10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SANSKRITIST»
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Sanskritist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Hindus: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices
especially when ritually uttered, is inherently and uniquely transformative and
regenerative. This mystique continues to exercise great influence among many
Hindus. Here is an anecdote, related to me by a Sanskritist friend, to illustrate this
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The Sanskritist has indeed another difliculty ; he is also a linguist or an
archaeologist and these interests even with most of the very best Sanskrit
scholars in Europe outweigh the cultural or the real philosophical interest. The
result is that with ...
Surendranath Dasgupta, 1990
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Bhartr̥hari, Philosopher and Grammarian: Proceedings of the ...
As a result, Iyer rarely comes to the rescue of an informed Sanskritist. Where such
a Sanskritist has problems with the text, Iyer usually has nothing to offer by way of
solution. Being neither consistently literal nor completely geared to the needs ...
Saroja Bhate, Johannes Bronkhorst, 1994
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Uniformitarianism in Linguistics
As for why the neogrammarians failed to recognize Whitney's contribution in early
formulations of the basis of their school, it might first be noted that Whitney was,
as pointed out earlier, a prominent Sanskritist as well as a general linguist, and ...
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Social Conscience in Sanskrit Literature
Dev Raj Chanana In an article entitled 'The Sanskritist and Indian Society'43 Dev
Raj Chanana attacks the question of the achievement of Sanskrit literature from
an interesting new angle. He begins by noting that hopes were raised in India ...
Daniel James Bisgaard, 1994
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Mathematics and Medicine in Sanskrit
A COOPERATIVE EFFORT Work on scientific texts has to be conducted, as far as
possible, as a cooperative effort of a Sanskritist and a scientist, unless, of course,
the Sanskritist is also a scientist and vice versa. This has to be so for the ...
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Encyclopedia of Hinduism
Dutch Sanskritist. Van Buitenen began the study of Sanskrit while at high school,
and then studied Asian languages and classical philosophy at the University of
Utrecht. His doctoral research was on Ra ̄ma ̄nuja's Gı ̄ta ̄bha ̄s.ya, his ...
Denise Cush, Catherine A. Robinson, Michael York, 2008
Collection of published and unpublished papers of S.S. Janaki.
S. S. Janaki, V. Kameswari, K. S. Balasubramanian (Sanskritist), 2010
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Aryans and British India
But the case of Wilford shows that it was more than a question of di criminating
the qualified from the unqualified, because Wilford was .1 ry able Sanskritist. The
judgment of the Sanskritist Julius von Klap- ro h, writing over a half-century later,
...
Thomas R. Trautmann, 2004
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The Triadic Heart of Siva: Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta ...
Gnoli has brought to bear his considerable skills as a Sanskritist, gained as a
student of Giuseppe Tucci, on several of the most difficult of Abhinavagupta's
works. Perhaps his greatest achievement has been his complete translation into
Italian ...
Paul E. Muller-Ortega, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SANSKRITIST»
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Chaotic and imperfect, is it the Great Indian Novel?
The late Toby, an eminent Sanskritist, had exiled himself in 1992, disappointed by the dismantling of a mosque in the name of religion. Skanda, like his father, ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
Aatish Taseer Talks Sanskrit, The Dangerous Power Of English, And …
Toby, a renowned Sanskritist, imbued Skanda with his all-consuming love for the language, a romance that became the central one of Toby's life. Taseer ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
'The Way Things Were' Is A Detailed Epic of Modern India
Skanda's father, Toby, was a minor princeling ("rather more –ling than prince,") and a famous Sanskritist himself. At the opening of the novel, he has died, ... «WFAE, Jul 15»
Misinterpretations in 'Searching for Saraswati'
Stein, also a fine Sanskritist, had long accepted the Ghaggar's identification with the Saraswati of Vedic lore, as had before him (since 1855, to be precise) ... «The Hindu, Apr 15»
The Way Things Were by Aatish Taseer review – tracing India's …
Yet Taseer himself is an avid Sanskritist, and his reverence for the language appears both genuine and profound: “What of Sanskrit? Who spoke it? When? «The Guardian, Mar 15»
British colonialism is once again under attack in Aatish Taseer's …
... in time and several generations of a family which Skanda himself has never known, we learn of Toby's Scottish lineage and his pre-eminence as a Sanskritist. «Spectator.co.uk, Mar 15»
Sanskrit, taught well, can be as rewarding as economics
According to the renowned Sanskritist, Sheldon Pollock, India had at Independence a wealth of world-class scholars such as Hiriyanna, Kane, Radhakrishnan, ... «Economic Times, Dec 14»
The story of my Sanskrit
But encounters with other scholars like the philosopher Arindam Chakrabarti, the Panini expert George Cardona, and the Sanskritist, and eventually my doctoral ... «The Hindu, Aug 14»
Blowing birthday candles is against Indian culture, says man who is …
The right-wing education crusader has been famous all year for filing cases against American Sanskritist and Indology scholar Wendy Doniger's books on ... «Scroll.in, Jul 14»
Sukumari Bhattacharji: Marxist, Atheist, Sanskritist
Sukumari Bhattacharji: Marxist, Atheist, Sanskritist. The woman who used Sanskrit as the key to understanding ancient India rationally and scientifically. «Indian Express, Jun 14»
