Edited by Walter Slaje
The focus of this monograph series, published by the Fächergruppenkommission für Außereuropäische Sprachen und Kulturen der Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaften, is on historically accentuated research on India, based on the analysis of primary sources in early Indian languages. The series is therefore essentially oriented towards cultural history. Accordingly, it is open to all historical aspects of the Indian cultural area, such as the intellectual history, the history of ideas and religion, Indian belles-lettres, the autochthonous sciences as well as the pre-modern social and political history of India.

Anonymus Casmiriensis, Mokṣopāya. Historico-Critical Complete Edition.
Edited by Walter Slaje
Mokṣopāya (“Path to Liberation”) forms part of the Sanskrit literature composed in 10th century Kashmir. It contains a didactically structured philosophical attempt at explaining the world by making use of the stylistic means of refined Sanskrit poetry and of the art of narration. The overall aim of its philosophical dialogue consists in deliverance from the cycle of rebirth with a strong emphasis on the fulfilment of social duties decisive for the active life of a pre-modern Indian householder (jīvanmukti). An imperative need of escapism is strongly denied.
The complete edition of this work, which comprises approximately 30,000 stanzas, is organized as follows:
1. Historico-critical edition of the Sanskrit text.
2. Philological translation with annotations.
3. Textual commentaries.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Walter Slaje
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