Abstract
What is a paribhāṣā? How does it work in Śrautasūtra-texts? This paper tries to examine these questions and to trace a story of the paribhāṣās in the Śrautasūtras, giving some indications for future researches. Often translated as “meta-rule”, paribhāṣā is a primary derivative from the Sanskrit root “bhāṣ”, which means “to talk”, with the prefix “pari”, which means “around”, “beyond”. The term indicates a specific discourse “around” or “beyond” something. Therefore, it represents the link with the context, a hybrid element placed between text and context. A paribhāṣā is an explanation, an element around discourse that acts as a frame for what is said: it is a rule that is valid in a wider context than that of the object under analysis, that goes “beyond” discourse. It is a unique opportunity to glance at the ritual in itself, at the “ritual string”, in opposition to every “discourse of the ritual”. This rule’s validity is put into effect through the other rules expressed within the text, in other words it is a meta-rule. However, the subject of the relationship between paribhāṣās and the texts of the śruti is still uncharted territory: the categorizations that have so far been suggested are weak or not useful, and need stronger foundations. The present paper pretends to be a first step in this direction.
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- Frontmatter
- Aufsätze – Articles – Articles
- Les manuscrits du sud de la vallée de l’Indus en écriture khojkī sindhī: état des lieux et perspectives
- Hell as “Eternal” Punishment? On the Depiction of Hell in Vīlhojī’s Kathā Gyāncarī
- Entwicklungen in der Darstellung Buddhistischer Erzählstoffe in Sri Lanka
- Mack the Knife and Knife-Black Dorothy Appositional Metaphoric Compounds: A Comparison and Contrast of the Varying Approaches in Sanskrit Treatises on Grammar and Poetics
- Music Theory, Mathematics, and Patterns of Innovation in the Saṅgītaratnākara
- Considerations About Traditions Influential in the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā
- Meanings Out of Rules. Definitions, Functions and Uses of Paribhāṣās in Śrautasūtras, Gṛhyasūtras, Vyākaraṇa, Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta
- A General Overview
- The paribhāṣās in the Śrautasūtras: Problems, Opportunities and Premises for an Investigation
- Towards a Methodology for Applying the paribhāṣās in the Kauśikasūtra (II)
- From Commentary to paribhāṣās: Kātyāyana and Patañjali vis-à-vis Vyāḍi
- The Role of paribhāṣās in Mīmāṃsā: Rational Rules of Textual Exegesis
- … And What about the Vedānta Paribhāṣā’s paribhāṣātva? Some hypotheses on the use of paribhāṣās in later Advaita Vedānta
- Meanings Out of Rules: The Editor’s Overview
- Rezensionen – Comptes rendus – Reviews
- Some More Notes on Siderits and Katsura’s Translation of Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
- Rezension – Compte rendu – Review
- Otter, Felix: Grundkurs Sanskrit: Eine Einführung in die Sprache der altindischen Erzählliteratur
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Aufsätze – Articles – Articles
- Les manuscrits du sud de la vallée de l’Indus en écriture khojkī sindhī: état des lieux et perspectives
- Hell as “Eternal” Punishment? On the Depiction of Hell in Vīlhojī’s Kathā Gyāncarī
- Entwicklungen in der Darstellung Buddhistischer Erzählstoffe in Sri Lanka
- Mack the Knife and Knife-Black Dorothy Appositional Metaphoric Compounds: A Comparison and Contrast of the Varying Approaches in Sanskrit Treatises on Grammar and Poetics
- Music Theory, Mathematics, and Patterns of Innovation in the Saṅgītaratnākara
- Considerations About Traditions Influential in the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā
- Meanings Out of Rules. Definitions, Functions and Uses of Paribhāṣās in Śrautasūtras, Gṛhyasūtras, Vyākaraṇa, Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta
- A General Overview
- The paribhāṣās in the Śrautasūtras: Problems, Opportunities and Premises for an Investigation
- Towards a Methodology for Applying the paribhāṣās in the Kauśikasūtra (II)
- From Commentary to paribhāṣās: Kātyāyana and Patañjali vis-à-vis Vyāḍi
- The Role of paribhāṣās in Mīmāṃsā: Rational Rules of Textual Exegesis
- … And What about the Vedānta Paribhāṣā’s paribhāṣātva? Some hypotheses on the use of paribhāṣās in later Advaita Vedānta
- Meanings Out of Rules: The Editor’s Overview
- Rezensionen – Comptes rendus – Reviews
- Some More Notes on Siderits and Katsura’s Translation of Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
- Rezension – Compte rendu – Review
- Otter, Felix: Grundkurs Sanskrit: Eine Einführung in die Sprache der altindischen Erzählliteratur