13th
WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE
Edinburgh, Scotland, 10th-14th July, 2006

THIRD CIRCULAR


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PARTICIPANTS AND PAPERS (a provisional list)

The final programme will be distributed to participants on arrival at Edinburgh and the list below must be regarded as provisional only. Participants are listed alphabetically within each section. Please notify us of any errors in your name or the title of your paper (providing us with a readable correction). Diacritics have unavoidably been omitted in this list.


Section 1 - Veda

Taraknath Adhikari Some irregular features in the Sayanabhasya of the Atharvaveda
Nabanarayan Bandyopadhyay Evaluation of Daksina items with reference to Mulyadhyaya
Soma Basu Offensive and Defensive Weapons - Military Science in the Vedic Period
Didhiti Biswas The Significance of Horse in the Vedic Religion and Culture
Brian Black The Dialogical Self in the Early Upanisads
Joel Brereton The Early Evolution of the Purohita
Kana Chattopadhyay A Liturgic and Symbolic Study of Cayana
Shrimanta Chattopadhyay Classification of Rgvedic Female Deities
Nilanjana Sikdar Datta An Analytical Study of an Oral Text - The Rgveda
Madhav Deshpande Predicament of the Maitrayani community in Maharashtra:Migration, Acculturation and Identity Crises
Silvia D'Intino The Skandasvamibhasya on the Rgveda: Observations on the introductory portion of the commentary
Tamara Ditrich Stylistic and Typological Analysis of Coordinative Nominal Constructions in the Rgveda
S. Einoo
Laszlo Forizs Dirghatamas II: Analysis of the Dirghatamas cycle (RV 1.140-164) and of 1.164.46
Masato Fujii The Purohita and the Brahman Priest
Cezary Galewicz On ritualized patterns of collective recitation among Nambudiri Rgvedins: the case of Trisandha
Arlo Griffiths 'To fart' in Vedic: the roots kard and sardh
Stephanie Jamison Sacrificer's Wife in the Rig Veda: Ritual Innovation?
M. Jezic Kausitaki-Upanisad: its teachings and its text history
Joanna Jurewicz The "small scale" transmigration in the Rgveda?
Mieko Kajihara The Godana Ritual and the Vedavratas
W. Knobl On the Concessive Meaning of Sánt- in Vedic
Frank Köhler Mapping the poet in the Rgveda
Murlimanohar Pathak Elements of creation in the minor cosmogonic hymns of the Rgveda
Theodore Proferes Fire in the Waters andthe Alchemical King
Ferenc Ruzsa Is the Cosmic Giant an Indo-European Myth?
Adela Sandness To open the double doors of rta: a study of dvarav rtasya in Rgveda 7.95 to Sarasvati.
Umesh Chandra Sharma The Legend of Dirghatamas
Frits Staal Cardinal Numbers in the Veda
Jarrod L Whitaker Masculinity and Violence in the Rgveda: Reconsidering the roles of nar, vira, and sura

Section 2 - Epics

Vidyut Aklujkar The Locus of the Ananda-Ramayana
Nicholas Allen Bharata genealogy: the core parent-generation males
Supriya Banik Pal Women in the field of education as projected in the Mahabharata: a re-interpretation
Horst Brinkhaus The 16,108 Wives of Krsna in the Harivamsa
John Brockington "Then in his warlike wrath Rama bent his bow": weaponry of the early Ramayana
Mary Brockington "Surprise, Surprise!" Authors' stratagems and audiences' expectations in the Ramayana
Simon Brodbeck Strange brides and hunting incidents in the Bharata patriline
Vita Antonella Cosi Upamas occurring in speeches: "abusive" similes in the Sabhaparvan and Karnaparvan
Gopal Krishna Dash Role of Krsna in the Mahabharata
Danielle Feller Bhima's quest for the golden lotuses (Mbh.3.146-153)
James L. Fitzgerald The Manifesto of "Samkhya-Yoga" at MBh 12.289-90
Robert P. Goldman Rules of Engagement: War Crimes, Raksasa rights and the Political and Military strategies of the Great Sanskrit Epics
Sally Sutherland Goldman Nikumbhila's Grove: Raksasa Rites in Valmiki's Ramayana
James Hegarty What need has he of the waters of Puskara? Tirtha and the Narrative Construction of Significant place in the Mahabharata
Alf Hiltebeitel Mapping Bhakti through Friendship in the Sanskrit Epics
Paolo Magnone Uttanka's quest
Angelika Malinar Duryodhana's praise
Laurie L. Patton "How do you conduct yourself": dialogical gender in the Mahabharata
Wendy Phillips-Rodriguez Unrooted trees: a way around the dilemma of recension
San Sarin Question of dharmayuddha in the Mahabharata
Adheesh Sathaye Textual Performance: The embedding of Visvamitra legends in the Sanskrit Epics
Sven Sellmer The heart in the Mahabharata
Urmi Shah A Comparative Study of Polity in the Nitiprakasika and the Ramayana
J. S. Sheldon Homeric resonances in Sanskrit epic: a review of the evidence and its implications
John Smith Consistency and character in the Mahabharata
Przemyslaw Szczurek Juggling with atman: a few remarks on Bhagavadgita 6.5-6
Lynn Thomas From the ocean bed to the rule of heaven: a comparison of the two main epic accounts of the vrtrahatya
Yaroslav Vassilkov The boar shakes the mud off: a specific motif in the varaha-katha of the Great Epic and Puranas

Section 3 - Puranas

Greg Bailey Misogynistic texts in Jataka S36 and Mbh.13, 38040: A Comparative Study
Alka Bakre A glimpse into Gender inequality as reflected in the main Puranas
Peter Bisschop Two parallel passages in the Vayupurana and the Skandapurana
David Buchta Novelty in Bhagavata Exegesis
Shrutidhara Chakravarty Searching the real identity of Gopis in the light of the Bhagavatapurana
Mimma Congedo The varaha-katha of the Great Epic and Puranas
André Couture The Emergence of a Group of Four Characters
Nicolas Dejenne Master or Disciple? The Perpetual Oscillation of ciranjivin Parasurama between Guide and Disciple
Anita Ray Savitri and narrative representations of the feminine
Elizabeth Mary Rohlman Narrative Variants and Regional Identity in the Sarasvati Purana
Stella Sandahl The Seven Oceans in the Puranas and elsewhere
Sandra Smets When a pauranika is influenced by a bhasyakara:...
Renate Söhnen-Thieme Ramayana stories in the Brahmapurana and other puranic sources
Lakshmi Swaminathan Narayaniyam: The Essence of Bhagavatam
Kenneth Valpey Bodies Monstrous, Bodies Divine: Corporal Transformations and Humor in the Bhagavata Purana
Christophe Vielle The editio princeps of the Jaiminiyasamhita of the Brahmandapurana, Madhyamabhaga
Yuko Yokochi From the Skandapurana to the Devimahatmya

Section 4 - Agamas and Tantras

Andrea Acri New Data on the Vaimala Sect of the Pasupatas from Old Javanese sources
Marie-Luce Barazer-Billoret Diptagama and installation ceremonies
Christelle Barois Some notes on the vidyapithapratistha and the vidyadana in the Saiva tradition
Gudrun Bühnemann Linga and Caityas in Cremation Ground Representations
Marzenna Czerniak-Drozdzowicz Visnusamhita's classification of the devotees and explanation of the name Pancaratra
Ronald Davidson Observations on the problem of secret signs in the Tantras: an essay in criticism
Thiagarajan Ganesan Pauskaragama: Its importance for systematisation of early medieval Saivasiddhanta
Eva Glasbrenner Cakra system and tantric ritual in Virasaivism
Advaitavadini Kaul Esoteric significance of saradi
Kameshwar Nath Mishra Vimalaprabha and the Language of Buddhist Texts
Lubomir Ondracka The Concept of Body in Natha-Siddha Tradition
Henri Schildt The application of the ayadi formulae in the Kerala Taccusastram
Silvia Schwarz Linder The relevance of rupa and murti for the doctrine of God of the Padmasamhita
Vijay Rajopadhyay A Rare Manuscript on Dasamahavidya

Section 5 - Vyakarana

Ashok Aklujkar Patañjali's yathalaksanam aprayukte
Emilie Aussant Proper name analysis. The points of view of paninian grammarians
Sharon Ben-Dor The Parabhasa
Jim Benson
Sudeshna Bhattacharjya A Relative Study on the concept of Samjna and Paribhasa in the light of Siddhantakaumudi
Maria Piera Candotti Les laisons dangereuses: naming-prodecure and substitution in early Sanskrit grammarians
Chaitali Dangarikar Helaraja on Eight Padarthas
Radhamadhab Dash A concordance among Paninian, Candra and Bhoja-vyakarana: some observations
M.G. Dhadphale On the name Vakyapadiya
Shankarji Jha Variety of implications of Sanskrit case endings
Eivind Kahrs
Malhar Kulkarni Malayalam manuscripts of the Kasikavrtti : A study
K. Maheswaran Nair Efficacy of Saravasvata in lieu of Paniniya as Sanskrit Grammar
Rebecca Manring Jiva Gosvamin's Hari-namamrta-vyakarana
Shinobu Mase Nagesa on the paribhasa asiddham bahirangam antarange
H. R. Mishra Attempts in Grammar by the Sanskrit Dramaturgists and Poeticians
Sharda Narayanan Vak in Bhartrhari: Threefold or Fourfold?
Hideyo Ogawa Bhartrhari of incommunicable things
Bhagyalata Pataskar Yaska's Reflections on the 'meaning of a word'.
Tiziana Pontillo Once again on 'vyakti-vacane' in Astadhyayi 1.2.51
Vanitha Ramaswamy Syntax as the basis for morphology in the Paninian system
Peter M. Scharf Paninian accounts of the class eight presents
Harmut Scharfe Panini's grammar as icon
Ram Karan Sharma The Invisible in Panini
M. Wielinska-Soltwedel The Bengali Tradition of Panini's Grammar

Section 6 - Linguistics

Hassan Rezai Baghbidi Linguistic Peculiarities of the Sanskrit Translation of the 13th Chapter of the Skend Gumanig Wizar
Vit Bubenik On the Rise and Remaking of the Middle Voice in Anatolian and Indo-Iranian
Eystein Dahl The relationship between lexical aspect and grammatical tense in the Vedic verbal system.
Marcis Gasüns Approaches to the Sanskrit Root
Toshifumi Gotõ salam as 'to live in the hut' in the Satapathabrahmana
Mark R. Hale
Heinrich Hettrich Some remarks on the adverbal genitive in Rgvedic Sanskrit
Hans Hock Vedic Verb Accent Revisited
Gary Holland
Jared Klein Sequential Negation in the Rgveda
Masato Kobayashi
Thomas Krisch
Martin Kümmel Laryngeal traces without laryngeals in Vedic metre?
Alexander Lubotsky
Boris Oguibenine Spoken Sanskrit and Buddhist Sanskrit
Georges-Jean Pinault About the 'double possessive' compounds in the Vedic language
José Luis García Ramón Polymorphic Presents in the Rg- and Atharvaveda
Christiane Schaefer
Elizabeth Tucker The 'competition' in the RV and AV between stems in -in and stems in -vant derived from thematic nouns
Michael Witzel
Calvert Watkins Two tokens of Indo-Iranian Hieratic Language
Sabine Ziegler The nomina converbalia in the Rgveda: Towards a functional and syntactical hierarchy of participles, gerunds, infinitives and agent nouns

Section 7 - Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics (including panels on poetics, on the theory and practice of dance and drama and on continuity and novelty)

Pratap Bandyopadhyay Grammatical Speculations in Sanskrit Literary Criticism
Hari Narayana Bhat The Balaramayana of Rajasekhara and later Indian literary critics
Giuliano Boccali Ocean in kavya
Anna Bonsoli Alquati The Structure of Kalidasa's Raghuvamsa
Mandakranta Bose The authorship of Sangitanarayana
Mans Broo Drama in the Service of Krsna: A Comparative Study of Rupa Gosvamin's Natakacandrika
Satyanarayan Chakraborty Study of Sanskrit Poetics in Bengal - Ancient to Modern
Laksahira Gugoi Chutia Vatsalyarasa in the works of Kalidasa
David Gitomer Ethics and Aesthetics in Sanskrit Dramatic Criticism: an overview
François Grimal Rajacudamani Diksita's Kavyadarpana
M.A. Jayashree Gamaka as expressed in Manasollasa with an attempt to compare it with western classical music
Klaus Karttunen Bees in Classical India
Mohendra N. Kundu Dhvani and Tatparya
Rani Majumdar 'Staging the Ratnavali in 9th Century Varanasi: Damodaragupta's Description in the Kuttanimatam'
David Mellins Unraveling the Kavyaprakasa: Jayadeva Piyusavarsa's idiosyncratic sequencing of topics in the Candraloka
Klara Gönc Moacanin Natyasastra's Purvaranga - ritual or a part of natya's performance?
Marina V. Orelskaya Sanskrit to English Dictionary of Dance Terminology
Deven Patel Sabhaparvan and Karnaparvan
Shubha Pathak The Divine Character of Poetic Creativity in Rajasekhara's Kavyamimamsa
Heidi Pauwels Metre and oral formulae in selected songs of Gitagovinda and Bhagavata Purana
Cinzia Pieruccini Landscapes of Feelings: The Forest of the Ramayana
Mariola Pigoniowa Some lamentation passages in Sanskrit Kavya
Chittur Seshadri Radhakrishnan The Language of Eyes in Literature
Chettiarthodi Rajendran Is Rasa an Illusion? A Study in Mahimabhatta's Aesthetics
Daniela Rosella Travelogues of the Heart: The Genesis and Development of the Sanskrit Messenger-Poems
Sakti Roy Chowdhury The Unifying Role of the Songs of Jayadeva's Gitagovinda
Peter Sahota Mirror of Experience: Some conventions of descriptive imagery in Sanskrit fiction
Hari Dutt Sharma The Concept of Symbolism and Sanskrit Poetry
David Smith Descriptions of dance in the Mahakavyas
Lidia Sudyka Campus and mahakavyas written by women: Varadambikaparinaya-campu, Madhuravijaya, Raghunathabhyudaya, Santanagopalakavya
Bruce Sullivan Dying on the Stage in Classical Sanskrit Drama
Radhavallabh Tripathi Rasa Theory Revisited

Section 8 - Scientific Literature

S. Balachandra Rao A Comparative Study of the Procedures of Three Astronomers of the early 16th century: Copernicus, Nilakantha Somayaji and Gangesa Daivajña
Eugen Ciurtin Circuit of Aliments and Metabolization of Karma in Sanskrit Ayurvedic Samhita
Vijaya Deshpande Beliefs, aspirations and accomplishments of the medieval Indian alchemist as depicted in Rasopanisad
Martin Gansten Nadiya Divination and Indian Astrology
Amrit Gomperts The Muhurtalaksana: A brief text of Time of Day, Gnomonic Shadow and Divination from Java, compared to the Inscriptions and the Sanskrit Atmajyotisa
Makoto Kitada The Body of a musician: Embryology and Anatomy in the Indian Classical Musicological Literature
Nand Lal Jain Botanical Sciences in Early Jain Scriptures
James McHugh The Art and Science of Perfumery (gandhayukti) in the Nagarasarvasva of Padmasri
Kim Plofker
B. Rama Rao Some Unpublished Ayurveda Nighantus from Andhra
K Ramasubramanian The Notion of Proof in Indian Science
Sreeramula Sarma Yantraraja at Edinburgh: on a Sanskrit Astrolabe made for Manirama in 1644 AD
Gyula Wojtilla Ratnasastra in Kautilya's Arthasastra (KA)

Section 9 - Buddhist Studies

Daniel Boucher Gandhari and the Early Chinese Buddhist Translations: A Reappraisal in Light of New Finds
Alice Collett Avadanasataka: the fluidity of text and the problem of genre
António Ferreira-Jardim On the Outer: investigating the relationship between an early Buddhist description of meditative praxis and the early mainstream Brahmanical corpus.
Oliver Freiberger Blind Ascetics or True Ascetics? Early Buddhist Strategies of Dealing with Non-Buddhists
Rupert Gethin
Natalie Gummer The Dramatics of the Dharma: Rasa in the Suvarna(pra)bhasottamamasutra
Ananda Guruge Who was Upagupta's Asoka?
Maria Heim Moral Agency in the Abhidharma: a close look at cetana
Shinichiro Hori Fragments of the Lalitavistara from Central Asia
Seishi Karashima Who were the icchantikas?
Toshihiko Kimura The Upayahrdaya and the Early History of Indian Logic
Ulrich Kragh Popular Images in 7th century Madhyamaka Commentaries: Candrakirti's appropriation of the Goose-King
Karen Lang Candrakirti's prescription for treating the three poisons
Yong-hyun Lee Re-editing the Nispannayogavali: Textual Problems
Mudagamuwe Maithrimurthi The four brahmaviharas in the Aryavimalakirtinirdesasutra
Daniele Masset From Taming to drunkenness: images of the elephant in Indo-Tibetan literature
Taiki Motomura vastu and nimitta in the Yogacarabhumi: in connection with the three-nature theory as found in the Madhyantavibhagabhaya
Ramanath Pandey The Theory of Nondistinction between the means and the result of cognition
Satya Prakash Sharma An Analytical Study of Parittas and Paritta Suttas
Safarali Shomakhmadov Duties of a King in Brahmanic religious-legal tradition (On a material of some Sanskrit texts)
Peter Skilling
Frederick Smith The Use of Demonologies in the Buddhist Avistacestavidhiparavartah

Section 10 - Jaina Studies

Nalini Balbir
Satya Ranjan Banerjee
Jagat Ram Bhattacharyya Concept of Brahmacarya in Jainism
John Cort In Defence of Icons in Three Languages: The Iconophilic Writings of the Seventeenth-century Svetambara Murtipujaka Tapa Gaccha Monk Yasovijaya
Eva De Clercq Krsna in the Svetambara canon
Paul Dundas An Early Anti-Paurnamiyaka Polemical Work: Ajitadevasuri's Mohonmulanavadasthanaka
Anna Aurelia Esposito Life before life before life: an exceptional perspective on Jina Usabha's biography
Peter Flügel The Sammet Sikhara Case
Sin Fujinaga On Nigoya
Olle Qvarnström Early Jain and Buddhist Critique of Samkhya Philosophy
Jayandra Soni Upayoga, according to Kundakunda, Umasvati and Vidyanandin
Kristi Wiley The Significance of Adhyavasaya
Robert Zydenbos

Section 11 - Philosophy (including panels on Sastrarambha and New Directions in the Study of Yoga)

Akihiko Akamatsu Perspectivism and its background in Indian Philosophy: Bharthari and Mallavadin
Piotr Balcerowicz Some Remarks on the Opening Sections in Buddhist and Jaina Epistemological Treatises
Johannes Bronkhorst The Carvakas and the Vedic tradition
Mikel Burley The Relevance of Samkhya Metaphysics to Yoga Meditation
Jenni Cover Bodehasara by Narahari: a previously untranslated Sanskrit text: a contribution to the emerging picture of eighteenth-century India
M. Delhey Bauddha-Sastra
Evgeniya Desnitskaya Grammar vs. Ontology in Bhartrhari's Vakyapadiya
Vimia Devi The Relevance of Patanjali Yoga in Modern World
Bogdan Diaconescu Udayana on God and the Veda
Koji Ezaki Jnanasrimitra, Udayana and Sri Harsa
Edeltraud Harzer On the Sources of Non-Propositional and Propositional Perception
Jan Houben Mallavadin and the Grammarians
Knut Jacobsen What Similes in Samkhya Do
Ram Nath Jha The Theory of Meaning in Yoga Philosophy
Sung Yong Kang Text Transmission of Nyayabhasya and its Relevance to History of Early Nyaya
Yohei Kawajiri The Pratyabhijna school's criticism of the Sautrantika
Kesiraju V. V. Rao Significance of the Verse 'karmany evadhikaras te' in the Bhagavadgita in Achieving Global Peace
Hisayasu Kobayashi The Proof of the self-luminous Nature of a Cognition
Shashiprabha Kumar Nihshreyasa in vyomavati
Oliver Lamers Modification of ritual details (uha) in the Prabhakara-School of Purvamimamsa as depicted in the Dipasikha of Salikanatha Misra
Victoria Lysenko The Structure of the Perceptive Act: Dignaga, Prasastapada and Grammarians
Philipp Maas Opening the Patanjalayogasastra and its premodern commentaries
Niradbaran Mandal The role of Yoga in various systems of Indian Philosophy
Shuchita Mehta Practical approach of the ethical principles of Upanisads
Christopher Minkowski Why should we read the Mangala-verses?
Andrew Nicholson Vijnanabhiksu on the Concordance of Yoga and Vedanta
Monika Nowakowska Artha and anartha in Mimamsa
Trichur Rukmani The problematic of Samadhi in Sadananda's Vedantasutras
Stuart Sarbacker Patanjala Yoga and/as Cosmology
Rajendra Nath Sarma The Mimamsa Concept of Akanksa as the Basis of Syntactic Unity
Marcus Schmücker Sastrarambhanupapattiprasanga in Venkatanatha's Satadusani
Olga Serbaeva Yoga from the Yogini's Point of View
Anna-Pya Sjödin Tarka in Vallabha's Nyayalilavati and the Nyaya-vaisesika tradition: general problems and concerns
Walter Slaje 'In the Guise of Poetry' - Kalhana Reconsidered.
Jacqueline Suthren Hirst Who were the tarkikas?
Fernando Tola and Carmen Dragonetti The genesis of the universals in Prasastapada and the genesis of the principia prima in Aristotle
Gary Tubb Philosophical Beginnings in Sanskrit Treatises on Poetics
Toshiya Unebe Bhartrhari's remark and related discussions in Nyaya and Buddhist treatises
Toshihiro Wada A Rule of Substitution in Navya-nyaya: x-vat-tva and x
Alexander Watson Jayanta Bhatta on the question of whether the self can be perceived
Ian Whicher Kaivalya in the Yoga Sutra
Nataliya Yanchevskaya Concept of Time in Bhartrhari's Vakyapadiya

Section 12 - History, Epigraphy and the Arts

Daud Ali A fragmentary Gahadavahala prasasti at Gangaikondacolapuram
Hans T. Bakker Thanesar, early Pasupata and the Skandapurana
Stefan Baums An inscribed Buddhist plaque from Merv
Whitney Cox Another look at Naralokavira's Cidambaram prasasti
Partha Pratim Das Naga Habitation in Bengal: Epigraphic Evidences
Sadananda Das Saudhikagama on Town Planning
Oskar von Hinüber The Cultural Context of the Inscriptions from the Upper Indus
S.R. Leela Foreign Trade in Ancient India as reflected in the Arthasastra of Kautilya
Vincent Lefèvre Portraits in the Silpasastra and Related Texts
Isabella Nardi Evaluating Indian art: suggesting a Sastric analysis of the image of Sri Nathji in Nathdvara miniature painting
Jason Neelis Onomastic Patterns in Indian Buddhist Inscriptions
Saveros Pou Satya, sapatha and saksi in Cambodia's tradition
Chandra Shekar Purohit The rajaprasasti inscription at Raj Samand near Udaipur
Saraju Rath Numerals in Grantha Manuscripts
Richard Salomon Radiocarbon Dating of Gandharan Manuscripts: Results of New Tests
Annette Schmiedchen Religious Patronage and Poltical Power: The Ambivalent Character of Royal Donations in Epigraphy
Bharati Shelat The Sanskrit Inscriptions of the Reservoirs of Gujarat
Ingo Strauch Indian Traders on the Island of Socotra (Yemen): new materials from the 2006 expedition
Michael Willis Hero-stones from Terahi: inscriptions and the iconography of death

Section 13 - Law and Society

Madan Mohan Agrawal Custom as legal evidence
Mikael Aktor The 'Grammar of Defilement' Revisited: Comparing Rules of prayascitta with Rules of asauca
Torkel Brekke The Motivation of Asvatthaman: Ethics of War in the Sauptikaparvan of the Mahabharata
Donald Davis Maxims and Precedent in Classical Hindu Law
Domenico Francavilla Through Words and Practices: smrti, sadacara, and the Transmissions of the Knowledge of dharma
Mari Jyväsjärvi Parivrajikas and Pravrajitas: Mapping the Semantic Categories of Ascetic Women
Ethan Kroll Early Modern Contributions to the Sanskrit Philosophy of Property
Timothy Lubin Priestly and Royal Authority in Hindu Law
Werner Menski On Vyavahara
Patrick Olivelle Images and Texts: The Visnu-Smrti and Kashmiri Art
Sofarali Shomakhmadov Duties of a King in Brahmanical religio-legal tradition
Federico Squarcini Punishing in Public: imposing moral self-dominance in juridical Sanskrit sources

Section 14 - Culture and Tradition (including panels on International Digital Sanskrit Library Integration, pedagogical issues in teaching Sanskrit, Russian scholars on the structure of a canonical text, and Sanskrit and computing)

Natalia Aleksandrova Writings of Chinese Pilgrims and the Indian Textual Tradition
John Casey The Use of Sanskrit in Modern Yoga
Christopher Key Chapple Sanskrit for Adult Learners
Maxim Fomin Buddhist Canonical Texts on Ideal Kingship: Morality and Righteousness
Jost Gippert Towards an online retrieval system for the Vedic language
Minoru Hara Hindu Concept of Sleep, nidra and svapna
Gérard Huet Parsing Sanskrit by Computer
Malcolm Hyman A Computational Approach to Sanskrit Morphology and Phonology
Mahmoud Jaafari-Dehaghi Translations of the Sanskrit text of 'Suka Saptati' into Persian
Warwick Jessup Teaching Sanskrit as part of a school curriculum
Birgit Kellner The Indian Logic Knowledge Base (ILKB) - an interim project report
Dermot Killingley Texts for Beginners
Suryaprakash Kompalli Design of a stochastic framework for font-independent Devanagari OCR
Samniang Leurmsai Metaphysics and Ethics as seen in the Bhagavadgita and Buddhacarita
Amarjiva Lochan Champa and Vietnam: Sanskrit Inscriptions Calling
Sombat Mangmeesukhsiri Obsolete or Essential? A Case study of Sanskrit Studies in Thailand
Òscar Pujol A new Sanskrit dictionary: The Sanskrit-Catalan Dictionary
Shuk Dev Sharma Narahari: the Commentator of Naisadhiyacaritam of Sriharsa
McComas Taylor Truth and Power in Sanskrit literature: A study of discourse in the Pañcatantra
Gerd Unruh Some results of the EU-India project: Development of an Intelligent Cognitive System for Sanskrit based on Indian Logic
Victoria Vertogradova Image and Text in the Culture of Ancient India (Lotus rosette in relievo and verbal text)
Yevgenyi Vyrshchikov Ambattha and the Buddha: struggle between religious-philosophical teaching in ancient India and the peculiarities of its reflection in the Pali canon
Toru Yagi On the Kiratarjuniya 2.45: Yapayati Reconsidered
Ousaka Yumi A new Meter Analysis in Middle Indo-Aryan on the Basis of Neuro Network Assisted by Discriminant Analysis
Yuriy Zavhorodniy The Study of Indian Philosophy in Ukraine
Natalia Zheleznova The Schisms in Buddhist History: a fresh approach
Dar Zhutayev Concerning the Structure of the Early Buddhist Doctrinal Text (Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Pali)

Sastracarcasadas

organised by Professor V. Kutumba Sastry and including:

Ram Murti Sharma Bharatiya darsane aksara svarupam

Kavisammelana

Radhavallabh Tripath (presiding)
Ram Karan Sharma
Shriniwas Rath
Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra
Deepak Ghosh
ShreeBhashyam Vijay Sarath
Shatavadhani R Ganesh
Shri Jagannatha Pathak
Bhaskaracharya Tripathi
Pushpa Diksit
Haridatta Sharma
Harshadev Madhav
Ichcharam Dwivedi
Janardan Prasad Pandey 'Mani'
K. C.Dash
C. S.Radhakrishnan
Asha Gurjar

Participants attending without presenting a paper

Leonid Bolshov
François Chenet
Bruno Dagens
Elizabeth De Michelis
Paul Douglas
Michael Fahmy
Gavin Flood
Leonid Goldman
Mareike Heinritz
Angela Hohenberg
Yasuke Ikari
Tomoyuki Kono
Petteri Koskikallio
Peter Larsson
Colin Mackerras
Alana Macmillan
Usha Mehta
Nandadulal Moghe
Anne Monius
Andrew More
Primoz Pecenko
Irma Piovano
Brian Richardson
Ulrike Roesler
Bou Samyos
Rita Schubnell
Markus Schuepbach
Meera Shah
Siegfried Lienhard
Malgorzata Sulich
Viktoria Szabo
Muneo Tokunaga
Asha Rani Tripathi
Caroline Widmer
Sabina Zahn
Gabriele Zeller

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