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Akepiyapornchai, Manasicha McCrea, Lawrence J. Gold, Daniel Richard Blackburn, Anne M. 2022-09-15T15:50:39Z 2022-09-15T15:50:39Z 2022-05 ProQuest Submission ID: 13052 ProQuest Publication ID: 29167924 https://hdl.handle.net/1813/111666 https://doi.org/10.7298/cqsw-s184 15529904 310 pages Supplemental file(s) description: None. This dissertation explores the distinctive intellectual history of South Asian multilingualism. Specifically, it focuses on the South India based Śrīvaiṣṇava religious community (c. tenth century CE onward) as a paradigmatic case. It analyzes the Sanskrit and Manipravalam, a mixture of Tamil and Sanskrit, production of theological treatises on the doctrine of self-surrender—a defining feature of the Śrīvaiṣṇavas—to reveal the dynamic interplay between the development of self-surrender and linguistic changes. Expanding on existing studies of Śrīvaiṣṇavas and self-surrender, this work demonstrates that different languages need to be considered in understanding the medieval Śrīvaiṣṇavas’ doctrine of self-surrender. I argue that the Śrīvaiṣṇavas’ linguistic multiplicity provides not only conditioning factors for the doctrinal development but also the possibility to harmonize any theological tensions. The chapters in this dissertation collectively offer insights into how precisely religious authors from the twelfth to the fourteenth century theorized self-surrender in Sanskrit and Manipravalam through specific historical conjunctures between this doctrinal development and linguistic movements: formation, systematization, heterogeneity, distillation, and harmonization. Based on the case study, this dissertation also challenges Pollock’s (2006) binary paradigm between Sanskrit and the vernaculars, showing that it cannot do justice to the highly diverse and fluid multilingual domain of premodern India. To better capture the complexity of South Asian multilingualism, it offers a new framework for understanding language as not only a linguistic medium but the sphere of related representations—of norms and modes of expression that are constantly negotiated and expanded by the agent—specific to social and intellectual circumstances. en Multilingualism Sanskrit and Manipravalam Self-surrender South India Śrīvaiṣṇava Vedānta VOICES OF SELF-SURRENDER: RELIGIOUS MULTILINGUALISM IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA dissertation or thesis https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/15529904 application/pdf application/msword Asian Literature, Religion and Culture Cornell University Doctor of Philosophy Ph. D., Asian Literature, Religion and Culture https://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810.2 Publication Cornell Theses and Dissertations Akepiyapornchai, Manasicha 5893a6ea-7af3-41d7-abc6-04bcd26ab5df open.access open.access <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="05ec71ab-7926-48bc-98a5-219948062b82"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Language>en</Language> <Title>VOICES OF SELF-SURRENDER: RELIGIOUS MULTILINGUALISM IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2022-05</PublicationDate> <DOI>https://doi.org/10.7298/cqsw-s184</DOI> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Akepiyapornchai, Manasicha</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <Keyword>Multilingualism</Keyword> <Keyword>Sanskrit and Manipravalam</Keyword> <Keyword>Self-surrender</Keyword> <Keyword>South India</Keyword> <Keyword>Śrīvaiṣṇava</Keyword> <Keyword>Vedānta</Keyword> <Abstract>This dissertation explores the distinctive intellectual history of South Asian multilingualism. Specifically, it focuses on the South India based Śrīvaiṣṇava religious community (c. tenth century CE onward) as a paradigmatic case. It analyzes the Sanskrit and Manipravalam, a mixture of Tamil and Sanskrit, production of theological treatises on the doctrine of self-surrender—a defining feature of the Śrīvaiṣṇavas—to reveal the dynamic interplay between the development of self-surrender and linguistic changes. Expanding on existing studies of Śrīvaiṣṇavas and self-surrender, this work demonstrates that different languages need to be considered in understanding the medieval Śrīvaiṣṇavas’ doctrine of self-surrender. I argue that the Śrīvaiṣṇavas’ linguistic multiplicity provides not only conditioning factors for the doctrinal development but also the possibility to harmonize any theological tensions. The chapters in this dissertation collectively offer insights into how precisely religious authors from the twelfth to the fourteenth century theorized self-surrender in Sanskrit and Manipravalam through specific historical conjunctures between this doctrinal development and linguistic movements: formation, systematization, heterogeneity, distillation, and harmonization. Based on the case study, this dissertation also challenges Pollock’s (2006) binary paradigm between Sanskrit and the vernaculars, showing that it cannot do justice to the highly diverse and fluid multilingual domain of premodern India. To better capture the complexity of South Asian multilingualism, it offers a new framework for understanding language as not only a linguistic medium but the sphere of related representations—of norms and modes of expression that are constantly negotiated and expanded by the agent—specific to social and intellectual circumstances.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>