4. Languages and Literatures of South Asia

a. Required Modules

M1: Aspects of Language and Literature in the History of South Asia

• 140155 VO The poetic and didactic literatures of Indian Buddhism A concise survey of the state of research

M2: Ancient Indian Forms of Language/Literary Genres

• 140484 UE [ en ] Verbal Morphology of Vedic Sanskrit

M3: Middle Indian resp. Hybrid/Classical Forms of Language/Literary Genres

M4: Modern Forms of Language/Literary Genres

• 140091 UE [ en ] Hindi and Urdu Literature
• 140119 UE [ en ] Hindi Conversation (advanced)
• 140126 UE [ en ] Hindi Readings: Jaya Shankar Prasad and his stories

M5: Philology and Hermeneutics of Ancient Indian Texts

M6: Philology and Hermeneutics of Middle Indian resp. Hybrid/Classical Texts

• 140157 SE Sarvaraksita's Manicudajataka. - A specimen of the canonical language of the Sammitiya school of Indian Buddhism
• 140160 SE The Sutra of the Golden Light in its literary and religious context

M7: Hermeneutics of Modern Indian Texts and Traditions

b. Master-Module

M8: Master's Colloquium on the Languages and Literatures of South Asia

• 140542 KO Colloquium on Religion and Philosophy as Mirrored in Sanskrit literature for Advanced M.A. Students

M9: Master's Thesis

M10: Master's Examination