Table of Contents

Preface - Giuliano Boccali; PART I: TECHNICAL AND SPECULATIVE REFLECTIONS ON SIGNLESS SIGNIFICATION: 1. Much Ado about Nothing: Unsystematic Notes on "sunya" - Alberto Pelissero; 2. When One Thing Applies More than Once: "tantra" and "prasanga" in Srautasutra, Mimamsa and Grammar - Elisa Freschi, Tiziana Pontillo; 3. The Earlier Paninian Tradition on the Imperceptible Sign - Maria Piera Candotti, Tiziana Pontillo; 4. The Infinite Possibilities of Life: Interpretations of the "sunyata" in the Thinking of Daisaku Ikeda - Paolo Corda; PART II: REFLECTIONS ON SIGNLESS SIGNIFICATION IN LITERATURE AND ARTS: 5. Presences and Absences in Indian Visual Arts: Ideologies and Events - Cinzia Pieruccini; 6. Rethinking the Question of Images (Aniconism vs. Iconism) in the Indian History of Art - Mimma Congedo, Paola M. Rossi; 7. Denotation "in absentia" in Literary Language: The Case of Aristophanic Comedy - Patrizia Mureddu; 8. The Birth of the Buddha in the Early Buddhist Art Schools - Ruben Fais; 9. Untranslatable Denotations: Notes on Music Meaning Through Cultures - Prema Bhat, Paolo Bravi, Ignazio Macchiarella; Summary of Papers

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An innovative study bringing fresh significance to the concept of Panini's zero in traditional Indian grammar by exploring the relationships between different meaning systems.

About the Author

Tiziana Pontillo is a teacher and research fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Maria Piera Candotti is privat-docent of Sanskrit at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.