3. THE DISGUISE OF LANGUAGE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Figures and Tables xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. A Note on Sanskrit Transliteration xvii
6. 1. INTRODUCTION 1
7. 2. EXPERIMENTING WITH ŚLESA IN SUBANDHU’S PROSE LAB 20
8. 3. THE DISGUISE OF LANGUAGE 57
9. 4. AIMING AT TWO TARGETS 91
10. 5. BRINGING THE GANGES TO THE OCEAN 122
11. 6. ŚLESA AS READING PRACTICE 155
12. 7. THEORIES OF ŚLESA IN SANSKRIT POETICS 195
13. 8. TOWARD A THEORY OF ŚLEŞA 231
14. Appendix 1: Bitextual and Multitextual Works in Sanskrit 267
15. Appendix 2: Bitextual and Multitextual Works in Telugu 272
16. Notes 277
17. References 315
18. Index 331