Indian Languages and Texts Through the Ages: Essays of Hungarian Indologists in Honour of Prof Csaba Tottossy
Contents: Preface. Prof. Csaba Tottossy. 1. Remarks on the periphrastic constructions with the verb \'To Make, To Do\' in Sanskrit, Greek and Latin/Mate Ittzes. 2. Proto-Indo-European cultural lexicon: traces of an Afro-Asiatic Substratum/Gabor Takacs. 3. The Fertile Clash: the rise of philosophy in India/Ferenc Ruzsa. 4. A curious play (kim api rupakam): Bhatta Jayanta\'s Agamadambara in the light of classical Indian Dramaturgy/Csaba Dezso. 5. Notes on Matsyendrasamhita/Csaba Kiss. 6. Remarks on the use of the Dharanis and Mantras of the Mahapratisara-Mahavidyarajni/Gergely Hidas. 7. Atra kim prayojanam? An essay on the reception and naturalization of kavya in Tibet: tracing texts, reading between the lines and other vanities/Peter-Daniel Szanto. 8. Exploring the transmission of the Kavitavali of Tulsidas: a statistical analysis of manuscript relationships/Daniel Balogh. 9. Apocrypha in the Eastern Manuscripts of Tulsidas\'s Kavitavali/Maria Negyesi-Imre Bangha. 10. Courtly and religious communities as centres of literary activity in Eighteenth-century India: Anandghan\'s contacts with the Princely Court of Kishangarh--Rupnagar and with the math of the Nimbarka Sampraday in Salemabad/Imre Bangha. 11. The question of Sufism in Khwajah Mir Dard\'s Urdu Poetry/Hajnalka Kovacs. List of contributors.
"Professor Csaba Tottossy is one of those scholars who played a crucial role in establishing Indological studies in Hungary. This volume of essays is offered as a token of respect and gratefulness by his former students. The wide range of subjects treated in the essays reflects Professor Tottossy\'s manifold interests in the field of comparative linguistics and Indology. The subjects dealt with in the volume include Indo-European linguistics, Indian philosophy and religions, classical Indian poetics and dramaturgy, mediaeval Indian poetry and Urdu Ghazal. Prefaced to the volume is a biographical sketch of Prof. Tottossy, as well as a complete list of his published works." (jacket)
