The book entitled Priyamsudarpanah comprise article dedicated to the hallowed memory of late Dr.Priyangshuprabal Upadhyaya. He was a Sanshrit scholar of repute and a man of wisdom, hailing from Dibrugarh, Assam. For about twenty years (1972-1994) he served the Department of Sanskrit, Gauhati University as a reputed teacher of Darsanasastra.
Priyamsudarpanah is made up of two part. In the rst part the reader will find articles and Prasastis written in memory of late Dr. Upadhyaya. Twenty three research oriented article authored by well known scholars have been incorporated in the second part of the book. The article cover a wide range of areas of Indic studies such as religion, philosophy, literature, grammar, linguistics, poetics, law, polity and so on.
It is expected that the book will be able to attract the attention of scholars and students of Indology from across the country.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Maitreyee Bora
Ms. Maitreyee Bora is a senior Professor at the Department of Sanskrit and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Gauhati University. She graduated with honours in Sanskrit in 1967 from Gauhati University and obtained her Master's Degree in Sanskrit in 1970 from the same university. Thereafter, for eight years she devoted herself solely to her duties of a homemaker taking care of the family. In 1969 she joined the Department of Sanskrit, Gauhati University as a Lecturer. In 1983 she obtained her Ph.D. Degree for her thesis entitled Sayana's Samavedhasyopakramanika: A Critical Exposition. She has to her credit a good number of research papers on a wide range of topics from the Vedas and the ancillary texts, which have been published in research journals both in India and abroad.. Another book of hers is an Assamese translation of the three Atharvavedic Upanishads viz. Prasna, Mundaka and Mandukya.
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