The Portable North American Indian Reader (Viking Portable Library)

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A Śabda Reader brings together newly translated passages by authors from a variety of traditions—Brahmin, Buddhist, Jaina—representing a number of schools of thought.

Headnotes explain the meaning and significance of each text, a comprehensive introduction summarizes major threads in intellectual-historical terms, and critical endnotes and an extensive bibliography add further depth to the selections.Also, includes the diagonal join, the pointed join with curve and the linking to pointed letters and rounded letters.

v=1699371720","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":8455033323652,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0. It is built up along the ‘family’ grouping letters keeping in mind, ‘body’, ‘arm’ and ‘leg’ letters. In no other tradition did speculation on language have such a strong impact on philosophical thought as in premodern India.

Framed by Sheldon Pollock's magisterial introduction and commentary, A Rasa Reader opens out a panoramic view of one of the world's great aesthetic traditions, whose adherents blend philosophical rigor and poetic insight as they advance, dispute, and refine theories of the nature and effects of artistic expression. The arrangement of the selections captures the intellectual dynamism that has powered this debate for centuries.