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Praising the king in Tamil during the Pallava period

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ID20079765
AuthorsEmmanuel Francis (0009-0003-3952-8769, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages359-409
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueBilingual discourse and cross-cultural fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in medieval India (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherInstitut Français de Pondichéry (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/books.ifp.2915
OpenAlexW3040021177
ISBN9791036544330
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited20

In The Language of the Gods in the World of Men, Sheldon Pollock writes: “It is an interesting fact that in six centuries of Pallava rule not a single inscription was produced in which Tamil does any work beyond recording the everyday — remitting taxes, specifying the boundaries of a land grant, and the like. While examples exist in earlier Pallava records of Sanskrit being used to document the everyday world — a function that would become increasingly rare wherever it could be relegated to t

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Unique citing works3
Citations per year0,5
Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3

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