Retelling time : alternative temporalities from premodern South Asia /: alternative temporalities from premodern South Asia. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Shonaleeka Kaul.
• Editors: Kaul, Shonaleeka
• Contents: Preface 1. Temporality and Its Discontents Or Why Time Needs to be Retold 2. The Moment in Which the River Rests: Time in Early Buddhism 3. Proleptic Pasts and Involuted Causalities in Kūṭiyāṭṭam 4. Taking, Making, and Leaving: The Many Times of the Āyāraṃga 5. The Guru and the Mantra: Transcending Time in the Philosophy and Practice of Yoga 6. Time is Born of his Eyelashes: Purāṇic Measurement and Conceptions of Time 7. On Rasa and Recursivity: Ethics and Aesthetics of Time in Sanskrit Poetics (Alaṃkāraśāstra) 8. Sun, Consciousness and Time: The Way of Time and the Timeless in Kashmir Shaivism 9. Time is in the Moment (waqt) and also in Eternity (dahr): Reflections from Sufi Islam 10. Concentric Worlds: Space and Time in the Pratyabhijñā school and the Abhinavabhāratī 11. Corporal Time to Cognitive Time: Kannada Wordscape in Transition 10th to 13th centuries 12. (Un)doing Space and Time: ‘Doing’ the Rāmcaritmānas 13. The Ontology of Now: Reading Time through 16th and 17th century Nyāya philosophy 14. ‘A Farrago of Legendary Nonsense’: Myth, Time and History in the Keralolpatti 15. The Knots of Time: Reading Nostalgia in Bengali Literature from 13th to the 19th century
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 203.60954; Hindu chronology; Space and time; Time; South Asia -- Civilization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000439748; 9781000439700; 9781003202783
• Related ISBNs: 9781032061931
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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