Houben Jan E.M. (ed.) Ideology and status of Sanskrit. Contributions to the history of the Sanskrit language

Leiden; New York; Köln: Brill, 1996. — 511 p. — (Brill's indological library; Vol. 13). — ISSN: 0925-2916; ISBN: 90-04-10613-8.The present volume is the outcome of a seminar on the Ideology and Status of Sanskrit held in Leiden under the auspices of the International Institute for Asian Studies. The book contains studies of crucial periods and important areas in the history of the Sanskrit language, from the earliest, Vedic and pre-Vedic periods, through the period in which the (restricted) use of Sanskrit spread over practically all of South (including part of Central) and Southeast Asia (sometimes referred to as the period of "Greater India"), up to the recent history of Sanskrit in India. The contributions of this volume are divided into three sections: (1) Origins and Creation of the "Eternal Language"; (2) Transculturation, Vernacularization, Sanskritization; (3) The Sanskrit Tradition: Continuity from the past or Construction from the present?Introduction: towards a Social History of the Sanskrit Language (Jan E.M. Houben).
Origins and Creation of the 'Eternal Language'.
Pre-rgvedic convergence between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian? A survey of the issues and controversies (Hans Henrich Hock).
The early history of Sanskrit as supreme language (Ashok Aklujkar).
What was Sanskrit for? Metadiscursive strategies in ancient India (John D. Kelly).
Sanskrit and reality: the Buddhist contribution (Johannes Bronkhorst).
Jain attitudes towards the Sanskrit language (Paul Dundas).
Socio-linguistic attitudes reflected in the work of Bhartrhari and later Grammarians (Jan E.M. Houben).
Transculturation, Sanskritization, Vernacularization.
The Sanskrit Cosmopolis, 300-1300 CE: Transculturation, Vernacularization, and the Question of Ideology (Sheldon Pollock).
The use of Sanskrit in South Indian royal inscriptions: social, political and religious implications (A.G. Menon).
Speech of the Gurus: Instances of treatment of Sanskrit in Tantric literature (Teun Goudriaan).
Tibetan expertise in Sanskrit Grammar: ideology, status and other extra-linguistic factors (Pieter C. Verhagen).
More on the Käraka-samgraha, a Sanskrit grammatical text from Bali (Anna Radicchi).
The introduction of Indian Prosody among the Thais (B.J. Terwiel).
The Sanskrit Tradition: Continuity from the past or Construction from the present ?
'Do you speak Sanskrit?' On a class of Sanskrit texts composed in the Late Middle Ages (Albrecht Wezler).
Sanskrit and Hindu national identity in nineteenth century Bengal (Victor van Bijlert).
The place of Sanskrit in neo-Hindu ideologies: from religious reform to national awakening (Corstiaan van der Burg).
Position of Sanskrit in public education and scientific research in modern India (Saroja Bhate).
Contextualizing the Eternal Language: Features of Priestly Sanskrit (Madhav M. Deshpande).