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Mīmāṃsā

Linguistic Tradition Group

• Ancient Indian linguistics
  A group of linguistic traditions

Texts

• Mānameyodaya
  The Mānameyodaya is an elementary mīmāṃsā treatise of the bhāṭṭa mīmāṃsā school. Its author is Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa.
• Mīmāṃsāsūtra
  The Mīmāṃsāsūtra (a.k.a. Jaiminisūtra) is the root text of the indigenous ritual hermeneutics tradition (mīmāṃsā). Its author is Jaimini.
• Śābarabhāṣya
  The Śābarabhāṣya (a.k.a. Mīmāṃsāsūtrabhāṣya) is the earliest extant commentary on Jaimini's Mīmāṃsāsūtra. It is one of the foundational texts of the indigenous ritual hermeneutics tradition (mīmāṃs...

Authors

• Jaimini
  According to the tradition, Jaimini was a student of Bādarāyaṇa, the author of the Brahmasūtra. Several works are attributed to Jaimini.
• Nārayaṇabhaṭṭa
  Nārayaṇabhaṭṭa (a.k.a. Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa, Nārāyaṇa) was the author of the Mānameyodaya.
• Śabarasvāmin
  Śabarasvāmin is also known as Śabara

Linguistic Fields

• Pragmatics
  Pragmatics is the study of meaning beyond the literal meaning of words and their composition into phrases and clauses, encompassing in very broad terms much of the ‘use’ of language in the real...
• Semantics
  Semantics is the study of the meaning of linguistic expressions, and more specifically the study of the literal meaning of linguistic expressions (in contrast with pragmatics, the study of the u...