Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism (Cultural, Historical and Textual Studies of South Asian Religions, 1184)

Cover
Front Matter
	Half-title
	Series information
	Title page
	Dedication
	Copyright information
	Table of contents
	List of illustrations
	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Prologue
Chapter Int-Epi
	Chapter Summaries
		Introduction: Ad Fontes, Non Ultra Fontes!
			About This Book
			Why a Critical Edition?
			What Is a Critical Edition?
			How to Interpret the Critical Edition
			Conclusion
		Chapter One: Arguments for a Hyperarchetypal Inference
			The Normative Redaction Hypothesis
			Normative Redaction, Archetype and Original
			Criticism: Higher and Lower
			The Argument from Spread and the Argument from Resilience
			The Argument from Empty Reference
			The Argument from Loss
			Understanding “Contamination”
		Chapter Two: Reconstructing the Source of Contamination
			Contamination: Hyperarchetypal and Extra-stemmatic
			Identifying the Source of Contamination
			The Argument from Uncertainty
			The Argument from Oral Source
			The Argument from (Postulated) Antiquity and the Argument from Ideology
		Chapter Three: Confusions Regarding Classification
			Classification: Typological and Genealogical
			Determining Filiation
			Eliminating Witnesses
			The Argument from Brevity and the Argument from False Premises
			The Argument from a Misapprehension Concerning Classification (Schriftartprämisse)
			The Argument from Extensive Contamination
			The Argument from Independent Recensions
			The Argument from Expertise
	Introduction: AD Fontes, Non Ultra Fontes!
		About This Book
		Why a Critical Edition?
		What Is a Critical Edition?
		How to Interpret the Critical Edition
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter One Arguments for a Hyperarchetypal Inference
		The Normative Redaction Hypothesis
		Normative Redaction, Archetype and Original
		Criticism: Higher and Lower
		The Argument from Spread and the Argument from Resilience
		The Argument from Empty Reference
		The Argument from Loss
		Notes
	Chapter Two Reconstructing the Source of Contamination
		Understanding “Contamination”
		Contamination: Hyperarchetypal and Extra- stemmatic
		Identifying the Source of Contamination
		The Argument from Uncertainty
		The Argument from Oral Source
		The Argument from (Postulated) Antiquity and the Argument from Ideology
		Notes
	Chapter Three Confusions Regarding Classification
		Classification: Typological and Genealogical
		Determining Filiation
		Eliminating Witnesses
		The Argument from Brevity and the Argument from False Premises
		The Argument from a Misapprehension Concerning Classification (Schriftartprämisse)
			Classification, Choice of Sigla, Elimination of Manuscripts and Construction of a Stemma
			Content as the Real Basis for Classification, Descent from Ancestors, Ideal Types and Divergence from the Norm
		The Argument from Extensive Contamination
		The Argument from Independent Recensions
		The Argument from Expertise
		Notes
	Conclusion: Textual Criticism and Indology
		Notes
	Epilogue
		Notes
End Matter
	Appendices
		1. The Volumes of the Critical Edition
		2. Editions Besides the Critical Edition
		3. English Translations of the Mahābhārata
		4. How to Use the Critical Apparatus
		5. How Editors Reconstructed the Reading of the Archetype
		6. How to Cite the MahAbhArata
		7. The Extent of the Mahābhārata’s Books
		8. The 18 Parvans and 100 Upaparvans of the Mahābhārata
		9. The Arrangement of the Parvans in the Southern Recension
		10. Other Narrative Divisions
		11. Sukthankar’s Table of the Manuscripts Collated for the Ādiparvan
		12. Extent of the Sārada Codex for the Ādiparvan
		13. Abbreviations and Diacritical Signs Used in the Critical Edition
		14. Abbreviated Concordance of the Principal Editions of the Mahābhārata
		15. Stemmata for the Different Parvans of the Mahābhārata
		16. Commentaries on the Mahābhārata
			Philosophical Affiliations and Milieu
			Aim in Reading the Mahābhārata
			Extent of the Commentaries and Published Editions
			Finding Guide to the Commentaries
		17. Commentaries on the Bhagavadgītā
		18. The Use of Venn Diagrams to Depict Manuscript Relationships
	Glossary
	Annotated Bibliography
		The Mahābhārata Critical Edition
		Editors’ Introductions from the Mahābhārata Critical Edition
		Reviews of the Mahābhārata Critical Edition
		Editions Other than the Critical Edition
		Translations (Including Reviews) of the Critical Edition or the Vulgate
		Problems in Mahābhārata Textual Criticism
		Mahābhārata Commentators, Commentators’ Editions and Chronological Surveys
		Commentators’ Editions of the Bhagavadgītā
		Introductions to Textual Criticism
		Advanced Works in Textual Criticism
		Problems in Textual Criticism/Computer-Aided Analysis
		Theoretical Perspectives, Romance Philology and Italian Textual Criticism
		Discussions of the Mahābhārata Critical Edition
		Discussions of the Mahābhārata and the Mahābhārata Tradition
		Overviews of Mahābhārata Scholarship
		Overviews of Bhagavadgītā Scholarship
		Philosophical Interpretations
		Oral Epics, Metrical and Statistical Analysis, Search for the Heroic Epic
		Histories and Historical Reconstructions
		Indian History, Epigraphy and Manuscript Culture
		Textual Traditions and Editions of Texts Other than the Mahābhārata
		German Scholarship/ Errors in Textual Criticism
		The Background of the Mahābhārata Critical Edition/Biographic Sources
		Philology, Textuality and the Value of Textual Criticism
		Additional Sources
		Notes
	Index