Quotations, References, etc. A Glance on the Writing Habits of a Late Mimaá¹fsaka

Issue Title: Special Issue on the Reuse of Texts in Indian Philosophy, part 1 Ramanujacarya's Tantrarahasya, a philosophical treatise mainly dedicated to the hermeneutics and epistemology of the Purva Mimaá¹fsa School, might be considered hardly more than a jigsaw of reused passages, since (at least) one third of it has a direct source, and (at least) a further third has its roots in interlanguage usage. It is thus a perfect case study for investigating the compositional habits of philosophical authors in pre-modern astra literature. The article analyses the formal aspects of textual reuse by Ramanujacarya and draws some general conclusions regarding the author's intellectual affiliation to Prabhakara Mimaá¹fsa on the basis of the way he reuses his school's texts as compared to the reuse of other schools' texts. A final section discusses the possibility of generalising these results to the approach to textual reuse of the whole Purva Mimaá¹fsa.