The Present book highlights the importance of verbal testimony (sabdapramana’s) in Indian Epistemology, Knowledge from trusted telling, eternality of word and its meaning, its non-reducibility to inference, philosophical significance of praiseworthy sentence, limits of sruti as a Pramana perceptual cognition generated through verbal testimony, notion of aptatva, etc. these issues are freshly interpreted by a team of scholars who are engaged in research on this subject for a considerable period of time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bhaswati Bhattacharya Chakrabarti
Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya Chakrabarti who is a Professor of Philosophy, University of North Bengal is well conversant in both Indian and Western Philosophy. Her books and articles particularly on Buddhism and Jayarasi are well accepted and appreciated by the scholarly world. She has lectured at length in different Universities of India and published papers in many professional journals published from India and abroad apart from her few books. Recently, she has visited Paris under Indo-French Cultural Exchange programme sponsored by I.C.P.R. in connection with her Post-doctoral work on 'Philosophy of Language-East-West Dialogue'.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Manjulika Ghosh
Dr. Manjulika Ghosh is Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, West Bengal. Her speicalisation includes Philosophy of Language, Ethics and Phenomenology. Her papers have been published in professional journals in India and abroad. She has co-edited the anthology on Meaning and Reference under the S.A. Programme of her Department. Professor Ghosh was a Scholar under the Indo-Hungarian Cultural Exchange Programme in 1999-2000 and did her post-Doctoral work from the Institute of philosophy, Budapest. She has visited and lectured in several Universities abroad on invitation.
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