Stratifying the Mahābhārata

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" Stratifying the Mahābhārata "
Oliver Hellwig

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1068860
Doc. No	:	LA112489
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15728536-06002001‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Oliver Hellwig
Title & Author	:	Stratifying the Mahābhārata [Article]\ Oliver Hellwig
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Indo-Iranian Journal
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	60/2
Page No	:	132–169
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	Bhagavadgītā
Descriptor	:	stylometry
Descriptor	:	text stratification
Descriptor	:	topic modeling
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15728536-06002001‬