Making many original contributions to our knowledge and literature — contributions based on deep thought, extensive research and literary acumen, Dr. Ashok Aklujkar has made a name for himself as a Sanskritist and Indologist. His reputation has been strengthened through frequent presentations in seminars and conferences in many parts of the world and teaching at high-class universities. He has also become known for personal attributes that matter very much for the creation of a successful teacher. It is in honour of this outstanding and world-renowned scholar and teacher that the present volume has been compiled and published.

Several leading and gifted scholars from across the world have contributed a wide range of interesting research articles to this special volume. The articles deal with major areas of Sanskrit and related studies such as philosophy, religion, linguistics, poetics, art and sociology. Here, as a befitting tribute to the scholarly interests and attainments reflected in the published works of Professor Aklujkar, essays exploring the complexities of Sanskrit grammars and Indic linguistic philosophy take the centre stage. However, care has also been taken to devote sufficient space to poetics and to the relationship between Sanskrit and Pali, which are the two other areas on which Professor Aklujkar has focused from time to time.

In this collection of absorbing articles authored by senior and well-known scholars, articles of several young scholars of considerable merit appear alongside almost in an equal measure; the latter too have offered the fruits of their original and critical work.

The result: a panorama of interesting readings that introduce the reader to the unique diversity and richness of Sanskrit from various vantage points.

PREFACE
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF PROFESSOR ASHOK NARHAR AKLUJKAR
PUBLICATIONS OF PROFESSOR ASHOK AKLUJKAR
ACHARYA, DIWAKAR

The Patravidhi: A Lakuliœa Paœupata Manual on Purification and Use of the Initiate’s Vessel

ARJUNWADKAR, KRISHNA S.

God’s Place in the Six Orthodox Systems

BAHULKAR, SHRIKANT S. AND DEOKAR,MAHESH A.

Ideology and Language Identity: a Buddhist Perspective

BRONKHORST, JOHANNES

Bhattoji Dikshita and the Revival of the Philosophy of Grammar

CANDOTTI, MARIA PIERA

The Role and Import of the Metalinguistic Chapters in the New Paninian Grammars

CARDONA, GEORGE

A Note on Vakyapadiya 1.45/46: atmabhedas tayoh kecid…

DAS, RAHUL PETER

On “Hindu” Bioethics

DEOKAR, LATA M.

Some Observations on Buddhism and Lexicography

DEOKAR,MAHESH A.

Some Probable Sanskrit Sources of the Pali Grammarians with special reference to Aggavamsa

DESHPANDE,MADHAV M.

Bhattoji Dikshita’s Perceptions of Intellectual History: Narrative of Fall and Recovery of the Grammatical Authority

DESMARAIS, MICHELE M.

Close Relations: Pandits, Pedagogy and Plasticity

FUJII, TAKAMICHI

Sentence Meaning as a Causal Process

GEROW, EDWIN

Bengali Vaishnava Aesthetics

GILLON, BRENDAN S.

Exocentric (bahuvrihi) Compounds in Classical Sanskrit

GRANOFF, PHYLLIS

The Art of the Philosopher: Painting and Sculpture as Metaphor

HAAG, PASCALE

I Wanna Be a Brahmin Too. Grammar, Tradition and Mythology as Means for Social Legitimisation among the Vaidyas in Bengal

HIRANO, KATSUNORI

Historical Significance of the Definition of Universal in the Vyomavati

HOUBEN, JAN E. M.

Grammar & Other Modes of the Mind

KANO, KYO

Blue Smoke: Perceptual Judgment in the Determination of Causal Nexus

KATAOKA, KEI

Is Killing Bad? Dispute on Animal Sacrifices between Buddhism and Mimamsa

KAWAJIRI, YOHEI

A Critical Edition of the Ishvarapratyabhijnavimarshinivyakhya on the mangala verse of the Ishvarapratyabhijnavimarshini

OGAWA, HIDEYO

Abstraction (apoddhara) Theory and a Sentence Meaning: A Study of the Vritti on VP 2.39

OLIVELLE, PATRICK

The Implicit Audience of Legal Texts in Ancient India

POLLOCK, SHELDON

Rasa after Abhinava

SARMA, SREERAMULA RAJESWARA

Avid Mathematician and the Spurned Wife: A Motif from the Dhammillahimdi

SHARMA, ARVIND

A Textual Variant in the Aitareyopanishad and Its Overlooked Significance for the Position of Women in Hinduism

SPARHAM, GARETH

Abhisamayalamkara 2.20: on the Difference Between stobha in the Samaveda and Prajnaparamita

TORELLA, RAFFAELE

Observations on yogipratyaksha

UNEBE, TOSHIYA

Cognition and Language: A Discussion of Vakyapadiya 1.131 with Regard to Criticism from the Buddhists

VERGIANI, VINCENZO

Bhartrhari’s Views on Liminal Perception and Self-Awareness

WADA, TOSHIHIRO

Gangesha on the Meaning of Verbal Suffixes (2)

WATANABE, CHIKAFUMI

Madhyamakahrdayakarika III. 147–158

YOSHIMIZU, KIYOTAKA

Tradition and Reflection in Kumarila’s Last Stand against the Grammarians’ Theories of Verbal Denotation

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