Surrender to God Across Languages
Multilingual Intellectual History of Premodern India
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 July 2026
- ISBN 9780197840542
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 235x165x18 mm
- Weight 422 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Surrender to God Across Languages explores the role of languages in the intellectual landscape of second-millennium India by way of six theological treatises composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, each written by a key intellectual figure: Vātsya Varadaguru, Periyavāccān Pillai, Meghanādari Sūri, Pillai Lokācārya, and Vedāntadeśika. Drawing on theories of language politics and translation, Manasicha Akepiyapornchai proposes a new theoretical framework of "language sphere" to better capture the linguistic and intellectual interaction from a micro perspective.
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An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.
How did languages relate to one another and to intellectual agendas in a highly multilingual milieu like premodern India? Surrender to God Across Languages explores this question through the intellectual history of self-surrender, a main soteriological doctrine of the Śrīvaisnavas, a South Indian religious community that worshiped Visnu-Nārāyana as the Supreme God. Author Manasicha Akepiyapornchai studies six theological treatises from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries composed in Sanskrit and Manipravalam. Each is written by one of five key intellectuals of the community: Vātsya Varadaguru, Periyavāccān Pillai, Meghanādari Sūri, Pillai Lokācārya, and Vedāntadeśika.
Akepiyapornchai argues that there was a complex interplay between interlinguistic changes and doctrinal developments, in such a way that it is impossible to fully account for one without the other: languages shaped self-surrender by providing distinctive conditioning factors both scripturally and theologically at each point in time. However, the intellectuals also navigated differently through the multilingual terrain, making choices that responded to their social circumstances and transformed the linguistic spheres in which they operated. Focusing on the Śrīvaisnavas' self-surrender, this book presents one of the most dynamic moments of premodern Indian multilingual and intellectual history.
Drawing on theories of language politics and translation, it also proposes the new theoretical framework of "language sphere" to better capture the linguistic and intellectual interaction from a micro perspective. Despite being formulated with the present case study in mind, this framework has broader implications that can help readers understand multilingual cultures beyond premodern India.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Formation
Systematization
Separation
Harmonization
Conclusion
