PDNRL No. 17 Francis X. Clooney: Thinking Ritually. Rediscovering the Pūrvamīmāṃsā of Jaimini. Vienna 1990, 293p. EUR 26.-
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Contents
Preface (9)
Bibliography (11)
Part One: Deciphering the System of the Sūtras (17)
Chapter I: The Need and Possibility of Retrieval (19)
1. The Present State of Mīmāṃsā Studies and the Value of Attention to the Sūtras (20)
a) Mīmāṃsā as a school of exegesis (20)
b) Mīmāṃsā as a school of philosophy (25)
c) Mīmāṃsā and the theory of sacrifice (33)
2. The Retrieval and Reconstruction of the Sūtras (34)
Chapter II: From Structure to Meaning: A Pathway into the Sūtras (55)
1. Four Exemplary Texts (58)
a) 9. 4. 22–27 (58)
b) 8. 1. 11–19 (61)
c) 7. 1. 1–12 (66)
d) 1. 1. 6–23 (77)
2. The Sūtras and the Śrauta Sūtras (79)
3. A Comparison of Mīmāṃsā and Modern Legal Reasoning (88)
Chapter III: Jaimini’s Regular Vocabulary and the Event of Sacrifice (95)
1. Derivation (96)
2. Subordination (98)
3. Relationship (101)
4. Motivation (104)
5. Origination (106)
6. Actualization (108)
7. Being and Making (111)
8. The Event of Sacrifice (116)
9. Organizing the Veda (118)
Part Two: The Meaning and Context of the Jaimini’s System (127)
Chapter IV: The Dharma of the Sacrifice (129)
1. The Distinction between Ordinary and Vedic Experience and Language (131)
2. Codanā, Vidhi and Artha (137)
3. Artha and Phala (139)
4. The Meaning and Function of Dharma and the Sūtras (149)
Chapter V: Jaimini’s “Decentering” of the Human (163)
1. Puruṣārtha and Phala in the Fourth Adhyāya (163)
2. Three Cases (166)
a) The Vedic Seers: 1. 1. 26–32 (166)
b) The Vedic Schools: 2. 4. 8–33 (168)
c) Competence according to the Sixth Adhyāya (176)
Adhikāra (179)
Women: 6. 1. 6–24 (187)
Śūdras: 6. 1. 25–52 (189)
Chapter VI: Jaimini’s Mīmāṃsā in the Context of the Brāhmaṇas and Buddhism (195)
1. Action and the Constructed Self: Paul Mus on the Brāhmaṇas, Upaniṣads and Early Buddhism (196)
2. The Similarity of Mīmāṃsā and Buddhism (206)
3. The Difference between Mīmāṃsā and Buddhism (216)
Chapter VII: Apūrva and the Development of Mīmāṃsā after Jaimini (221)
1. Śabara and the Origins of the Apūrva Doctrine (224)
a) The existence of Apūrva: 2. 1. 5 (224)
b) The extended role of Apūrva in the Bhāṣya (228)
c) The multiplication of Apūrvas (232)
2. Jaimini’s Use of Apūrva Compared with Śabara’s (232)
3. Kumārila and the Developed Doctrine of Apūrva (239)
4. Prabhākara’s Return to Jaimini’s Understanding of Apūrva (245)
Epilogue: Toward an Intellectual History of the Two Mīmāṃsās (255)
Appendix I: The Sanskrit of Sūtras Cited in the Text (259)
Appendix II: Citations of some Key Terms in the Pūrva Mīmāṃsā Sūtras (271)
Indices (291)