Today is DAY 5 of The World Sanskrit Conference, which is in its 15th year this year. It is being held in India this time around. We hope these daily listings, which is a microcosmic view of the scope and spread of Sanskrit, will be an inspiration for all of us who love Sanskrit, and an eye-opener for those who consider it a ‘dead language.’
World Sanskrit Conference
New Delhi, India
DAY 5
Jan 9, 2012
Forenoon Sessions- Round I
10.00 AM to 11.30 AM
Paṇdita Pariṣad
Linguistics
Chair: Siniruddha Dash
10.00 – 10.30 Athira Jathavedan: Sphota in computational linguistics
10.30 – 11.00 Chinmay Dharurka Tanuja Ajotkar , Chaitali Dangarikar and Malhar Kulkarni: Adverbs in Sanskrit: A computational overview
11.00 – 11.30 Mamta Tripathi and Mukesh Kumar Mishra: Sanskrit and Hindi: Computational case mapping
Jain Studies
Chair: Peter Flügel
10.00 – 10.30 Roopa Chavda : Kṛishnacarita in Jain tradition
10.30 – 11.00 Claire Maes : Uniqueness in commonality: A critical examination of the motivation for precepts in early Jain and Buddhist monastic texts
11.00 – 11.30 Anne Clavel : How to prove the validity of inference in Jaina philosophy? Tarka reconsidered
Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics
Chair: Natalia Lidova
10.00 – 10.30 Bidisha Mishra: The contribution of Cirañjīva Bhaṭṭācārya, a renowned Bengali rhetorician, to the development of Sanskrit poetics
10.30 – 11.00 Sundari Siddhartha: The Cātaka legend as anyokti and kavi-samaya in the rare, unpublished manuscript – Cātakāṣṭakam
11.00 – 11.30 Lakshmi Swaminathan: Subrahmanya Bhujangam
Ritual Studies
Chair: Kutumba Sastry
10.00 – 10.30 K. Smitha: Ācāras (Customs) and Vyavahāras (Laws) in medieval Kerala
10.30 – 11.00 Ramakrishnan Ramachandran : nAndhImuKHashOBHanapithrupUjanam
11.00 – 11.30 Radhakrishnan C.S : Nityapūja and Naimittikapūja – A perspective analysis
11.30-12.00 Mohanty Sulok Sunder: Divine aspect of Manes in the Śrāddhas
Sanskrit and Asian Languages and Literature
Chair: Robert Zydenbos
10.00 – 10.30 Rajesh Sarkar : nalOpAKHyAnam – pArasIkasAhithyE samskruthasya
10.30 – 11.00 Kamla Bhardwaj: hariyANArAjasTHAnakSHEthrayOshcha BHASHasvanthaha sambavanDHaha
11.00 – 11.30 Andrew Ollett : Rasa-Bhākhā – Some vernacular concepts of Rasa
Modern Sanskrit Literature
Chair: Satyavrat Shastri
10.00 – 10.30 Narayana Dash: samakAlikasamsskruthakaTHAsAhithyE BHArathIyathA [rayIshaha sImA visargaha kAlAya thasmai namaha mUkO rAmagirihi anyachcha svargapura ithyAdhInAm pariprakSHyE]
10.30 – 11.00 Rachna Rastogi : mIrAlaharyAha kAvyashAsthrIyathaththvAnAm vishlESHaNam
11.00 – 11.30 Usha Kataria : Yashodharamahakavya of Pandit Ogeti Parikshit Sharma: A study
Special panel – Sanskrit Inscriptions in South East Asian Countries: Cambodia
Chair: Dominic Goodall
10.00 – 10.30 Dominic Goodall: Can we identify the sectarian obedience of the Śaiva ascetics of non-royal cave-inscriptions in Cambodia?
10.30 – 11.00 Pratibha Manjari Rath: Glimpse of Brahmanism and Buddhism in the Phimeanakas Sanskrit inscriptions of Kāmboja
11.00 – 11.30 Amarjiva Lochan: Newly discovered Sanskrit inscriptions in Cambodia
Sanskrit in Technological World
Special panel – Computational Linguistics
Chair: Navjyoti Singh
10.00 – 10.30 Kavitha Rajan and Navjyoti Singh: Computational analysis of Sanskrit verbs
10.30 – 11.00 Bhadra Manji and Girish Nath Jha: Strategies for semantic representation of Karma Kāraka (Karturīpsitamam Karma)
11.00 – 11.30 Prakash Prajini : Computational analysis of Śukanasopadesa in Kādambarī
Special panel - New Perspectives on Scientific Literature in Sanskrit
Chair: Balagopala Prabhu
10.00 – 10.30 N.K. Sundareswaran: Scientific language and rational approach as reflected in Āryabhaṭīya Bhāṣya of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī
10.30 – 11.00 C.S. Yogananda : Digitalization of Sanskrit Documents: A new Approach
11.00 – 11.30 V.R. Panchamukhi: Contribution of Sanskrit to economics and management
Forenoon Sessions- Round II
12.00 PM to 1.30 PM
Paṇdita Pariṣad
Linguistics
Chair: Siniruddha Dash
12.00 – 12.30 Mani Diwakar and Girish Nath Jha : Knowledgebase for Sanskrit – Hindi machine translation divergences
12.30 – 1.00 Manoj Kumar Mishra : Accent application to the prefixes and particles used in Vedas – A critical observation
1.00 – 1.30 Goutam Choudhury : A note on pronunciation of ā in O.I.A. language
Jain Studies
Chair: Nalini Balbir
12.00 – 12.30 Bhattacharyya Jagatram : An introduction to the original Praṣṇavyākaraṇa
12.30 – 1.00 Jain Kamlesh Kumar : jainadharshanE shabdhasya paudhalikthvaparipAdhanam
1.00 – 1.30 Singh Pramod : jaina dharshanE pramANasvarUpam
Modern Sanskrit Literature
Chair: Satyavrata Shastri
12.00 – 12.30 Sukesh Sharma: kAshmIrakrandhanam – Ekam AlOchanam
12.30 – 1.00 Harish Das : shrIrAmacharithAbDHirathnamahAkAvyE prakrthichithraNam
1.00 – 1.30 Harshdev Madhav Jani: ADHunikasamskruthavithAyAm indhriyagrAhakathA indhriyavyathyayashcha
Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics
Chair: R.P.Goldman
12.00 – 12.30 Surekhaben Patel: A critical study of Śrī Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita’s Kaliviḍambana
12.30 – 1.00 Adheesh Sathaye : Nothing but a sub-version: A preliminary study of Vallabhadāsa’s recension of the Vetālapañcaviṃśati
1.00 – 1.30 Sheel Nigam : shrImUlashankaramANikalAlavirachithE prathApavijayanAtakE sangIthathaththvAnI
Sanskrit and Asian Languages and Literature
Chair: Konrad Meisig
12.00 – 12.30 Yogesh Atri: baGHAtIBHASHAyAm samskruthapraBHAvaha
12.30 – 1.00 Deepak Kalia: samskruthasya Evam himAchalIyaBHASHAyAhA BHASHAshAsthrIyAvalOkanam
1.00 – 1.30 M.V. Ramana : Sanskrit: The source of Telugu vocabulary
Philosophies
Chair: Godavarish Mishra
12.00 – 12.30 Gianni Pellegrini : The need of doubt: The incipit of Advaitasiddhi
12.30 – 1.00 Alex Watson : What is liberation? Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha’s Paramokṣanirāsakārikāvṛtti, with special reference to its treatment of Advaita Vedānta and Pañcarātra
1.00-1.30 Noémie Verdon: Al-Bīrūnī’s acquaintance with Sāṅkhya
Special panel – Sanskrit Inscriptions in South East Asian Countries
Chair:Kedar Nath Sharma
12.00 – 12.30 Mimi Savitri : Contesting Sanskrit and old Javanese inscriptions from Java: Inscriptions from Ratu Boko complex vs. Kedulan temple
12.30 – 1.00 Chaudhury Simona Ferraro: Caturviṃśatimūrtayaḥ or twenty four images of Viṣṇu vis-à-vis the Pañcarātra Āgamas
Special panel – New Perspectives on Scientific Literature in Sanskrit
Chair: V. Kannan
12.00 – 12.30 C.K. Ramachandran: Gynaecology in Atharvaveda
12.30 – 1.00 T.I. Radhakrishnan: Scientific basis of Vedas
1.00 – 1.30 Balagopala Prabhu : Vāstuvidyā
Afternoon Sessions- Round I
3.00 PM to 4.30 PM
samskruthakavisamavAyaha
Jain Studies
Chair: Jayandra Soni
3.00 – 3.30 Dibanshu Kumar : Saptabhaṅgī-Naya
3.30 – 4.00 Sapna Jain : Theory of matter in Jaina philosophy
4.00 – 4.30 Marie-Hélène Gorisse: Specifying rules of use for universal concomitance from Prabhāchandra’s characterization of inference
Philosophies
Chair: Godavarish Mishra
3.00 – 3.30 Ivan Andrijanic : Different voices of Śaṅkara
3.30 – 4.00 Subuddhi Charan Goswami : Editing of Pakṣatācintāmaṇitippaṇī by Kanāda Tarkavāgīśa
4.00 – 4.30 Shripad Bhat: KhaNdadeva
Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics
Chair: Natalia Lidova
3.00 – 3.30 Bisakha Goswami : Rāgamālā: An unheeded text of Indian musicology
3.30 – 4.00 David Buchta : Vṛttidairghya and ease of comprehension in Rūpa Gosvāmīn’s Stavamālā
4.00 – 4.30 Sabrina Ciolfi : Classical Sanskrit literature and romance in popular Hindi cinema: A brief analysis of some motifs
Special panel – Pratiṣṭhā: Rites of Installation in the Tāntric/Āgamic Traditions
Chair: Diwakar Acharya
3.00 – 3.30 Acharya Diwakar: Consecration of VishNu’s image according to two earliest Pāñcarātras
3.30 – 4.00 Dominic Goodall : The earliest surviving detailed account of a Linga: An examination of chapter two of the Guhyasūtra of Niśvāsattvasaṁhitā
4.00 – 4.30 S.A.S Sarma : The re-installation of damaged idols with special reference to the ritual literature of Kerala
4.30 – 5.00 Mills Libbie : Dating and placing of early aiva texts through Prāsādalakṡaṇa – the characteristics of temples
Sanskrit and Asian Languages and Literature
Chair: Konrad Meisig
3.00 – 3.30 Bora Suresh Chandra: Vedic heritage and Śaṅkaradeva: Some observations
3.30 – 4.00 Bouruah Jewti : A comparative study of Kāliyadaman episode in the original Śrīmadbhāgavata and Assamese Śrīmadbhāgavatapurāṇa
Modern Sanskrit Literature
Chair: Harekrishna Satpathy
3.00 – 3.30 Mithilesh Kumar : atalabihArI vAjapEyIshathakasya shAsthrIyasamIkSHA
3.30 – 4.00 Baldevanand Sagar: Historiography of Sanskrit Journalism
4.00 – 4.30 Manjulaben Vasarambhai Parmar: Svātantryasambhavamahākāvyam by Sanātanakavi Rewa Prasad Dwivedi: A study
Special panel – Electronic Concordance of the Great Epics
Chair: Ramkaran Sharma
3.00 – 3.30 Ramkaran Sharma : Introductory remarks
3.30 – 4.00 Les Morgan: Presentation
4.00-4.30 Shri Krishan Sharma : Preparation on the word corcordance of the Mahābhārata
Manuscriptology
Chair: C.M. Neelkanthan
3.00 – 3.30 Vijay Rajopadhyaya : A fresh light on Yuddhajayotsava: A manuscript on Tantraśāstra
3.30 – 4.00 Acharya Suchitra Roy: A critical study of the manuscript of Aparājitapājā
4.00 – 4.30 Anupama Ryali and Peter M. Scharf: Encountering problems and pathfinders in annotating the digitized manuscripts (with reference to the manuscripts of University of Brown and Pennsylvania)
Afternoon Sessions- Round II
5.00 PM to 6.30 PM
samskruthakavisamavAyaha
Jain Studies
Chair: Jayandra Soni
5.00 – 5.30 Anita Jain: jainadharshanAnusArENa manahsTHairyaprabanDHanam
5.30 – 6.00 Himal Trikha : Competing world views: Perspectivism and polemics in the Satyaśāsana-parīkṣā and other Jaina works
6.00 – 6.30 Shalin Jain : Piety, laity and royalty in early medieval India: Narratives from the Jain Sanskrit tradition
Modern Sanskrit Literature
Chair: Ramkaran Sharma
5.00 – 5.30 Babu E. Suresh : Social reformers in modern Sanskrit Mahākāvyas of Kerala
5.30 – 6.00 P.K.Srinivasan : Navabhārata – A biography of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
6.00 – 6.30 Banerjee Meeta: An anthology of Sanskrit Ghazals entitled Havirdhāni by ‘Abhiraj’ Rajendra Mishra – A critical appreciation
Special panel – Manuscripts and their Intellectual preservation
Chair: H. V. Nagaraja Rao
Speakers: G. C. Tripathi , Vijay Shankar Shukla, Ratna Basu, Pt. Satkari Mukhopadhyaya
Sanskrit and Science
Chair: Deepak Kumar Sharma
5.00 – 5.30 Subrahmanya Sarma: Sources of Energy Vedic Concepts
5.30 – 6.00 E.N Narayan: Building Construction: Concept of Environment in Manuṣyālayacandrikā
6.00 – 6.30 E.R.Narayanan :Formalizing Aṣṭādhyāyī
VISIT TO EXHIBITIONS AND BOOK STALLS WITH RELEASE OF BOOKS (7.00 TO 7.30 P.M
Sanskrit Nāṭyamahotsava (7.30 – 9.00 PM): Gītagovindam in Maṇipurī Rāsa: Radha Madhav Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya
