The volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 15th World Sanskrit conference held in New Delhi in January 2012. The contributions take up the currents in European traditions of Sanskrit grammars, referring to early works by Christian missionaries to compilation of modern Sanskrit grammars. One of the ancient writers in focus is the noted grammarian Panini. Scholars discuss theoretical issues concerning the interpretation and application of Paninian sutras, taking up questions relating to particles (nipata) and preverbs (upasarga). They deal with criticism of Paninian views by Mimamsakas of Prabhakara Naiyayikas and other topics like the relations between terms and meanings as expounded by Bhartrhari. Modern Sanskrit literature is not ignored, the papers including a discussion of usage in the prose work of Ambika Dutt Vyas, Shivarajavijaya.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR George Cardona
George Cardona was born in New York City in 1936. He received a doctorate in Linguistics, specializing in comparative Indo-European, from Yale University in 1960. In India, he studied Paninian grammatical works and texts in other sastras with Jagannath S. Pade Shastri of Vadodara (Baroda), Ambika Prasad Upadhyaya, K.S. Krishnamurti Shastri of Chennai (Madras), and Raghunatha Sharma of Varanasi and Chhata. Since 1960 he has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Professor of Linguistics. He has also taught at several other universities as a visiting professor, He was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences, Palo Alto, in 1971-1972, and was Collitz Professor at the summer institute of the Linguistic Society of America at University of Illinois in 1978. He is a past president of the American Oriental Society (1989-90) and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
There are no reviews yet.