Sanskrit Studies Vol. 3 : Samvat 2069-70 (ce 2013-14)

Contents: 1. The Theory of Oral Composition and the Veda/Miquel Peralta. 2. The Yajusha Hautra Dispute in Early Modern Maharashtra/ Madhav M. Deshpande. 3. Hermeneutics of the Upanishads/R. Balasubramanian. 4. Dharma : An Integrating Factor of Consciousness and Science/ M.K. Byrski. 5. Aesthetic Universe of Bharata's Natyashastra/Radhavallabh Tripathi. 6. Narrating the Nation : Kalidasa's Cultural Geography of India/ C. Rajendran. 7. History and Background of the Sanskrit Commentary-tradition/ Uma C. Vaidya. 8.  Archaeoastronomy in India/Subhash Kak. 9. Universal Premise in Early Nyaya/Kisor K. Chakrabarti. 10. Gangesha on Showing Inference Failure/Stephen H. Phillips. 11. Gangesha on the Meaning of Verbal Suffixes/Toshihiro Wada. 12. On the Concept of Ayutasiddha in the Definition of Inherence/ Katsunori Hirano. 13. Mantric Effect, Effervescent Devatas, Noetic Supplications and Apurva in the Mimamsa/Purushottama Bilimoria. 14. Translation as the Cultural Space of Tibetan/Lokesh Chandra. 15. Sanskrit and Tamil Interrelation/S. Revathy. Index.

This anthology (2013-14) is the third volume of the "Sanskrit Studies", a serial publication from the Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The first volume of the series was published in 2004-05, and the second in 2006-07. JNU is committed to bring out this serial publication, though with some interval.

This Sanskrit Studies series is set to focus on a vast range of Sanskrit language and literature, grammar and historical linguistics, sources of history and systems of philosophy, principles of poetics and details of dramaturgy, lexicography, and so on. It also aims to bring forth the vision of Vedic texts and the varieties of Vedic traditions, Buddhist canons, Pali texts, different versions of Prakrit language and the emerging field of computational linguistics, thus adopting a multi-disciplinary approach.

This volume too deliberates on varied topics of Sanskrit studies and discusses the theory of Oral Composition of Veda, the Yajusha Hautra Dispute, Hermeneutics of the Upanishads, Concept of Dharma, Aesthetic Universe of Natyashastra, the Cultural Geography of Kalidasa, Sanskrit Commentary, Archaeoastronomy, Universal Premise in Early Nyaya, Sanskrit and Tamil Interrelation, among others.

The fifteen articles presented in this volume represent the richness and rigour of Sanskrit studies in contemporary times across the globe. It should interest all those who are in Sanskrit studies – researchers, teachers, students and scholars alike. (jacket)