conducted along the intellectual and social networks that linked the shrine towns and sacred centres of t…
Social history in the study of Indian intellectual cultures
AcknowledgementsWe thank St Antony's College, Oxford, the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, for supporting the workshop that made these essays possible
Advaita Vedānta in early modern history
This essay considers the possibility of a social history of Advaita Vedānta in early modern India by doing five things: surveying the principal literary works, authors, and trends in Advaita in the fifteenth through early eighteenth centuries; mapping the networks connecting the authors of those works through pedagogical and familial ties; locating Advaita in the human geography of early modern India; tracing the linkages of Advaitins with the so…
The Interrupted Sacrifice and the Sanskrit Epics
Astronomers and their Reasons
Janamejaya's Sattra and Ritual Structure
Both of the frame stories of the Mahdbhdrata, gaunaka's and Janamejaya's, are set in sattras, extended ritual actions. The ritual setting is appropriate for thematic and pragmatic reasons, but it also reveals the source for the epic's most characteristic narrative technique-the embedding of stories. Embedding and the use of frame stories in the Mahabhdrata depend on a model of hierarchy and sequence that reflects the structure of Vedic rituals. I…
Nilakantha Caturdhara's Mantrakasikhanda
Christopher Minkowski, Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara's Mantrakāśīkhaṇḍa, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, No. 2, Indic and Iranian Studies in Honor of Stanley Insler on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Apr. - Jun., 2002), pp. 329-344
An Early Modern Account of the Views of the Miśras
In a doxography of views called the Ṣaṭtantrīsāra, a seventeenth century commentator and Advaitin, Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara, describes the doctrines of a group he calls the Miśras. Nīlakaṇṭha represents the doctrines of the Miśras as in most ways distinct from those of the canonical positions that usually appear in such doxographies, both āstika and nāstika. And indeed, some of the doctrines he describes resemble those of the Abrahamic faiths, conce…
The Study of Jyotiḥśāstra and the Uses of Philosophy of Science
On Suryadasa and the Invention of Bidirectional Poetry (vilomakavya)
The subject of this communication is the small but well-known genre of bidirectional poetry in Sanskrit called vilomakavya, in which a poem is composed in such a way that it can be read meaningfully from left to right, and from right to left, and in which two different narratives are sustained in the two directions. Here I argue four points: (1) It is reasonable to suppose that this genre had a beginning; to suppose, that is, that someone invente…
The Rathak?ra's eligibility to sacrifice
The Rathakāra's eligibility to sacrifice
C H R I S T O P H E R M I N K O W S K I T H E R A T H A K . A R A ' S E L I G I B I L I T Y T O S A C R I F I C E In the section of the Taittiriya Brfihmana devoted to the Agnyfidhfina t h e r e . is a passage that lists the mantras to be used by various men when they establish the sacred fires. W h a t is at stake
Janamejaya's Sattra and Ritual Structure
Both of the frame stories of the Mahdbhdrata, gaunaka's and Janamejaya's, are set in sattras, extended ritual actions. The ritual setting is appropriate for thematic and pragmatic reasons, but it also reveals the source for the epic's most characteristic narrative technique-the embedding of stories. Embedding and the use of frame stories in the Mahabhdrata depend on a model of hierarchy and sequence that reflects the structure of Vedic rituals. I…
Evám, Evá, and Ācārya Gāṇagāri
Dans la Rgveda, la particule eva a deux utilisations generales, comme postpositive et comme proposition-initial. Dans cette seconde utilisation, elle peut prendre le sens de ainsi, et est alors remplacee par la particule evam. Dans les passages des Khilas et jusqu'a la Rgveda, evam et eva sont employees alternativement. Les textes datent d'une periode ou les deux termes sont en competition. L'histoire de la particule eva montre que dans la Rgevda…
The Broken World of Sacrifice
The Interrupted Sacrifice and the Sanskrit Epics
Astronomers and their Reasons
Nilakantha Caturdhara's Mantrakasikhanda
Christopher Minkowski, Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara's Mantrakāśīkhaṇḍa, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, No. 2, Indic and Iranian Studies in Honor of Stanley Insler on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Apr. - Jun., 2002), pp. 329-344
Nīlakantha's instruments of war
The seventeenth century Benares-based intellectual, NīlakanÚha Caturdhara, wrote what is still the most widely used Sanskrit commentary on the Mahābhārata. In the commentary Nīlakantha sometimes explains the epicÌs instruments of war in contemporary terms-as cannons and muskets, for example. He also uses terms from vernacular, even ÎbarbarousÌ, languages in his glosses. Rather than ÎtypicalÌ of ÎtraditionalÌ Sanskrit commentators, such interpreta…
On Suryadasa and the Invention of Bidirectional Poetry (vilomakavya)
The subject of this communication is the small but well-known genre of bidirectional poetry in Sanskrit called vilomakavya, in which a poem is composed in such a way that it can be read meaningfully from left to right, and from right to left, and in which two different narratives are sustained in the two directions. Here I argue four points: (1) It is reasonable to suppose that this genre had a beginning; to suppose, that is, that someone invente…
The Study of Jyotiḥśāstra and the Uses of Philosophy of Science
What makes people who they are? Pandit networks and the problem of livelihoods in early modern Western India
The question ‘Who is a Brahman?’ was the focus of sustained and intense debate among the many small and competing Brahman communities of western India's Konkan littoral during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This debate ranged over history, lineage, reputation, social relationships, modes of livelihood and customary practices. It was conducted along the intellectual and social networks that linked the shrine towns and sacred centres of t…
Advaita Vedānta in early modern history
This essay considers the possibility of a social history of Advaita Vedānta in early modern India by doing five things: surveying the principal literary works, authors, and trends in Advaita in the fifteenth through early eighteenth centuries; mapping the networks connecting the authors of those works through pedagogical and familial ties; locating Advaita in the human geography of early modern India; tracing the linkages of Advaitins with the so…
Apūrvaṃ Pāṇḍityam
Appayya’s Vedānta and Nīlakaṇṭha’s Vedāntakataka
Social history in the study of Indian intellectual cultures
AcknowledgementsWe thank St Antony's College, Oxford, the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, for supporting the workshop that made these essays possible
Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices
In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. T…
An Early Modern Account of the Views of the Miśras
In a doxography of views called the Ṣaṭtantrīsāra, a seventeenth century commentator and Advaitin, Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara, describes the doctrines of a group he calls the Miśras. Nīlakaṇṭha represents the doctrines of the Miśras as in most ways distinct from those of the canonical positions that usually appear in such doxographies, both āstika and nāstika. And indeed, some of the doctrines he describes resemble those of the Abrahamic faiths, conce…
Pathways into the Study of Ancient Sciences
Pathways into the Study of Ancient Sciences: Selected Essays. By David Pingree. Edited by Isabelle Pingree and John M. Steele. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 104, pt. 3. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press, 2014. Pp. xxii + 503
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