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WSC 2018 Conference Programme Schedule of Papers VANCOUVER 2018 THE 17TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE BIBLIA IMPEX PVT. LTD. 2/18 Ansari Road, New Delhi 110002 (INDIA) www.bibliaimpex.com www.adityaprakashan.com We are booksellers, publishers and exporters from India catering to scholars and academic institutes in USA, Canada, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, etc. for over 50 years. When our customers order books and periodicals from different publishers across South Asia, we collect and ship them together, saving a lot on their shipping fees as well as banking charges. 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Please send us details of your manuscripts which may be doctoral theses, or well-documented works related to Indology.It could be religious, philosophical, literary, architectural, Dharmashastras(laws), astronomical studies. Please write to us at [email protected] to ask for price quotes for book(s) or to discuss your manuscripts. 56 inaugural session Monday | July 9 || 8am-12.30pm 8am Registration, Puṣpāñjali Dance Performance by Mandala Arts, Welcoming Addresses & Benedictions Address by Guest of Honour 9am Introduced by V. Kutumba Sastry [President, International Association of Sanskrit Studies] 9.30 - Break 9.45 am Plenary Lectures: (introduced by Ashok Aklujkar, University of British Columbia) George Cardona [Univ. of Pennsylvania] “Philology, Text History, and History of Ideas” 9.45 - Dipti Tripathi [Univ. of Delhi] 11.55 am “Reflections on Manuscriptology: Forays into Indian Paradigms of Knowledge Management” Arvind Sharma [McGill University] “The Surprising Modernity of Bhavabhūti’s Uttararāmacarita” Akṣara Puruṣottama Darśana: Introduction & Launch of the Svāminārāyaṇa-bhāṣyam & Svāminārāyaṇa-siddhāntasudhā of 12 - 12.30 Mahāmahopādhyāya Bhadreshdas Swami [BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute, Delhi] pm Introduced by Deven Patel [Univ. of Pennsylvania] Remarks by George Cardona [Univ. of Pennsylvania] & Ashok Aklujkar [Univ. of British Columbia] INAUGURAL BANQUET Inaugural Conference Banquet, hosted by Hon’ble Shri Prakash Javadekar, 5-6.30pm Minister of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India The Great Hall at the AMS Student Nest, 6133 University Blvd. “Living Legends”: A Rare Performance of Kūṭiyāṭṭam Sanskrit Theatre chan centre for the performing arts, 6265 crescent rd. Preliminaries: 7-7.20PM Heike Oberlin (Univ. of Tübingen) 7-8pm Introduction to Kūṭiyāṭṭam, 7.20-7.40PM Intermission: 7.40-8PM The Nepathya Troupe (Muzhikkulam, Kerala), led by Margi Madhu Chakyar 8-11pm Ensemble Kūṭiyāṭṭam performance of Bālivadham CONSULATE GENERAL OF INDIA VANCOUVER 57 Monday | July 9 || 2-4pm Session 1.3 Room Location Section/ Theme 2-2:30pm 2:30-3pm 3-3:30pm 3:30-4pm क啍� �नम् विभ�गः/विषयः SPECIAL PANEL 2: Joydeep Bagchee Vishwa Adluri Jahnavi Bidnur Discussion After the Critical Ludwig Maximilian Hunter College, New Indic Academy Edition: What Next University of Munich York For Mahābhārata Prayojana and Phala: buch Studies? Working With the The Mahābhārata’s 1 d219 Mahābhārata Critical The Text-Historical Reception Through Its Edition Method Reconsidered: Commentaries Organizer: Joydeep Lessons From the Bagchee Bhagavadgītā SPECIAL PANEL 10.1: Charles DiSimone Kazunobu Matsuda Jowita Kramer Gergely Hidas Sanskrit Buddhist BDRC, Ludwig Bukkyo University Ludwig Maximilian British Museum Manuscripts: Texts, Maximilian University of University of Munich Techniques, and Munich How to Enter the buch Traditions, Part 1 The Hole Story: Techniques On Leather Manuscript Some Remarks Residence of Nāgas and 2 a203 for Mūlasarvāstivāda Fragments in the on the Tattvārthā Convert Them to the Manuscript Production Schøyen Collection, Abhidharmakośaṭīkā Buddha’s Teachings Used by a Scriptorium Organizer: Charles Norway DiSimone in Gilgit Around the 8th Century CE S14.1 | Kashinath Nyaupane Sandhya Pruthi Akane Saito दर㔶न�वन, तत्त्वर�स्त्रम् - Nepal Sanskrit University University of Delhi EFEO, Pondicherry Philosophy buch Mīmāṃsā & Īśvara Maṇḍanamiśra’s मीम�ंस�नय ईश्वरवनर�सः Application of Application of the 3 b218 Syntactical Principles Mīmāṃsā Rules in of Mīmāṃsā to the Tarkakāṇḍa of the Moderator: Lawrence Brahmasūtra Brahmasiddhi McCrea S9.1 | Anupriya Aggarwal Toke Lindegaard Ronnie Dreyer Lokraj Poudel िै煍�वनकं ि�ङ्मयम् - IIT Bombay Knudsen Purviya Darshan Scientific Literature University of Copenhagen Vidyapeeth, World Astro- Federation buch A Study of Three A Mirror Surface, a Deconstructing Eclipses फल�देरे पर�ररसू配�णि 4 d201 Questions and Tortoise Shell, and in Bṛhatsaṃhitā वर्म�नयुगेऽवप त�िꅍ鄿 their Answers in a Lotus: Ideas of the Moderator: Dominik Karaṇakaustubha Shape of the Earth िै煍�वनक�वन Wujastyk S8.1 | Whitney Cox Iris Iran Farkhondeh Peter Pasedach Hamsa Stainton क�व्यमल敍�रश्च - Poetry, University of Chicago Université Sorbonne University of Hamburg McGill University Drama and Nouvelle - Paris 3 Aesthetics Metapoetic Poetry buch Kṣemendra’s Samaya- Ratnākara’s From Kashmir: 5 Bilhaṇa, Kalhaṇa, Mātṛkā Within Haravijaya: Critical Maṅkha’s Śrīkaṇṭha- b313 Jalhaṇa Kashmirian Sanskrit Edition, Including carita and Jagaddhara Moderator: Lyne Bansat- Literary’s History Commentaries, and Bhaṭṭa’s Stuti- Boudon Annotated Translation kusumāñjali S17.1 | Jayaraman Mahadevan Sanhita Joshi Varun Khanna Gayatri Murali Krishna सं啃तणर啍�र�स्त्रम् - Krishnamacharya Yoga Deccan College PGRI Chinmaya Ravuri Sanskrit Pedagogy Mandiram w/ M. Kulkarni Vishwavidyapeeth Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan Some Remarks on the w/ V.R.M. Ganesh buch Imparting Yoga Texts Interface Between the ि�चन�णभव्यक्त्य啍मत�ः 6 in Sanskrit: A Teaching Aṣṭādhyāyī-krama and Understanding Dīkṣita: ꅍूनीकतुԂ d218 the Prakriyā-krama: a Moderator: Sadananda Das Experiment and Its On the Meaning of the िेद�ङ्गणर啍�सस饍�鄿�न� ं Outcome Modern Dichotomy in Word “Siddhānta” in the Pedagogy of Pāṇinian Siddhāntakaumudī िै煍�वनक�नुप्रयोगः Grammar Session 1.3 Monday | July 9 || 2-4pm Room Location Section/ Theme 2-2:30pm 2:30-3pm 3-3:30pm 3:30-4pm क啍� �नम् विभ�गः/विषयः S21.1 | Patrick Olivelle Donald Davis David Brick Tek Chand Meena धम㔶र�स्त्रमर्थशास्त्र च - Law University of Texas at University of Texas at Yale University University of Delhi and Society Austin Austin buch Status and Its Regulation Revisiting the Āśrama Slaves and Slavery in Śaiva and मनुतौ啃 रू饍�ि� ं 7 a202 System: A New the Smṛticandrikā Dharmaśāstra Hypothesis of Its Origin Treatments of Penance स�म�जिकी वतः Moderator: Timothy in Comparative Lubin Perspective S2.1 | Jared Stephen Klein Zachary Rothstein- Giacomo Benedetti Madhav Deshpande भ�ष�र�स्त्रम् - Linguistics University of Georgia Dowden University of Michigan Harvard University buch The Syntax and On the ī-preterits of The Meaning and Antiquity and Nature 8 b309 Semantics of Rigvedic Sanskrit Etymology of Ārya of Early Non-Ritual Nú “Now” Sanskrit Usage Moderator: Jan E. M. Houben S11.1 | Jolly Sandesara Jayandra Soni Lucas den Boer Marie-Hélène Gorisse िैनवि饍� - Jaina Studies Gujarat University IASS, Univ. of Marburg Leiden University Ghent University buch The Concept of The Concept of Manas The Authorship of Is Cognition Based on 9 d204 Omniscience and the in Jaina Philosophy the Āryās in the Authoritative Discourse Theory of Destiny Tattvārthasūtrabhāṣya a Type of Inference? A Moderator: Eva De Clercq Jain Perspective S1.1 | Murlimanohar Pathak B. N. Narahari Achar Mislav Jeźić Georges-Jean Pinault िेदः - Veda D. D. Upadhyay University of Memphis University of Zagreb EPHE Ṛgveda Gorakhpur University buch Elements of Creation in On the Structure of the A Closer Reading of An Early Pun of the 10 d222 Nāsadīya Hymn (Ṛgveda Ṛgveda Saṃhitā Ṛgvedic Poetry Ṛgveda 10.129) Moderator: Frank Köhler ।। 핍कू िरं सुन्दरम् ।। वि饍ु쥍ेख� अकलुिकर भूमिर्य सुर�鄿स�गरवृत� सोष्मप्रि�हैर्यत� वृ啍�楍�ददतपि㔶तै: परिवृत� पर्जपूर्ण सद� | न�न�देरिनै: समेत्य नगरं य配�वपतं ि셍धतं 啍ीड��नममदं समस्तिगतो 핍ं 㔹 कू ि रं सुन्दरम् ।। १ ।। िनकुहर-मगररशीः रोभते चित्रवर हररिररकर�ि�ः र�द्वले केललमग�ः । द्विजकुलकलन�दैर् वृकर�जिः सचेत� बविधिनर녍ैर् िीरयः न�दपूर्णा ।। २ ।। 59 Tuesday | July 10 || 8-10am Session 2.1 Room Location Section/ Theme 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am क啍� �नम् विभ�गः/विषयः SPECIAL PANEL 15: Caley Charles Smith Lauren M. Bausch Stephanie A. Majcher Steven Lindquist vāg evedaṃ sarvam McGill University Dharma Realm Buddhist University of Sydney Southern Methodist University University allard Vāc as a Socio-Political The Place of Vāc in the Bound by Names, Everything New Is Old 1 forum Ideal Cosmic Exchange They Rejoiced in the Again: Vāc and the Revealed: Grammar and “Creation” of the White Organizer: Caley C. Smith the Revelation of Vāc in Yajurveda Discussant:
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