Uttararamacharitam [Post 15]*

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लक्ष्मणः– एतेवयम्अयॊध्यांप्राप्ताः/

lakSHmaNaha – EthE vayam ayODHyAm prApthAha /

 LAKSHMANA – This is showing us, when we returned to Ayodhya.

रामः– (सास्रम्)    स्मरामिहन्तस्मरामि /

 जीवत्सुतातपादेषुनूतनेदारसङ्ग्रहे /   मातृभिश्चिन्त्यमानांतॆहिनॊदिवसागताः // ९ //

इयमपितदाजानकी

प्रतनुविरलैःप्रन्तोन्मीलन्मनोहरकुन्तलैर्दशनमुकुलैर्मुग्धालोकंशिशुर्दधतीमुखम् /
ललितललितैर्ज्योत्स्नाप्रायैरकृत्रिमविभ्रमैरकृतममधुरैरम्बानांमेकुतूहलमङ्गकैः //२०//

rAmaha – (sAsram)

smarAmi hantha smarAmi /

jIvathsu thAthapAdhESHu nUthanE dhArasangrahE /  mAthrbhishchinthyamAnAnAm thE hi nO dhivasA gathAha // 19 //

iyamapi thadhA jAnakI

prathanuviralaihi prAnthOnmIlanmanOharakunthalirdhashanamukulairmugDHAlOkam shishurdha DHathI mukha /   lalithalaithairjyOthsnApr ayairakrthrimavi bhramair akrtham- aDHurairambAnAm mE kuthUhalamangakaihi // 20 //

 RAMA – (With tears in his eyes) I remember, O I do.  Our father was alive, we were newly wed, our mothers shielded us from all cares.  Those days are gone forever.  And Janaki - as my mother watched keenly, she would move about like a moon-ray, graceful and beautiful.  Her hair parted by a thin line in the centre, her teeth like flower buds and her face so childlike – naturally appealing, not resorting to artificial things.

For Earth Day: Bedecked in flowers*

हस्ते लीलाकमलमलके बालकुन्दानुविद्धं

नीता लॊध्रप्रसवरजसा पाण्डुतामानने श्रीः /

चूडापाशे नवकुरबकं चारु कर्णॆ शिरीषं

सीमन्ते च त्वदुपगमजं यत्र नीपं वधूनाम् //

hasthE lIlAkamalamalakE bAlakundhAnuvidhDHam

nIthA lODHraprasavarajasA pANduthAmAnanE shrIhi /

chUdApAshE navakurabakam chAru karNE shirISHam

sImanthE cha tvadhupagamajam yathra nIpam vaDHUnAm //

[You’ll find the young women alluring thought they use mere flowers to add to their beauty] They bleach their faces with lodhra flowers, sport lotuses in their hands and fresh kunda and kurabaka blossoms in their braids; they decorate their ears with the delicate shirisha blooms and nipa flowers strung together marks the parting in their hair.

*A verse from Kalidasa’s Meghadootam [Verse 2, Uttaramegha]

lodhra -Symplocos racemosa Roxb; kunda – Jasminum multiflorum also Thevetia peruviana merrill; kurabaka – Barleria prionitis L; nipa – Neolamarckia cadamba (Roxb.) Bosser; shirisha – Albizia odoratissima (L.F.) Benth.

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Uttararamacharitam [Post 13]

लक्ष्मणः – आर्य पश्य पश्य /

संबन्धिनो वसिष्ठादीनेष तातस्तवार्चति / गौतमश्च शतानन्दो जनकानां पुरोहितः // १६ //

lakshmaNaha: Arya pashya pashya I 

 sambanDHinO vasiSHTAdhinESHa thAthasthavArchathi I  gauthamashcha shathAnandhO janakAnAm purOhithaha II 16 II

LAKSHMANA: See this, just look at this, Sir.  Your in-laws and their family priests are honouring our father, Vasishta and the others!

रामः – दृष्टव्यम् एतत् /

जनकानां रघूणां च संबन्धः कस्य न प्रियः / यत्र दाता गृहीता च स्वयं कुशिकनन्दनः // १७ //

rAmaha: dhraSHtavyamEthath I

janakAnAm raghUNam cha sambanDHaha kasya na priyaha I  yathra dhAthA grahIthA cha svayam kushikanandhanaha II 17 II

RAMA: Indeed, a painting to be seen!  Who did not favour the coming together of Janaka’s family and Raghu’s descendants?  In this marriage, Kushika’s son, Vishvamitra had to be both the one who gave away the bride and, as our preceptor, the one who received her into the family!

 सीता -  ऎतॆखलुतत्कलकृतगोदानमंगलाश्च्त्वारोपिभ्रातरोविवाहदीक्शितायूयम् / अम्मो / जानामितस्मिन्नेवप्रदेशेतस्मिन्नेवकलेवर्ते /

sIthA:EthE khalu thath kAlakrthagOdhAnamaNgalAshchathvArOpi bhrAtharO vivAhadIkshithA yUyam I  ammO I jAnAmi thasminnEva pradhEshE thasminnEva kAlE varthE I

SITA: And, this painting depicts the donation of cows to the needy and other auspicious activities that took place on that occasion.  All four of you [Note: meaning the brothers Rama, Lakshmana, Bharatha and Shatrughna] were observing the rituals expected of a groom …. Oh! I’m transported to that very place and that very time period!

रामः –

 समयःसवर्ततएवैषयत्रमाम् समनन्दयत्सुमुखिगौतमार्पितः /   अयमुद्गृहीतकमनीयकंकणस्तवमूर्तिमानिवमहोत्सवःकरः // १८ //

rAmaha:

samayaha sa varthatha EvaiSHa yathra mAm samanadhayath sumukhi gauthmArpithaha I

ayamudhgrhIthakamanIyakankaNaha thava mUrthimAniva mahOthsavaha karaha II 18 II

RAMA: Indeed, I too am taken back in time, and feel the way I did then – happy, looking at your lovely face, as sage Gautama placed your hand in mine – your hand, decorated with such beautiful bangles, seeming to have captured, verily, the picturesque celebrations that marked the auspicious occasion!

The essence of goodness*

प्रियप्राया वृत्तिर्विनयमधुरो वाचि नियमः प्रकृत्या कल्याणी मतिरनवगीतः परिचयः / पुरो वा पश्चाद्वा तदिदमविपर्यासितरसं रहस्यं साधूनामनुपधि विशुद्धं विजयते

kimathrOchyathE /priyaprAyA vrththirvinayamaDHurO vAchi niyamaha prakrthyA kalyANI mathiranavagIthaha parichayaha / purO vA pashchAdhvA thadhidhamaviparyAsitharasam rahasyam sADHUnAmanupaDHi vishudhDHam vijayathE

A likeable disposition is one that is made sweet by humility, restraint in speech, a mind which is by nature virtuous, a tendency not to abuse familiarity. At all times [in the future or in the past], this ageless secret, which is the pure essence of goodness, triumphs [over all else]

*From Act II of Bhavabhuti’s Uttararamacharitam.

Uttararamacharitam [contd.]: post 12

लक्ष्मणः – एतानि तानि सरहस्य जृम्भकास्त्राणि यानि भगवतः कृशाश्वात् कौशिकं ऋषिं विश्वस्य मित्रं विश्वामित्रम् उपसङ्क्रान्तानि / तेन च ताटकावधे प्रसादीकृतान्यार्यस्य /

lakshmaNaha: EthAni thAni sarahasya jrmbhakAsthrANi yAni bhagavathaha krshAshvAth kaushikam rSHim vishvasya mirthram vishvAmithram upasankrAnthAni /  thEna cha thAtakAvaDHE prasAdhIkrthAnyArasya /

LAKSHMANA: They are jrmbhaka weapons.  Knowledge regarding the use of these weapons is a closely guarded secret.  Sage Krishashva gave these ashtras to Kushika’s son, the honourable sage Vishvamitra, the friend of the world!  After Rama killed the demoness Thataka, Vishvamitra presented him with these holy weapons.

रामः – वन्दस्व देवि दिव्यास्त्राणि /

ब्रह्मादयो ब्रह्महिताय तप्त्वा परःसहस्राः शरदस्तपांसि / एतान्यपश्यन् गुरवः पुराणाः स्वान्येव तेजांसि तपोमयानि // १५ //

rAmaha: vandhasva dhEvi dhivyAsthrANi /

brahmAdhayO brahmahithAya thapthvA parahsahasrAha sharadhasthapAmsi / EthAnyapashyan guravaha purANaha svAnyEva thEjAmsi thapOmayAni//15//

RAMA: Let us pay our respects to the celestial weapons, my dear.

Brahma, along with many sages, performed penance for hundreds of years for the good of all creation.  Finally, as a result of their penance, these weapons emerged, reflecting the radiance of the celestials.

सीता – नमो एतेभ्यः /

sIthA: namO EthEbhyaha /

SITA: I offer my salutations to them.

रामः – सर्वथेदानीं त्वत् प्रसूतिम् उपस्थास्यन्ति /

rAmaha: sarvaTHEdhAnIm thvath prasUthim upasTHAsyanthi /

RAMA: Now, they will all surely wait on the children you give birth to.

सीता – अनुगृहीतास्मि /

sIthA: anugrhIthAsmi /

SITA: I am indeed blessed!

लक्ष्मणः – एष मिथिलावृत्तान्तः /

lakshmaNaha: Esha miTHilAvrththAnthaha /

LAKSHMANA: This is a portrait of the Mithila episode.

सीता – अम्महे / दलन्नवनीलोत्पलश्यामलस्निग्धमसृणमांसलेन देहसौभाग्येन विस्मयस्तिमिततातदृश्यमान सौंयसुन्दरश्रीः अनादरखण्डित शङ्करशरासनः शिखण्डमुग्धमण्डनः आर्यपुत्र आलिखितः /

sIthA: ammahE / dhalannavanIlOthpalashyAmalasnigDHamasrNamAsalEna dhEhasaubhAgyEna vismayasthimithathAthadhrshyamAna saumyasundharashrIhi anAdharakhaNditha shankarasharAsanaha shikhaNdamugDHamaNdana Aryaputhra Alikhithaha /

SITA: Oh, how wonderful!  My husband, dark-hued like a freshly blooming blue lotus, gifted with a magnificent body – strong, yet supple, and a face framed by dark curls, is seen in this picture with my father who is watching, with surprise and admiration, as my husband breaks with ease the great bow of Lord Shiva.

Uttararamacharitam [Contd. Post 11]

रामः – शान्तम् /

उत्पत्तिपरिपूतायाः किमस्याः पावनान्तरैः / तीर्थोदकं च वह्निश्च नान्यतः शुद्धिमर्हतः // १३ //

देवि देवयजनसंभवे / प्रसीद / एष ते जीवितावधिः प्रणामः /

कष्टो जनः कुलधनैरनुरञ्जनीयस्तन्मे यदुक्तम् अशिवं न हि तत् क्षमं ते / नैसर्गिकी सुरभिणः कुसुमस्य सिद्धा मूर्ध्नि स्थितिर्न चरणैरवताडितम् // १४ //

rAmaha: shAntham / 

uthpaththiparipUthAyAha kimasyAha pAvanAtharaihi /  thIrTHOdhakam cha vahnishcha nAnyathaha shudhDHimarhathaha // 13 //

dhEvi dhEvayajanasambhavE I prasIdha / ESHa thE jIvithAvaDHihi praNAmaha /

kaSHtO janaha kulaDHanairanuranjanIyasthanmE yadhukthamashivam na hi thath kSHamam thE I  naisargikI surabhiNaha kusumasya sidhDHA mUrDHni sTHithirna charaNairavathAdithAm // 14 //

RAMA: Shh! Quiet!

The waters of the sacred rivers and the fire that purify need no further purification. For one whose birth is in itself blemishless, where is the need to prove their purity through rituals? 

My dear! Blessed one! Do keep up your spirits. Allow me to say this: To protect the wealth of family honour that is at stake, we have to pay heed to the society’s dicta.  You do not merit the harsh words I spoke to you then – a flower with natural fragrance deserves to be placed on the head, not kicked with the foot.

सीता – भवतु आर्यपुत्र भवतु / एहि प्रेक्षामहे तावत् ते चरितम् /

(उत्थाय परिक्रामतः)

sIthA: bhavathu Aryaputhra bhavathu /  Ehi prEkSHAmahE thAvath thE charitham /

(uthTHAya parikrAmathaha)

SITA: It is all right, my Lord, it’s all right. Come now, let’s see the (pictorial) narration of your story.

(Everyone gets up and walks around the stage)

लक्ष्मणः – इदं तद् आलेख्यम् /

lakshmaNaha: idham thadh Alekhyam /

LAKSHMANA: Here is the painting!

सीता – (निर्वर्ण्य) क इदानीमेते उपरि निरन्तरस्थिता उपस्तुवन्ति इवार्यपुत्रम् /

sIthA: (nirvarnya) ka idhAnImEthE upari nirantharasTHithA upasthuvanthi ivAryaputhram I

SITA: (Looking at the painting) Who are these people standing in a group, surveying my husband from above? They seem to be extolling him, worshipping him.

Uttararamacharitam [Contd. - Post 10]

रामः – कः कोऽत्र भोः / विश्रम्यताम् अष्टावक्रः /

ramaha: kaha kOthra bhOho /  vishramyathAm aSHtAvakraha /

RAMA: Who’s there?  Arrange for Ashtavakra to rest.

अष्टावक्रः – (उत्थाय परिक्रम्य) अये कुमार लक्ष्मणः प्राप्तः /

(निष्क्रान्तः)

aSHtAvakraha: (uthTHAya parikramya) ayE kumAra lakshmaNaha prApthana /

(niSHkrAnthaha)

ASHTAVAKRA: (Stands up and turns) Oh! Young Lakshmana has come!

 (Exit Ashtavakra)

(प्रविश्य)

लक्ष्मणः – जयत्वार्यः / आर्य तेन चित्रकारेण अस्मदुपदिष्टम् अस्यां वीथिकायाम् आर्यस्य चरितम् आलिखितम् / तत् पश्यत्वार्या /

(pravishya)

lakshmaNaha: jayathvAryaha /  Arya thEna chithrakArENa asmadhupadhiSHtam asyAm vITHikAyAm Aryasya charitham Alikhitham / thath pashyathvAryA /

(Enter Lakshmana)

LAKSHMANA: Victory to you!  Brother, as per your orders, the artist has painted your story on the walls of the corridor.  I request my sister-in-law to come and see the paintings. 

रामः – जानासि वत्स दुर्मनायमानां देवीं विनोदयितुम् / तत् कियन्तम् अवधिम् यावत् /

rAmaha: jAnAsi vathsa dhurmanAyamAnAm dhEvIm vinOdhayithum /  thath kiyantham avaDHim yAvath /

RAMA: You know how to entertain the queen, who is somewhat upset now.  How far has the artist got to?

लक्ष्मणः – यावद् आर्याया हुताशने विशुद्धिः /

lakshmaNaha: yAvadh AryAyA huthAshanE vishudhDHihi /

LAKSHMANA: The painting is done till the queen’s purification by fire.

Uttararamacharitam [contd.]: Post 9

अष्टावक्रः – इदं भगवत्यरुन्धत्या देवीभिः शान्तया च भूयोभूयः संदिष्टम् / यः कश्चिद्गर्भदोहदोस्या भवति सोवश्यमचिरान्मानयितव्यः /

aSHtAvakraha: idham bhagavathyarunDHathyA dhEvIbhihi shAnthayA chabhUyObhUyaha sandhiSHtam / yaha kashchidh garbhadhOhadhO asyA bhavathi sOvashyam achirAn mAnayithavyaha /

ASHTAVAKRA: Venerable Arundhati, the three queen mothers and Shantha repeatedly asked me to convey this message to you – ‘Whatever wish Sita may have during her pregnancy must be immediately attended to.’     

रामः – क्रियते यदेषा कथयति /

rAmaha: kriyathE yadhESHA kaTHayathi /

RAMA: Whatever she desires will be done.

 अष्टावक्रः – ननान्दुः पत्या च देव्याः संदिष्टमृष्यशृङ्गेण / वत्से / कठोरगर्भेति नानीतासि / वत्सोपि रामभद्रस्त्वद्विनोदार्थमेव स्थापितः / तत्पुत्रपूर्णोत्सङ्गामायुष्मतीं द्रक्ष्यामः /

aSHtAvakraha: nanAndhuhu pathyA cha dhEvyAha sandhiSHtam rSHyashrngENa / vathsE / kaTOragarbhEhi nAnIthAsi / vathsOpi rAmabhadhrasthvadh vinOdhArTHamEva sTHApithaha / thath puthrapUrNOthsangAm AyuSHmathIm dhrakshyAmaaha /

ASHTAVAKRA: My lady, your sister-in-law’s husband, Rishyashringa, has asked me to convey this message to you: ‘You have been left behind only because of the advanced state of your pregnanc. Rama has also been asked to stay back in Ayodhya so as to take care of you. We hope to see you soon, in the best of health and with a child on your lap.

रामः – (सहर्षलज्जस्मितम्) तथास्तु / भगवता पुनर्वसिष्ठेन न किञ्चिदादिष्ठोस्मि /

ramaha (saharSHakajjAsmitham): thaTHAsthu / bhagavathA punarvasiSHYEna na kinchidh AdhiSHtosmi /

RAMA (with a happy, shy smile): As you say so may it be. Has not revered Vasishta asked that I be given any words of advice?

अष्टावक्रः – श्रूयताम् /

जामातृयज्ञेन वयं निरुद्धास्त्वं बाल एवासि नवं च राज्यम् / युक्तः प्रजानाम् अनुरञ्जने स्यास्तस्माद्यशो यत् परमं धनं वः // ११ //

ASHTAvakraha: shrUyathAm/
JAmAthryagnyEna vayam nirudhdDHAsthvam bAla EvAsi navam cha rAjyam /  yukthaha prajAnAm anuranjanE syAsthasmAdh yashO yath paramam DHanam vaha // 11 //

ASHTAVAKRA: Please listen (to the message): “We are staying back to participate in the sacred yagna conducted by the son-in-law of our house. You are young and kingship is new to you. Reign so as to ensure the happiness of your subjects. The distinction such a reign will give you is our greatest wealth.”

रामः – यथाह भगवान् मैत्रावरुणिः /

स्नेहं दयां च सौख्यं च यदि वा जानकीमपि / आराधनाय लोकस्य मुञ्चतो नास्ति मे व्यथा // १२ //

rAmaha: yaTHAha bhagavAn maithrAcaruNihi /
 snEham dhyAm cha saukhyam cha yadhi vA jAnakImapi / ArADHanAya lOkasya munchathO nAsthi mE vyaTHA // 12 //

RAMA: I shall do as the honourable Maitravaruni commands. Without feeling perturbed, I shall sacrifice anything – be it friendship, sympathy, comfort or even Sita – in the service of my subjects.

सीता – अत एव राघवधुरन्धरो आर्यपुत्रः /

sIthA: atha Eva rAghavaDHuranDHara Aryaputhrana /

SITA: It is this attitude of his that makes my Lord the greatest in the Raghava dynasty.

Uttararamacharitam [Contd.]: Post 8

(प्रविश्य)

अष्टावक्रः – स्वस्ति वाम् /

(pravishya aSHtAvakra)

ashtAvakraha: svasthi thvAm /

(Enter Ashtavakra)

ASHTAVAKRA: May all be well with you.

रामः – भगवन्नभिवादये / इत आस्यताम् /

rAmaha: bhagavan abhivAdhayE / itha AsyathAm /

RAMA: Sir, my respects to you. Pray, be seated.

सीता – नमस्ते / अपि कुशलं मे समग्रस्य गुरुजनस्य / आर्यायाश्च शान्तायाः /

sIthA: namasthE / api kushalam mE samagrasya gurujanasya / AryAyAscha shAnthAyaha /

SITA: Greetings! Are all my elders keeping well? And, my respected sister Shantha too?

रामः – निर्विघ्नः सोमपीती आवुत्तो मे भगवान् ऋष्यशृङ्ग आर्या च शान्ता /

ramaha: nirvighnaha sOmapIthI AvuththO mE bhagavAn rSHyashrnga AryA cha shAnthA /

RAMA: How are my brother-in-law – the honourable Rishyashinga – and my sister, Shantha? Are they able to carry on with their religious duties without hindrance?

सीता – अस्मान् वा स्मरति /

sIthA: asmAn vA smarathiI /

SITA: Do they remember us?

अष्टावक्रः – (उपविश्य) अथ किम् / देवि भगवान् वसिष्टस्त्वामाह

विश्वम्भरा भगवती भवतीमसूत राजा प्रजापतिसमो जनकः पिता ते /  तेषां वधूस्त्वमसि नन्दिनि पार्थिवानां येषां गृहेषु सविता च गुरुर्वयं च //९//

तद्किमन्यदाशास्महे / केवलं वीरप्रसवा भूयाः /

aSHtAvakraha: aTHa kim / dhEvi bhagavAn vasiSHTasthvAmAha

vishvambharA bhagavathI bhavathImasUtha rAjA prjApathi samO janakaha pithA thE / thESHAm vaDHUsthvamasi nandhini pArTHivAnAm yESHAm grhESHu savithA cha gururvayam cha // 9 I//

thath kimanyadh AshAsmahE / kEvalam vIraprasavA bhUyaha /

ASHTAVAKRA: Of course! My lady, revered Vasishta has asked me to convey this message to you:

You are born of Goddess Earth. King Janaka, the equal of Brahma in knowledge, is your father. O one who gives joy to all, you are a bride of the family whose preceptors we are and whose kings are descendants of the Sun himself. What else can we wish for you, except that you may have valiant offspring?

रामः – अनुगृहीतः स्मः /

लौकिकानां हि साधूनामर्थं वागनुवर्तते /  ऋषीणां पुनराद्यानां वाचमर्थोनुधावति //१०//

rAmaha: anugrhIthAha smaha /

laukikAnAm hi sADHUnAm arTHam vAganuvarthathe / rSHINAm punarAdhyAnAm vAcham arTHOnuDHAvathi // 10 //

RAMA: Indeed, we are blessed. It is said that wise men speak of reality as it exists, but the words of sages become reality after they are uttered.

Uttararamacharitam [Contd.]: Post 7

(प्रविश्य)

कञ्चुकी – रामभद्र / (इत्यर्धोक्ते साक्षेपम्) महाराज /

(pravishya)

kanchukI: rAmabhadra (ithyarDHOkthE sAshankam) mahArAja/

 (Enter)

KANCHUKI: Dear Rama …. (biting his tongue mid-sentence, then apprehensively) Your Majesty!

रामः – (सस्मितम्) आर्य / ननु रामभद्र इत्येव मां प्रत्युपचारः शोभते तातपरिजनस्य / तद्यथाभ्यासमुच्यताम् /

rAma:(sasmitham) Arya! nanu rAmabhadhra ithyEva mAm prathyupachAraha shObhathE thAthaparijanasya/ thadhyaTHAbhyAsam uchyathAm /

RAMA: (Smiling) Good sir! It is only proper that those who were in service even during the time of my father and are used to addressing me as ‘dear Rama’ should continue calling me by name as is their habit.

कञ्चुकी – ऋष्यशृङ्गाश्रमादष्टावक्रः संप्राप्तः /

kanchukI: rSHyashrngAshramAdh aSHtAvakraha samprApthaha/

KANCHUKI: Ashtavakra has arrived, from Rishyashringa’s hermitage.

सीता – आर्य ततः किं विलम्ब्यते /

sIthA: Arya thathaha kim vilambyathE /

SITA: (Addressing Kanchuki) Good sir, why tarry further?

रामः – त्वरितं प्रवेशय /

(कञ्चुकी निष्क्रान्तः)

rAmaha: thvaritham pravEshaya I

(kanchukI niSHkrAnthaha)

RAMA: Make haste. Go and invite him in.

(Exit Kanchuki)

15th World Sanskrit Conference: Programme Schedule

Today, Day 6 of the  15th World Sanskrit Conference, brings down the curtains on the amazing event. All we could do at this blog was to list the events. But even the mere listing has received an extrardinary response. We may look on this as the massive interest in Sanskrit that prevails all over the globe, across all sections of the society: from ordinary people with love for an unfamiliar but exotic language, to scholars with deep appreciation of its depth and spread.

World Sanskrit Conference

New Delhi, India

DAY 6

Jan 10, 2012

Forenoon Sessions- Round I

10.00 AM to 11.30 AM

Jain Studies

Chair: Jayandra Soni

10.00 – 10.30 Christine Chojnacki : Remodeling Jain novels in medieval times: Means and motivations

10.30 – 11.00 Basile Leclère : Evolving patterns in Jain narrative literature: Stylistic and structural influences of medieval theatre on storytelling

11.00 – 11.30 Dharma Chanda Jain: Concept of Śrutajñāna

Philosophies

Chair: Godavarish Mishra

10.00 – 10.30 Hirano Katsunori : Historical significance of the definition of Universal (Sāmānya) in the Vyomavatī

10.30 – 11.00 Takanori Suzuki : Empirical facts and the Vaiśesika system of categories: Two directions of Uddyotakara’s exploration for the ground of sound inference

11.00 – 11.30 Toshihiro Wada: Gangeśa’s theory of the meaning of verbal suffixes (ākhyāta)

Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics

Chair: Hari Dutta Sharma

10.00 – 10.30 Shrutidhara Chakravarty : Modernism in Sanskrit literature

10.30 – 11.00 Pandey Ramesh Kumar : Significance of Vedic rituals in the works of Kālidāsa

11.00 – 11.30 Hari Dutta Sharma : Concept of beauty in Indian and western poetics

Modern Sanskrit Literature

Chair: Ramakant Shukla

10.00 – 10.30 Tiwari Shardindu Kumar: ADHunikasamskruthasAhithyE pam vAsudhEvashAsthrINAm avadhAnam

10.30 – 11.00 V.V. Premalatha: Śrīguruvāyupureśamāhātmyam – A study

11.00 – 11.30 Sharma Manju Lata: ADHunikasamskruthakavithAyAm bimbaviDHAnam

Sanskrit and Asian Languages and Literature

Chair: Pankaj Chande

10.00 – 10.30 Jagdish Patgiri : The effect of Rāmāyaṇa of Madhab Kandali on family relations with special reference to Assamese society

10.30 – 11:00 Madhavi Narsalay: Deciphering myths around river Godāvarī/Gautamī in Sanskrit and Marathi texts

11.00 – 11.30 Dilip Kumar Medhi : Role of Sūtradhāra in Śaṅkaradeva’s Ankiyā Nāṭa: A classical study

Special panel – Sanskrit Inscriptions in South East Asian Countries

Chair: Ramachandran Nagaswamy

10.00 – 10.30 Kunthea Chhom : Reconsidering vocabulary used in double-language inscriptions from ancient Cambodia with special reference to K. 235

10.30 – 11.00 Emmanuel Francis: Dating the Sanskrit inscriptions of Mūlavarman and Pūrnavarman from Indonesia: A palaeographical study

11.00-11.30 Ramachandran Nagaswamy : Language of Harappan Inscriptions

Special panel – Reinterpreting Pāṇini

Chair: Ramanath Sharma

10.00 – 10.30 Pushpa Dikshit : pANinIyaprakriyAvijnAnam

10.30 – 11.00 H.S.Ananthanarayana: Derivation in Pāṇini’s grammar

11.00 – 11.30 Ramanath Sharma : Derivational system of Pāṇini’s grammar

Special panel – Innovations in Sanskrit Teaching

Chair: Dr R. Devanathan

10.00 – 10.30 Sally Sutherland Goldman -“When Everything Old is New Again”- Teaching Sanskrit in the new Millennium

10.30 – 11.00 Kutumba Sastry – Svādhyāya Pancapaī – The process of learning Sanskrit from ‘O’ level through Sanskrit Medium

11.00 – 11.30 N.B. Biswas: Vidyās in vedic literature and their practice on present day curriculum

11.30-12.00 Dr. R. Devanathan – Innovative Method in Teaching Sastra

Forenoon Sessions- Round II

12.00 PM to 1.30 PM

Special panel – Reinterpreting Pāṇini

Chair: Ramanath Sharma

12.00 – 12.30 Dipti Tripathi: Beyond grammar – from Patañjali to Bhartṛhari

12.30 – 1.00 Surendra Kumar Brahmachari: Comparative inquiry into the linguistic models of Pānini and Noam Chomsky

Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics

Chair: Hari Dutta Sharma

12.00 – 12.30 Kedar Nath Sharma : BHAvABHAsasya kAvyE mahathvam

12.30 – 1.00 Pratap Bandyopadhyay : Grammatical speculations of Sanskrit literary critics

Philosophies

Chair: Ashok Kumar Kalia

12.00 – 12.30 Meena Vijay Kumar : The causation theory in Āyurveda philosophy

12.30 – 1.00 Mishra Sachchidanand: Upamāna as a separate Pramāna

1.00-1.30 Sripad Bhat : Refutation of Matvarthalakaṇa by Khaṇdedeva

Sanskrit and Asian Languages and Literature

Chair: Pankaj Chande

12.00 – 12.30 Chainarong Klinn oi: The Bodhisattva ideal in Buddhist Sanskrit texts reflected to Thai way of life

12.30 – 1.00 Sombat Mangmeesukhsiri: The shift of meaning of the word Aśvattha>Assattha the sacred tree in Sanskrit and Pali Buddhist texts: A case study of Thai translation

Special panel – Sanskrit Inscriptions in South East Asian Countries:

Chair: Amarjiv Lochan

12.00– 12.30 Bachchan Kumar: Kuvera in Sanskrit inscriptions of Campā

12.30-1.00 Chirapat Prapandvidya “Early Buddhism in Southeast Asia in the light of some select inscriptions”

Jain Studies

12.00-12.30 Peter flugel: Kārmic and Natural Causality in Jaina Philosophy

Special panel – Innovations in Sanskrit Teaching

Chair: Second Session – Chair – Ashok Aklujkar

12.00 – 12.30 Dr Pankaj Jani : The Gujarat Initiatives

12.30 – 1.00 Chamu Krishna Shastry - Teaching Sanskrit through Sanskrit

1.00 – 1.30 Chand kiran Saluja : samskruthashikSHaNam samprESHaNAthmaka upAgamaha – kEndhrIyamADHyamikashikSHApariSHathprayOgaha

1.30-2.00 Remarks by Dr Ashok Aklujkar

IASS General Meeting 3.00 PM to 4.00 PM

Valedictory

4.30 PM to 6.00 PM

15th World Sanskrit Conference: Programme Schedule [Jan 9, 2012]

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

15th World Sanskrit Conference: Programme Schedule

World Sanskrit Conference

New Delhi, India

DAY 4

Jan 8, 2012

 

Forenoon Sessions – Round I

10.00 AM to 11.30 AM

Veda

Chair: Georges-Jean Pinault

10.00 – 10.30 Vassiliki Deroukaki : Rigveda and Greek mythology

10.30 – 11.00 Mugdha Gadgil: Feminine aspect of the Sun: Vedic, purānic and popular

11.30 – 12.00 Anupama Mahanta : The legend of Śunahśepa – A study

Linguistics

Chair: Jan E.M. Houben

10.00 – 10.30 Gayathri Preetha Ganeshan: Single undifferentiated number

10.30 – 11.00 Amar Jee Jha : Relevance of the Kriyāsamuddeśa

Buddhist Studies

Theme: Texts and history

Chair: Katayama Yumi

10.00 – 10.30 Katayama Yumi : Ekayāna and pranidhāna: An interpretation of tathāgatatva in the Saddharmapundarīkasūtra

10.30-11.00 Saswati Mutsuddy : Environment in Buddhism: A study

Vyākarana

Theme : Pāṇini and other schools

Chair: Dipti Tripathi

10.00 – 10.30 Yuki Tomonari : Just a cavil or not: An example of outsider’s dispute on the Ashtādhyāyī

10.30 – 11.00 Ramchandra Shastri: chAndhravyAkaraNasTHayOhO lupthasvaravaidhikADHyAyayOhO punarudhDHAraha

11.00 – 11.30 Vedmitra Arya : sArasvathavyAkaraNE prakriyAsAralyam – suvanthasandharBHE

Epics and Purānas

Chair: Alf Hiltebeitel

10.00 – 10.30 James M. Hegarty: The Mahābhārata and the Dhammapada

10.30 – 11.00 Greg Bailey : The word buddha in the Mahābhārata

11.00 – 11.30 Simon Brodbeck : Triśanku, Hariścandra, and the rājasūya

Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics

Chair: R.P. Goldman

10.00 – 10.30 Amita Sharma : BHAmahadhaNdisammathaBHAvikathvaprabanDHaguNasya vakrOkthijIvithE vikAsakramaha

10.30 – 11.00 Dharmendra Kumar Singhdeo: rAjashEKHarasya kAkuvakrOkthimImAmsA

11.00 – 11.30 Indira Chatterjee : Development of the Arthāntaranyāsa.

Tantra and Āgamas

Chair: Navjeevan Rastogi

10.00 – 10.30 Florinda De Simini: The ritual of Vidyādāna and its Upapurānic and Āgamic sources

10.30 – 11.00 Mans Broo : Notes on the Rādhātantra

11.00 – 11.30 Judit Torzsok: Tāntric elements in Kalhana’s Rājataraṅgnī

Philosophies

Chair: Kamaleswar Bhattacharya

10.00 – 10.30 Takahiro Kato: Bhāskara’s concept of Jñānakarmasamuccaya

10.30 – 11.00 Prasanta Bandyopadhyay : The Nyāya theory of inference and probabilistic epistemology

11.00 – 11.30 Kalla Bala Subbarayudu :vEdhAnthadharshanEAthmasvavimarsharUpaha

11.30 – 12.00 Hare Ram Tripathi : BHArathIyadharshanESHu hEthvABHAsavimarshaha

Sanskrit and Asian Languages and Literature

Chair: Yigal Bronner

10.00 – 10.30 Mohanta Swagata Das : The concept of Urvaśī as portrayed by Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali literature

10.30 – 11.00 Madhu Sharma: Trade related Sanskrit loanwords in Malay language

11.00 – 11.30 Kameshwar Shukla: shankaradhEvasya ankiyAnAtAnAm nATyashAsthrIyA samIkSHA 

Sanskrit and Science

Chair: M.S. Sriram

10.00 – 10.30 Sarva Narayan Jha: The nomenclature and order of weekdays is based on the order of the Grahas in the sky as viewed by the Indian ṛṣis

10.30 – 11.00 Y.S. Gayathri Shastry: Some of the mathematical concepts flourished in ancient India

11.00 – 11.30 M Mak .Bill : Sūryagarbhaparivarta and Candragarbhaparivarta of Mahāsaṃnipātasūtra: Indian jyoti_a literature through the lens of Chinese Buddhist canon

Forenoon Sessions- Round II

12.00 AM to 1.30 PM

Veda

Chair: Dayanand Bhargava

12.00 – 12.30 Georges-Jean Pinnault : Names of poets of Rigveda

12.30 – 1.00 Dayanand Bhargava : The meaning of the nomenclature of the Vedas according to the Brāhmanatexts

Linguistics

Chair: Jan E.M. Houben

12.00 – 12.30 Dipankar Mukhopadhyay : ‘Aspect’ in Sanskrit

12.30 – 1.00 Dharmavir  and Punani Jha: Phonetic elements in the Vedānga Śikshā

1.00-1.30 Bharati Akshar, Sukhada Dipti Sharma and Amba Kulkarni : Pharses in English- A Pada in Paninian Grammar

Buddhist Studies

Theme: Texts and history

Chair: Shankar Narayan

12.00- 12.30 Sangyeob Cha: Examination on the status and role of the equilibrium (Upekshā)

12.30-1.00 Awadhesh Kumar Chaubey : avijnApthivimarshaha

1.00-1.300 Raka Jain : AchAryashAnthidhEvasya shikSHAsamuchchayakArikA – bODHisaththvasya vyAvahArikamArgOpadhEshikA

Vyākarana

Theme : Pāṇini and other schools

Chair: Dipti Tripathi

12.00 – 12.30 M. Vijay Kumar : Apāninīyaprāmānyasādhanam: A brief study

12.30 – 1.00 P.C. Muraleemadhavan : Līlātilaka on semantic consideration of Phonemes

1.00 – 1.30 Mahesh Deokar : Moggalānavuttivivaranapañjikā on syntax

Epics and Purānas

Chair: Rajendra Nanavati

12.00 – 12.30 Paolo Magnone: Tejas transactions in the Itihāsa-Purāna

12.30 – 1.00 Madhusudan Mishra : Genesis and growth of Gayāsura legend and formation of Nabhigayā

1.00 – 1.30 Antara Chakravarty : Critical estimate of the legend of Ushā and Aniruddha found in different Purānas

Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics

Chair: C. Rajendran

12.00 – 12.30 Prafulla K. Mishra: Little known rhetorician Lokanātha and post-Mammatan poetics.

12.30 – 1.00 Vimalendu Kumar : mammatamukulaBHattayOrvruththivivEkaha

1.00 – 1.30 Aruna Sharma : samskruthakAvyashAsthrEmAthrugupthasya avadhAnam

Philosophy

Chair: Kamaleswar Bhattacharya

12.00 – 12.30 Devalina Saikia: Dreaming in Vaiśesika philosophy

12.30 – 1.00 Shashi Prabha Kumar: Consciousness and cognition in Vaiśesika philosophy

1.00 – 1.30 Ashish Kumar: yukthidhIpikAsAmKHyathathvakaumudhIdhrSHTyA pramAthrusvarUpam

Tantra and Āgamas

Chair: Navjeevan Rastogi

12.00 – 12.30 Marzenna Czerniak-DroŜdŜowicz: Ekāyanaveda – In search of the roots

12.30 – 1.00: Raffaele Torella : Utpaladeva’s lost VivKti on Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā

1.00-1.30: Rasik Vihari Joshi : The Lakṣmīsahasranāma of Venkaṭādhvarin

Sanskrit and Asian Languages and Literature

Chair: Yigal Bronner

12.30 – 1.00 Deven Patel M. : Sanskrit literature, commentaries, and regional – language translation

12.30 – 1.00 San Sarin : Khmer loan words from Sanskrit language

1.00 – 1.30 Bamroong Kham Ek: Forms and meanings of Sanskrit words as new words in Thai language

Sanskrit and Science

Chair: Sudha Rani Pandey

12.00 – 12.30 Aparna Dhir : Vedic botany and ethnobotany in the Brāhmanas of Yajurveda: Some observations

12.30 – 1.00 Linda Thompson: Daivavyapāśraya: A way of secret alternative treatment in Āyurveda

1.00 – 1.30 S. Ramadevi Amma : Sun worship and its relevance

 

Afternoon Sessions - Round I

3.00 PM to 4.30 PM

 

Paṇḍita Pariṣad

 

Linguistics

Chair: S. P. Narang

3.00 – 3.30 S. P. Narang: Sanskrit and modern Indian languages

3.30 – 4.00 Vishvabandhu: Semantic and historical approaches to Yāska’s etymologies (a critical study with respect to the names of earth as enumerated in the Nighantu)

4.00 – 4.30 Prasad Bhide  and Malhar Kulkarni: Constituent structure in Sanskrit lexicography with special reference to the Deccan college dictionary project

Buddhist Studies

Theme: Textual studies

Chair: Chirapat Prapandavidya

3.00 – 3.30 Suraj Pandit : Understanding art at Kanheri in textual context

3.30 – 4.00 Katarzyna Marciniak: The oldest paper manuscript of the Mahāvastu-Avadāna text

4.00-4.30Somesh Mishra :Scientific Approach in Buddhist Texts

Vyākarana

Miscellaneous

Chair: Saroja Bhate

3.00 – 3.30 Bhagyalata Pataskar : Three commentaries on a word in isolation: A comparative study

3.30 – 4.00 Lata Deokar : Buddhaghosha as a lexicographer

4.00 – 4.30 Paramanand Jha : shivarAjavijayasya shAbdhikadhruSHtyA samIkSHaNam

Nāṭyaśāstra in the Modern World

Chair: Kamlesh Datta Tripathi

3.00 – 3.30 Harekrushna Mishra : Hastamudrā, Karmakānda vis-a-vis Nātyaśāstra

3.30 – 4.00 Rita Chattopadhyay : Indian theatre from Bharata’s Nātyaśāstra to modern Kolkata theatre

4.00 – 4.30 Sonal Nimkar : Nātyaśāstra and Bharatanāṭyam

Philosophies

Chair: Oscar Pujol

3.00 – 3.30 Monica Kuwar Rathore: Philosophical foundations of health and diseases in Āyurveda

3.30 – 4.00 Taisei Shida : Some editorial notes on the Śābdābhikaraṇa section of the Sucaritamiśra’s

commentary on the Ślokavārttika

4.00 – 4.30 Daniele Cuneo : Asatyadharma: Lying: Is it ever Right?

Epics and Purānas

Chair: John Brockington

3.00 – 3.30 R.P. Goldman : Ādyantah the Uttarakānda’s challenges for its authors and readers

3.30 – 4.00 Sally Sutherland Goldman: Critical evidence: Vālmīki’s Uttarakāṇḍa and the critical edition

4.00 – 4.30 Noel Sheth : The justification of Krishna’s flight from Kālayavana

Epigraphy

Chair: K.K. Chakravarty

3.00 – 3.30 Thomas Kintaert: Crossing borders – The journey of the Indian lotus

3.30 – 4.00 Chidambara Sagar: Devatāmūrtiprakara_a – Medieval iconographic manual

4.00 – 4.30 Varada Khaladkar: Text and context: Understanding Bhīma-Māhātmya and its sacred geography

Special panel – New Perspectives on Scientific Literature in Sanskrit

Chair: K. Ramasubramanian

3.00 – 3.30 M.D. Srinivas: Some foundational issues in Indian scientific tradition

3.30 – 4.00 M.S. Sriram and Venketeswara Pai: Continued fractions in Karaṇapaddhati

4.00 – 4.30 Wagish Shukla: Indian astronomy

Manuscriptology

Chair: Satkari Mukhopadhyaya

3.00 – 3.30 Sudeshana Bhattacharya  The manuscript of Āyurvedavicāra: A study

3.30 – 4.00 Mitali Chatterjee : The Jayamādhavamānasollāsa: A manuscript and its relation with a Vishnu idol of a Gorakhpur temple

4.00 – 4.30 Rewa Prasad Dwivedi: Bhoja’s Sarasvatī

 

Afternoon Sessions- Round II

5.00 PM to 6.30 PM

 

Paṇdita Pariṣad

 

Linguistics

Chair: S. P. Narang

5.00 – 5.30 Mandakini Mahanta : Modern lexicography in Sanskrit vis-a-vis Anundoram Borooah’s The practical English-Sanskrit dictionary

5.30-6.00 Ambily: Apabhramśas as language forms: A lingusitic approach based on language discourse

Buddhist Studies

Theme: Textual studies

Chair: Chirapat Prapandavidya

5.00 – 5.30 Upender Rao Choudury: Similies in Khuddakanikāya

5.30 – 6.00 Shivanee Chatterjee : Studies of advanced stages of meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist and Vedic traditions. A comparison of general changes

Vyākaranam

Miscellaneous

Chair: Dipti Tripathi

5.00 – 5.30 Bodh Kumar Jha : BHavanATHOpADHyAyakruthE prayOgapalvalE pANinIyasUthrANamanugamaha

5.30 – 6.00 Umakant Chaturvedi: naiSHaDHIyacharithE apANinIyAhA prayOgAhA

6.00-6.30 Vergiani Vincenzo : A Lost VākyapadĪyakārikā on Āpadeva

Epics and Purānas

Chair: Rajendra Nanavati

5.00 – 5.30 Sushma Jatoo : Sacred geography of Amarnath: textuality and history

5.30 – 6.00 Elizabeth Mary Rohlman : Of cities, kings, and step-wells: Purānic imaginings in history and religion

6.00 – 6.30 McComas Taylor : Empowering the sacred: how a text creates discourse in a contemporary oral performance of the Bhāgavata Purāna

Epigraphy

Chair: Ramchandran Nagswamy

5.00 – 5.30 Saraju Rath: Inscriptional Nagari and its evolution from the early 7th to 14th CE

5.30 – 6.00 Sudeep Jain : samrAjaha ashOkasya giranArABHilEKHasya BHASHikAnushIlanam

Philosophy

Chair: Oscar Pujol

5.00 – 5.30 Kiyokazu Okita : A Bengali Vaishnava contribution to Vedānta Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa on `atha’ in the Brahmasūtra 1.1.1

5.30 – 6.00 Elisa Freschi  and Artemji Kedian : What is the purpose one has in view while critically editing a philosophical work?

6.00 – 6.30 Urvashi Patel : Bhāsarvajña as a revolutionary Naiyāyika

Special panel – New Perspectives on Scientific Literature in Sanskrit

Chair: Wagish Shukla

5.00 – 5.30 V. Kannan : Contribution of Sanskrit to mathematics

5.30 – 6.00 K. Ramasubramanian  and Dinesh M. Joshi : The Vākya method of computing planetary longitudes

6.00– 6.30 Ku. Venkatesh Murthy:adhvaitha vEdhAntha sAmprathikavijnAnayOrjagadhupAdhanaviShayakam chinthanam

Manuscriptology

Chair: Satkari Mukhopadhyaya

5.00 – 5.30 Dilip Kumar Das: Paribhāśekhara – its richness and commentaries: A study with special reference to manuscript studies

5.30 – 6.00 Usha Shukla : Medieval commentators of vedic texts and texual criticism

6.00 – 6.30 Vrindavan Bihari Das : Original Sanskrit manuscript of Nandasa’s Tattvasāraprakāśinī

Special panel – Sanskrit in Global Perspectives 

Chair : V.R. Panchmukhi

5.00-6.00 Rajiv Malhotra: Sanskrit and Politics of Knowledge

 

Visit to Exhibitions and Book stalls (7.00 – 7.30 PM)

Sanskrit Nātyamahotsava (7.30 – 9.00 PM): Ankiyā Nāta: Shrimanta Shankardev Kalakshetra, Guwahati

Uttararamacharitam [contd. post 6]

(ततः प्रविशत्युपविष्टो रामः सीता च /)

रामः –

देवि वैदेहि समाश्वसिहि समाश्वसिहि / ते हि गुरवो न शक्नुवन्त्यस्मान् विमोक्तुम् /

किन्त्वनुष्ठाननित्यत्वं स्वातन्त्र्यमपकर्षति / संकटा ह्याहिताग्नीनां प्रत्यवायैर्गृहस्थता //८//

(thathaha pravishathi upavishtO rAmaha sIthA cha)

rAmaha: dhEvi vaidhEhi samAshvasihi samAshvasihi / thE hi guravO na shanuvanthyasmAn vimOkthum /

kinthvanuSHTAnanithyathvam svAthanthryam apakarSHathi / sankata hyAhithAgnInAm prathyavAyairgrhasthaTHA // 8 //

(Rama and Sita are on stage, sitting)

RAMA: Dear Vaidehi, don’t feel sad. Our elders can’t bear to leave us, but routine work has to be attended to; it robs householders of their freedom. That’s why your people had to go back, leaving our palace seeming so empty.

सीता – जानाम्यार्यपुत्र जानामि / किन्तु सन्तापकारिणो बन्धुजनविप्रयोगा भवन्ति /

sIthA: jAnAmyAryaputhra jAnAmi /  kinthy santhApakAriNO banDHyanaviprayOgA bhavanthu /

SITA : I know my Lord, I know.  But separation from one’s near and dear does cause sadness.

रामः – एवमेतत् / एते हि हृदयमर्मच्छिदः संसारभावा येभ्यो बीभत्समानाः संत्यज्य सर्वान् कामानरण्ये विश्राम्यन्ति मनीषिणः /

rAma: EvamEthath / EthE hi hrdhayamarmachChidhaha samsArabhAvA yEbhyO bIbhathsamAnAha santhyajya sarvAn kAmAn araNyE vishrAmyanthi manISHiNaha /

RAMA: It does happen! Such occurrences, so much a part and parcel of life, weigh heavy on our hearts. Disgusted with such misery, unavoidable in worldly life, the wise give up everything and retire to live peacefully in the forest.

For the best of times, and for the not so good times too…

On this New Year’s day, while our wishes are for all that is good and best, it may not be wrong to remember that there may be downsides. This verse from ‘Bhartrhari’s Nitisatakam’ is for us to draw strength, for those not so good times …

सम्पत्सु महतां चित्तं भवत्युत्पलकोमलम् /

आपत्सु च महाशैलशिलासन्घातकर्कशम् // ६५ //

sampathsu mahathAm chiththam bhavathyuthpalakOmalam /

Apathsu cha mahAshailashilAsanghAthakarkasham // 65 //

When they attain good fortune, their thoughts are mellow, marked by concern for others; when misfortune strikes, they withstand it, as strong as a rock, without succumbing to self-pity. [Such is the nature of the great]

Uttararamacharitam [contd., post 5]

सूत्रधारः – यदिपुनरियंकिंवदन्तीमहाराजंप्रतिस्यन्देत्ततःकष्टंस्यात् /

SUTRADHARA: If this gossip reaches the king’s ears, we will be in trouble.

नटः – सर्वथाऋषयोदेवताश्चश्रेयोविधास्यन्ति /

(परिक्रम्य)

भोभोः / केदानींमहाराजः /

(आकर्ण्य) एवंजनाःकथयन्ति /

स्नेहात्सभाजयितुमेत्यदिनान्यमूनिनीत्वोत्सवेनजनकोद्यगतोविदेहान् / देव्यास्ततोविमनसःपरिसान्त्वनायधर्मासनाद्विशतिवासगृहंनरेन्द्रः //७//

(निष्क्रान्तौ)

ACTOR: Surely, the blessings of the sages and the gods will ensure that only good things will happen…

(Walking all over the stage, looking for someone)

Oh, hey there! Where is the king?

(Cupping his ear, to listen)

The people are saying:

Janaka, who had come here for the coronation (of his son-in-law Rama), and had stayed back all these days out of affection (for his daughter Sita and her husband), has just left for Videha (his capital city). The king has gone to his palace to console Sita who is feeling sad (as her father has left) and that’s why we cannot find him on the throne.

(Exit Sutradhara and actor)

nataha: sarvaTHA rSHayO dhEvathAshcha shrEtO viDHAsyanthi I

(parikramya)

bhO bhOho I kEdhAnIm mahArAjaha I

(AkarNya)

Evam janAha kaTHayanthi I

snEhAth sabhAjayithum Ethya dhinAnyamUni nIthvOthsavEna janakOdhya gathO vidhEhAn I DHarmAsanAdh vishathi vAsagrham narEndhraha II 7 II

(niSHkrAthau)

Uttararamacharitam [contd., post 4]

नटः – तेनहिनिरूपयतुराज्ञःसुपरिशुद्धाम्उपस्थानस्तोत्रपद्धतिंभावः /

ACTOR: You must demonstrate to the king the purity of your language when you pray.

nataha: thEna hi nirUpayathu rAgnyaha suparishudhDHam upasTHAnasthOthra – padhDHathim bhAvaha /

सूत्रधारः – मारिष

सर्वथाव्यवहर्तव्यंकुतोह्यवचनीयता / यथास्त्रीणांतथावाचांसाधुत्वेदुर्जनोजनः //५//

SUTRADHARA: (Addressing the actor by his name, Marisha) Language is always pure. How can it be defiled? Only the benighted discourse about the purity of language and the purity of women.

sUtraDHAraha: mAriSHa/

sarvaTHA vyavaharthavyam kuthO hyavachanIyathA IyaTHA shrINAm thaTHA vAchAm sADHuthvE durjanO janaha // 5//

नटः –
अतिदुर्जनइतिवक्तव्यम् /

देव्याम्अपिहिवैदेह्यांसापवादोयतोजनः / रक्षोगृहस्थितिर्मूलम्अग्निशुद्धौत्वनिश्चयः //६//

ACTOR: They are very cruel indeed! People suspect even our queen Vaidehi (Sita) because she remained imprisoned in Ravana’s abode. They suspect her chastity even after she was purified by fire!

nataha: athidhurjana ithi vakthavyam /

dhEvyAm api hi vaidhEhyAm spavAdhO yathO janaha I rakshOgrhasTHirmUlam agnishudhDHau thvanishchayaha // 6 //

Uttararamacharitam [contd., post 3]

नटः – वैदेशिकोस्मीति पृच्छामि / कः पुनर्जामाता /

nataha : vaidhEshikOsmIthi prchCHAmi I kaha punar jAmAthA /

ACTOR: I’m new to these parts, so please tell me – who is this son-in-law?

सूत्रधारः –

कन्यां दशरथो राजा शान्तां नाम व्यजीजनत् / अपत्यकृतिकां राज्ञे लोमपादाय तां ददौ //४//

विभाण्डकसुतस्तामृष्यशृङ्ग उपयेमे / तेन द्वादशवार्षिकं सत्रमारब्धम् / तदनुरोधात् कठोरगर्भामपि वधूं जानकीं विमुच्य गुरुजनस्तत्र गतः / तत् किमनेन / एहि / राजद्वारमेव स्वजातिसमयेनोपतिष्ठावः /

sUthraDHAraha : kanyAm dhasharaTHO rAjA shAnthAm nAma vyajIjanath / apathyakrthikAm rAgnyE lOmapAdhAya yAm dhadhou // 4 //

vibhANdakasuthasthAm rshyashrnga upayEmE I thEna dhvAdhashavArSHikam sathram ArabDHam / thadhanurODHAth kaTOragarbhAm api vaDHUm jAnakIm vimuchya gurujanasthathra gathaha I thath kimanEna / Ehi I rAjadhvAram Eva svajAthisamayEnOpathiSHTAvaha/

SUTRADHARA: King Dasharatha had a daughter called Shantha. She was given in adoption to King Lomapada. Rishyashringa, sage Vibhandaka’s son, married her. Rishyashringa has started a a religious performance that will go on for the next twelve years. Out of respect for him, all the elders in the palace have gone to his hermitage, leaving Sita, though  she is in an advanced state of pregnancy. Well, how does that matter to us? Come along. Let’s go to the palace with the others.

Bhavabhuti’s Uttararamacharitam [contd., post 2]

(प्रविश्य)

नटः – भाव / प्रेषिता हि ते स्वगृहान् महाराजेन लङ्कासमरसुहृदो महात्मनः प्लवङ्गराक्षसाः सभाजनोपस्थायिनश्च नानादिगन्तपावना ब्रह्मर्षयो राजर्षयश्च यदाराधनायैतावतो दिवसान् उत्सव आसीत् /

संप्रति हि

वसिष्ठाधिष्ठिता देव्यो गता रामस्य मातरः / अरुन्धतीं पुरस्कृत्य यज्ञे जामातुराश्रमम् //३//

(pravishya)

nataha: bhAva I prESHithA hi thE svagrhAn mahArAjEna lankAsamarasuhrdhO mahAthmanaha plavangarAkshasAha sabhAjanOpasTHAyinashcha nAnAdhiganthapAvanA brahmarSHayO rAjrSHayashcha yadhArADHanAyaithAvathO dhivasAn uthsava AsIth I

samprathi hi

vasiSHTADHiSHTithA dhEvyO ghathA rAmasya mAtharaha I arunDHathIm puraskrthya yagnyE jAmAthurAshramam // 3 //

(Enter)

ACTOR: Sir! I understand that the great monkeys and demons, who were befriended during the Lanka war, and also the sages and the wise kings, to honour whom there was a festival all these days, have all returned home after being thanked adequately by the king.

Further,

I believe that as per Vasishta’s advice, all the three queens of Dasaratha, the mothers of Rama, have gone with Arundhati (Vasishta’s wife) to attend the performance of a sacred event at their son-in-law’s hermitage. This is what I have heard.

SUthraDHAraha : EvamEthath /

सूत्रधारः – एवमेतत् /

SUTRADHARA: Ah, yes, That is so.

Bhavabhuti’s Uttararamacharitam

Starting today, we are hoping to post, as frequently as possible, a few verses from the play

Uttararamacharitam by Bhavabhuti.

The idea is to have the whole play translated, in due course.

ACT I – CHITRADARSHANAM

इदम् कविभ्यः पूर्वेभ्यो नमोवाक्यम् प्रशास्महे /वन्देमहि च ताम् वाचम् अमृताम् आत्मनः कलाम् //१//

idham kavibhyaha pUrvEbhyO namOvAkyam prashAsmahE / vandhEmahi cha thAm vAcham amrthAm Athmanah kalAm // 1 //

Let us begin by expressing our respect to the poets of yore and saluting the Goddess of Speech, Saraswati, who is like nectar and who is an aspect of the Almighty.

(नान्द्यन्ते)

सूत्रधारः – अलम् अतिविस्तरेण / अद्य खलु भगवतः कालप्रियानाथस्य यात्रायाम् आर्यमिश्रान् विज्ञापयामि / एवम् अत्रभवन्तो विदांकुर्वन्तु / अस्ति तत्रभवान् काश्यपः श्रीकण्ठपदलाञ्छ्नॊ भवभूतिर्नाम /

यं ब्रह्माणम् इयं देवी वाग्वश्यॆवानुवर्तते / उत्तरं रामचरितं तत्प्रणीतं प्रयुज्यते //२//

एषोस्मि कार्यवशाद् आयोध्यकस्तदानींतनश्च संवृत्तः / (समन्तादवलोक्य) भो भोः / यदा तावदत्रभवतः पौलस्त्यकुलधूमकेतोर्महाराजरामस्यायम् अभिषेकसमयो रात्रिंदिवम् असंहृतनान्दीकस्तत् किमद्य विश्रान्तचारणानि चत्वरस्थानानि /

(nAndhyanthE)
sUthraDHAraha: alam athivistharENa I adhya khalu bhagavathaha kAlapriyAnATHasya yAthrAyAm AryamishrAn vignyApayAmi I Evam athrabhavanthO vidhAnkurvanthu I asthi thathrabhavAn kAshyapaha shrIkaNTapadhalAnCHanO bhavabhUthirnAma I

yam brahmANam iyam dhEvI vAg vashyEvAnuvarthathE I uththaram rAmacharitham thathpraNItham prayujyathE // 2 //

ESHOsmi kAryavashAdh AyODHyakasthadhAnInthanashcha samvrththaha I

(samanthAdh avalOkya)

bhO bhOho I yadhA thAvadh athrabhavanthaha paulasthyakulaDHUmakEthOr mahArAjarAmasya ayam abhiSHEkasamayO rAthrimdhivam asamhrthAnandhanAndhIkasthath kimadhya vishrAnthachAraNAni chathvarasTH AnAni I

(After the prayer)

SUTRADHARA: Let me not take too much time to give you the details. Today, on the occasion of the festival in honour of Lord Kalapriyanatha, I wish to make a submission before this august audience. Hear this, all of you: There is, in the lineage of Kashyapa, one called Bhavabhuti, who has been conferred the title ‘Srikanta’.

This brahmin is followed everywhere by the Goddess of Speech as though she is under a spell. We will now enact Uttararamacharitam written by him.

Now, because of my job, I have become a citizen of Ayodhya and have gone back in time.

(Looking all around)

Oh people! During the coronation of the great Rama, who came like a comet of misfortune to Ravana’s family, the popular centres of the town were full of activity day in and day out. How is it that the streets are deserted now?