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LGLOR1671/1671A and/or LGLOR1672/1672A or a course deemed equivalent by the lecturer.
Mastery, at a philological level, of Sanskrit.
Alternating with LGLOR2677, this course deals with the following themes:
1. Commented reading of Sanskrit texts of advanced difficulty (15 hours lectures).'
2. Cursory and personal reading of Sanskrit texts (15 hours exercises).
At the end of this course, the student will be capable, thanks to the acquisition of a philological mastery of Sanskrit, to identify, read, translate and comment on any text composed in this language, including unpublished texts, as well as to undertake a critical study about them.
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Oral exam on the basis of pre-prepared text. The final mark takes account on a proportional basis of the texts prepared individually.
The course is given for two hours per week. It includes lectures and reading.
A copy of the texts to be read is previously given to the students, who are requested to actively participate in the course on the basis of their preparations.
The course consists in a consolidation of the mastery of Sanskrit philology.
The commented readings deal with poetical (kâvya) or technical (câstra) texts, possibly unpublished, with special attention given to philological questions of critical edition and apparatus as well as of manuscript deciphering, but also to the interpretation of native glosses and commentaries.' The cursory reading deals with classical texts.' The individual reading with written preparation consists of a text suggested to or by the student in continuation of the other texts studied or in function of his own research interest.
- L. Renou, Grammaire sanscrite, Paris, 1961².
'- P.-S. Filliozat, Grammaire sanskrite pâninéenne, Paris, 1988.
'- V. Sh. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Delhi, 1965².
'- O. Böhtlingk, & R. Roth, Sanskrit-Wörterbuch, St-Pétersbourg, 1855-1875.
'- M. Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Oxford, 18992²
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