Sheldon Pollock

I came across this fantastic ethnographer from Chicago called Aditya Sood.

And he is a student of Sheldon Pollock.

He

came to study maths in Karnataka as a Sanskritist.

And, and then in, in, in, see, why he-- as I said, he's doing too many things, and, uh, the next important thing, what he's trying to do is, um, it's, it's, it's not just a book on philosophy, it's also a book on literary theory 10th century poets like Pamparana and others.

They were-- What they were doing was, uh, what Sheldon Pollock calls, uh, cosmopolitan vernacular.

Before them, there was Sanskrit, and they were trying to do, uh, what Sanskrit poets did in the Kannada language.

Their model was Sanskrit, and they wrote epic, um, you know, great poems, long poems, uh, epic poetry.