Schedule of Papers

VANCOUVER 2018

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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� थनम् विभागः/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नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Nepal Sanskrit University University of Delhi EFEO, Pondicherry Philosophy buch Mīmāṃsā & Īśvara Maṇḍanamiśra’s मीमांसानय ईश्वरनिरासः 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 वै煍ञानकं वाङ्मयम् - 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 फलादेशे पराशरसू配रणि 4 d201 Questions and Tortoise Shell, and in Bṛhatsaṃhitā वर्मानयुगेऽपि तावꅍ鄿 their Answers in a Lotus: Ideas of the Moderator: Dominik Karaṇakaustubha Shape of the Earth वै煍ञानकानि Wujastyk

S8.1 | Whitney Cox Iris Iran Farkhondeh Peter Pasedach Hamsa Stainton काव्यमल敍करश्च - 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तशि啍�शास्त्रम् - Krishnamacharya 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 वाचनाभिव्यक्त्यकमताः 6 in Sanskrit: A Teaching Aṣṭādhyāyī-krama and Understanding Dīkṣita: ꅍयनीकर् Ԃ d218 the Prakriyā-krama: a Moderator: Sadananda Das Experiment and Its On the Meaning of the वेदाङ्गशि啍�सि饍धानना ं Outcome Modern Dichotomy in Word “Siddhānta” in the Pedagogy of Pāṇinian Siddhāntakaumudī वै煍ञानकानुप्रयोगः 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� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S21.1 | Patrick Olivelle Donald Davis David Brick Tek Chand Meena धर्मशस्त्रमर्थशास्त्र 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 मनुतौम शू饍राण ं 7 a202 System: A New the Smṛticandrikā Dharmaśāstra Hypothesis of Its Origin Treatments of Penance सामाजिकी थितः Moderator: Timothy in Comparative Lubin Perspective

S2.1 | Jared Stephen Klein Zachary Rothstein- Giacomo Benedetti Madhav Deshpande भाषाशास्त्रम् - 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 जैनवि饍य - 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 वेदः - 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

।। 핍कू वरं सुन्दरम् ।। वि饍य쥍लखा अकलुजकर

भूमिर्य सुशानसागरवृता सोष्मप्रवाहैर्यता ि啃啍�楍छदितपर्तै: परिवृता पर्जपूर्ण सदा | नानादेशजनै: समेत्य नगरं य配थापतं व셍धतं 啍रडाथनमिदं समस्तजगतो वॅ 㔹 कू व रं सुन्दरम् ।। १ ।। वनकुहर-गिरिश्र शोभते चित्रवर हरिणशशकशावाः शाद्वले केलिमग्न । दद्विकुलकलनादैर् वृकराजिः सचेता बविधजनश녍दर् वीथयः नादपूर्णा ।। 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� थनम् विभागः/विषयः SPECIAL PANEL 15: Caley Charles Smith Lauren M. Bausch Stephanie A. Majcher Steven Lindquist vāg evedaṃ sarvam McGill University 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: Jan Houben Aitareya Āraṇyaka 2.3.8

SPECIAL PANEL 10.2: David Fiordalis Kazuo Kano Youngjin Lee Sanskrit Buddhist Linfield College Komazawa University Geumgang University Manuscripts: Texts, Some Recent Findings Techniques, and The Avadānaśataka and of Sanskrit Manuscripts Verses in the buch Traditions, Part 2 the Kalpadrumāvadāna- From Tibet and Nidānaparivarta of the 2 a104 mālā: Manuscript Ongoing Projects: Daśabhūmikasūtra Traditions and Munimatālaṃkāra, Organizer: Charles Intertextual Questions Āmnāyamañjarī, and DiSimone Others

S14.2 | Alex Watson Toshihiro Wada Yoichi Iwasaki Piotr Balcerowicz दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम्- Ashoka University Nagoya University Nagoya University University of Warsaw Philosophy Navyanyāya & Nyāya Jayanta Bhaṭṭa on Causality in Early Death in Varanasi: Anumāna, Inference buch Whether Perception Navya-Nyāya: The Reasons to Be Religious and “Inference” in the 3 b218 Supports or Refutes the Definitions of Cause in Navya Nyāya Critique of Jayarāśi Buddhist Doctrine of Formulated by Soteriology Bhaṭṭa Moderator: Alex Watson Momentariness Śaśadhara

S21.2 | Ranjeet Kumar Mishra Borayin Larios Simon Cubelic धर्मशस्त्रमर्थशास्त्र च - University of Delhi Heidelberg University Heidelberg University Law and Society Dharmaśāstra in the Kauṭilya’s Taxation Rejecting Reform Politico-Didactic Literature buch in 19th-Century Nepal: Modern Era Model and Its and Defending 4 One’s Dharma: The Raṅganātha Pauḍyāla’s d201 Relevance to the Rājavidhānasāra in Dharmatattva-nirṇaya Moderator: Donald Davis Present Global Comparative Perspective Economic Scenario of Vāsudevaśāstrī Abhyaṅkar (1863-1942) S8.2 | Pankaj Kumar Mishra Shrikrishna Sharma V. Kutumba Sastry Satyanarayan काव्यमल敍करश्च - University of Delhi Kurukshetra University President, IASS Chakraborty Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics A Case Study on buch Kālidāsa: An Orphan A Note on Verse 1.16 the Concept of 5 without any Offspring मेघदूतीयकथानक- of Kumārasambhava of “Anvarthatva” and b313 रतोविमर� नवीनो饍भाना Kālidāsa Its Application in the Moderator: C. Rajendran Śiśupālavadha of Māgha, with Reference to Words for Mountain S17.2 | Amrita Kaur Iwona Milewska Neelam Trivedi सं啃तशि啍�शास्त्रम् - Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan Jagiellonian University Dayanand Girls P.G. Sanskrit Pedagogy College सं啃तपठनदोषनिवारण े buch Didactic Strategies in The Perspective of New अधिगमे एकाग्रतायाः 6 d221 the European Tradition Pedagogy in Sanskrit स륍पदने च of Sanskrit Pedagogy Teaching: Importance Moderator: Sanhita Joshi कूटचि配राणमनुप्रयोगः of Pronunciations and Recitation in Sanskrit Learning Session 2.1 Tuesday | July 10 || 8-10am

Room Location Section/ Theme 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S18.1 | Devsinh Bhalabhai Geetha Kasha Pushpa Jha आधुनिकं सं啃तसाहित्यम् Rathva Government Degree - Modern Sanskrit Hemchandracharya College for Women, buch Writings North Gujarat University 7 d307 Contribution of Gujarat Kālāya Tasmai Namaḥ- The Meter Analysis of in Modern Sanskrit The Life Journey of Sanskrit Ghazal Moderator: Charles Preston Literature Ogeti Parikshit Sharma

S2.2 | Chakrapani Khanal Sharda Narayanan Hetal M. Pandya Anselmo Hernández भाषाशास्त्रम् - Tribhuvan University Dr. MGR Janaki College of Gujarat University Quiroz Linguistics Arts & Science for Women National Autonomous University of Mexico buch Relation Between Bhartṛhari: The Concept On Bahuvrīhi मीमांसादर㔶नानुसारी 8 d213 Word and Meaning: A of “Meaning” Compounds in Sanskrit: वा啍यरवि�् लषणप्रस्तावनम् Comparison Between A Cognitive Analysis of Moderator: Madhav Vākyapadīya and External Predication as Deshpande Ślokavārtikā Metonymic

S3.1 | Hideyo Ogawa Shreyansh Dwivedi Radha Blinderman Balram Shukla व्याकरणम् - Vyākaraṇa Hiroshima University Haryana Sanskrit Harvard University University of Delhi Academy On Bhartṛhari’s Bitextual Meaning Anekāntavāda as a buch Redefinition of Karman: क्याविमर्श in Two Pre-Navya Grammatical Device 9 b310 *Kriyāviṣayatvaṃ Vyākaraṇas: The Case of Karmatvam Rāmacandrācārya and Moderator: Dipti Tripathi Jīva Gosvāmin

S11.2 | Anubha Jain Saloni Joshi Heleen De Jonckheere जैनवि饍य - Jaina Guru Nanak Girls College Gujarat University Ghent University Studies The Teaching of Mātrās Depicted in “Hari Is Not Even buch in the Jain Ādipurāṇa Allegorical Stories in Satisfied by 16000 10 d204 Prakrit Literature (With Gopis!”: The Dharma- Reference to Two Texts parīkṣā by Amitagati Moderator: Jayandra Soni of the 12th Century) as Jain Expression of a Puranic Mode

S4.1 | Fernando Wulff Alonso Greg Bailey Anil Kumar Arya रामायणं महाभारतं च - University of Málaga La Trobe University Jawaharlal Nehru Epics University Book 4 of the On Pūjā to the Buddha buch Mahābhārata and the in the Lalitavistara and The Naming System in Pūjā to Nārāyaṇa in the Omphale-Heracles the Mahābhārata 11 d314 Nārāyaṇīya-parvan: Further Story: Methodological Notes on Intertextuality in Moderator: Robert Questions Goldman the Mahābhārata and Early Buddhist Texts

वनकुहर-निवासी प्रायशः शाꅍ鄿शीलः मतवदनसमेतः पान्थसेवाप्रवीणः । पदपथगमने यत् यानमार् भवेद्वा सकलजनसुखार镀 啍रडते कर्योगी ।। ३ ।।

61 Tuesday | July 10 || 10.30-12.30pm Session 2.2

Room Location Section/ Theme 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः DARŚANIC Bhadreshdas Swami, Delhi Paramtattvadas Swami, London SCHOLARY BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute Deconstructing “Brahmajijñāsā” in the Brahmasūtra‐ SESSION: Akṣara- Svāminārāyaṇa’s Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana (Ontology, Svāminārāyaṇa‐Bhāṣya: A Study Of Grammar, Puruṣottama Soteriology, and Identity) Hermeneutics, And Theology allard Aksharananddas Swami, New York Darśanam Deven Patel, Univ. of Pennsylvania The Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana and the Gītā Verse: 1 forum The Role of the Guru Within the Akṣara-Puruṣottama “Brahmabhūtaḥ Prasannātmā…” Chair: Mahāmahopādhyāya Darśana Aksharvatsaldas Swami, Delhi Bhadreshdas Swami The Tradition of the Śikhara within Mandir Architecture: Origins, Development, and Philosophy KEYNOTE LECTURE: , Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford Alexis Sanderson The Śākta Transformation of Śaivism buch 2 a104 Introduced by Mandakranta Bose

S14.3 | Ryushin Sudo Udita Bhattacharyya Agnieszka Rostalska दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Kyushu University University of Delhi Ghent University Philosophy Epistemic Autonomy buch Jayantabhaṭṭa & On Aprayojaka and Jayantabhaṭṭa’s Notion of Testimony in Nyāya Upādhi on Perceptibility of Nyāya: The Key Anti- 3 b218 Abhāva Reductionist Argument Moderator: Monika Posed by Uḍḍyoṭakara, Nowakowska Bhāsarvajña & Jayanta

S1.2 | Michael Brattus Jones Ryutaro Takezaki Reeja Bhas Kavanal Jarrod Whitaker वेदः - Veda University of Texas at University of Tokyo Sree Sankaracharya Wake Forest University Ṛgveda & Around Austin University of Sanskrit

buch The Vedic Association The Function of the Ṛgvedic Society in the “Sorcerer” or “Sack of 4 d201 of Prosperity and Plow Heart and Emotion in Akṣasūkta Shit?” Rethinking Yātú the Ṛgveda and Yātudhā́na in the Moderator: Hans Henrich Ṛgveda and Atharvaveda Hock

S8.3 | Narayan Dutt Mishra Aruna Sharma Ivana Vashishtha G. S. Srinivasa Murthy काव्यमल敍करश्च - Jawaharlal Nehru Kurukshetra University Jawaharlal Nehru Poetry, Drama and University University Aesthetics buch लिङ्गवचनवरससमुपेतः भारतीवृत鄿विमर्श अल敍कर- Computer-Aided 5 b313 Study of Rhythm in साहित्यशास्त्रसान्द셍भको लोकꅍयययोरन्सम्बꅍध Akṣaragaṇa-Based Moderator: C. Rajendran वैलकण्यविमर्श Metres: An Exploration in Sanskrit Prosody

S17.3 | Kirthee Devi Maheswarakurukkal Subhash Chandra सं啃तशि啍�शास्त्रम् - Ramjatton Balakailasanathasarma University of Delhi Sanskrit Pedagogy Mahatma Gandhi Institute University of Jaffna w/ V. Kumar w/ N. Subramanian Re-Structuring of The Voyage of Sanskrit buch Pāṇinian bhvādigaṇa From India to Mauritius Preservation of Traditional 6 d221 Sanskrit Teaching Among Verb Roots for Moderator: Iwona the Sri Lankan Tamils: Teaching and Learning Milewska Current Status and Future Derivational Process of Perspectives Sanskrit Verb Session 2.2 Tuesday | July 10 || 10.30-12.30pm

Room Location Section/ Theme 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S18.2 | Hari Dutt Sharma Rumaliben Rathva Soumyajit Sen Rajendra Kumar आधुनिकं सं啃तसाहित्यम् University of Allahabad S. R. Bhabhor Arts College Cooch Behar Panchanan Tripathi - Modern Sanskrit Barma University University of Allahabad Writings buch Modern Sanskrit Poetry Contribution of सं啃त-खृ�टय-साहित्ये जन- वतꅍत्र्यरार्वचीनसं啃त- 7 d307 in Global Perspective Harshdev Madhav मुर-वर्याण ं (John Muir) in Modern Sanskrit काव्यानुशीलनम् सारसतमवदानम् Moderator: Hari Dutt Literature Sharma

S2.3 | Prasad Ramesh Bhide Anuradha Choudry Chinmay V. Dharurkar Nilotpala Gandhi भाषाशास्त्रम् - Linguistics K. J. Somaiya College of Arts IIT Kharagpur Central University of Gujarat University & Commerce Kerala w/ M. Kulkarni buch Morphological Analysis The Psycholinguistic Usage Labels for Bhartṛhari and Modern of Compounds in Sanskrit Dimensions of Sanskrit Sanskrit Dictionary Linguistics (Bhartṛhari’s 8 d213 With Special Reference to the Encyclopaedic Theory of Sphoṭa Moderator: Jan E. M. and “Eme” in Modern Houben Dictionary of Sanskrit on Historical Principles Linguistics)

S3.2 | Toru Yagi Yūto Kawamura Prasad P. Joshi Jo Brill व्याकरणम् - Vyākaraṇa Osaka Gakuin University University of Oxford Deccan College PGRI University of Chicago

buch On the Application of What Is the Purpose Considering the Underdetermination in 9 b310 P.4.3.134, 140, and 144 of Restating “dā” in Commentaries on the Aṣṭādhyāyī? Aṣṭādhyāyī 5.3.19, “tado “kratuyajñebhyaś ca” Moderator: Peter M. Scharf dā ca”? (Aṣṭādhyāyī 4.3.68)

S11.3 | Yutaka Kawasaki Priyanka Mayur Shah Claire Maes Ruixuan Chen जैनवि饍य - Jaina Studies University of Tokyo Gujarat University University of Texas at Heidelberg University Austin

buch Haribhadrasūri on Class System as in Gāhāvaï and Gihattha: Notes on Uttarajjhāyā 10 d204 Steya-/Caura-Śāstra Jainism The Householder in the 27 Early Jaina Sources Moderator: Luitgard Soni

S4.2 | Vishal Sharma Zuzana Špicová Wendy J. Phillips- रामायणं महाभारतं च - University of Oxford Charles University Rodriguez Epics National Autonomous If the Thighs Are Not Bhīṣma, an (Un)reliable University of Mexico buch Hit, You Must Acquit: Narrator Different Sections, 11 d314 Madhva’s Reading Different Textual of the Gadāyuddha Histories: Evidence of the Moderator: James Hegarty Episode “Observer Effect” in the Written Transmission of the Mahābhārata

कर्णघातिनिनादोऽत नैव वाहनचालने । नाहमहमिका मार् नापश녍दस्तथा क्वचित् ।। ४ ।। 啍रडामग्नास् 饃श्यन् पुरम鵍 य ऽपि नागरा: । बुद्बलपटं न् रमन् यत तत ते ।। ५ ।।

63 Tuesday | July 10 || 2-4pm Session 2.3

Room Location Section/ Theme 2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः SPECIAL PANEL 12: Finnian M. M. Gerety Thennilapuram P. C. Muraleemadhavan Laurie L. Patton The Vedas Out Loud: Yale University Mahadevan Sree Sankaracharya Middlebury College New Approaches to Howard University University of Sanskrit Vedic Recitation allard The “Other” Sacred From Prātaranuvāka to New Discoveries in Discussant 1 forum Syllable: The Case of the Āśvinaśastra: The Vedic Exegesis and (via video feed) Hiṃ Fixed Oral Tradition of Saman Chant Organizer: Finnian M. M. the Ṛgveda Gerety

SPECIAL PANEL 9.1: Michaël Meyer Marco Ferrante Ma’ayan Nidbach Discussion Śaiva Philosophy EPHE, Université Paris University of Oxford The Hebrew University of Part 1 Diderot Jerusalem

buch How Does Speech “I Speak Therefore What Does Language 2 a201 Condition Us? The (I Know That) I Am”: See? Somānanda’s Viewpoint of the Śaiva The Pratyabhijñā on Dispute With Organizer: Lyne Bansat- Spanda System Language and Self- Bhartṛhari on the Power Boudon Moderator: John Nemec Consciousness of Language S14.4 | Evgeniya Desnitskaya Charles Li Miyuki Nakasuka Nilanjan Das दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Saint Petersburg State University of British Hiroshima University New York University Philosophy University Columbia The Change of Concept Shanghai Bhartṛhari, of Adhyavasāya in buch Dharmakīrti, & Functional Approach : From an the Buddhist Logico- Śrīharṣa on Object 3 b218 Perception in the Vākyapadīya and Individual Thing to Epistemological Reidentification and Dharmakīrti’s Concept Absolute Brahman Tradition: Dharmakīrti, the Perceptual/non- Moderator: Taiken Kyuma of Arthakriyā Dharmottara, and Perceptual Distinction Jñānaśrīmitra

S12.1 | Sadananda Das Ravina Meena Pramita Mishra Himani Mittal वैष्णवमतं शैवमतं च - Leipzig University Jawaharlal Nehru University of Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru Vaiṣṇavism and University University Śaivism Bhakti as a Means to The Making of a Sacred मु啍:त परा भ啍त: Is the Upaniṣadic buch (Joint Session with Advaita: The Devotee Landscape: Śaivism Brahman Saguṇa 4 d201 Section 13) and the Devotion in Early Medieval or Nirguṇa? (With in Utpaladeva’s Rajasthan Special Reference to Moderator: Elaine Fisher Śivastotrāvalī Vedārthasaṅgraha of Rāmānujācārya) S21.3 | Nicholas Witkowski Christian Haskett Anagha Vishwas Joshi Ananya Mitra धर्मशvस्त्रमर्थशास्त्र च - Law University of Tokyo Centre College Savitribai Phule Pune Basanti Devi College and Society University Norms, Rules, and Does Institutionalization buch Cool the Fire of Ascetic The Exclusion of Laity Socio-Legal Position HER Story, HIS Codification Discipline? A Case Study From the Buddhist of Kalivarjyas and Voice: Exclusion, 5 b313 Examining an Indian Buddhist Legal Code for Prātimokṣa Recitation Dharmaśāstra Marginalization and Moderator: David Brick Evidence of Begging in the in Pāli and Sanskrit Gendering of Women in Monastic Context Vinayas Pañcatantra

S8.4 | V. Mohan Rani Majumdar Sander Hens Padma Sugavanam काव्यमल敍करश्च - Poetry, C. P. R. Institute of Aligarh Muslim Ghent University University of Silicon Drama and Indological Research University Andhra Aesthetics buch Historical Kāvyas on The Vikramāṅkābhudaya Toward a New Poetics of A Lost Legacy: Sant Tyāgarāja of Someśvara III: A History in Sanskrit Kāvya: Abhinavagupta and 6 d221 Tragedy, Irony and the Bharata’s Enigmatic “Son” Stylistic Analysis Moderator: Luther Obrock Problem of Poetic Justice in Nayacandra Sūri’s Hammīramahākāvya Session 2.3 Tuesday | July 10 ||2-4pm

Room Location Section/ Theme 2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S18.3 | Charles S. Preston Sarita Sharma Abhishek Das Kanumuldeniye आधुनिकं सं啃तसाहित्यम् Millsaps College University of of Calcutta Chandasoma Thero - Modern Sanskrit Bhiksu University of Sri Writings Saṃskṛta Pratibhā: Eco-critical Poems in Vāmācaraṇavaibhavam: Lanka buch Literary Print 21st Century Sanskrit A Gem of Modern Modern Sanskrit 7 d307 Nationalism Literature Sanskrit Literature Literature in Sri Lanka: at the Dawn of Dauldena Gnaneswara Moderator: Deven Patel Postcolonialism Thera’s Contribution

S2.4 | Prem Nagar Avnish Kumar Konthoujam Kabi Satyapal Singh भाषाशास्त्रम् - Oracle Corporation University of Delhi Khanganba University of Delhi Linguistics w/ B. Kosaras, B. Misra, J. Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University S. Ramaswamy, H. Mann buch Meitei- Śikṣā: The Study of Study of Pāṇinian कारकीयवि�लषणस 8 d213 Alphabet in a śabdānuśāsanam: Language Production Neurological सार्भाषिक配 व विव啍�या: A Case of Verb and All Its Essential Moderator: Thomas Hunter Perspective - Part I - the माहात्म्यम् । Morphology Features Consonants

S3.3 | Sharon Ben-Dor Pratik Gajanan Rumde Malhar Kulkarni Balasaheb Wagh व्याकरणम् - Vyākaraṇa University of Helsinki University of Göttingen IIT Bombay K. J. Somaiya Bharatiya w/ E. Kahrs Sanskriti Peetham Similarity and From Kātantra to Kāśikā: Some More Reflections w/ M. Kulkarni buch Dissimilarity The Development of on the Role of the Nyāsa 9 between the Cāndra- the Indigenous Sanskrit & the Padamañjarī in A Study of the b310 vyākaraṇavṛtti, the Grammar Reconstructing the Gaṇapāṭhas in the Moderator: Yūto Kāśikāvṛtti and the Textual History of Printed Editions of the Kawamura Jainendra Mahāvṛtti Transmission of the Kāśikāvṛtti Kāśikāvṛtti S11.4 | Luitgard Soni Giles Hooper Tine Vekemans Steven M. Vose जैनवि饍य - Jaina Studies University of Marburg University of Sydney Ghent University Florida International University On the Lightness of the A Study of Śubhacandra’s Between Ritual and buch Jīva: Karma Matters at Presentation of the Twelve Therapy: The Bhaktamar Introducing Gujarati Jain Reflections (Dvādaśa- 10 the Time of Dying Stotra in Faith Healing Women to Their Virtue d204 bhāvanā) in the Jñānārṇava in the 15th Century: Moderator: as an Example of The Śīlopadeśamālā- “Premeditation” in Jainism Bālāvabodha of Merusundaragaṇi S4.3 | Krešimir Krnic Vidyullekha Aklujkar Nagamanickam रामायणं महाभारतं च - University of Zagreb University of British Ganesan Epics Columbia Institute of Asian Studies

buch Static Epithets in Multiplications and The Krauñca Bird of 11 d314 Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa Divisions in the Ānanda- the Rāmāyaṇa: Its Rāmāyaṇa Identification From Moderator: Greg Bailey Sanskrit and Tamil Sources

啍रडाप्रेमिजनाः मिलꅍ鄿 नगरे स्पर्धाप्रयाः संततम् वि饍य饍दपयुते प्रकाशसदने 啍रडांगण े वा मुदा । न 鵍वान गणयꅍ鄿 नैव शिशिरं दीर्घयुषा संयुताः प्र�प्य स्वपदं प्रमोदसहिताः स्पर्धारायोदताः।। ६ ।।

65 Tuesday | July 10 || 4.30-6pm Session 2.4

Room Location Section/ Theme 4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः SPECIAL SESSION: Invited Speakers: Sadananda Das Shrikant Bahulkar अकरपु셁षोतमदर㔶न-विद्व饍ग�ठ University of Leipzig BORI (Forum on the George Cardona C. Rajendran Dharam Bhawuk allard Akṣara-puruṣottama Univ. of Pennsylvania University of Calicut University of Hawaii Darśana) Deven Patel Sthaneshwar Bhadreshdas Swami 1 forum Univ. of Pennsylvania Timalsina BAPS Swaminarayan . San Diego State Univ. Research Institute, Delhi Moderator: Deven Patel

SPECIAL PANEL: Gavin Dennis Flood John Nemec Isabelle Ratié Śaiva Philosophy, Univ. of Oxford, National University of Virginia Université Sorbonne Part 2 Univ. of Nouvelle - Paris 3

buch Implicit Anthropologies Philosophy and Critical On Utpaladeva, Editing: On the Textual in Pre-Philosophical Abhinavagupta and 2 a201 Variants and Necessary Śaṅkaranandana: remarks Śaivism Organizer: Lyne Bansat- Emendations of the Śāstric on a recently recovered Boudon Passages of the Śivadṛṣṭi chapter of Utpaladeva’s and Śivadṛṣṭivṛtti Īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛti

S14.5 | Philipp Maas Susmi Sabu Paolo Magnone दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Leipzig University University of Kerala Catholic University of the Philosophy Sacred Heart Yoga On the Relation of the Authorship of buch Pātañjalalayogaśāstra Pātañjalayogasūtra- Becoming Is 3 b218 and the Nyāyabhāṣya bhāṣyavivaraṇa Remembering: ‘Anamnesis’ in the Moderator: Yoichi Iwasaki Yogasūtras

S1.3 | Tarak Nath Adhikari Pankaj Kumar Sharma Sanu Babu वेदः - Veda Rabindra Bharati Rashtriya Sanskrit Tribhuvan University Atharva & Other Vedas University Sansthan

buch Religion and शुक्लयजुःप्रातिशाख्यस वैदिक-साहित्ये प्राकृतिक- 4 d201 Philosophy of the Atharvaveda: A New अप्रकाशितदीपिकाटीकायाः विपत्ना ं समाधानम् Moderator: Jarrod Approach वैशिष्ट्यम् Whitaker

S16.1 | Elaine Fisher Tomoyuki Yamahata Andrea Acri सं啃तं प्रदेशभाषाश्च - Stanford University Hokkaido University of EPHE Sanskrit & Regional Science Languages, (& buch Southeast Asia) Sanskrit in the Age of The Connection of Old Influence of Śāstric 5 b313 Devotion: The Hooli Gujarati Literature with Sanskrit on Old Bṛhanmaṭha and the Jain Carita: Capturing Javanese Syntax in the Moderator: Whitney Cox History of Sanskritic Kṛṣṇa Tales and Its Genre Vīraśaivism Effect

S8.5 | Ranjan Kumar Tripathi Bhartendu Pandey Sushil Kumari काव्यमल敍करश्च - Poetry, University of Delhi University of Delhi Maitreyi College Drama and buch Aesthetics कालिदासस कृतिषु याकय配नव ख्यापितस भोजो啍त 6 पुष्पमाल्यवैभवम् काव्याल敍करसूतग्रन्थस वैशेषिकगुणावधारणा - d221 संसृष्ट्यल敍करनि셂पण े एकमनुशीलनम् Moderator: Bhartendu Pandey वामनाभिमतमानताया समु楍छदः Session 2.4 Tuesday | July 10 ||4.30-6pm

Room Location Section/ Theme 4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S18.4 | Beate Guttandin Yogesh Pandey आधुनिकं सं啃तसाहित्यम् University of Bonn Rashtriya Sanskrit - Modern Sanskrit “Trying to Get Along Sansthan Writings After Getting Together”: buch Investigation Into the विशतिशं ताब्द् लिखिताना ं 7 d307 Relationship of Couples in Post-Independence सं啃तकाव्याना ं प्रवृत्त Moderator: McComas Sanskrit Prose Taylor Narratives

S21.4 | Deepak Sahu Shaminaj Khan Deepak Kalia धर्मशस्त्रमर्थशास्त्र च - Law Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru University of Delhi and Society University University Tantrayukti: Indian Canon Formation & आत्मप्रबननं पंचतन्त्रस buch Sources Theory of Discourse, The Vedic Sources of 8 b310 Constitution and the Kāmaśāstra अपरीक्तकारकतन्त्रञ्च Analysis with Reference वर्मानराजनीतिसन्दर् Moderator: Patrick Olivelle to Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra

S11.5 | Paul Dundas Eva de Clercq Adrian Plau जैनवि饍य - Jaina Studies University of Edinburgh Ghent University SOAS, Univ. of London

Shutting Forest Adventures “A Joke Amongst the buch Kumudacandra’s Transformed in the Jain Paṇḍits”: Jain Brajbhāṣā 9 d204 Mouth: Yaśaścandra’s Rāmāyaṇas Poets, Their Rāmāyaṇas, Mudritakumudacandra and Their Relations to Moderator: Yutaka as a Source for the Sanskrit Literary Culture Kawasaki Intra-Jain Debate at Aṇahillapaṭṭana in 1125 S4.4 | R. Shobha Roberto Morales-Harley Raj G. Rajan रामायणं महाभारतं च - Maharani’s College for University of Costa Rica Epics Women Changing Patterns of Ambā’s Speech to Some Unique Aspects buch Women’s Resistance: Bhīṣma (Mbh I, 96, 48.1 of the Ahalyā Story in 10 d314 Śakuntalā’s – 49.2) the Mahābhārata Journey From Moderator: Sally J. Śakuntalopākhyāna to Sutherland Goldman Abhijñāna-śākuntalam

Evening Public Events Where & When: public forum: Barnett Hall अस配स啃तम्।। The Story of Our Sanskrit 6361 Memorial Rd. A Public Forum on Gender & Caste in Sanskrit Studies 8-10pm Kaushal Panwar (Motilal Nehru College, DU) & Ananya Vajpeyi (CSDS, Delhi) in conversation with Mandakranta Bose (UBC) cultural event: Frederic Wood Theatre Naad Foundation & Sudnya Dance Academy present: 6354 Crescent Rd. शिवोऽहम्।। Śivo’ham 8-9.30pm Śiva through Indian Classical Music & Dance

67 Wednesday | July 11 || 8-10am Session 3.1

Room Location Section/ Theme 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः SPECIAL PANEL 13.1: Timothy Lubin Nirajan Kafle Peter Bisschop The Viṣṇu- and Washington and Lee Leiden University Leiden University Śivadharma: Early University Medieval Lay Religion buch in a Socio-Religious & What Did the Authors Proliferative Strategies The Śivadharmaśāstra: of the Śivadharma(śāstra) Historical Perspective, of the Śivadharma and Composition, 1 A103 Part 1 and its Impact on the the Viṣṇudharma Mean Spread of Śaivism in Post Transmission and Organizers: Nina Mirnig, by the Word Dharma? 6-7th Century South and Revision Florinda De Simini Southeast Asia

SPECIAL PANEL 11:The Debasree Sadhu Arghadip Paul Ashis Biswas Representation of Bamanpukur Humayun Bamanpukur Humayun Bamanpukur Humayun History and Education Kabir Mahavidyalaya Kabir Mahavidyalaya Kabir Mahavidyalaya of Women in Vedic buch Literature: A Feministic The Social History of Women’s Education A Feministic and Deconstructive the Female in Ancient in the Vedic Age: A Deconstructive Study 2 b211 Study Sanskrit Literature: A Study From a Feministic of the Ancient Sanskrit Organizer: Debasree Sadhu Feministic Study Perspective Literature

S22.1 | K. S. Kannan Madhusudan Rimal योगायुर्दौ - Yoga and Infinity Foundation India University of Alberta Āyurveda Svādhīna Sañjīvanam: The Kathmandu allard A 20th Century Work Laṅkāvatāra 3 forum on Yoga Manuscript: A Buddhist Medical Text? Moderator: Jason Birch

S14.6 | David Peter Lawrence Sthaneshwar Nataliya Yanchevskaya Christopher Minkowski दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् University of North Timalsina Princeton University University of Oxford - Philosophy Dakota San Diego State University (affiliated w/ Special Panel 16) Pratyabhijñā buch Śakti in a Kṣaṇa: What Does “Anubhava” Time in Indian The Daharavidyā Understandings of Time Mean? A Hermeneutic Philosophy in Appayya’s 4 b218 Approach to Experience in in the Pratyabhijñā Nyāyarakṣāmaṇi the Philosophy of Utpala Moderator: Neil Dalal Texts of Utpaladeva and and Nīlakaṇṭha’s and Abhinavagupta Abhinavagupta Vedāntakataka

S1.4 | Shilpa Sumant Julieta Rotaru Piyali Biswas Kalindi Shukla वेदः - Veda BORI , Deccan College Södertörn University University of Burdwan S. V. Arts College Atharvaveda PGRI Survival in a Decadent New Materials of the Vedic Remedies to buch Upākarmavidhi in the Age: The Contribution Atharvaveda of the Eradicate Ādhidaivika 5 d201 Atharvaveda Tradition of the Gores, the Odishan Paippalāda Sorrow Atharvavedin Royal Saṃhitā Moderator: Shrikant Chaplains From Bahulkar Maharashtra

68 Session 3.1 Wednesday | July 11 || 8-10am

Room Location Section/ Theme 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S2.5 | Hullur Rajarao Meera Dipesh Vinod Katira Hariram Mishra भाषाशास्त्रम् - Linguistics National Institute of Shree Somnath Sanskrit Jawaharlal Nehru Advanced Studies University University buch w/ M. Kulkarni 6 d218 A Cognitive Linguistic Honorificity in Sanskrit Sources of Analysis of Anyokti-s Abhinavagupta’s Moderator: Renate Söhnen- and Laukika Nyāya-s Linguistic Philosophy Thieme

S3.4 | Tanuja Ajotikar Mahesh Deokar Raghunathan व्याकरणम् - Vyākaraṇa B. M. Kankanwadi Ayurveda Savitribai Phule Pune Ranganathan Mahavidyalaya University Chinmaya Vidyalaya w/ A. Ajotikar buch Anonymous Borrowings Bhāṣya-sammatāṣṭādhyāyī- विदग्धबोधः – and Chronology of Texts 7 b318 pāṭha: An Unpublished व्याकरणशास्त्रे Moderator: Sharon Ben-dor Manuscript on Variations in the Sūtras of the यशोभूषणग्रन्थः Aṣṭādhyāyī

S4.5 | Hetal S. Patel Himanshu Kumar रामायणं महाभारतं च - Hemchandracharya University of Delhi Epics North Gujarat University buch w/ D. C. Patel 8 b313 The Mahābhārata and Curse as a Facilitator of the Iliad: A Comparison Action and Terminator Moderator: Vidyullekha of Complexity in the Aklujkar Mahābhārata

S8.6 | Saurabh Dwivedi Ashutosh Kumar Ramesh Chandra Subhash Kuntal काव्यमल敍करश्च - Poetry, Banaras Hindu Univ. University of Delhi Nailwal Drama and Jawaharlal Nehru Univ. buch Aesthetics विविधशास्त्र饃शा सं啃तकाव्यशास्त्रे आचार्याभनवगुप्तस काव्यप्रकाशे 9 उपमानपदारवि् वेचनम् प्रतिभाप्रपञ्चः सौन्दर्यशास्त्रयसि饍धानना ं सद:मु啍셁饍त घष: d222 शास्त्रीयसन्दर्भा Moderator: C. Rajendran

संवतरसमाप्तौ ते धावꅍ鄿 जलकेलये* । *(polar bear swim इति भाषायाम्) मधरा配र च शीता녍द हिमऋ啍षपमा नराः ।। ७ ।। थ配व क्ैकपर्यन कु र्ꅍ鄿 जलतर्पम् | नववर्वगताय 핍कू वर-निवासिनः ।। ८ ।।

मगरिजा शारदा ल啍ष् गिरिसागरसंगमे । 啍रडार् मिलिताः भाꅍ鄿 विदषु ा ं तोषदाः सदा ।। ९ ।। वि饍या镀 लभते विद्य 啍रडार镀 啍रडनं तथा सर् मनोरथाः पूर्णा 핍कू वर-निवासिनाम् ।। १० ।।

69 Wednesday | July 11 || 10.30-12.30pm Session 3.2

Room Location Section/ Theme 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः SPECIAL PANEL 13.2: Nina Mirnig Florinda De Simini Yuko Yokochi Marion Rastelli The Viṣṇu- and Austrian Academy of University of Naples Kyoto University Austrian Academy of Śivadharma: Early Sciences “L’Orientale” Sciences Medieval Lay Religion Donating and buch in a Socio-Religious Creating Space for Early Śaivism and the Mahāgaṇapatir Bhavet: The Worship of Viṣṇu’s 1 A103 and Historical Śaiva Communities in Brahmanical Tradition Gaṇa-Hood as a Twelve Manifestations Perspective, Part 2 Early Medieval India: Religious Goal in Early Through the History of Organizers: Florinda De The Śivakṣetra in the Śaivism Vaiṣṇava Traditions Simini, Nina Mirnig Śivadharmaśāstra

SPECIAL PANEL 16: Jonathan Peterson Puninder Singh Michael S. Allen Anand Venkatkrishnan Vedānta’s Polyglot University of Toronto University of Michigan University of Virginia Harvard University Lives: Querying Vedānta in the Delinquency and The Sikh Nirmala Panth Greater Advaita Vedānta From the buch Dereliction in the Śāstras: Vernacular, 1650- and Sikh-Vedānta Vedānta: The Case of Bottom Up: Eknāth’s Linguistic Authority in Engagement Sundardās Hastāmalaka Stotra 2 b313 1900 Early-Modern Vedānta Polemic Organizers: Jonathan Peterson, Puninder Singh [See also: Christopher Minkowski,”The Daharavidyā...” in Session 3.1, S14.6]

S22.2 | Seth Powell S.V.B.K.V. Gupta Valters Negribs योगायुर्दौ - Yoga and SOAS, Univ. of London Harvard University EFEO, Pondicherry, SOAS, University of Oxford Āyurveda Univ. of London Bandhas in Sanskrit Reconciling Yogic The Yogārṇava: Can Kings Be Yogis? allard Texts on Haṭhayoga Difference: Śivayoga An Unpublished Readings From the 3 forum as the Unification of Compendium on Yoga Mokṣadharmaparvan Ritual Worship and Moderator: Karen O’Brien- Haṭhayoga in the Kop Śivayogapradīpikā

S14.7 | Ivan Andrijanić Anaïs Dornier-Viavant Neil Dalal Kalpesh Bhatt दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - University of Zagreb Université Sorbonne University of Alberta University of Toronto Philosophy Nouvelle - Paris 3 Śaṅkara Understanding buch The Authorship of The Many Sources Smṛtisantati: The Brahman: A 4 b218 the Īśopaniṣad- and Used by Śaṅkara in His Problem of Continuous Comparative Study Kaṭhopaniṣad-Bhāṣya Critique of the Idealist Memory for Śaṅkara of the Vedāntic Moderator: Philipp Maas Attributed to Śaṅkara Dreaming Argument Darśanas of Śaṅkara & Swaminarayan S1.5 | Laszlo Forizs Joanna Jurewicz Frank Köhler Christiane Schaefer वेदः - Veda Dharmagate Buddhist University of Warsaw University of Tübingen Uppsala University Ṛgveda College

buch The Gāyatrī Mantra Cognition Begins in the “Who Has Found Myth and Literary 5 d201 Morning: An Analysis of Speech Having Entered Imagery of Rock and Ṛgveda 3.62. Into the Seers?“ on RV Mountain in Early Vedic 10.71.3 Texts Moderator: Mislav Ježić

S2.6 | Deepro Chakraborty Renate Söhnen- Adriana Molina-Muñoz Jan E. M. Houben भाषाशास्त्रम् - Linguistics University of Alberta Thieme University of Illinois at EPHE SOAS, Univ. of London Urbana–Champaign La Formule de Various Traditional Versteegh dans les buch Enumerations and The “Gerund/ In the Light of Change: Anciens Mondes 6 d218 Classifications of Absolutive” in Epic- Multi-Headed Relative Indien et Iranien (The Sanskrit Speech Puranic and Classical Clauses in Sanskrit and Versteegh Formula in Moderator: Madhav Sounds: A Comparative Sanskrit Literature the Ancient Indian and Deshpande Analysis Iranian Worlds) Session 3.2 Wednesday | July 11 || 10.30-12.30pm

Room Location Section/ Theme 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S20.1 | Reeta Bhattacharya Priti N. Pancholi Vijay Vishwanath Nirmala R. Kulkarni हस्तलेखवि煍ञनम् - Kolkata Nivedita Shakti B. J. Institute of Learning Rajopadhyay Savitribai Phule Pune Manuscriptology & Research Daly College University

buch The Mīmāṃsakas on मृगाङ-प饍माती परिचयः Unique and Unexplored Imprints of Existence: 7 d219 the Meaning of Ākhyāta Miniature Painting of Place-Names in the from an Unpublished Manuscripts Post-Colophonic Moderator: Saraju Rath Text, Ākhyātaviveka Statements of Vedic Manuscripts

S3.5 | Malgorzata Wielinska- Paul Kiparsky Lata Deokar Masato Kobayashi व्याकरणम् - Vyākaraṇa Soltwedel Stanford University Savitribai Phule Pune University of Tokyo Ludwig Maximilian University buch University of Munich 8 b318 Svārthika Suffixes vs On Pāṇini 1.1.5 Kṅiti Ca The Origin and the Pāṇini’s Use of Śeṣa Endocentric Taddhita Development of the ‘Remainder’ and the Moderator: Prasad Joshi Derivatives Subanta Genre: Some Definition of the Reflections Bahuvrīhi

S5.1 | Sven Sellmer Les Morgan McComas Taylor Sucharita Adluri पुराणानि - Purāṇas Adam Mickiewicz Australian National Cleveland State University in Poznań Structural Analysis University University of the Gaṇeśa buch Metrical and Formulaic Sahasranāma as Found Reading Purāṇas as Unmasking 9 b211 Patterns in the Purāṇas: in the Gaṇeśa Purāṇa, Literature: Does the Viṣṇu: Advaita A Computational with the Khadyota Viṣṇu Purāṇa Have a and Viśiṣṭādvaita Moderator: Nicolas Approach Commentary by Plot? Commentaries on the Dejenne Bhāskararāya Viṣṇu Purāṇa

S8.7 | Melinda Fodor Kathryn Marie Sloane Manjunath Hegde Natalia Lidova काव्यमल敍करश्च - Poetry, Gonda Foundation Geddes Dr. A. V. Baliga College Russian Academy of Sciences Drama and University of British Aesthetics Columbia Embodying the Divine. buch Towards an Alternative Sanskrit Drama and 10 d222 Why is a Saṭṭaka not an Gendered Differences: Aesthetics: A Study of the Genesis of Hindu Uparūpaka? Verse, Prose, the Prahasana Iconography Moderator: Elisa Ganser and Affect in the Kaumudīmahotsava

S10.1 | Katarzyna Marciniak Seishi Karashima Amarjiva Lochan बौदवि饍य - Buddhist Soka University Soka University University of Delhi Studies w/ S. Leurmsai Narrative Verses and buch The Importance of a Expository Prose: Māleyya- 11 d322 New Edition of the Commonalities devattheravatthu: A Lan Mahāvastu for Buddhist Between the Mahāvastu Nā Thai Text Inspired by Moderator: Stefan Baums Philology and the Early Mahāyāna Mahāvastu Scriptures

SPECIAL SESSION 19.1: 10:30] Abhijit Dixit, “A digitization process for Laukikanyāyas ...” Digital Sanskrit 10:45] Martin Gluckman, “A Review of the Work of the Sanskrit Research Institute, Auroville” buch Workshop, Part 1: 11:00] Venkata Subramanian, “Language Lab for Sanskrit” b202 Sanskrit Computational 11:15] H. Sumachaya, “Introduction to The Indic Text Analysis Program (ITAP)” ‡ Linguistics 11:30] Shivani V. & Swati Basapur, “साङ्गणिकपाळि (Computational Tools for Pali Language)” b204 11:45] Malhar Kulkarni, “Some New Computational Sanskrit Tools at IIT Bombay” Coordinator:Amba Kulkarni, 12pm] Amba Kulkarni & Sanjeev Panchal, “Samsaadhanii: A Parser and Generator for Sanskrit” Sanjeev Panchal

71 Wednesday | July 11 || 2-4pm Session 3.3

Room Location Section/ Theme 2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः SPECIAL PANEL 1: Jesse Knutson Robert P. Goldman Thomas Hunter Sally J. Sutherland Ādikāvyāni: Regional University of Hawai’i University of California, University of British Goldman Kāvya Rāmāyaṇas Berkeley Columbia University of California, in Early Medieval Berkeley buch South and Southeast The Grammar of 1 Asia Poetry and the Poetics Vālmīki’s Children: Commentary and Revamping the A103 of Grammar: The Adulation, Imitation Text-Building in the Old Rākṣasas: The Rākṣasas Organizer: Jesse Knutson Bhaṭṭikāvya in Early and Ethical Critique in Javanese Uttarakāṇḍa of Bhavabhūti’s Medieval India Poets of the Rāmakathā Mahāvīracarita

SPECIAL PANEL 4.1: Jonathan Edelmann Tomohiro Manabe Kiyokazu Okita Arun Brahmbhatt Introducing Bhāgavata University of Florida Japan Society for the Sophia University St. Lawrence University Purāṇa Commentaries: Promotion of Science Vaiṣṇava & Advaita Perspectives on the Making a Vaiṣṇava Rejecting Absolute Pratyakṣa: The buch The Three Interpretations Opening Verse from the Theologian: Monism: The “Manifest Form” 2 13th to 19th Centuries, Vaṃśīdharaśarma’s of the Word Dhīmahi: Commentaries in Swaminarayan b313 Madhusūdana Sarasvatī’s Part 1 Reading of of Madhva and Interpretations of Commentary on Bhāgavata Organizers: David Buchta Śrīdharasvāmin’s Purāṇa 1.1.1. Vijayadhvaja on Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.1.1 & Jonathan Edelmann Bhāvārthadīpikā Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1.1.1 S22.3 | Christèle Barois Nils Jacob Liersch Jason Birch Mark Singleton योगायुर्दौ - Yoga and University of Vienna Heidelberg University SOAS, Univ. of London SOAS, Univ. of London Āyurveda The Haṭhābhyāsa- The Haṭhābhyāsa- allard On a List of Sixty-Four The Gorakṣayogaśāstra: paddhati: A Manual paddhati in Relation to 3 forum Yoga Powers in Śaiva An Early Text of on the Practice of Purāṇic Literature Haṭhayoga Haṭhayoga Moderator: Dagmar Wujastyk

S14.8 | Taiken Kyuma Kuniko Hosono Katsunori Hirano Watanabe Masayoshi दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Mie University Nakamura Hajime Nakamura Hajime University of Tokyo Philosophy Eastern Institute Eastern Institute Vaiśeṣika/Nyāya buch On the Relationship Negation Square A Re-Examination Perceptibility of Time 4 b218 Between Dharma and Diagram in the of the Definition of in Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Mokṣa in the Tradition Nyāyavārttika- Universal in the Nyāya- Philosophy of the Vaiśeṣika School tātparyaṭīkā Vaiśeṣika Moderator: Nilanjan Das

S1.6 | Ruzana Pskhu Purvi D. Mahendra Shrikant Bahulkar Carmen Spiers वेदः - Veda Peoples’ Friendship Gujarat University Bhandarkar Oriental EPHE Atharvaveda & Around University of Russia Research Institute

buch The Place of Puruṣa- Elements of the From Myth to Ritual: New Finds From the 5 d201 Sūkta in Metaphysics Śramaṇa Tradition as Further Observations Atharvaveda Paippalāda Moderator: Georges-Jean of Pañcarātra and Found in the Vedas (With Special Reference Pinault Viśiṣṭādvaita to AVŚ 6.80)

S6.1 | Harunaga Isaacson Péter Dániel Szántó Tsunehiko Sugiki Aleksandra Wenta तंतविमर्श - Tantra University of Hamburg University of Oxford Hiroshima University University of Oxford Studies Buddhist Tantra Initiatory Ideals in New Sources for the The Structure and Magical Grimoire in the buch Tantric Buddhism: Saraha Corpus Meanings of the Vajrabhairavatantra 6 Abhayākaragupta on Heruka Maṇḍala in the d218 the Initiation of the Buddhist Ḍākārṇava Moderator: Michael Superior Student by the Scriptural Tradition Slouber Superior Master Session 3.3 Wednesday | July 11 || 2-4pm

Room Location Section/ Theme 2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S20.2 | Purnima Koul Shivani V Saraju Rath हस्तलेखवि煍ञनम् - University of Delhi Karnataka Sanskrit IIAS, Leiden Manuscriptology University w/ S. S. Nair buch The Origin and Date of The Development of the Bower Manuscript Tracing the Manuscript of Śāradā and Related 7 d219 Sarvapratyayamālā (The Scripts : Some Evidence Garland of All Affixes) Moderator: Nirmala From Manuscripts Kulkarni Through the Ages: A Historical Approach

S3.6 | Peter M. Scharf Yiming Shen Irawati Malhar Nandini Dilip Ghag व्याकरणम् - Vyākaraṇa IIIT Hyderabad, The University of Oxford Kulkarni IIT Bombay Sanskrit Library IIT Bombay Some Reflections on buch Which Comes First the Haribhāskara on the the Concept of Counter Coordination in Pāṇini’s Affix or the Base? The Paribhāṣā, “yadāgamās Example and the Metalangauge 8 b318 Translation of a Counter Case of Lyap tadguṇībhūtās Example Sentence in Moderator: George tadgrahaṇena gṛhyante” Cardona Vaiyākaraṇa-siddhānta- kaumudī

S2.7 | Smitha Sabu Shyam Sundar Sharma Rekha Singh भाषाशास्त्रम् - Linguistics Government University of Delhi University of Delhi Sanskrit College, buch Thiruvananthapuram 9 b211 Positive and Negative ’s Theory of The Problem of Moderator: Jared Klein Poles of Meaning Verbal Roots Substratum of Linguistic Expectancy

S8.8 | Vidya Shimladka Padmaja Venkatesh Parimal Phadke Deepak Paramashivan काव्यमल敍करश्च - Poetry, Nrithyaloka Aatmalaya Academy of Savitribai Phule Pune University of Alberta Drama and Art and Culture University Aesthetics The Deśī Dance Music of India and buch Tradition: Is ‘Deśī’ Sanskrit for a Dance Muḍḍupa Cāris and Arabia - Interactions and 10 a Misnomer in the Repertoire Their Link with the Influences: A Study Based d222 on Paṇḍarīka Viṭṭhala’s Present Scenario of Footwork Technique of Rāgamālā, Rāgamañjarī and Moderator: Mandakranta Indian Classical Dance? Bharatanāṭyam Bose Ṣaḍrāgacandrodayaḥ from the 16th Century S10.2 | James B. Apple Cristina Pecchia Vibha Aggarwal Dipen Barua बौदवि饍य - Buddhist University of Calgary Austrian Academy of Kurukshetra University University of Hong Kong Studies Sciences The Stairway of Correct The Omniscient Contribution of Ratnakīrti A Linguistic Approach buch Conventional Reality: Buddha: Dharmakīrti’s to Buddhist Epistemology to the Use of the Significant Variant and Metaphysics (with 11 Remarks Terms Bhavaṅga and d322 Readings in Candrakīrti’s Special Reference to His Moderator: Charles Madhyamakāvatāra (6.79) Work Īśvarasādhana- Bhavaṅga-Citta in the DiSimone dūṣaṇam) Theory of Continuity of Personality SPECIAL SESSION 19.2: 2:00] Gérard Huet, “Experiments with a Corpus Manager” Digital Sanskrit Workshop, 2:15] Yigal Bronner, “Hands-on with the PANDiT project” buch Part 2: Software Tools for the 2:30] Michael Willis & Daniel Balogh, “Introduction to Siddham” ‡ b202 Digital Humanities 2:45] Stefan Baums, “The Gandhari.org Corpus of Gāndhārī Texts” b204 3:00] Ian McCrabb & Andrea Schlosser, “READ” Coordinators: Charles Li & Timothy 3:15] Timothy Bellefleur, Charles Li, & Adheesh Sathaye, “The Vetāla Project” Bellefleur

73 Wednesday | July 11 || 4.30-6pm Session 3.4

Section/ Theme Room Location 4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः KEYNOTE FRENCH Lyne Bansat-Boudon, École Pratique des Hautes Études LECTURE, in Registres de la théâtralité indienne : Homage to André le théâtre comme pratique religieuse buch Padoux (Registers of Indian Theatricality: Theatre as Religious Practice) 1 a103 to be followed by an homage to Prof. André Padoux, Lyne Bansat-Boudon, w/ with Gavin Flood (NUS, Singapore, Oxford)

SPECIAL SESSION 20: ROUNDTABLE: Haṭhābhyāsa- Haṭhābhyāsa-paddhati: A Precursor of Modern Yoga paddhati: A Precursor Practice allard of Modern Yoga Participants: 2 forum Practice Jason Birch, Mark Singleton, James Mallinson (SOAS, University of London) Organizers: Jason Birch & Jacqueline Hargreaves Jacqueline Hargreaves

SPECIAL PANEL 4.2: David Buchta Ravi M. Gupta Discussion Introducing Bhāgavata Brown University Utah State University Purāṇa Commentaries: Vaiṣṇava & Advaita Tradition Beyond “Bait for the Advaitins”: buch Perspectives on Sub-Commentaries: The Enigmatic Theology the Opening Verse Influence and of Śrīdhara Svāmī in his 3 b313 from the 13th to 19th Innovation in Baladeva Commentary on the Centuries, Part 2 Vidyābhūṣaṇa’s Bhāgavata Purāṇa Commentary on Organizers: David Buchta & Jonathan Edelmann Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.1.1 S14.9 | Mansi Sharma V. Balarama Murty Ithamar Theodor दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Jawaharlal Nehru w/ V. Kutumba Sastry University of Haifa Philosophy University Bhagavad-gītā (joint buch Semantics of Yoga: Dharma in the session with Section 21) श्मदगव饍गताया ं 4 b218 With Special Reference Bhagavad Gītā वस्थ्यवि煍ञनम् to the Bhagavadgītā

Moderator: Arvind Sharma

S6.2 | Shaman Hatley Advaitavadini Kaul Saranathan Sasikala तंतविमर्श - Tantra University of IGNCA University of Madras Studies Massachusetts

buch Observations on Meter The Tradition of Sun From Text to 5 d218 in Early Śaiva Worship in Kashmir Kriyāvidhi: Relating Lalitopākhyāna with the Moderator: Madhu Khanna Navāvaraṇapūjā

74 Session 3.4 Wednesday | July 11 || 4.30-6pm

Room Location Section/ Theme 4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S20.3 | Nrusingha Charan Kar Shweta Jejurkar Narasingha Panda हस्तलेखवि煍ञनम् - Hankuk University of Maharaja Silpakorn University Manuscriptology Foreign Studies University of Baroda

buch Creation of National Critical Evaluation of Indian Traditional 6 Manuscript Database and Saṅgīta-Sāroddharaḥ Manuscript Writing: d219 Its Impediments: A Critical and Saṅgītopanisat- Roles & Functions of the Moderator: Shweta Jejurkar Perspective, with Special Sāroddharaḥ Scribe: A Critique Reference to the National Mission for Manuscripts S19.1 | Sanjeev Panchal Amrith Krishna Brendan Gillon सं啃तं वि煍ञनतान्त्रिकी University of Hyderabad IIT Kharagpur McGill University च - Computational w/ A. Kulkarni w/ B.P. Majumder, P. Goyal Sanskrit & Digital buch Humanities Yogyatā as an Absence An “Ekalavya” Approach Word 7 B211 of Non-Congruity to Learning Context Complementation in Free Grammar Rules for Sanskrit Treated by a Moderator: Gérard Huet Sanskrit Using Adaptor Modest Generalization Grammar of Categorial Grammar

S3.7 | Ankit J. Raval Athira Jathavedan Yogesh N. Pandya व्याकरणम् - Vyākaraṇa Shree Somnath Sanskrit Sree Sankaracharya Darshanam Sanskrit University University of Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya

buch Syntax in Nāṭyaśāstra: इतिहाससाक्भूतानि व्याकरणोदाहरणकाव्येषु 8 b318 Some Resemblances पाणिनिसू配रणि With the Aṣṭādhyāyī लट्लकारप्रयोगवैविधम् Moderator: Malhar Kulkarni

S8.9 | Sundari Siddhartha Radhika Koul Ramakrishna काव्यमल敍करश्च - Poetry, Kuppuswami Sastri Stanford University Pejathaya Drama and Research Institute Chinmaya Aesthetics Meaning and Aesthetic Vishwavidyapeeth buch A Critical Study of Effect in Poetry: A भासनाटकच啍र थताना ं 9 d222 the Manuscript, Conversation Between वाचोयु啍तना ं समी啍� Kandarpadarpaṇa Bhāṇa Indian Aestheticians Moderator: Lidia Wojtczak सक쥍ꤿतै셁दाहरणस्ताै सा ं of Lokanāthādhvarin and Modern Literary Critics प्रस्तुतिश्च

S10.3 | Prem Raj Neupane Kazuho Yamasaki Pranali Waingankar बौदवि饍य - Buddhist Nepal Sanskrit University Nakamura Hajime Savitribai Phule Pune Studies Eastern Institute University

buch The Adoption and On Ornaments of A Study of the 10 d322 Adaptation of Sanskrit Speech in Kṣemendra’s Manuscript Material of in Buddhist Literature Buddhist Legends the Vīrakuśāvadāna Moderator: Lata Deokar

Evening Public Event Where & When: cultural event: Frederic Wood ।। Dakṣiṇāpatha: Theatre ദക്ഷിണാപഥ 6354 Crescent Rd. The Classical Music & Dance of South India www.mandalarts.ca featuring: Padma Sugavanam, Mandala Arts, & Sanskriti 7.30-10pm 75 Thursday | July 12 || 8-10am Session 4.1

Room Location Section/ Theme 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः SPECIAL PANEL 6.1: Deven Patel Chiara Livio Csaba Dezső Literary Univ. of Pennsylvania Sapienza Univ., Rome Eötvös Loránd University Commentaries and the Intellectual Life Commentary as Untangling the “galitavayasām Ikṣvākūnām buch Metalinguistic Mahākāvya: Jonarāja’s idaṃ hi kulavratam”: of South Asia, Part 1 The Commentators’ Communication Commentaries of 1 a104 Interpretations of the Bhāravi’s Kirātārjunīya Passages Describing the Organizers: Elisa Ganser & and Maṅkha’s Daniele Cuneo Renunciation of Kings in Śrīkaṇṭhacarita the Raghuvaṃśa

SPECIAL PANEL 7: Andrew Ollett Patrick Cummins Manasicha Lawrence McCrea Mīmāṃsā Beyond Harvard University Cornell University Akepiyapornchai Cornell University the Yāgaśālā Cornell University Pragmatics and Literary The Logic of buch Interpretation Grammatical Viśiṣṭādvaita Quality and 2 b313 Compounds: What’s Vedānta Application Qualification in 16th at Stake Over Samāsas of Mīmāṃsā Century Vedānta and Its Organizer: Manasicha in Gaṅgeśa’s Theory of Hermeneutics in Mīmāṃsā Roots Akepiyapornchai Language? Doctrinal Validation

S22.4 | Lubomír Ondračka Mahabaleshwara Zoë Slatoff योगायुर्दौ - Yoga and Charles University Shivarama Lancaster University Āyurveda Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthanam allard 3 forum Prognostication by आत्मैकतवि煍ञनमेव योगः, Beyond the Body: Yoga Breath in Yoga: Analysis and Advaita Vedānta in Moderator: Dominik वेदः एव योगस मूलग्रन्थः, of the Vasiṣṭhasaṃhitā the Aparokṣānubhūti Wujastyk (Yogakāṇḍa, Chapter 7) ऋषयः एव योगिनः

S14.10 | Harald Wiese Pawan Kumar Prabhawati Chowdhary दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Leipzig University Upadhyay Jainarain Vyas University Philosophy University of Delhi Upaniṣads & Vedānta buch Why Prāṇa Is the Most Nature of Brahman: 啍षयन् चास कर्मणि’ इत्यस Excellent Among the An Analysis of 4 b218 समीक्म् Vital Functions, or the Suṣupti and Turiya in Moderator: Kengo Shapley Value in the Maṇdukyakārikā Harimoto Upaniṣads

S6.3 | Yohei Kawajiri Jonathan Duquette Gowri T. Raghavendran तंतविमर्श - Tantra Chikushi Jogakuen University of Oxford Ethiraj College for Studies University Women

buch On the Transmission Śākta and Pratyabhijñā Upāyas for Eternal Bliss 5 d201 of the Pratyabhijñā to Sources in Vīraśaiva in Traita Philosophy South India Vedānta Moderator: Judit Törzsök

S16.2 | Bhakti Mamtora Jamal A. Jones सं啃तं प्रदेशभाषाश्च - University of Florida University of California Sanskrit & Regional Languages, (& buch Southeast Asia) Vernacular to Sanskrit: Cāṭuprabandha 6 d221 An Inquiry Into the and Theorization of Enduring Significance Regional Genres in Moderator: Robert of Sanskrit in 20th- Sanskrit Poetics Zydenbos Century Western India Session 4.1 Thursday | July 12 || 8-10am

Room Location Section/ Theme 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S19.2 | Samir Sohoni Sai Susarla Balasubramanian Jayashree Gajjam सं啃तं वि煍ञनतान्त्रिकी IIT Bombay MIT-ADT University Ramakrishnan IIT Bombay च - Computational w/ T. M. Rao, S. Susarla w/ D. Kanojia, M. Kulkarni Sanskrit & Digital Modeling the buch Humanities PAIAS: Panini Phonology of New Vistas to Study 7 d307 A Functional Core Ashtadhyayi Interpreter Consonant Duplication Bhartṛhari: Cognitive for Computational as a Service and Allied Changes in Natural Language Moderator: Peter M. Scharf Aṣṭādhyāyī the Recitation of Tamil Processing (NLP) Taittirīyaka-S

S3.8 | Paolo Visigalli Somveer Beatrice Bonino Mohini Arya व्याकरणम् - Vyākaraṇa Shanghai Normal/New University of Delhi Université Sorbonne University of Delhi York Univ.,Shanghai Nouvelle - Paris 3 The Verbal Root Bhū buch Kasmāt in Nirukta: in the Mādhavīya- मीमांसाव्याकरणयोः 8 b310 From Which Root? dhātuvṛtti of Sāyaṇa : उतरपाणिनीयव्याकरण- Why? Whence? Or सम्बꅍधनुशीलनम् Problems and Solutions सम्प्रदायेषु कृत्प्रत्ययाना ं Moderator: Ashok Aklujkar on the Purpose(s) of of Certain Traditional स셂पवि�लषणम् Yāska’s Etymologizing Grammatical Questions

S5.2 | Stuart Sarbacker Sanne Mersch Mrunal Patki पुराणानि - Purāṇas Oregon State University Leiden University Deccan College PGRI

Tying of Maṇi and buch Viṣṇudharmottara 9 d204 The Yoga of the Śiva Union With Śiva, Purāṇa (Ch. 2.109) Purāṇa Viṣṇu’s Ultimate Goal? Moderator: Sven Sellmer

S8.10 | Anil Pratap Giri Raj Kumar Mahajan Divya Mishra काव्यमल敍करश्च - Poetry, Pondicherry University Panjab University University of Delhi Drama and Aesthetics buch Epistemology of Bhavabhūti’s Nature Karuṇa Rasa in the 10 d314 Vibhāva in the Light of Description and Its Poetry of Kālidāsa and Characteristics in Bhavabhūti: Its Social Moderator: Melinda Fodor Navya-Nyāya Language and Methodology Uttararāmacarita Implication

S10.4 | Welipitiye Indananda Serena Saccone Hidenori Sakuma Donna Dorsey बौदवि饍य - Buddhist Bhiksu University of Sri Austrian Academy of Tsukuba University MacEwan University Studies Lanka Sciences Giving by Giving buch The Importance of the Nothing: The Practice Was Sthiramati Upekṣā in Santideva’s Suhṛllekha of Nāgārjuna of the Perfections in of Valabhī the Śikṣāsamuccaya and 11 d313 Asaṅga and Kamalaśīla’s as a Buddhist Same Person as Bodhicaryāvatāra Moderator: James B. Apple Commentaries on Dharmakāvya the Vajracchedikā the Commentator Prajñāpāramitā Sthiramati?

Here on the shore of the Pacific ocean, शानसमुदतीरेऽमन् शैलपार्तसीमतः । bordering on the Rocky Mountains, in an area earlier discovered by the English captain आङ्㔲नौकाधिपत्याद्य पूर् प्रद셍शते सले ॥ (George Vancouver) & others, हिरण्यज्वरपु�यंट वि饍यलयादिविश्ता । having grown on account of gold-fever, (now) famous on account of its universities, होलꅍ饍देोद्भवाख्यात् वꅍकुर् शोभते सदा ॥ with a name originating from Holland (Van Coevorden >> Vancouver), – यन् बन् this (city of) Vancouver is forever beautiful... Jan Houben 77 Thursday | July 12 || 10.30-12.30pm Session 4.2

Room Location Section/ Theme 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः SPECIAL PANEL 6.2: Elisa Ganser & Daniele Luther Obrock Heike Oberlin P. Kunjunny Literary Cuneo University of Toronto University of Tübingen Dharmarajan Commentaries and Univ. of Zürich/ Paris III Sree Sankaracharya the Intellectual Life University of Sanskrit buch of South Asia Stage Philology: Nāṭaka as Śāstra: Commentaries in the Nastikanindā in 1 a104 Part 2 Between Theory and Over (and Under) South Indian Sanskrit Kūṭiyāṭṭam Stage Practice in Nāṭaka- Interpreting Theatre Tradition Manuals Organizers: Elisa Ganser & Commentaries From Kūṭiyāṭṭam: A Medieval Daniele Cuneo Bhavabhūti Kerala Integration Project?

SPECIAL PANEL 18: Peter M. Scharf Dominik Wujastyk Yigal Bronner Discussion Sanskrit Corpus IIT Hyderabad, The University of Alberta The Hebrew University of Management Sanskrit Library Jerusalem

buch TEITagger of the The SARIT Digital The Prosopographical 2 b313 Sanskrit Library Library Database for Indic Texts Organizers: Amba Kulkarni, Gérard Huet

S22.5 | Karen O’Brien-Kop Karl-Stéphan Laura von Ostrowski योगायुर्दौ - Yoga and SOAS, Univ. of London Bouthillette Ludwig Maximilian Āyurveda Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich University of Munich allard Pratipakṣabhāvanā: Reviewing the 3 forum Yoga as the Path of “A Church by Daylight”: Haṭhayogic Content in Cultivation of the Reviewing the Position the Sarvasiddhānta- Moderator: Philipp Maas Counterstates of Yoga in Early Indian saṅgraha Section on Doxography Patañjali

S14.11 | Manjushree Hedge Gavish Bhagirath Trivedi दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Amrita Vishwa University of Delhi Darshanam Sanskrit Philosophy Vidyapeetham Mahavidyalaya Later Philosophers buch Analysis of प्रकाशानन्दस व्य啍त配व द्वितीयव्याꥍतिस्셂पे 4 b218 Suṣupti Acc. To Śri Satchidānandendra कृतितञ्च जगदीशगदाधरयोः सा륍य Moderator: Sthaneshwar Sarasvatī Timalsina वैषमञ्च

S1.7 | Hans Henrich Hock Bhagyalata Pataskar Mirela Stosic Sarbani Ganguli वेदः - Veda University of Illinois at Vaidika Samshodhana University of Toronto Jadavpur University Grammar & Urbana–Champaign Mandala Manuscripts, buch Upaniṣads Vedic-Prose Ta- A Critical Analysis of the The Aesthetics of the Social Elements in the 5 d201 Participles With Manuscript Padamuṣṭi Early Upaniṣads Kaṭhopaniṣad Genitive Agents Moderator: Joanna Revisited Jurewicz

S16.3 | Robert Jan Zydenbos Timothy Lorndale Maithili Thayanithy सं啃तं प्रदेशभाषाश्च - Ludwig Maximilian Univ. of Pennsylvania Sanskrit & Regional University of Munich Languages, (& From Satyarādheya Karṇa in Sanskrit and buch Southeast Asia) Kannada and the to Nanniyoḷ Tamil Texts 6 d221 Language of the Gods: Inasutan: Karṇa’s A Joyful and Difficult Characterization in Moderator: Andrea Acri Relationship the Old Kannada Mahābhāratas Session 4.2 Thursday | July 12 || 10.30-12.30pm

Room Location Section/ Theme 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S7.1 | Chinmay D. Goswami Kaushal Panwar Sharda Sharma Jagadish Sarma विधनु�ठनविमर्श - Ritual Veer Narmad South University of Delhi University of Delhi Gauhati University Studies Gujarat University w/ N. Kumar, M. Kumar (Joint Session with buch Section 13) The Ritualization of Right of Śūdras to विवाहसंकरे विहिताना ं Practice of Samskaras in 7 b310 Divine Love in the Acquire Brahmavidyā: Assam, a North-Eastern Puṣṭīmārga by Śrī An Analysis विविधक्याणा ं मह配व Part of India: A Note Moderator: Anne Keßler- Vallabhācarya सन्देशश्च Persaud

S5.3 | Anusha S. Rao Raj Balkaran Christopher Austin Elizabeth Rohlman पुराणानि - Purāṇas University of Calgary University of Toronto Dalhousie University University of Calgary

Talking to Tradition: Birdcalls Across Itihāsa: Kṛṣṇa’s Son Pradyumna Quests and Questioning buch A Study of Śukasaptati How Avian Expositions as Kāmadeva and in the Markāṇḍeya 8 d204 and the Purāṇas in the Mārkaṇḍeya Māyin in the Viṣṇu, Purāṇa: Intertextual Purāṇa Answer an Epic Bhāgavata and Frames and the Moderator: Noor van Riddle Brahmavaivarta Purāṇas Boundaries of Genre Brussel

S8.11 | Bijoya Goswami Dolores Pizarro Voddugalaiah Girish Shikha Rajpurohit काव्यमल敍करश्च - Poetry, Jadavpur University Minakakis Chandra Jawaharlal Nehru Drama and Karnataka Sanskrit University Aesthetics University buch The Aesthetic Aspects Similar to Him With Madhurāvijayam The Concept of 9 d314 of the Lalitavistara the Lotus Navel: Mahākāvya of Sahṛdaya: A Synthesis Transformation in the Gaṅgādevī : A Literary of Abhinavagupta’s Moderator: Iris Iran Āryāsaptaśatī Analysis Philosophy and Farkhondeh Aesthetics

S10.5 | Mark Allon Stefan Baums Richard Salomon Andrea Schlosser बौदवि饍य - Buddhist University of Sydney Ludwig Maximilian University of Washington Ludwig Maximilian Studies University of Munich University of Munich

buch Uddānas in Early The Gāndhārī A Previously Unknown Just One Step: On the 10 d313 Buddhist Texts: Their Arthapada in Biography of the Worship of Buddhas in Origin, Function, and Commentaries and a Buddha in Gāndhārī Gandhāra Moderator: Jason Neelis Importance New Manuscript

वन-पूर्-कु ब ेर - नामकं पुरमस्त्यरदिग픿भूषणम् । मगरिवारिधिसंनिधौ थतं सकलानन्दकरं सुविश्तम् ।। रमया रमतेऽत भारती सुमनोभि: समुपासिता सदा । विदषु ामिह सङ्गमोऽस्तु वः सुखदः सं啃तवाग픿वर्नः ।। - माधव देशपांडे

79 Thursday | July 12 || 2-4pm Session 4.3

Room Location Section/ Theme 2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः SPECIAL PANEL 17.1: Margi Madhu Chakyar & the Nepathya Ensemble Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Living Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady Sanskrit Theater in the Kerala Tradition, Kūṭiyāṭṭam, the Play and the Performance: A Lecture-Demonstration 1 wood Part 1 (to be followed by an open discussion) Organizers: Heike Oberlin, Elisa Ganser, Elena Mucciarelli SPECIAL PANEL 8: Bill Mak Marko Geslani Koji Kumagai Discussion Research on the Kyoto University Emory University International College for Gārgīyajyotiṣa - Postgraduate Buddhist Composition and Studies (Tokyo) buch Transmission Planetary Science and The Formation of the The Place of Utpāta- 2 d314 Time-Reckoning in the Indradhvaja Ceremony, Lakṣaṇa (Chapter 39 Gārgīyajyotiṣa With Reference to of Gārgīyajyotiṣa) in Organizer: Bill Mak Gārgīyajyotiṣa 45 Divination Literature

S22.6 | Gerald Penn Gudrun Melzer Dagmar Wujastyk Dominik Wujastyk योगायुर्दौ - Yoga and University of Toronto Ludwig Maximilian University of Alberta University of Alberta Āyurveda University of Munich

allard Yoga, Vedānta and Fragments of Medical On Medicine and What Is “Vimāna” in 3 forum South India Texts From Buddhist Alchemy in the the Compendium of Manuscript Finds Kalyāṇakāraka Caraka? Moderator: Philipp Maas

S14.12 | Shrinivasa Varakhedi Shyam Ranganathan Purushottama Andrew J. Nicholson दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Kavikulaguru Kalidasa York University Bilimoria SUNY, Stony Brook Philosophy Sanskrit University GTU/Univ. of California, Topics in Philosophy Berkeley buch Do Prior Commitments Interpretation, Making Space for God: 4 b218 of Philosophers to Their Explication and the Epic and Ethics: Theism, Anti-Theism, Ontological Categories Determination of Matilal’s Dogma of and Devotion in Moderator: Paolo Magnone Govern Epistemology in Philosophical Concepts Dharma Ethic Vedānta Cosmologies Indian Philosophies? Expressed in Sanskrit

S1.8 | Barbora Sojková Ambarish Khare N. K. Sundareswaran Chisei Oshima वेदः - Veda University of Oxford Tilak Maharashtra University of Calicut University of Tokyo Vedic Ritual Vidyapeeth

buch Fertility in Vedic Apropos the The Concept of Pañca On Smell or Incense in 5 d201 Ritual: Towards a Piṇḍapitṛyajña With Mahāyajña: Origin and the Vedic Ritual New Interpretation of Special Reference to the Transformation Moderator: Kyoko Amano Ucchiṣṭa Āpastamba Śrautasūtra

S15.1 | Ferenc Ruzsa Basile Leclère James McHugh इतिहासः कलाः Université de Lausanne Eötvös Loránd University Université Jean Moulin University of Southern थपत्यमभिलेखशास्त्रं Lyon 3 California च - History, Art Plagues and Brahmins: buch & Architecture, Did a Combination The Old Capital of A Controversy Sugarcane-Based 6 b313 Epigraphy of Epidemics and the Pāṇḍyas: The Under Debate: On Liquor in Sanskrit Texts Ideology Empty India’s Coherence of the the Historicity of Moderator: Libbie Mills Cities and Buddhism’s Legends Kumudacandra’s Defeat Monasteries? at the Caulukya Court Session 4.3 Thursday | July 12 ||2-4pm

Room Location Section/ Theme 2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S23.1 | Virendra K. Alankar Sushma Alankar Pushpinder Joshi Mohammad Idris सं啃तं प祍जबप्रदेशश्च - Panjab University D.A.V. College Punjabi University Lourey Sanskrit and the Punjabi University Panjab The Glorious Past of buch Sanskrit Language: 7 d221 वतꅍत्र्यरपंजाबप्रदेशस प祍जबीभाषायाः Studying the पंजाबप्रदेशस Contribution of Moderator: Virendra वेदाधयनेऽवदानम् सं啃तकाव्यावदानम् परिरक् े परिसंवर्ने च Educational Institutions Kumar Alankar सं啃तयादानम् in Punjab

S19.3 | Devaraj Adiga Nikhil Chaturvedi Shreevatsa सं啃तं वि煍ञनतान्त्रिकी IIT Bombay IIT Delhi Rajagopalan च - Computational w/ R. Garg Sanskrit & Digital buch Humanities Improving the A Tool for A User-Friendly Tool 8 d307 Learnability of Transliteration of for Metrical Analysis of Classifiers for Sanskrit Multilingual Sanskrit Sanskrit Verse Moderator: Amba Kulkarni OCR Corrections Texts

S7.2 | Atsuko Izawa Anne Keßler-Persaud Shobhana Sharma U. K. V. Sarma विधनु�ठनविमर्श - Ritual International College for Heidelberg University Jawaharlal Nehru Amrita Vishwa Studies Postgraduate Buddhist University Vidyapeetham Studies buch Giving the Bride and Hindu Saṃskāras: An Overview of 9 b310 How Are Heads Binding the Organ of Ritual Practices Among Kāmyeṣṭis as Per Moderator: Chinmay Regarded in Funeral Thought: A Meaningful the Hindu ‘Dogras’ of Śrautasūtras With a Goswami Rites? Sequence of Rites Jammu Special Reference to Āyuṣkāmeṣṭi S5.4 | Sushma Jatoo Madhavi Narsalay Nicolas Dejenne Sudhir Kumar Lall पुराणानि - Purāṇas IGNCA University of Mumbai Université Sorbonne IGNCA Nouvelle - Paris 3

buch Mapping the Sacred The ‘Sthala’ Analysis of Analysis of a Group Investigating the Vitasta: A Study Based the Karavīra-Māhātmya of Sthala Māhātmyas Mārtaṇḍa Māhātmya of 10 Appended to the d204 on the Sthalapurāṇas Bhṛṅgīśa Samhitā Moderator: McComas Sahyādrikhaṇḍa, an Early Taylor Modern Regional Sanskrit Text From Western Deccan

S10.6 | Qian Lin Savita Chintaman Deo A. K. Chaubey P. V. Viswanath बौदवि饍य - Buddhist ICLP Academia Sinica Savitribai Phule Pune Rashtriya Sanskrit Pace University Studies University Sansthan Asset Markets, the How to Contemplate The Impact of Agency Problem buch “Internally” and Buddhism on the and Gifts to the Early अपोहविमर㔶: 11 d313 “Externally” in Conceptualization of Medieval Buddhist the Satipaṭṭhāna Wellbeing in the Field Sangha in India: Moderator: Mahesh Deokar Meditation? of Psychology Evidence From the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya

81 Thursday | July 12 || 4.30-6pm Session 4.4

Room Location Section/ Theme 4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः SPECIAL SESSION 17.2: ROUNTABLE DISCUSSION: Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Living Kūṭiyāṭṭam beyond Academics: Touching the Heart of Tradition Sanskrit Theater in featuring: Margi Madhu Chakyar, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady the Kerala Tradition, Heike Oberlin, University of Tübingen buch Part 2 Elisa Ganser, University of Zürich 1 a103 Elena Mucciarelli, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Mandakranta Bose, University of British Columbia Organizers: Heike Oberlin, C. Rajendran, Univ. of Calicut Elisa Ganser, Elena Lyne Bansat-Boudon, EPHE, Paris Mucciarelli Ma’ayan Nidbach, Hebrew University, Jerusalem SPECIAL PANEL 5: Marcus Schmücker Michael Williams Ajay Rao & Key Debates about Austrian Academy of Austrian Academy of Valerie Stoker Theology and Sciences Sciences University of Toronto Society in later buch Viśiṣṭādvaita- Do Knowledge (jñāna), Inference and God Polemics and 2 Vedānta and Effort (prayatna) and in Mādhva Vedānta: Social Hierarchies: d314 Will (icchā) Need a Body? Madhva Vedānta Vyāsatīrtha on Gaṅgeśa Viśiṣṭādvaita and Veṅkaṭanātha’s Concept of Organizer: Marcus God (Īśvara) at the Time of Dvaita Perspectives on Schmücker Creation (sṛṣṭikāle) the Apaśūdrādhikaraṇa S22.7 | Samina Pratibha Natalia Kanaeva योगायुर्दौ - Yoga and Pragya National Research Āyurveda SOAS, Univ. of London University Higher School of Economics allard Kāyakalpaprekṣā: The Paradigm of 3 forum Appropriation Medical Activity in of Āyurvedic Āyurveda as It Is in Moderator: Dagmar Elements in Prekṣā Caraka Saṃhitā Wujastyk Meditation S14.13 | Ganesh Singh Kaushik Amit Chaturvedi S. P. Thompson दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Pandit Ravishankar University of Hong Kong University of Oxford Philosophy Shukla University There’s Something Anubhūti-svarūpācārya’s Pramāṇas & Avidyā Contribution to Advaita buch तत्त्वदर㔶ने प्रमाणमहत्त्वम् Wrong With Raw on the Nature of Mokṣa, 4 Perception, After All: Māyā and Avidyā, With b218 Vyāsatīrtha’s Refutation Reference to Prakaṭārtha- of Nirvikalpaka vivaraṇam and the Moderator: Purushotama Pratyakṣa Ṭippaṇam on Māṇḍūkya- Bilimoria gauḍapādīya-kārikābhāṣya

S1.9 | Kyoko Amano Mau Das Gupta Naoko Nishimura Vedic Ritual Kyoto University University of Calcutta Tohoku University वेदः - Veda A Non-Śrauta Ritual in Similes and Metaphors Rites for a Delivery of buch the Oldest Yajurveda in the Agnihotra of Fetus and Afterbirth in 5 d201 Text: Maitrāyaṇī Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa Veda Saṃhitā IV 2 (Gonāmika Moderator: László Fórizs Chapter)

S15.2 | Dániel Balogh Arlo Griffiths Kunthea Chhom इतिहासः कलाः British Museum EFEO, Paris Ministry of Culture & थपत्यमभिलेखशास्त्रं w/ W. A. Southworth Fine Arts, Cambodia च - History, Art buch & Architecture, The Baḍoh-Paṭhārī The Foundation Stela Complementarity of 6 b313 Epigraphy Saptamātṛkā Panel of Śrī Pūrvāmaravāsinī: Sanskrit and Khmer Inscription A New Sanskrit Portions of an Eleventh- Moderator: Annette Inscription of Campā Century Inscription (K. Schmiedchen Found at Hà Trung 1198) Session 4.4 Thursday | July 12 || 4.30-6pm

Room Location Section/ Theme 4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S24.1 | Meenakshi Satoshi Ogura Kazuyo Sakaki सं啃तं पारसीवाङ्मयं च University of Delhi Tokyo University of Hokkaido Musashi Sanskrit and Indo- Foreign Studies Women’s Junior College Persian Culture Additional Annotations buch Āsurī Metres: In the on Indic/Kashmiri Philosophical Dialogue 7 Light of Vedic and Non-Muslim Cultures, Through Translation – d221 Avestan Traditions Traditions, and Brahmavidyā in Islamic Moderator: Luther Obrock Knowledge in the Terminology Persian Translation of the Rājataraṅgiṇīs S19.4 | Gérard Huet Timothy Bellefleur Anuja P. Ajotikar सं啃तं वि煍ञनतान्त्रिकी Inria Paris Center University of British Shan State Buddhist Univ. च - Computational w/ I. Lankri Columbia w/ T. Ajotikar, P. Scharf Sanskrit & Digital From the Web to the buch Humanities Preliminary Design Desktop: IIIF-Pack, a Enriching the Digital 8 d307 of a Sanskrit Corpus Document Format for Edition of the Manager Manuscripts Kāśikāvṛtti by Adding Moderator: Malhar Using Linked Data Variants From the Nyāsa Kulkarni Standards and the Padamañjarī S13.1 | Chinmayi H. Deodhar Vassiliki Deroukaki धर्विमर्श - Religious Univ. of Mumbai, Aristotle University of Studies Nalanda Nritya Kala Thessaloniki Vidyalaya buch The Festival of A Study on the Identity 9 b310 “Indradhvaja” Through and Meaning of the the Ages Vedic Ritual Drink Moderator: Travis Smith Soma

S5.5 | James F. Pierce Noor Van Brussel Anasuya Bhowmik पुराणानि - Purāṇas Univ. of Pennsylvania Ghent University The Asiatic Society buch Deceptive Gods and The Appeal of the Asura Critical Observations Virtuous Demons of the - Strategies of Affect in on the Daśagrīva- 10 d204 Devīpurāṇa: Morality at a Regional Purāṇa rākṣasavadhacaritam, the Fringe an Unpublished Moderator: Raj Balkaran Rāmopākhyāna

S10.7 | Jinghao Bai Yasutomo Nishi Jason Neelis बौदवि饍य - Buddhist Hiroshima University Chuo Academic Research Wilfrid Laurier University Studies Rehabilitation of Institute of Rissho Kosei- Devadatta: Does the kai buch Story of Devadatta 11 in the Saddharma- Research on Acintika-, Buddhist Literature, d313 puṇḍarīkasūtra Talk Acintiya-, and Acintya- Epigraphy, and Material Moderator: Richard About the Attainment in Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Culture in Gilgit Salomon of Buddhahood by the Wicked? Evening Public Event Where & When: public lectures: Frederic Wood Theatre Vikram Chandra, The Poetry of Amazement 6.30-7.30PM 6354 Crescent Rd. James Mallinson, Yoga: To Mortify or Cultivate the Body? 8-9.30PM 6.30-9.30pm

83 Friday | July 13 || 8-10am Session 5.1

Room Location Section/ Theme 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः SPECIAL EVENT: शास्त्रचर्चसदस् - Śāstracarcāsadas शास्त्रचर्चसदस् - Śāstracarcāsadas Facilitated by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan buch Coordinated by Manoj Kumar Mishra and Hari Dutt Sharma 1 a104 Coordinators: Manoj Kumar Mishra, Hari Dutt Sharma SPECIAL PANEL 14: Noemie Verdon Ołena Łucyszyna Hyoung Seok Ham Edeltraud Harzer The Yuktidīpikā Swiss National Science University of Humanities Kyushu University University of Texas at Forging a Place for Foundation and Economics in Lodz On Being the Orthodox Austin Sāṅkhya in Indian Ascetics: Capturing buch Intellectual History Early Sāṅkhya Teachers The Yuktidīpikā on the the Moment when Early Roots of 2 a202 Through the Lens of the Origin of the Vedas the Sāṅkhyas Began Propositional Yuktidīpikā to Reflect Seriously Perception from the Organizers: Hyoung Seok on Their Conflict with Ṣaṣṭitantra to the Ham & Noemie Verdon Vedic Authority Yuktidīpikā

S14.14 | Suguru Ishimura Taisei Shida Monika Nowakowska दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - University of Tsukuba University of Warsaw Philosophy Kumārila’s Theory of Editorial Notes on the Tracking Memory Usage buch Intrinsic Validity: The Ninth Chapter of the – Smṛti as (Individual) 3 b218 Suspicion (Āśaṅkā) Prakaraṇapañcikā Recollection and Smṛti of Invalidity and the as (Collective) Memory Moderator: Piotr Absence of a Cognition in Kumārila’s Mīmāṃsā Balcerowicz (Ajñāna)

S1.10 | Ramaiya Balachandra Mugdha Gadgil Neelima Thatte वेदः - Veda Savitribai Phule Pune Tilak Maharashtra Vedas - General University Vidyapeeth

buch The Vedic View of the Epithets of Waters in Thirty-Three Gods: Who 4 d201 Origin and Nature of Tradition of Vedic Ritual Are They? the Universe Moderator: Mau Das Gupta

84 Session 5.1 Friday | July 13 || 8-10am

Room Location Section/ Theme 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S6.4 | Judit Törzsök Madhu Khanna Mrinal Kaul Jason Schwartz तंतविमर्श - Tantra Université Charles-de- Jamia Millia Islamia Manipal Centre for University of California, Studies Gaulle Lille III Philosophy & Humanities Santa Barbara

buch How Śāktism Began The Making of Tantric Goddess as “Reflection” Whatever He Speaks 5 Rādhā: A Reading From in Abhinavagupta Becomes Mantra: The d316 the Śrīkṛṣṇayāmala Evidence for the Śākta Moderator: Michael Transmissions Among Slouber the Kālamukhas of the Atimārga S15.3 | Ganga Jee Prasad Oli Libbie Mills Sujatha Mohan इतिहासः कलाः Tribhuvan University University of Toronto Dr. MGR Janaki College of थपत्यमभिलेखशास्त्रं Arts & Science for Women च - History, Art buch & Architecture, A Short Analytical Rhythm in Building The Influence of 6 d218 Epigraphy Study of Vāstuśāstra Nāṭyaśāstra in the Karaṇa Sculptures Moderator: Arlo Griffiths

S8.12 | Pokhraj Chakraborty Arjun Bharadwaj Shankarji Jha Timothy C. Cahill काव्यमल敍करश्च - Poetry, Gurudas College Amrita Vishwa Panjab University Loyola University New Drama and Vidyapeetham Orleans Aesthetics काकु व啍र啍तरल敍कर셁पेण Universality of the Tenets buch वकरणीया न वेति Piquant Views of On the Textual History of Nāṭyaśāstra: An Analysis Contemporary Thinkers of the Bhāminīvilāsa 7 d322 अल敍करशास्त्रोकदिशा in Terms of Applicability on Sanskrit Poetics With Reference to the Moderator: Daniele Cuneo to Shakespearean Plays काकु व啍र啍रल敍त करतविवेचनं Paṇḍitarājaśataka वाचिकाभिनये उपयोगनिर्धरणं With Special Reference to Hamlet च।

85 Friday | July 13 || 10.30-12.30pm Session 5.2

Room Location Section/ Theme 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः कविसमवायः - कविसमवायः - Kavisamavāya Kavisamavāyaḥ Facilitated by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan buch Coordinated by Manoj Kumar Mishra and Hari Dutt Sharma 1 a104 Coordinators: Manoj Kumar Mishra, Hari Dutt Sharma SPECIAL PANEL 3: Harunaga Isaacson Kengo Harimoto Kei Kataoka Alex Watson Binding Liberation: University of Hamburg Mahidol University Kyushu University Ashoka University A Roundtable around the Idea Keynote Speech on Denying Saṃsāra in the Jayanta on Kumārila’s Some Reflections about buch of Liberation in Liberation First Place View of Liberation the Diversity of Views 2 a202 Sanskrit Culture Concerning Liberation and How to Classify Organizer: Kengo Harimoto Commentators: Yuko Yokochi, Those Views Somadeva Vasudeva

S14.15 | Kaushlendra Tripathy Rakesh Kumar Vijay Laxmi Anita Rajpal दर㔶नानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Banaras Hindu Jawaharlal Nehru CCS University University of Delhi Philosophy University University Darśanas buch मीमांसादर㔶ने ततचिन्मणौ व्याप्ते: कर् कर्मायश्च ꅍययवैशेषिक-दर㔶नयोः 3 b218 प्रमाणमीमांसाया: विचार: स셂पम् योगदर㔶नगीतासन्दर् लौकिकꅍययाना ं Moderator: Kashinath शिक्प्रविधि셂पेण प्रयोगः Nyaupane

S1.11 | Vijay Shankar Dwivedi Usha Kiran Yadav Brahmadev वेदः - Veda University of Delhi SMM Government Girls Gurukul Kangri Vedas-General PG College Vishwavidyalaya

buch वेदेषु ऋतानृतयोर्म्बन वेदयायने नि셁क् आधुनिककाले 4 d201 विमर्श भूमिका वैदिकशि啍�व्यवथयाः Moderator: Bhagyalata प्रासङ्गिकता Pataskar

S6.5 | Patricia Sauthoff S. A. S. Sarma Jung-Lan Bang Anil Kumar तंतविमर्श - Tantra SOAS Univ. of London EFEO, Pondicherry University of Hamburg Jawaharlal Nehru Studies University

buch Visualizing Protection: Kerala Ritual Manuals Stunning Bonds अथर्वेदीयाभिचारकर्मण ं 5 d316 The Iconography of and the Bali-Offering (Pāśastobha) of the the Divine in the Netra Tantrasadbhāva प्रकृतिस्तेषा ं Moderator: Mrinal Kaul Tantra सामाजिकसंदर㔶श्च

86 Session 5.2 Friday | July 13 || 10.30-12.30pm

Room Location Section/ Theme 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm क啍� थनम् विभागः/विषयः S15.4 | Elizabeth Ann Cecil Suchandra Ghosh Cristina Bignami Annette Schmiedchen इतिहासः कलाः Leiden University University of Calcutta University of Tübingen Humboldt University थपत्यमभिलेखशास्त्रं w/ E. Mucciarelli च - History, Art Columns in Context: The Valkha Kingdom: Temple Colleges buch & Architecture, Monumental A Socio-Religious Centre and Peripheries (Maṭha): Epigraphic Epigraphy 6 d218 Inscriptions and Study from a Hoard of Through Temples and Evidence for the Landscapes of Memory Copper-Plates (4th –5th Inscriptions in Medieval Patronage of Religious Moderator: Anna Slaczka in Early India Cent. C.E.) Karnataka Institutions

S12.2 | Gautam Naunihal Brindaban Bihari Das Mukta Biswas Avni Chag वैष्णवमतं शैवमतं च - Dr. Harisingh Gour Sri Sri Dhananjoy Das Gauhati University SOAS Univ. of London Vaiṣṇavism and University Kathiababa Charitable Śaivism Trust Reconfiguring buch आराधिकाऽऽरा鵍य च Importance of Srī A Comparative Note on Scripture: The 7 d219 Rādhā in Nimbārka the Concept of Absolute Vaiṣṇava Nuances of श्राधा Philosophy as Perceived by the Svāminārāyaṇa Moderator: David Buchta Nimbārka and Śrīpati Sampradāya’s Redacted Śikṣāpatrī

S13.3 | James Michael Madaio Oscar Figueroa Travis L. Smith Shubham Arora धर्विमर्श - Religious Oriental Institute of the National Autonomous Seoul National University Nalanda University Studies Academy of Sciences of University of Mexico the Czech Republic In Conversation buch The Narrative Shape The Secular and Iti Vātsyāyanaḥ: Dharma With Padmaśrī’s 8 d317 of Orthopraxy: the Religious and the Moral Authority Nāgarasarvasvam: Advaita Vedāntin in Kṣemendra’s of the Teacher in the An Account of Moderator: Christopher Renunciates at the Early Samayamātṛkā Kāmasūtra Intertextuality With Austin Vijayanagara Kingdom Annotated Translations

S8.13 | James Reich Lidia Wojtczak Prabha Shankar Chettiarthodi काव्यमल敍करश्च - Poetry, Pace University SOAS Univ. of London Dwivedi Rajendran Drama and IIT Tirupati University of Calicut Aesthetics buch Poetry and the Play Rītir Ātmā Kāvyasya: Beyond Text and Mahimabhaṭṭa’s 9 d322 of the Goddess What Is “Literary Style” Textuality: Anumāna as Epistemology: in Jayaratha’s in Sanskrit Poetics? a Post-Transformational The History and Moderator: Daniele Cuneo Alaṃkāravimarśinī Agenda for a Theory of Significance of the Poetry Threefold Pramāṇas

closing sessions IASS General Assembly 2-4pm Frederic Wood Theatre, 6354 Crescent Rd.

All-Conference Banquet The Great Hall at the Nest Student Building, 6133 6-9pm University Blvd. Featuring: An after-dinner talk by Gary Tubb, University of Chicago

87 88 Index of Delegates

VANCOUVER 2018

THE 17TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE INDEX of PRESENTERS Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time Blinderman, Radha Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 09:00

Achar, B. N. Narahari University of Memphis (Memphis, TN, USA) Monday, 14:30 Bonino, Beatrice Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Thursday, 09:00

Acharya, Sanu Babu Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu, Nepal) Tuesday, 17:30 Bouthillette, Karl-Stéphan Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Thursday, 11:00

Acri, Andrea EPHE (Paris, France) Tuesday, 17:30 Brahmadev Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya (Haridwar, UK, India) Friday, 11:30

Adhikari, Tarak Nath Rabindra Bharati University (Kolkata, WB, India) Tuesday, 16:30 Brahmbhatt, Arun St. Lawrence University (New York, NY, USA) Wednesday, 15:30

Adiga, Devaraj IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Thursday, 14:30 Brick, David Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) Monday, 15:00

Adluri, Sucharita Cleveland State University (Cleveland, OH, USA) Wednesday, 12:00 Brill, Jo University of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA) Tuesday, 12:00

Adluri, Vishwa Hunter College (New York, NY, USA) Monday, 14:30 Bronkhorst, Johannes Université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) Thursday, 14:00

Aggarwal, Anupriya IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Monday, 14:00 Buchta, David Brown University (Providence, RI, USA) Wednesday, 16:30

Aggarwal, Vibha Kurukshetra University (Kurukshetra, HR, India) Wednesday, 15:00 Cahill, Timothy C. Loyola University New Orleans (New Orleans, LA, USA) Friday, 09:30

Ajotikar, Anuja P. Shan State Buddhist University (Taunggyi, Myanmar) Thursday, 17:30 Cecil, Elizabeth Ann Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) Friday, 10:30

Ajotikar, Tanuja B. M. Kankanwadi Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya (Belgaum, Wednesday, 08:30 Chag, Avni SOAS University of London (London, England) Friday, 12:00 KA, India) Chakraborty, Deepro University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Wednesday, 10:30 Akepiyapornchai, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) Thursday, 09:00 Manasicha Chakraborty, Pokhraj Gurudas College (Kolkata, WB, India) Friday, 08:00

Aklujkar, Vidyullekha University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Tuesday, 14:30 Chakraborty, Independent Scholar, Kolkata, WB (India) Tuesday, 09:30 Satyanarayan Aksharananddas Swami New York (New York, NY, USA) Tuesday, 11:30 Chakyar, Margi Madhu Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (Kalady, KL, Thursday, 14:00 Aksharvatsaldas Swami London (London, England) Tuesday, 12:00 India)

Alankar, Sushma D.A.V. College (Chandigarh, India) Thursday, 14:30 Chandasoma Thero, Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka (Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka) Tuesday, 15:30 Kanumuldeniye Alankar, Virendra Kumar Panjab University (Chandigarh, India) Thursday, 14:00 Chandra, Subhash University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 11:30 Allen, Michael S. University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA, USA) Wednesday, 11:30 Chandra, Voddugalaiah Karnataka Sanskrit University (Bangalore, KA, India) Thursday, 11:30 Girish Allon, Mark University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) Thursday, 10:30 Chaturvedi, Amit University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) Thursday, 17:00 Amano, Kyoko Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) Thursday, 16:30 Chaturvedi, Nikhil IIT Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 15:00 Andrijanić, Ivan University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia) Wednesday, 10:30 Chaubey, A. K. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Thursday, 15:00 Apple, James B. University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada) Wednesday, 14:00 Chen, Ruixuan Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) Tuesday, 12:00 Arora, Shubham Nalanda University (Rajgir, BR, India) Friday, 12:00 Chhom, Kunthea Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) Thursday, 17:30 Arya, Anil Kumar Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 09:30 Choudry, Anuradha IIT Kharagpur (Kharagpur, WB, India) Tuesday, 11:00 Arya, Mohini University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 09:30 Chowdhary, Prabhawati Jai Narain Vyas University (Jodhpur, RJ, India) Thursday, 09:30 Austin, Christopher Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) Thursday, 11:30 Cox, Whitney University of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA) Monday, 14:00 Bagchee, Joydeep Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Monday, 14:00 Cubelic, Simon Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) Tuesday, 09:30 Bahulkar, Shrikant Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 15:00 Cummins, Patrick T. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) Thursday, 08:30 Bai, Jinghao Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan) Thursday, 16:30 Cuneo, Daniele Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Thursday, 10:30 Bailey, Greg La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) Tuesday, 09:00 Dalal, Neil University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Wednesday, 11:30 Balachandra, Ramaiya Independent Scholar, USA Friday, 08:30 Das, Abhishek University of Calcutta (Kolkata, WB, India) Tuesday, 15:00 Balakailasanathasarma, University of Jaffna (Jaffna, Sri Lanka) Tuesday, 11:00 Maheshwarakurukkal Das, Brindaban Bihari Sri Sri Dhananjoy Das Kathiababa Charitable Trust Friday, 11:00 (Vrindavan, UP, India) Balarama Murty, Vempaty Life Fellow, IEEE (USA) Wednesday, 17:00 Das, Nilanjan New York University Shanghai (Shanghai, China) Tuesday, 15:30 Balcerowicz, Piotr University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) Tuesday, 09:30 Das, Sadananda Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany) Tuesday, 14:00 Balkaran, Raj University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 11:00 Das Gupta, Mau University of Calcutta (Kolkata, WB, India) Thursday, 17:00 Balogh, Dániel British Museum (London, England) Thursday, 16:30 Davis, Donald University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) Monday, 14:30 Bang, Jung-Lan University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) Friday, 11:30 De Clercq, Eva Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 17:00 Barois, Christèle University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria) Wednesday, 14:00 Dejenne, Nicolas Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Thursday, 15:00 Barua, Dipen University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) Wednesday, 15:30 De Jonckheere, Heleen Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 09:30 Baums, Stefan Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Thursday, 11:00 den Boer, Lucas Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) Monday, 15:00 Bausch, Lauren M. Dharma Realm Buddhist University (Ukiah, CA, USA) Tuesday, 08:30 Deo, Savita Chintaman Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Thursday, 14:30 Bellefleur, Timothy University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Thursday, 17:00 Deodhar, Chinmayi H. Nalanda Nritya Kala Mahavidyalaya, University of Mumbai Thursday, 16:30 Ben-Dor, Sharon University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland) Tuesday, 14:00 (Mumbai, MH, India)

Benedetti, Giacomo Ex., University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy) Monday, 15:00 Deokar, Lata Mahesh Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 11:30

Bhadreshdas Swami BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 10:30 Deokar, Mahesh A. Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 09:00

Bharadwaj, Arjun Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Bangalore, KA, India) Friday, 08:30 Deroukaki, Vassiliki Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece) Thursday, 17:00

Bhatt, Kalpesh University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Wednesday, 12:00 Deshpande, Madhav University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) Monday, 15:30

Bhattacharya, Reeta Kolkata Nivedita Shakti (Kolkata, WB, India) Wednesday, 11:00 De Simini, Florinda University of Naples “L'Orientale” (Naples, Italy) Wednesday, 11:00

Bhattacharyya, Udita University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 11:30 Desnitskaya, Evgeniya Saint Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg, Russia) Tuesday, 14:00

Bhide, Prasad R. K. J. Somaiya College of Arts & Commerce (Mumbai, MH, Tuesday, 10:30 Dezső, Csaba Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) Thursday, 09:30 India) Dharmarajan, Pambungal Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (Kalady, KL, Thursday, 12:00 Bhowmik, Anasuya The Asiatic Society (Kolkata, WB, India) Thursday, 17:30 Kunjunny India)

Bidnur, Jahnavi Indic Academy (Pune, MH, India) Monday, 15:00 Dharurkar, Chinmay Vijay Central University of Kerala (Kasaragod, KL, India) Tuesday, 11:30

Bignami, Cristina University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) Friday, 11:30 DiSimone, Charles BDRC, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Monday, 14:00 (Cambridge, MA, USA) Bilimoria, Purushottama University of California, Davis (Davis, CA, USA) Thursday, 15:00 Dornier-Viavant, Anaïs Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Wednesday, 11:00 Birch, Jason SOAS University of London (London, England) Wednesday, 15:00 Dorsey, Donna MacEwan University (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Thursday, 09:30 Bisschop, Peter Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) Wednesday, 09:30 Dreyer, Ronnie Independent Scholar, USA Monday, 15:00 Biswas, Ashis Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya (WB, India) Wednesday, 09:30 Dundas, Paul University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland) Tuesday, 16:30 Biswas, Mukta Gauhati University (Guwahati, AS, India) Friday, 11:30 Duquette, Jonathan University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Thursday, 09:00 Biswas, Piyali The University of Burdwan (Bardhaman, WB, India) Wednesday, 09:00 Dwivedi, Prabha Shankar IIT Tirupati (Tirupati, AP, India) Friday, 11:30 90 Dwivedi, Saurabh Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, UP, India) Wednesday, 08:00 Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time

Dwivedi, Shreyansh Haryana Sanskrit Academy (Panchkula, HR, India) Tuesday, 08:30 Ježić, Mislav University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia) Monday, 15:00

Dwivedi, Vijay Shankar University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Friday, 10:30 Jha, Pushpa Government Autonomous Mankunwar Bai College Tuesday, 09:30 (Jabalpur, India) Edelmann, Jonathan University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA) Wednesday, 14:00 Jha, Shankarji Panjab University (Chandigarh, India) Friday, 09:00 Farkhondeh, Iris Iran Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Monday, 14:30 Jones, Jamal A. University of California, Davis (Davis, CA, USA) Thursday, 09:30 Ferrante, Marco University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Tuesday, 14:30 Jones, Michael Brattus University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) Tuesday, 10:30 Figueroa, Oscar National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City, Friday, 11:00 Mexico) Joshi, Anagha Vishwas Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Tuesday, 15:00

Fiordalis, David Linfield College (McMinnville, OR, USA) Tuesday, 08:30 Joshi, Prasad P. Deccan College PGRI (Pune, MH, India) Tuesday, 11:30

Fisher, Elaine Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Tuesday, 16:30 Joshi, Pushpinder Punjabi University (Patiala, PB, India) Thursday, 15:00

Flood, Gavin University of Oxford, National University of Singapore Tuesday, 16:30 Joshi, Saloni Gujarat University (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Tuesday, 09:00 (Oxford, England) Joshi, Sanhita Deccan College PGRI (Pune, MH, India) Monday, 14:30 Fodor, Melinda Zulejka Gonda Foundation (Leiden, Netherlands) Wednesday, 10:30 Jurewicz, Joanna University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) Wednesday, 11:00 Fórizs, László Dharmagate Buddhist College (Budapest, Hungary) Wednesday, 10:30 Kafle, Nirajan Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) Wednesday, 09:00 Gadgil, Mugdha Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Friday, 09:00 Kalia, Deepak University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 17:30 Gajjam, Jayashree Aanand IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Thursday, 09:30 Kanaeva, Natalia National Research University Higher School of Economics Thursday, 17:00 Gandhi, Nilotpala Gujarat University (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Tuesday, 12:00 (Moscow, Russia)

Ganesan, Nagamanickam Institute of Asian Studies (Chennai, TN, India) Tuesday, 15:00 Kannan, K. S. Infinity Foundation India (Chennai, TN, India) Wednesday, 09:00

Ganguli, Sarbani Jadavpur University (Kolkata, WB, India) Thursday, 12:00 Kano, Kazuo Komazawa University (Tokyo, Japan) Tuesday, 09:00

Ganser, Elisa University of Zurich (Zürich, Switzerland) Thursday, 10:30 Kar, Nrusingha Charan Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, Republic of Wednesday, 16:30 Korea) Gavish University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 11:00 Karashima, Seishi Soka University (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 11:00 Geddes, Kathryn Marie University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Wednesday, 11:00 Sloane Kasha, Geetha Government Degree College for Women (Hyderabad, Tuesday, 09:00 AP, India) Gerety, Finnian M. M. Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 Kataoka, Kei Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) Friday, 11:30 Geslani, Marko Emory University (Atlanta, GA, USA) Thursday, 14:30 Katira, Dipesh Vinod Shree Somnath Sanskrit University (Veraval, GJ, India) Wednesday, 09:00 Ghag, Nandini Dilip IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Wednesday, 15:30 Kaul, Advaitavadini IGNCA (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 17:00 Ghosh, Suchandra University of Calcutta (Kolkata, WB, India) Friday, 11:00 Kaul, Mrinal Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities (Manipal, Friday, 09:00 Gillon, Brendan McGill University (Montréal, Canada) Wednesday, 17:30 KA, India)

Giri, Anil Pratap Pondicherry University (Pondicherry, TN, India) Thursday, 08:30 Kaur, Amrita Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 08:30

Goldman, Robert P. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, USA) Wednesday, 14:30 Kaushik, Ganesh Singh Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University (Rajpur, CG, India) Thursday, 16:30

Goldman, Sally J. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, USA) Wednesday, 15:30 Kavanal, Reeja Bhas Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (Kalady, KL, Tuesday, 11:30 Sutherland India)

Gorisse, Marie-Hélène Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Monday, 15:30 Kawajiri, Yohei Chikushi Jogakuen University (Fukuoka, Japan) Thursday, 08:30

Goswami, Bijoya Jadavpur University (Kolkata, WB, India) Thursday, 10:30 Kawamura, Yūto University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Tuesday, 11:00

Goswami, Chinmay Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (Surat, GJ, India) Thursday, 10:30 Kawasaki, Yutaka University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Tuesday, 10:30

Griffiths, Arlo EFEO Paris (Paris, France) Thursday, 17:00 Keßler-Persaud, Anne Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) Thursday, 14:30

Gupta, Ravi M. Utah State University (Logan, UT, USA) Wednesday, 17:00 Khan, Shaminaj Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 17:00

Gupta, S.V.B.K.V. EFEO Pondicherry, SOAS University of London Wednesday, 11:30 Khanal, Chakrapani Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu, Nepal) Tuesday, 08:00 (Pondicherry, TN, India) Khanganba, Konthoujam Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 15:00 Guttandin, Beate University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany) Tuesday, 16:30 Kabi

Ham, Hyoung Seok Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) Friday, 09:00 Khanna, Madhu Jamia Millia Islamia (Delhi, India) Friday, 08:30

Harimoto, Kengo Mahidol University (Salaya, Thailand) Friday, 11:00 Khanna, Varun Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth (Veliyanad, KL, India) Monday, 15:00

Harzer, Edeltraud University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) Friday, 09:30 Khare, Ambarish Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth (Pune, MH, India) Thursday, 14:30

Haskett, Christian Centre College (Danville, KY, USA) Tuesday, 14:30 Kiparsky, Paul Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Wednesday, 11:00

Hatley, Shaman University of Massachusetts (Boston, MA, USA) Wednesday, 16:30 Klein, Jared University of Georgia (Athens, GA, USA) Monday, 14:00

Hedge, Manjushree Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Bangalore, KA, India) Thursday, 10:30 Knudsen, Toke Lindegaard University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark) Monday, 14:30

Hegde, Manjunath Dr. A. V. Baliga College (Kumta, KA, India) Wednesday, 11:30 Knutson, Jesse University of Hawai'i (Manoa, HI, USA) Wednesday, 14:00

Hens, Sander Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 15:00 Kobayashi, Masato University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 12:00

Hidas, Gergely British Museum (London, England) Monday, 15:30 Köhler, Frank University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) Wednesday, 11:30

Hirano, Katsunori Nakamura Hajime Eastern Institute (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 15:00 Koul, Purnima University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 14:30

Hock, Hans Henrich University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, Thursday, 10:30 Koul, Radhika Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Wednesday, 17:00 IL, USA) Kramer, Jowita Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Monday, 15:00 Hooper, Giles University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) Tuesday, 14:30 Krishna, Amrith IIT Kharagpur (Kharagpur, WB, India) Wednesday, 17:00 Hosono, Kuniko Nakamura Hajime Eastern Institute (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 14:30 Krnic, Krešimir University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia) Tuesday, 14:00 Houben, Jan E. M. EPHE (Paris, France) Wednesday, 12:00 Kulkarni, Irawati IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Wednesday, 15:00 Huet, Gérard Centre de recherche Inria de Paris (Paris, France) Thursday, 16:30 Kulkarni, Malhar IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Tuesday, 15:00 Hunter, Thomas University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Wednesday, 15:00 Kulkarni, Nirmala R. Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 12:00 Indananda, Welipitiye Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka (Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka) Thursday, 08:00 Kumagai, Koji International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies Thursday, 15:00 Isaacson, Harunaga University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) Wednesday, 14:00 (Tokyo, Japan)

Ishimura, Suguru Ex., Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan) Friday, 08:30 Kumar, Anil Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Friday, 12:00

Iwasaki, Yoichi Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan) Tuesday, 09:00 Kumar, Ashutosh University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 08:30

Izawa, Atsuko International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies Thursday, 14:00 Kumar, Avnish University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 14:30 (Tokyo, Japan) Kumar, Himanshu University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 09:30 Jain, Anubha Guru Nanak Girls College (Ludhiana, PB, India) Tuesday, 08:30 Kumar, Rakesh Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Friday, 11:00 Jathavedan, Athira Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (Kalady, KL, Wednesday, 17:00 India) Kumari, Sushil Maitreyi College (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 17:30

Jatoo, Sushma IGNCA (Delhi, India) Thursday, 14:00 Kuntal, Subhash Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 09:30

Jejurkar, Shweta The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (Vadodara, Wednesday, 17:00 GJ, India) 91 Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time

Kutumba Sastry, Vempaty President, International Association of Sanskrit Studies Tuesday, 09:00 Mohan, V. C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research Tuesday, 14:00 (Delhi, India) (Chennai, TN, India)

Kyuma, Taiken Mie University (Tsu, Japan) Wednesday, 14:00 Molina-Muñoz, Adriana University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, Wednesday, 11:30 IL, USA) Lall, Sudhir Kumar IGNCA (Delhi, India) Thursday, 15:30 Morales-Harley, Roberto University of Costa Rica (San José, Costa Rica) Tuesday, 17:00 Larios, Borayin Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) Tuesday, 09:00 Morgan, Les Independent Scholar, San Francisco, CA (USA) Wednesday, 11:00 Lawrence, David Peter University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND, USA) Wednesday, 08:00 Muraleemadhavan, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (Kalady, KL, Tuesday, 15:00 Leclère, Basile Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (Lyon, France) Thursday, 15:00 Puvathur Chelichery India)

Lee, Youngjin Geumgang University (Nonsan, Republic of Korea) Tuesday, 09:30 Murthy, G. S. Srinivasa Independent Scholar, India Tuesday, 12:00

Li, Charles University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Tuesday, 14:30 Nagar, Prem Oracle Corporation (Redwood Shores, CA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00

Lidova, Natalia Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia) Wednesday, 12:00 Nailwal, Ramesh Chandra Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 09:00

Liersch, Nils Jacob Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) Wednesday, 14:30 Nakasuka, Miyuki Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan) Tuesday, 15:00

Lin, Qian ICLP Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) Thursday, 14:00 Narayanan, Sharda Dr. MGR Janaki College of Arts & Science for Women Tuesday, 08:30 (Chennai, TN, India) Lindquist, Steven Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX, USA) Tuesday, 09:30 Narsalay, Madhavi Raghav University of Mumbai (Mumbai, MH, India) Thursday, 14:30 Livio, Chiara Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy) Thursday, 09:00 Naunihal, Gautam Dr. Harisingh Gour University (Sagar, MP, India) Friday, 10:30 Lochan, Amarjiva University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 11:30 Neelis, Jason Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, ON, Canada) Thursday, 17:30 Loria, Ludovica Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) Thursday, 08:00 Negribs, Valters University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Wednesday, 12:00 Lorndale, Timothy University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA) Thursday, 11:00 Nemec, John University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA, USA) Tuesday, 17:00 Lourey, Mohammad Idris Punjabi University (Patiala, PB, India) Thursday, 15:30 Neupane, Prem Raj Nepal Sanskrit University (Beljhundi, Nepal) Wednesday, 16:30 Lubin, Timothy Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA, USA) Wednesday, 08:30 Nicholson, Andrew J. State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook, Thursday, 15:30 Łucyszyna, Ołena University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz (Lodz, Friday, 08:30 NY, USA) Poland) Nidbach, Ma'ayan The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel) Tuesday, 15:00 Maas, Philipp Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany) Tuesday, 16:30 Nishi, Yasutomo Chuo Academic Research Institute of Rissho Kosei-kai Thursday, 17:00 Madaio, James Michael Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Friday, 10:30 (Tokyo, Japan) Republic (Prague, Czech Republic) Nishimura, Naoko Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) Thursday, 17:30 Maes, Claire University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) Tuesday, 11:30 Nowakowska, Monika University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) Friday, 09:30 Magnone, Paolo Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (, Italy) Tuesday, 17:30 Nyaupane, Kashinath Nepal Sanskrit University (Beljhundi, Nepal) Monday, 14:30 Mahadevan, Jayaraman Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (Chennai, TN, India) Monday, 14:00 O'Brien-Kop, Karen SOAS University of London (London, England) Thursday, 10:30 Mahadevan, Howard University (Washington, D.C., USA) Tuesday, 14:30 Thennilapuram Oberlin, Heike University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) Thursday, 11:30

Mahajan, Raj Kumar Panjab University (Chandigarh, India) Thursday, 09:00 Obrock, Luther University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 11:00

Mahendra, Purvi D. Gujarat University (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Wednesday, 14:30 Ogawa, Hideyo Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan) Tuesday, 08:00

Majcher, Stephanie Amelia University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) Tuesday, 09:00 Ogura, Satoshi Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Tokyo, Japan) Thursday, 17:00

Majumdar, Rani Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh, UP, India) Tuesday, 14:30 Okita, Kiyokazu Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 15:00

Mak, Bill M. Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) Thursday, 14:00 Oli, Ganga Jee Prasad Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu, Nepal) Friday, 08:30

Mallinson, James SOAS University of London (London, England) Wednesday, 10:30 Olivelle, Patrick University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) Monday, 14:00

Mamtora, Bhakti University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA) Thursday, 09:00 Ollett, Andrew Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Thursday, 08:00

Manabe, Tomohiro Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 14:30 Ondračka, Lubomír Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) Thursday, 08:30

Marciniak, Katarzyna Soka University (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 10:30 Oshima, Chisei University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Thursday, 15:30

Masayoshi, Watanabe University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 15:30 Panchal, Sanjeev University of Hyderabad (Hyderabad, AP, India) Wednesday, 16:30

Matsuda, Kazunobu Bukkyo University (Kyoto, Japan) Monday, 14:30 Pancholi, Priti Nayan B. J. Institute of Learning and Research (Ahmedabad, GJ, Wednesday, 11:00 India) McCrea, Lawrence Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) Thursday, 09:30 Panda, Narasingha Charan Silpakorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) Wednesday, 17:30 McHugh, James University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA, USA) Thursday, 15:30 Pandey, Bhartendu University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 17:00 Meena, Ravina Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 14:30 Pandey, Yogesh Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 17:00 Meena, Tek Chand University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Monday, 15:30 Pandya, Hetal M. Gujarat University (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Tuesday, 09:00 Meenakshi University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 16:30 Pandya, Yogesh Nitinbhai Darshanam Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Wednesday, 17:30 Meera, Hullur Rajarao National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore Wednesday, 08:30 (Bangalore, KA, India) Panwar, Kaushal University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 11:00 Melzer, Gudrun Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Thursday, 14:30 Paramashivan, Deepak University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Wednesday, 15:30 Mersch, Sanne Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) Thursday, 09:00 Paramtattvadas Swami BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute, Delhi (India) Tuesday, 11:00 Meyer, Michaël EPHE, Université Paris Diderot (Paris, France) Tuesday, 14:00 Pasedach, Peter University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) Monday, 15:00 Milewska, Iwona Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) Tuesday, 09:00 Pataskar, Bhagyalata Vaidika Samshodhana Mandala (Pune, MH, India) Thursday, 11:00 Mills, Libbie University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Friday, 09:00 Patel, Deven University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA) Thursday, 08:30 Minakakis, Dolores Pizarro Independent Scholar, Cambridge, MA (USA) Thursday, 11:00 Patel, Hetal S. Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University (Patan, GJ, Wednesday, 09:00 Minkowski, Christopher University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Wednesday, 09:30 India)

Mirnig, Nina Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Wednesday, 10:30 Pathak, Murlimanohar D. D. Upadhyay Gorakhpur University (Gorakhpur, India) Monday, 14:00

Mishra, Divya University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 09:30 Patki, Mrunal Suhas Deccan College PGRI (Pune, MH, India) Thursday, 09:30

Mishra, Hariram Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 09:30 Paul, Arghadip Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya (Bamanpukur, Wednesday, 09:00 WB, India) Mishra, Narayan Dutt Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 10:30 Pecchia, Cristina Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Wednesday, 14:30 Mishra, Pankaj Kumar University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 08:00 Pejathaya, Ramakrishna Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth (Veliyanad, KL, India) Wednesday, 17:30 Mishra, Pramita University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 15:00 Penn, Gerald University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 14:00 Mishra, Ranjeet Kumar University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 08:30 Peterson, Jonathan University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Wednesday, 10:30 Mitra, Ananya Basanti Devi College (Kolkata, WB, India) Tuesday, 15:30 Phadke, Parimal Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 15:00 Mittal, Himani Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 15:30 Phillips-Rodriguez, National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City, Tuesday, 11:30 Wendy J. Mexico) Mohan, Sujatha Dr. MGR Janaki College of Arts & Science for Women Friday, 09:30 (Chennai, TN, India) Pierce, James F. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA) Thursday, 16:30

Pinault, Georges-Jean EPHE (Paris, France) Monday, 15:30 92 Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time

Plau, Adrian SOAS University of London (London, England) Tuesday, 17:30 Sellmer, Sven Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poznań, Poland) Wednesday, 10:30

Poudel, Lokraj Purviya Darshan Vidyapeeth, World Astro-Federation Monday, 15:30 Sen, Soumyajit Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University (Cooch Behar, Tuesday, 11:30 (Kathmandu, Nepal) WB, India)

Powell, Seth Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Wednesday, 11:00 Shah, Priyanka Mayur Gujarat University (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Tuesday, 11:00

Pragya, Samina Pratibha SOAS University of London (London, England) Thursday, 16:30 Sharma, Aruna Kurukshetra University (Kurukshetra, HR, India) Tuesday, 11:00

Preston, Charles S. Millsaps College (Jackson, MS, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 Sharma, Hari Dutt University of Allahabad (Allahabad, UP, India) Tuesday, 10:30

Pruthi, Sandhya University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Monday, 15:00 Sharma, Mansi Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 16:30

Pskhu, Ruzana Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Moscow, Russia) Wednesday, 14:00 Sharma, Pankaj Kumar Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 17:00

Quiroz, Anselmo National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City, Tuesday, 09:30 Sharma, Sarita University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 14:30 Hernández Mexico) Sharma, Sharda University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 11:30 Raghavendran, Gowri T. Ethiraj College for Women (Chennai, TN, India) Thursday, 09:30 Sharma, Shobhana Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Thursday, 15:00 Raghunathan, Chinmaya Vidyalaya (Chennai, TN, India) Wednesday, 09:30 Ranganathan Sharma, Shrikrishna Kurukshetra University (Kurukshetra, HR, India) Tuesday, 08:30

Rajagopalan, Shreevatsa Independent Scholar, USA Thursday, 15:30 Sharma, Shyam Sundar University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 15:00

Rajan, Raj G. Independent Scholar, USA Tuesday, 17:30 Sharma, Vishal University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Tuesday, 10:30

Rajendran, C. University of Calicut (Thenjipalam, KL, India) Friday, 12:00 Shen, Yiming University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Wednesday, 14:30

Rajopadhyay, Vijay Daly College (Indore, MP, India) Wednesday, 11:30 Shida, Taisei University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan) Friday, 09:00 Vishwanath Shimladka, Vidya Nrithyaloka (Bangalore, KA, India) Wednesday, 14:00 Rajpal, Anita University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Friday, 12:00 Shivarama, Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthanam (Bangalore, KA, India) Thursday, 09:00 Rajpurohit, Shikha Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Thursday, 12:00 Mahabaleshwara

Ramakrishnan, Independent Scholar, USA Thursday, 09:00 Shobha, R. Maharani's Arts, Commerce and Management College for Tuesday, 16:30 Balasubramanian Women (Bangalore, KA, India)

Ramjatton, Kirthee Devi Mahatma Gandhi Institute (Moka, Mauritius) Tuesday, 10:30 Shukla, Balram University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 09:30

Ranganathan, Shyam York University (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 14:30 Shukla, Kalindi S. V. Arts College (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Wednesday, 09:30

Rao, Ajay University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 17:30 Siddhartha, Sundari Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute (Chennai, TN, India) Wednesday, 16:30

Rao, Anusha S. University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada) Thursday, 10:30 Singh, Puninder University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) Wednesday, 11:00

Rastelli, Marion Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Wednesday, 12:00 Singh, Rekha University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 15:30

Rath, Saraju IIAS (Leiden, Netherlands) Wednesday, 15:30 Singh, Satyapal University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 15:30

Rathva, Devsinh Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University (Patan, GJ, Tuesday, 08:30 Singleton, Mark SOAS University of London (London, England) Wednesday, 15:30 Bhalabhai India) Slatoff, Zoë Lancaster University (Lancaster, England) Thursday, 09:30 Rathva, Rumaliben S. R. Bhabhor Arts College (Singvad, GJ, India) Tuesday, 11:00 Smith, Caley Charles McGill University (Montréal, Canada) Tuesday, 08:00 Ratié, Isabelle Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Tuesday, 17:30 Smith, Travis L. Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea) Friday, 11:30 Raval, Ankit Jitendrakumar Shree Somnath Sanskrit University (Veraval, GJ, India) Wednesday, 16:30 Söhnen-Thieme, Renate SOAS University of London (London, England) Wednesday, 11:00 Ravuri, Gayatri Murali Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Monday, 15:30 Krishna Sohoni, Samir Janardan IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Thursday, 08:00

Reich, James Pace University (New York, NY, USA) Friday, 10:30 Sojková, Barbora University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Thursday, 14:00

Rimal, Madhusudan University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Wednesday, 09:30 Somveer University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 08:30

Rohlman, Elizabeth University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada) Thursday, 12:00 Soni, Jayandra IASS, University of Marburg (Innsbruck, Austria) Monday, 14:30

Rostalska, Agnieszka Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 11:30 Soni, Luitgard Formerly, University of Marburg (Innsbruck, Austria) Tuesday, 14:00

Rotaru, Julieta Adina Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden) Wednesday, 08:30 Špicová, Zuzana Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) Tuesday, 11:00

Rothstein-Dowden, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Monday, 14:30 Spiers, Carmen EPHE (Paris, France) Wednesday, 15:30 Zachary Stainton, Hamsa McGill University (Montréal, Canada) Monday, 15:30 Rumde, Pratik Gajanan University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany) Tuesday, 14:30 Stosic, Mirela University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 11:30 Ruzsa, Ferenc Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) Thursday, 14:30 Sudo, Ryushin Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) Tuesday, 10:30 Sabu, Smitha Government Sanskrit College (Thiruvananthapuram, KL, Wednesday, 14:30 India) Sugavanam, Padma University of Silicon Andhra (Milpitas, CA, USA) Tuesday, 15:30 Sabu, Susmi University of Kerala (Sasthamcotta, KL, India) Tuesday, 17:00 Sugiki, Tsunehiko Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan) Wednesday, 15:00 Saccone, Serena Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Thursday, 08:30 Sumant, Shilpa Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Deccan College Wednesday, 08:00 PGRI (Pune, MH, India) Sadhu, Debasree Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya (Bamanpukur, Wednesday, 08:30 WB, India) Sundareswaran, N. K. University of Calicut (Thenjipalam, KL, India) Thursday, 15:00 Sahu, Deepak Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 16:30 Susarla, Sai Rama Krishna MIT-ADT University (Pune, MH, India) Thursday, 08:30 Saito, Akane EFEO Pondicherry (Pondicherry, TN, India) Monday, 15:30 Szántó, Péter Dániel University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Wednesday, 14:30 Sakaki, Kazuyo Hokkaido Musashi Women's Junior College (Sapporo, Thursday, 17:30 Japan) Takezaki, Ryutaro University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Tuesday, 11:00

Sakuma, Hidenori Tsukuba University (Tsukuba, Japan) Thursday, 09:00 Taylor, McComas Australian National University (Canberra, Australia) Wednesday, 11:30

Salomon, Richard University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA) Thursday, 11:30 Thatte, Neelima Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth (Pune, MH, India) Friday, 09:30

Sandesara, Jolly Gujarat University (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Monday, 14:00 Thayanithy, Maithili Independent Scholar, Canada Thursday, 11:30

Sarbacker, Stuart Ray Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR, USA) Thursday, 08:30 Theodor, Ithamar University of Haifa (Haifa, Israel) Wednesday, 17:30

Sarma, Jagadish Gauhati University (Guwahati, AS, India) Thursday, 12:00 Thompson, S. P. University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Thursday, 17:30

Sarma, S. A. S. EFEO Pondicherry (Pondicherry, TN, India) Friday, 11:00 Timalsina, Sthaneshwar San Diego State University (San Diego, CA, USA) Wednesday, 08:30

Sarma, U. K. V. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Bangalore, KA, India) Thursday, 15:30 Törzsök, Judit Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III (Lille, France) Friday, 08:00

Sasikala, Saranathan University of Madras (Chennai, TN, India) Wednesday, 17:30 Tripathi, Rajendra Kumar University of Allahabad (Allahabad, UP, India) Tuesday, 12:00

Sauthoff, Patricia SOAS University of London (London, England) Friday, 10:30 Tripathi, Ranjan Kumar University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 16:30

Schaefer, Christiane Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) Wednesday, 12:00 Tripathy, Kaushlendra Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, UP, India) Friday, 10:30

Scharf, Peter M. IIIT Hyderabad, The Sanskrit Library (Hyderabad, AP, India) Wednesday, 14:00 Trivedi, Bhagirath Darshanam Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Thursday, 11:30

Schlosser, Andrea Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Thursday, 12:00 Trivedi, Neelam Dayanand Girls P.G. College (Kanpur, UP, India) Tuesday, 09:30

Schmiedchen, Annette Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) Friday, 12:00 Upadhyay, Pawan Kumar University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 09:00

Schmücker, Marcus Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Thursday, 16:30 V, Shivani Karnataka Sanskrit University (Bangalore, KA, India) Wednesday, 15:00

Schwartz, Jason University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, Friday, 09:30 van Brussel, Noor Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Thursday, 17:00 CA, USA) 93 Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time

Varakhedi, Shrinivasa Kavikulaguru Kalidasa Sanskrit University (Nagpur, India) Thursday, 14:00 Mucciarelli, Elena The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel) Friday, 11:30

Vashishtha, Ivana Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 11:30 Nair, Sivaja S. University of Hyderabad (AP, India) Wednesday, 15:00

Vekemans, Tine Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 15:00 Patel, Dilipkumar Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University (Patan, GJ, Wednesday, 09:00 Chimanlal India) Venkatesh, Padmaja Aatmalaya Academy of Art and Culture (Bangalore, India) Wednesday, 14:30 Ramaswamy, Seshadri Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, Tuesday, 14:00 Venkatkrishnan, Anand Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Wednesday, 12:00 USA)

Verdon, Noemie Nalanda University, SNF (Rajgir, BR, India) Friday, 08:00 Rao, Tilaka Mohan MIT-ADT University (Pune, MH, India) Thursday, 08:30

Vijay Laxmi CCS University (Muzaffarnagar, UP, India) Friday, 11:30 Scharf, Peter M. IIIT Hyderabad, The Sanskrit Library (Hyderabad, AP, India) Thursday, 17:30

Visigalli, Paolo New York University Shanghai, Shanghai Normal University Thursday, 08:00 Singh, Jaspal South Asia Center (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 (Shanghai, China) Southworth, A. Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Thursday, 17:00 Viswanath, P. V. Pace University (New York, NY, USA) Thursday, 15:30 Stoker, Valerie Wright State University (Dayton, OH, USA) Thursday, 17:30 von Ostrowski, Laura Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Thursday, 11:30 Subramanian, University of Jaffna (Jaffna, Sri Lanka) Tuesday, 11:00 Vose, Steven M. Florida International University (Miami, FL, USA) Tuesday, 15:30 Navaneethakrishnan

Wada, Toshihiro Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan) Tuesday, 08:30 Susarla, Sarada Karnataka Sanskrit University (Bangalore, KA, India) Thursday, 08:30

Wagh, Balasaheb K. J. Somaiya Bharatiya Sanskriti Peetham (Mumbai, MH, Tuesday, 15:30 India)

Waingankar, Pranali Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 17:30

Watson, Alex Ashoka University (Sonipat, HR, India) Tuesday, 08:00

Wenta, Aleksandra University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Wednesday, 15:30

Whitaker, Jarrod Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC, USA) Tuesday, 12:00

Wielinska-Soltwedel, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Wednesday, 10:30 Malgorzata Keynotes, Chairs, Moderators, etc. Wiese, Harald Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany) Thursday, 08:30 Name Affiliation & Location Session (Day & Time) Williams, Michael Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Thursday, 17:00 Acri, Andrea EPHE (Paris, France) S16.3 (Thursday, 10:30) Witkowski, Nicholas University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Tuesday, 14:00 Akepiyapornchai, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) SP7 (Thursday, 08:00) Wojtczak, Lidia SOAS University of London (London, England) Friday, 11:00 Manasicha

Wujastyk, Dagmar University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Thursday, 15:00 Aklujkar, Ashok University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Monday, 09:45 Canada) Monday, 12:00 Wujastyk, Dominik University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Thursday, 15:30 S3.8 (Thursday, 08:00) Wulff Alonso, Fernando University of Málaga (Malaga, Spain) Tuesday, 08:30 Aklujkar, Vidyullekha University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, S4.5 (Wednesday, 08:00) Yadav, Usha Kiran SMM Government Girls PG College (Bhilwara, RJ, India) Friday, 11:00 Canada)

Yagi, Toru Osaka Gakuin University (Osaka, Japan) Tuesday, 10:30 Alankar, Virendra Kumar Panjab University (Chandigarh, India) S23.1 (Thursday, 14:00)

Yamahata, Tomoyuki Hokkaido University of Science (Sapporo, Japan) Tuesday, 17:00 Amano, Kyoko Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) S1.8 (Thursday, 14:00)

Yamasaki, Kazuho Nakamura Hajime Eastern Institute (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 17:00 Apple, James B. University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada) S10.4 (Thursday, 08:00)

Yanchevskaya, Nataliya Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA) Wednesday, 09:00 Austin, Christopher Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) S13.2 (Friday, 10:30)

Yokochi, Yuko Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) Wednesday, 11:30 Bagchee, Joydeep Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, SP2 (Monday, 14:00) Germany) Zydenbos, Robert J. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Thursday, 10:30 Bahulkar, Shrikant Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Pune, Tuesday, 16:30 MH, India) S1.4 (Wednesday, 08:00)

Bailey, Greg La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) S4.3 (Tuesday, 14:00) INDEX of SECONDARY AUTHORS Balcerowicz, Piotr University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) S14.14 (Friday, 08:00) Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time Balkaran, Raj University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) S5.5 (Thursday, 16:30)

Balogh, Daniel British Museum (London, England) SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) Ajotikar, Anuja P. Shan State Buddhist University (Taunggyi, Myanmar) Wednesday, 08:30 Bansat-Boudon, Lyne EPHE (Paris, France) S8.1 (Monday, 14:00) Ajotikar, Tanuja B. M. Kankanwadi Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya (Belgaum, Thursday, 17:30 SP9.1 (Tuesday, 14:00) KA, India) SP9.2 (Tuesday, 16:30) Ganesh, Vinayak Rajat Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth (Veliyanad, KL, India) Monday, 15:00 Wednesday, 16:30 Madippu Basapur, Swati Karnataka Sanskrit University (Bangalore, KA, SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) Garg, Rahul IIT Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 15:00 India)

Goyal, Pawan IIT Kharagpur (Kharagpur, WB, India) Wednesday, 17:00 Baums, Stefan Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, S10.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) Germany) SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) Kahrs, Eivind George University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England) Tuesday, 15:00 Bellefleur, Timothy University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) Kanojia, Diptesh IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Thursday, 09:30 Canada)

Kosaras, Bela Harvard Medical School (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 Ben-Dor, Sharon University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland) S3.4 (Wednesday, 08:00)

Kulkarni, Amba University of Hyderabad (Hyderabad, AP, India) Wednesday, 16:30 Bhadreshdas Swami BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute (Delhi, Monday, 12:00 India) Tuesday, 10:30 Kulkarni, Malhar IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Monday, 14:30 Tuesday, 16:30 Tuesday, 15:30 Wednesday, 09:00, Bhawuk, Dharam University of Hawai'i (Manoa, HI, USA) Tuesday, 16:30 15:00 Thursday, 09:30 Bilimoria, Purushottama University of California, Davis (Davis, CA, USA) S14.13 (Thursday, 16:30)

Kumar, Mukesh University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 11:00 Birch, Jason SOAS University of London (London, England) S22.1 (Wednesday, 08:00) SP20 (Wednesday, 16:30) Kumar, Nitin University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 11:00 Bose, Mandakranta University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Tuesday, 20:00 Kumar, Vivek University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 11:30 Canada) Tuesday, 10:30 Kutumba Sastry, Vempaty President, International Association of Sanskrit Studies Wednesday, 17:00 S8.8 (Wednesday, 14:00) (Delhi, India) SP17.2 (Thursday, 16:30)

Lankri, Idir Université Paris Diderot (Paris, France) Thursday, 16:30 Brick, David Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) S21.3 (Tuesday, 14:00)

Leurmsai, Samniang Silpakorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) Wednesday, 11:30 Bronner, Yigal The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) Israel) Majumder, Bodhisattwa Walmart Labs (Mountain View, CA, USA) Wednesday, 17:00 Prasad Buchta, David Brown University (Providence, RI, USA) SP4.1 (Wednesday, 14:00) Mann, Hardeep South Asia Center (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 SP4.2 (Wednesday, 16:30) S12.2 (Friday, 10:30) Mishra, Hariram Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 10:30 Cardona, George University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, Monday, 09:45 Misra, Bijoy M. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 USA) Monday, 12:00 Tuesday, 16:30 S3.6 (Wednesday, 14:00) 94 Name Affiliation & Location Session (Day & Time) Name Affiliation & Location Session (Day & Time)

Chakyar, Margi Madhu Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit Monday, 20:00 Jejurkar, Shweta Avdhoot The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda S20.3 (Wednesday, 16:30) (Kalady, KL, India) SP17.2 (Thursday, 16:30) (Vadodara, GJ, India)

Chandra, Vikram Mumbai, MH, India Thursday, 18:30 Ježić, Mislav University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia) S1.5 (Wednesday, 10:30)

Cox, Whitney University of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA) S16.1 (Tuesday, 16:30) Joshi, Prasad P. Deccan College PGRI (Pune, MH, India) S3.5 (Wednesday, 10:30)

Cuneo, Daniele Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, SP6.1 (Thursday, 08:00) Joshi, Sanhita Deccan College PGRI (Pune, MH, India) S17.2 (Tuesday, 08:00) France) SP6.2 (Thursday, 10:30) Jurewicz, Joanna University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) S1.7 (Thursday, 10:30) S8.12 (Friday, 08:00) S8.13 (Friday, 10:30) Kamolika, Arno Mandala Arts and Culture (Vancouver, BC, Wednesday, 19:30 Canada) Dalal, Neil University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) S14.6 (Wednesday, 08:00) Kaul, Mrinal Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities S6.5 (Friday, 10:30) Das, Nilanjan New York University Shanghai (Shanghai, China) S14.8 (Wednesday, 14:00) (Manipal, KA, India)

Das, Sadananda Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany) S17.1 (Monday, 14:00) Kawamura, Yūto University of Oxford (Oxford, England) S3.3 (Tuesday, 14:00) Tuesday, 16:30 Kawasaki, Yutaka University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) S11.5 (Tuesday, 16:30) Das Gupta, Mau University of Calcutta (Kolkata, WB, India) S1.10 (Friday, 08:00) Keßler-Persaud, Anne Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) S7.1 (Thursday, 10:30)

Davis, Donald University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) S21.2 (Tuesday, 08:00) Khaira, Sandy (Surinder) Naad Foundation (Surrey, BC, Canada) Tuesday, 20:00

De Clercq, Eva Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) S11.1 (Monday, 14:00) Khanna, Madhu Jamia Millia Islamia (Delhi, India) S6.2 (Wednesday, 16:30)

Dejenne, Nicolas Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, S5.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) Klein, Jared University of Georgia (Athens, GA, USA) S2.7 (Wednesday, 14:00) France) Knutson, Jesse University of Hawai'i (Manoa, HI, USA) SP1 (Wednesday, 14:00) Deokar, Lata Mahesh Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, S10.3 (Wednesday, 16:30) India) Köhler, Frank University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) S1.1 (Monday, 14:00)

Deokar, Mahesh A. Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, S10.6 (Thursday, 14:00) Kulkarni, Amba University of Hyderabad (Hyderabad, AP, India) SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) India) S19.3 (Thursday, 14:00) SP18 (Thursday, 10:30) Deshpande, Madhav University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) S2.2 (Tuesday, 08:00) S2.6 (Wednesday, 10:30) Kulkarni, Malhar IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) S3.7 (Wednesday, 16:30) SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) De Simini, Florinda University of Naples “L'Orientale” (Naples, Italy) SP13.1 (Wednesday, 08:00) S19.4 (Thursday, 16:30) SP13.2 (Wednesday, 10:30) Kulkarni, Nirmala R. Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, S20.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) DiSimone, Charles BDRC, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich SP10.1 (Monday, 14:00) India) (Cambridge, MA, USA) SP10.2 (Tuesday, 08:00) S10.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) Kutumba Sastry, Vempaty President, International Association of Sanskrit Monday, 09:00 Studies (Delhi, India) Dixit, Abhijit IGNCA (Delhi, India) SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) Kyuma, Taiken Mie University (Tsu, Japan) S14.4 (Tuesday, 14:00) Dundas, Paul University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland) S11.4 (Tuesday, 14:00) Li, Charles University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) Edelmann, Jonathan University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA) SP4.1 (Wednesday, 14:00) Canada) SP4.2 (Wednesday, 16:30) Lubin, Timothy Washington and Lee University (Lexington, S21.1 (Monday, 14:00) Farkhondeh, Iris Iran Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, S8.11 (Thursday, 10:30) VA, USA) France) Maas, Philipp Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany) S14.7 (Wednesday, 10:30) Fisher, Elaine Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA) S12.1 (Tuesday, 14:00) S22.5 (Thursday, 10:30) S22.6 (Thursday, 14:00) Flood, Gavin University of Oxford, National University of Wednesday, 16:30 Singapore (Oxford, England) Magnone, Paolo Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan, S14.12 (Thursday, 14:00) Italy) Fodor, Melinda Zulejka Gonda Foundation (Leiden, Netherlands) S8.10 (Thursday, 08:00) Mak, Bill M. Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) SP8 (Thursday, 14:00) Fórizs, László Dharmagate Buddhist College (Budapest, S1.9 (Thursday, 16:30) Hungary) Mallinson, James SOAS University of London (London, England) SP20 (Wednesday, 16:30) Thursday, 18:30 G, Indu Nepathya Centre for Excellence in Kudiyattam Monday, 20:00 (Muzhikkulam, KL, India) SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00) McCrabb, Ian University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00)

Ganesan, Naren Sanskriti Temple of Fine Arts (Edmonton, AB, Wednesday, 19:30 McCrea, Lawrence Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) S14.1 (Monday, 14:00) Canada) Milewska, Iwona Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) S17.3 (Tuesday, 10:30) Ganser, Elisa University of Zurich (Zürich, Switzerland) S8.7 (Wednesday, 10:30) SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00) Mills, Libbie University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) S15.1 (Thursday, 14:00) SP17.2 (Thursday, 16:30) SP6.1 (Thursday, 08:00) Mirnig, Nina Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) SP13.1 (Wednesday, 08:00) SP6.2 (Thursday, 10:30) SP13.2 (Wednesday, 10:30)

Gerety, Finnian M. M. Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) SP12 (Tuesday, 14:00) Mishra, Manoj Kumar Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Friday, 08:00 Friday, 10:30 Gluckman, Martin Sanskrit Research Institute (Auroville, TN, India) SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) Mucciarelli, Elena The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00) Goldman, Robert P. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, S4.1 (Tuesday, 08:00) Israel) SP17.2 (Thursday, 16:30) CA, USA) Mulye, Sudnya Sudnya Dance Academy (Richmond, BC, Tuesday, 20:00 Goldman, Sally J. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, S4.4 (Tuesday, 16:30) Canada) Sutherland CA, USA) Neelis, Jason Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, ON, S10.5 (Thursday, 10:30) Goswami, Chinmay Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (Surat, S7.2 (Thursday, 14:00) Canada) GJ, India) Nemec, John University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA, USA) SP9.1 (Tuesday, 14:00) Govinda, Jai Mandala Arts and Culture (Vancouver, BC, Wednesday, 19:30 Canada) Nepathya Nepathya Centre for Excellence in Kudiyattam Monday, 20:00 (Muzhikkulam, KL, India) SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00) Griffiths, Arlo EFEO Paris (Paris, France) S15.3 (Friday, 08:00) Nowakowska, Monika University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) S14.3 (Tuesday, 10:30) Ham, Hyoung Seok Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) SP14 (Friday, 08:00) Nyaupane, Kashinath Nepal Sanskrit University (Beljhundi, Nepal) S14.15 (Friday, 10:30)

Hargreaves, Jacqueline Independent Scholar, UK (London, England) SP20 (Wednesday, 16:30) O'Brien-Kop, Karen SOAS University of London (London, England) S22.2 (Wednesday, 10:30)

Harimoto, Kengo Mahidol University (Salaya, Thailand) S14.10 (Thursday, 08:00) SP3 Oberlin, Heike University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) Monday, 19:00 (Friday, 10:30) SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00) SP17.2 (Thursday, 16:30) Hegarty, James Cardiff University (Cardiff, Wales) S4.2 (Tuesday, 10:30) Obrock, Luther University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) S8.4 (Tuesday, 14:00) Hock, Hans Henrich University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign S1.2 (Tuesday, 10:30) S24.1 (Thursday, 16:30) (Champaign, IL, USA) Olivelle, Patrick University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) S21.4 (Tuesday, 16:30) Houben, Jan E. M. EPHE (Paris, France) S2.1 (Monday, 14:00) S2.3 (Tuesday, 10:30) Panchal, Sanjeev University of Hyderabad (Hyderabad, AP, India) SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) SP15 (Tuesday, 08:00) Pandey, Bhartendu University of Delhi (Delhi, India) S8.5 (Tuesday, 16:30)

Huet, Gérard Centre de recherche Inria de Paris (Paris, France) S19.1 (Wednesday, 16:30) Panwar, Kaushal University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 20:00 SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) SP18 (Thursday, 10:30) Pataskar, Bhagyalata Vaidika Samshodhana Mandala (Pune, MH, S1.11 (Friday, 10:30) Hunter, Thomas University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, S2.4 (Tuesday, 14:00) India) Canada) Patel, Deven University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, Monday, 12:00 Isaacson, Harunaga University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) SP3 (Friday, 10:30) USA) Tuesday, 10:30 S18.3 (Tuesday, 14:00) Iwasaki, Yoichi Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan) S14.5 (Tuesday, 16:30) Tuesday, 16:30 95 Name Affiliation & Location Session (Day & Time)

Peterson, Jonathan University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) SP16 (Wednesday, 10:30)

Pinault, Georges-Jean EPHE (Paris, France) S1.6 (Wednesday, 14:00)

Preston, Charles S. Millsaps College (Jackson, MS, USA) S18.1 (Tuesday, 08:00)

Rajendran, C. University of Calicut (Thenjipalam, KL, India) S8.2 (Tuesday, 08:00) S8.3 (Tuesday,10:30) Tuesday, 16:30 S8.6 (Wednesday, 08:00) SP17.2 (Thursday, 16:30)

Rath, Saraju IIAS (Leiden, Netherlands) S20.1 (Wednesday, 10:30)

Rathanaswami, Kiruthika Mandala Arts and Culture (Vancouver, BC, Monday, 08:30 Canada) Wednesday, 19:30

Roshan, Aishwarya Mandala Arts and Culture (Vancouver, BC, Wednesday, 19:30 Canada)

Sadhu, Debasree Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya SP11 (Wednesday, 08:00) (Bamanpukur, WB, India)

Salomon, Richard University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA) S10.7 (Thursday, 16:30)

Sanderson, Alexis Em., University of Oxford (Portland, OR, USA) Tuesday, 10:30

Sathaye, Adheesh University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) Canada)

Scharf, Peter M. IIIT Hyderabad, The Sanskrit Library (Hyderabad, S3.2 (Tuesday, 10:30) AP, India) S19.2 (Thursday, 8.00)

Schlosser, Andrea Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) Germany)

Schmiedchen, Annette Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) S15.2 (Thursday, 16:30)

Schmücker, Marcus Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) SP5 (Thursday, 16:30)

Sellmer, Sven Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poznań, S5.2 (Thursday, 08:00) Poland)

Sharma, Arvind McGill University (Montréal, Canada) Monday, 09:45 S14.9 (Wednesday, 16:30)

Sharma, Hari Dutt University of Allahabad (Allahabad, UP, India) S18.2 (Tuesday, 10:30) Friday, 08:00, 10:30

Singh, Amarjeet Naad Foundation (Surrey, BC, Canada) Tuesday, 20:00

Singh, Baljit Naad Foundation (Surrey, BC, Canada) Tuesday, 20:00

Singh, Puninder University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) SP16 (Wednesday, 10:30)

Singleton, Mark SOAS University of London (London, England) SP20 (Wednesday, 16:30)

Slaczka, Anna Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) S15.4 (Friday, 10:30)

Slouber, Michael Western Washington University (Bellingham, S6.1 (Wednesday, 14:00) S6.4 WA, USA) (Friday, 08:00)

Smith, Caley Charles McGill University (Montréal, Canada) SP15 (Tuesday, 08:00)

Smith, Travis L. Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea) S13.1 (Thursday, 16:30)

Söhnen-Thieme, Renate SOAS University of London (London, England) S2.5 (Wednesday, 08:00)

Soni, Jayandra IASS, University of Marburg (Innsbruck, Austria) S11.2 (Tuesday, 08:00)

Soni, Luitgard University of Marburg (Marburg, Germany) S11.3 (Tuesday, 10:30)

Subramanian, Venkata Vyoma Labs, Karnataka Sanskrit University SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) (Bangalore, KA, India)

Sumachaya, Dhammachai Tipitaka Project (Bangkok, SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) Harnsukworapanich Thailand)

Taylor, McComas Australian National University (Canberra, S18.4 (Tuesday, 16:30) Australia) S5.4 (Thursday, 14:00)

Timalsina, Sthaneshwar San Diego State University (San Diego, CA, Tuesday, 16:30 USA) S14.11 (Thursday, 10:30)

Törzsök, Judit Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III (Lille, S6.3 (Thursday, 08:00) France)

Tripathi, Dipti University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Monday, 09:45 S3.1 (Tuesday, 08:00)

V, Shivani Karnataka Sanskrit University (Bangalore, KA, SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) India)

Vajpeyi, Ananya Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Tuesday, 20:00 (Delhi, India) van Brussel, Noor Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) S5.3 (Thursday, 10:30)

Vasudeva, Somadeva Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) SP3 (Friday, 10:30)

Verdon, Noemie Nalanda University, SNF (Rajgir, BR, India) SP14 (Friday, 08:00)

Watson, Alex Ashoka University (Sonipat, HR, India) S14.2 (Tuesday, 08:00) SP3 (Friday, 12:00)

Whitaker, Jarrod Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC, S1.3 (Tuesday, 16:30) USA)

Willis, Michael British Museum (London, England) SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00)

Wojtczak, Lidia SOAS University of London (London, England) S8.9 (Wednesday, 16:30)

Wujastyk, Dagmar University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) S22.3 (Wednesday, 14:00) S22.7 (Thursday, 16:30)

Wujastyk, Dominik University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) S9.1 (Monday, 14:00) S22.4 (Thursday, 08:00)

Yokochi, Yuko Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) SP3 (Friday, 10:30)

Zydenbos, Robert J. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, S16.2 (Thursday, 08:00) Germany)

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[Regular Paper Sessions] Inauguration [Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] Special Panel: Guest of Honour: Shri Special Panel: Special Panel: Special Panel: The Yuktidīpikā Forging a Prakash Javadekar, Hon. Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts, History & Education of Women Mīmāṃsā Beyond the Yāgaśālā Place for Sāṅkhya Minister, HRD, Govt. of India Part 2 in Vedic Literature Special Panel: [8.15-9.30] Special Panel: Special Panel: शास्त्रचर्椾सदस्

Morning 1 Literary Commentaries, Part 1 vāg evedaṃ sarvam Viṣṇu- & Śivadharma, Part 1 (Legal Debate) Plenary Speakers Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. / Conference Excursions (Various Times) (8.00-10.00AM) George Cardona, Dipti Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Tripathi, Arvind Sharma Allard Forum [9.45-11.55] [Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] Akṣara Puruṣottama [Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] Special Panel: Darśanic Scholarly Session: Darśana: Introduction & Special Panel: Special Panel: Binding Liberation Vedānta’s Polyglot Lives Sanskrit Corpus Management Launch अक्षरपु셁षोत्तम-दर्नम् | Keynote Lecture: Special Panel: Special Panel: कविसमवायः with Bhadreshdas Swami (Poets’ Forum)

Morning 2 Alexis Sanderson Viṣṇu- & Śivadharma, Part 2 Literary Commentaries, Part 2 [12.00-12.30] Buchanan Bldg. / Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum (10.30-12.30PM) Chan Centre, UBC Allard Forum

[Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] Special Panel: Special Panel: Special Panel: Special Panel: After the Critical Edition Ādikāvyāni Research on the Gārgīyajyotiṣa IASS General The Vedas Out Loud Special Panel: Special Panel: Special Panel: Special Panel: Assembly Sanskrit Buddhist Introducing Bhāgavata Purāṇa Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Living Sanskrit Śaiva Philosophy, Part 1 Wood Theatre, UBC Afternoon 1 Afternoon Manuscripts, Part 1 Commentaries, Part 1 Theatre, Part 1 Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum (14.00-16.00PM) Buchanan Bldg. Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum

[Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] Special Panel: Special Panel: Inaugural Banquet Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati Key Debates in later Hosted by Special Panel: Śaiva Philosophy, Part 2 Special Panel: Viśiṣṭādvaita & Madhva Hon. Shri Prakash Introducing Bhāgavata Purāṇa Thought Special Session: Javadekar, MHRD, Commentaries, Part 2 Special Panel: Republic of India Afternoon 2 Afternoon अक्षरपु셁षोत्तम-दर्न-विद्व饍ग�腀 Keynote French Lecture: Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Living Sanskrit [17.00-18.30] Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum (16.30-18.00PM) Lyne Bansat-Boudon Theatre, Part 2 Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Featured ISF Event: Hariprasad

Cultural Event: Chaurasia at the Orpheum Gala Performance by Śivo’ham: Śiva through Nepathya: Classical Indian Music & Dance Public Lectures: Living Legends: presented by Naad Foundation Cultural Event: A Rare Performance Dakṣiṇāpatha - Vikram Chandra: The Poetry All-Conference & Sudnya Dance Academy of Amazement of Kutiyattam Sanskrit [20.00-21.30] The Classical Music and Banquet Dance Theatre Dance of South India, [18.30-19.30] Wood Theatre, UBC James Mallinson: Introductory lecture, with Padma Sugavanam & [18.00-21.00]

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(18.00-23.00PM) Kaushal Panwar & Ananya [20.00-21.30] Nest, UBC “Bālivadham” Wood Theatre, UBC Vajpeyi, with Mandakranta Bose Wood Theatre, UBC [20.00-23.00] [20.00-22.00] Chan Centre, UBC Barnett Recital Hall, UBC