Bilingual discourse and cross-cultural fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in medieval India

• Main Author: Whitney Cox (auth)
• Other Authors: Vincenzo Vergiani (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Institut Français de Pondichéry 2013
• Subjects: Mathematics & science; cultural history; medieval period; intellectual history; Tamil; Sanskrit; transculturation
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This collection of essays aims to trace the exchanges, responses, affinities and fissures between the worlds of Sanskrit and Tamil literary cultures in the medieval period. The literati who produced the works in these languages moved freely between domains that earlier Indological scholarship has te...