Disciplines
Linguistics and Literature (100%)
Keywords
Idian Philosophy,
Indian Logic,
Indian Epistemology,
Early Indian Dialectic,
Indian Methodology
Abstract
This volume is the third and last of the three-volume dictionary of Early Indian dialectics, epistemology and
methodology. The first two volumes that comprise, following the Sanskrit alphabet, the headwords from A to I
(Vol. 1) and U to Pu (Vol. 2) were published in Vienna (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press) in 1991 and 1996
under the title "Terminologie der frühen philosophischen Scholastik in Indien. Ein Begriffswörterbuch zur
altindischen Dialektik, Erkenntnislehre und Methodologie." The now completed third volume comprises the entries
from Pra-H and contains 152 articles.
This dictionary is the first attempt to make the formal terminology as developed in the early period of Indian
philosophy accessible. Its aim is to show the historical development of this terminology from the beginnings of the
systematic philosophical reflection up to the period of Dignaga (ca. AD 480 - 540).
In the composition of the articles, the intent is to consider, as far as possible, all Sanskrit texts of the relevant
period that discuss logic, epistemology, dialectics, and the methodology of scientific demonstration. For the sake of
the use of readers who are not familiar with Sanskrit, such as comparative historians of philosophy, etc., the text
passages in the articles are not only presented in the Sanskrit original, but also in German translation.