Orality in a world of manuscripts: reconstructing Purāṇic composition, preservation and transmission on the basis of the Bhaviṣyapurāṇa
Since the invention of the Indian writing system around the third century BC, Sanskrit literature was no longer exclusively oral. However, not all genres immediately adopted the new possibilities. In order to fully understand the orality and writing of Sanskrit literature, I will first define a thr...
| Published in: | Manuscript and Text Cultures |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | German |
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Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures
2024-03-01
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| Online Access: | https://mtc-journal.org/index.php/mtc/article/view/32 |