عنوان

Stratifying the Mahābhārata

Number

LA112489

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Stratifying the Mahābhārata

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Oliver Hellwig

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

Disputed authorship and text transfer are notorious problems in the textual transmission of Sanskrit, especially for large anonymous texts such as the Mahābhārata. Stratification methods for such texts have so far mainly relied on manuscriptology, higher textual criticism, and scattered historical evidence. This paper introduces a quantitative method for text stratification that uses frequent linguistic features for inducing authorial layers in Sanskrit texts. The proposed method is tested with texts whose authorial composition is known, and then applied to the Bhīṣmaparvan of the Mahābhārata. Disputed authorship and text transfer are notorious problems in the textual transmission of Sanskrit, especially for large anonymous texts such as the Mahābhārata. Stratification methods for such texts have so far mainly relied on manuscriptology, higher textual criticism, and scattered historical evidence. This paper introduces a quantitative method for text stratification that uses frequent linguistic features for inducing authorial layers in Sanskrit texts. The proposed method is tested with texts whose authorial composition is known, and then applied to the Bhīṣmaparvan of the Mahābhārata.

Date of Publication

2017

Physical description

132-169

Title

Indo-Iranian Journal

Volume Number

60/2

International Standard Serial Number

1572-8536

Subject Term

Bhagavadgītā

Subject Term

stylometry

Subject Term

text stratification

Subject Term

topic modeling

Oliver Hellwig

Call Number

10.1163/15728536-06002001

Electronic name

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[Article]

275578

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