Sri Lankan Indologist and Sanskrit scholar (born 1942)
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.
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 .
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 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
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