Language and reality
Subtitle: on an episode in Indian thought
By: by Johannes Bronkhorst ; translated from the French by Michael S. Allen and Rajam Raghunathan
Edition: Rev. and with a new appendix.
Series: Brill's Indological library -- v. 36
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9789004204355
Subjects: History; Philosophy; Indic Philosophy; Reference (Philosophy); Language and languages; Reality
Work titles: Langage et réalité
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rev. and updated English ed. of: Langage et réalité : sur un épisode de la pensée indienne.
Table of contents: title: Aim of the lectures; title: Early Brahmanical literature; title: Panini's grammar; title: A passage from the Chandogya Upanisad; title: The structures of languages; title: The Buddhist contribution; title: Vaisesika and language; title: Verbal knowledge; title: The contradictions of Nagarjuna; title: The reactions of other thinkers; title: Sarvastivada Samkhya; title: The Agamasastra of Gaudapada; title: Sankara; title: Kashmiri Saivism; title: Jainism; title: Early Vaisesika; title: Critiques of the existence of a thing before its arising; title: Nyaya; title: Mimamsa; title: The Abhidharmakosa bhasya of Vasubandhu; title: The Abhidharmasamuccaya of Asanga and its bhasya; title: Bhartrhari; title: The problem of negation; title: Dignaga and verbal knowledge; title: The Bodhisattvabhumi; title: Prajnakaragupta; title: Indian thinkers and the correspondence principle; title: Appendix. The Mahaprajnaparamitasastra and the Samkhya tanmatras.