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The natural versus social origin of language controversy perpetuated two distinct traditions of linguistic reflection in India. Bhartrhari stated in no uncertain terms that the correspondence between the word and what it designates is fixed for all times and no human intervention can change this relationship. Panini’s great treatise, astadhyaya, and Bhartrhari’s sphota continued to be the main tradition of formal linguistics in Inida. The Buddhist ...
Signification in Buddhist and French Traditions represents a revised version of a series of lectures delivered at the College de France in December 1998. it is followed by Pierre Abelard’s Tractatus de Intellectibus, rendered into English during the author’s Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. The publication of these essays coincides with the International Conference on Pierre Abelard a l’aube des Universities, at the University ...
The legends of the Punjab include Heer Ranjha, Sassi Pannu, Sohni Mahinwal, Mizra Sahiban and Puran Bhagat. The narratives of Heer and Puran have been presented in their specific existential, semiotic parameters. Sassi Pannu, Sohni Mahinwal and Mirza Sahiban have been rendered into free verse.
The Grand Narrative of Baba Nanak is based on the Janam Sakhis and interpretations of his compositions in the Adi Granth. Amontst others they include Japuji, Sri Rag, Bara Mah and Sidh Gosht. His reflections and meditations on the affairs of this and the other world are presented in the dialectics of anthropology and cosmology.
MACHHIWARA includes the meditations of Guru Gobind Singh on the epistemological conceptualizations of Harimandir, Adi Granth, Akal takhat and the Baptism of the Sword in the ongoing historical progression. There are reflections on the dialectics of cosmology and anthropology due to the Baptism of the Sword that heralded a new era in the body-politic of Bharat. There is also a commentary and a critique of the mythology and history of ancient India, of the rise and ...
Signification in Language and Culture includes papers presented during the International Symposium on Signification in Buddhist and French Traditions (with its impact on later developments in India and Europe) held at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, in September 2001. The first set of papers deals with the philosophy of language, the second set concentrates on signification in medieval India and the third set investigates the articulations of ...
In Nanak Bani Professor Harjeet Singh Gill has interpreted in free verse the composition of Guru Nanak (1469-1539). These are meditations and reflections of Guru Nanak which form a major part of the Adi Granth composed in classical Indian ragas. Within the dialectics of anthropology and cosmology and within the parameters of metonymic observations of the religious and the profane world, there is a certain metaphoric articulation, a certain divine ...