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Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
Patrick Olivelle is an
Indologist . A
philologist and scholar of
Sanskrit Literature whose work has focused on
asceticism ,
renunciation and the
dharma , Olivelle has been Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions in the Department of Asian Studies at the
University of Texas at Austin since 1991.
Early life
Olivelle was born in
Sri Lanka . He received a B.A. (Honours) in 1972 from the
University of Oxford , where he studied
Sanskrit ,
Pali and
Indian religions with
Thomas Burrow and
R.C. Zaehner . He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1974 for a thesis containing the critical edition and translation of Yadava Prakasa's Yatidharmaprakasa under the supervision of
Ludo Rocher . Between 1974 and 1991, Olivelle taught in the Department of Religious Studies at
Indiana University Bloomington .
Bibliography
Olivelle, Patrick (1992),
The Samnyasa Upanisads : Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation ,
Oxford University Press ,
ISBN
978-0-19-536137-7
Olivelle, Patrick (1993),
The Asrama System : The History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution , Oxford University Press,
ISBN
978-0-19-534478-3
Upaniṣads . Translated by
Patrick Olivelle .
Oxford University Press . 1996.
ISBN
978-0-19-283576-5 .
OCLC
911287496 .
OL
7384151M .
Wikidata
Q108771870 .
Patrick Olivelle (1998).
The Early Upaniṣads (in English and Sanskrit).
Oxford University Press .
ISBN
978-0-19-535242-9 .
ISSN
0262-7280 .
Wikidata
Q108772045 .
Olivelle, Patrick (1999),
The Dharmasutras: The Law Codes of Ancient India , Oxford World's Classics, OUP Oxford,
ISBN
978-0-19-283882-7
Olivelle, Patrick (1999),
Pañcatantra: The Book of India's Folk Wisdom , Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press,
ISBN
978-0-19-283988-6
Olivelle, Patrick (2004),
The Law Code of Manu , Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press,
ISBN
978-0-19-280271-2
Olivelle, Patrick (2005),
Manu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Manava-Dharmasastra , Oxford University Press,
ISBN
978-0-19-517146-4
Olivelle, Patrick (2006),
Between the Empires : Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE , Oxford University Press,
ISBN
978-0-19-977507-1
Olivelle, Patrick (2009),
The law code of Viṣṇu: a critical edition and annotated translation of the Vaiṣṇava-Dharmaśāstra ,
Harvard Oriental Series , No. 73, Harvard University Press,
ISBN
978-0-674-05139-3
Olivelle, Patrick, ed. (2009),
Dharma: Studies in its Semantic, Cultural and Religious History , Motilal Banarsidass,
ISBN
978-8120833388
Olivelle, Patrick (2011),
Language, Texts, and Society: Explorations in Ancient Indian Culture and Religion , Anthem Press,
ISBN
978-0-85728-431-0
Olivelle, Patrick (2011),
Ascetics and Brahmins: Studies in Ideologies and Institutions , Anthem Press,
ISBN
978-0-85728-432-7
Olivelle, Patrick (2013),
King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India: Kautilya's Arthasastra , Oxford University Press,
ISBN
978-0-19-989182-5
Notes
References
Lindquist, Steven E. (2011), "Introduction: Patrick Olivelle and Indology", in Steven E. Lindquist (ed.),
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle , Anthem Press, pp. 9–20,
ISBN
978-0-85728-790-8 , retrieved 30 September 2013
Clark, Matthew (2007),
Patrick Olivelle: A Profile ,
SOAS, University of London
Jamison, Stephanie W. (2008), "Review of: Languages, Texts, and Society: Explorations in Ancient Indian Culture and Religion by Patrick Olivelle; Ascetics and Brahmins: Studies in Ideologies and Institutions by Patrick Olivelle", Journal of the American Oriental Society , 128 (2): 395–396,
JSTOR
25608395
External links
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