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Introduction: Situating Sanskrit after the Sultanates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2021

Luther Obrock
Luther Obrock*
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 32 , Special Issue 1: Situating Sanskrit after the Sultanates , January 2022 , pp. 3 - 11
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1 Śrīvara's Jainataraṅgiṇī 1.1.72-4. Here I follow the edition and the German translation of Walter Slaje in Slaje, ‘Schleuder, Katapult, Armbrust und Kanonen: Zur weniger bekannten Militärtechnologie des mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Indien’ In Zeitschrift der Deutchen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 169, 2 (2019), pp. 126–131

2 See Śrīvara's Jainataraṅgiṇī, 1.4.

3 Śrīvara's Jainataraṅgiṇī 1.4.29.

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5 For more details on the mechanics of firing a cannon, especially how they seemed to be impelled with a kick, see Slaje, ‘Schleuder, Katapult, Armbrust und Kanonen’, pp. 130–131.

6 For a history of śleṣa in Sanskrit literature, see Yigal Bronner, Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration (New York, 2010).

7 For instance, his word for “cannonball”, vajrabāṇa translates literally as “thunderbolt-arrow” and the word for “cannon” is yantrabhāṇḍa, literally “mechanism-vessel”.

8 S. N. Dasgupta A History of Sanskrit Literature: Classical Period. Vol. 1 (Calcutta, 1962), p. cxviii.

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