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  title info:
    title: Sons of Sarasvatī
    sub title: late exemplars of the Indian intellectual tradition
  name:
    name part: Ravishankar, Chinya V.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Veṅkaṭaramaṇa Śāstri, Cāmarājanagara
    name part: 1888-1945
    role:
      role term: translator.
  name:
    name part: Puṭṭaṇṇa, Em. Es.
    name part: 1854-1930
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: kan
  language:
    language term: kan
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxxvi, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Traditional Indian pāṇḍitya (scholarship) has a long and distinguished history, but is now practically extinct. Its decline is remarkably recent, traditional pāṇḍitya flourished as recently as 150 years ago. The decline is also paradoxical, having occurred precipitously following a broad and remarkable flowering of the tradition between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The important questions this decline poses are the subject of much ongoing work. The intellectual history of the period is still under construction, and the present book represents a major contribution to the edifice. A notable impediment has been the lack of critical biographies of significant thinkers in this tradition. The importance of personal and social context for reconstructing intellectual histories is widely understood. In the classical Indian intellectual tradition, however, authors systematically exclude such context, making intellectual biography something of a rarity, very rare in English and sparse even in the regional languages. This book contains translations from the original Kannaḍa of the biographies of Garaḷapurī Śāstri, Śrīkaṇṭha Śāstri and Kuṇigala Rāmaśāstri of nineteenth-century Mysore, all representing the highest echelons of traditional pāṇḍitya at this critical period of transition. Their fields are literature, grammar and logic, respectively. The biographies focus on the personal lives of these scholars and their many contexts. These biographies are almost contemporaneous accounts, reflecting first-hand knowledge. The translations are accompanied by copious footnotes as well as appendices drawn from the relevant primary sources.
  table of contents: Biography of Sōsale Garaḷapurī Śāstri -- Biography of Cāmarājanagara Śrīkaṇṭha Śāstri -- Biography of Kuṇigala Rāmaśāstri.
  note: [translated, edited, and with an introduction by] Chinya V. Ravishankar ; translations of biographies in Kannada by Cāmarājanagara Veṅkaṭaramaṇa Śāstri and Maisūru Sūryanārayaṇabhaṭṭa Puṭṭaṇṇa.
  note: Includes passages in Kannada (Roman).
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Garaḷapurī Śāstri, Sōsale
      name part: 1822-1877
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Śrīkaṇṭha Śāstri, Cāmarājanagara
      name part: 1833-1917
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rāmaśāstri, Kuṇigala
      name part: active 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Scholars
    geographic: India
    geographic: Karnataka
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Mysore (India)
    topic: Intellectual life
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: DS485.M835 R368 2018
  classification: 001.2092/25487
  identifier: 9781438471839
  identifier: 1438471831
  identifier: 9781438471853 (e-book)
  identifier: 2017058948
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180513
    record change date: 20181024144020.0
    record identifier: in00004033949