Colophons, prefaces, satellite stanzas
Subtitle: paratextual elements and their role in the transmission of Indian texts
By: edited by Eva Wilden and Suganya Anandakichenin
Contributors: Universität Hamburg. Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies
Series: Indian and Tibetan studies -- volume 10; Indian and Tibetan studies (Hamburg, Germany) -- v.10.
Publisher: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Hamburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 621
ISBN-13: 9783945151099
Subjects: Indic Manuscripts; History; Paratext; Colophons of manuscripts; Manuscrits de l'Inde; Histoire; Paratexte; Colophons de manuscrits
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English, with examples in Sanskrit and Tamil.
Table of contents: title: Literary Traditions: Construing a corpus: the mnemonic stanza on the Kī̄l̲kaṇakku works / Jonas Buchholz; title: Tiruvaḷḷuvamālai : prolegomena to Tirukkur̲aḷ̣? / K. Nachimuthu; title: Appeasing the assembly ; the history, poetics and social logic of the avaiyaṭakkam stanza in Tamil literature / Sascha Ebeling; title: Praising the work and colophonic features in manuscripts containing Sanskrit texts / Bidur Bhattarai; title: Grammatical Traditions : Orbiting material in Tamil grammatical texts / Victor D'Avella; title: Devotional Traditions: Supplementing poetry and devotion ; the additional stanzas to the Tirumurukār̲r̲̲uppaṭai / Emmanuel Francis; title: Colophon stanza - Tan̲iyan̲ - signature verse / Eva Wilden; title: Expression of devotion when copying texts; a critical study of selected Sanskrit manuscripts / Judith Unterdörfler; title: Hagiographical Traditions: The Tan̲iyan̲; its role, evolution and importance in the Śrī̄vaiṣ̣ṇava tradition / Suganya Anandakichenin; title: Evolution of the Tamil Śaiva hagiographical tradition from marginalia to mainstage / Shubha Shanthamurthy; title: The Tivyappirapantam as seen through the Rāmānujanūr̲r̲antāti / Erin McCann; title: Theological Traditions: South-Indian Śaiva colophons / R. Sathyanarayanan; title: Packaging text: paratextual elements in Christian manuscripts of Tamil (16th-18th cent.) / Cristina Muru.