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684 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780520260030
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 01 June 2009
Description
In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beg...
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684 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780520260030
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 01 June 2009
Description
In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beg...