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| Jan E. M. Houben |
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| Jan E. M. Houben obtained his Ph.D. in 1992 for a thesis on Bhartrhari's philosophy of language (Utrecht University). He edited the volume Ideology & Status of Sanskrit in 1996 as Fellow of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden.
Books authored and edited by him include the monographs The Pravargya Brahmana of the Taittiriya Aranyaka: An Ancient Commentary on the Pravargya Ritual (Delhi, 1991), The Sambandha-Samuddesa (chapter on relation) and Bhartrhari's Philosophy of Language (Groningen, 1995), and the collective Volumes, The Emergence of Semantics in Four Linguistic Traditions, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek and Arabic (Amsterdam, 1997; together with Van Bekkum, Sluiter and Versteegh)and Violence Denied: Violence, Non-Violence and the Rationalization of Violence in South Asian Cultural History (edited together with Karel van Kooij, 1999). |
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