The “Death of Sanskrit”.

Hanneder, Jürgen

In: Indo-Iranian Journal, 45 (2002), pp. 293-310. ISSN 1572-8536

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Abstract

In a recent article, Sheldon Pollock has tried to explore some of the changes and discontinuities that beset Sanskrit learning and literature – perhaps through most of its history, but more palpably in the phases for which our sources are richer – and summarised these processes with the strong metaphor of the “Death of Sanskrit”.

Document type: Article
Version: Secondary publication
Date Deposited: 22 Sep 2020
ISSN: 1572-8536
Faculties / Institutes: Miscellaneous > Individual person
DDC-classification: Other languages
Controlled Keywords: Sanskrit, Pandit
Uncontrolled Keywords: Indien, Sprache, Geschichte / India, Language, History
Subject (classification): Indology
Countries/Regions: India
Series: Personen > Schriften von Jürgen Hanneder
Volume: 9