On March 17-19, 1985, Professor Bishnupada Bhattacharya delivered at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, the Professor K.V. Abhyankar Memorial Lectures (Third Series) on "Bhartrhari's Vakyapadiya and Linguistic Monism: A Philosophical Study" and "Linguistic Speculations in Sanskrit Poetics". His two lectures on the first theme are being published in this volume, which, though tiny in size, is, I believe, profound in contents... ...
