{"product_id":"sons-of-sarasvat-chinya-v-ravishankar-9781438471846","title":"Sons of Sarasvat\u0026#299;: Late Exemplars of the Indian Intellectual Tradition","description":"Traditional Indian \u003ci\u003epāṇḍitya\u003c\/i\u003e (scholarship) has a long and distinguished history but is now practically extinct. Its decline is remarkably recent--traditional \u003ci\u003epāṇḍitya\u003c\/i\u003e flourished as recently as 150 years ago. The decline is also paradoxical, having occurred precipitously following a broad and remarkable flowering of the tradition between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The important questions this decline poses are the subject of much ongoing work. The intellectual history of the period is still under construction, and the present book represents a major contribution to the project.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA notable impediment has been the lack of critical biographies of significant thinkers in this tradition. The importance of personal and social context for reconstructing intellectual histories is widely understood. In the classical Indian intellectual tradition, however, authors systematically exclude such context, making intellectual biography something of a rarity--very rare in English and sparse even in the regional languages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book contains translations from the original Kannaḍa of the biographies of Garaḷapurī Śāstri, Śrīkaṇṭha Śāstri, and Kuṇigala Rāmaśāstri of nineteenth-century Mysore, all representing the highest echelons of traditional \u003ci\u003epāṇḍitya\u003c\/i\u003e at this critical period of transition. Their fields are literature, grammar, and logic, respectively. The biographies focus on the personal lives of these scholars and their many contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese biographies are almost contemporaneous accounts, reflecting firsthand knowledge. The translations are accompanied by copious footnotes as well as appendices drawn from the relevant primary sources.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chinya V. Ravishankar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 143847184X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438471846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d","brand":"Chinya V. Ravishankar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453632000255,"sku":"9781438471846","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3b780ed9-afc4-4cf2-ab8c-55bcb66c6929.jpg?v=1777301306","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sons-of-sarasvat-chinya-v-ravishankar-9781438471846","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}