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Forthcoming. Written at the request of Motilal Banarsidass, the main Indological publisher in India; intended to give an overview of the history of Sanskrit, with special emphasis on the relevance of Sanskrit now (‘in the electronic age’).
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par Sylvain Brocquet. — Ce manuel original, dont c’est ici la seconde édition, revue et augmentée, s’adresse à tous ceux qui souhaitent apprendre, seuls ou avec l’aide d’un professeur, le sanskrit classique afin de lire les textes. Rédigé... more
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      Sanskrit language and literatureSanskritSanskrit PhilologySanskrit Grammar and Linguistics
This article deals with the role of Sanskrit in speech-language pathology. A brief description of the science of production of speech sounds, classification of speech sounds, causes of speech disorders and treatment of speech and language... more
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      SanskritAyurvedaSpeech-language PathologyIndian Perspectives
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      BuddhismComparative ReligionIndian PhilosophyPlato
Tantra is a system of knowledge based upon empirical as well as experiential understanding. The Kalacaka Tantra was the last major Buddhist Tantrik text written in lndia during early 11th century. This book has left indelible mark over... more
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It is a precious knowledge of ancient india. this script was originally composed by mahrshi BHARADWAJA, the great indian sage around 5000 BC ,it content english transtation of some of its sanskrit stotras and shlokas.before wright... more
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Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS; Oriental University, 2019. — 244 pp., ill. The book is a collection of essays dealing with various aspects of Southeast Asian and Cambodian epigraphy and state formation. The first essay shows... more
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      Southeast Asian StudiesSanskrit language and literatureCambodiaSanskrit
As the founder of a global movement of spiritually-oriented and socially-minded intellectuals, artists and writers called Renaissance Universal, Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar (1922-1990), a spiritual teacher (also known as Shrii Shrii... more
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Paper for the panel: The Viṣṇudharma and the Śivadharma: points of influence and divergence, 33. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Jena, Germany, 18–22 September 2017 * Published now in the Introduction to the book "A Śaiva Utopia" on... more
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      BuddhismHinduismHistory of ReligionBuddhist Studies
All parents wish to give a unique and meaningful name to their child. In India, a Sanskrit name is mostly preferred. Often parents turn to the Internet, which is replete with misinformation on Sanskrit names. Popular name websites too... more
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An anthology of published papers and book chapters
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      SanskritVedic Cosmology and CosmographyHindu StudiesVedic Studies
Indus inscriptions hold the key to unlocking the history of pre-Iron Age India and all Indo-European peoples but remain undeciphered for over a century. All prior attempts have been unsatisfactory and unfalsifiable. We decipher the Indus... more
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      Ancient HistoryAncient Indo-European LanguagesSanskritAncient myth and religion
In this paper have been examined the two fundamental texts of the Hindū dance-theatre tradition, the Nāṭyaśāstra and the Abhinayadarpaṇa, in order to compare them and to investigate first the lexical use of rasas and of sthāyibhāvas, and... more
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To present a brief life sketch of Vaishtha Ganapati Muni and and introduction to his works in Sanskrit is the objective of this write up. This is written entirely in Sanskrit.
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      Vedic Language and Classical SanskritSanskritPāṇini
Natural language processingis the branch of computer science focused on developing systems that allow computers to communicate with people using everyday language. Sanskrit is considered as the mother language for almost all Indian... more
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The author‟s article on “Oceanic Divyadeśas …” (Studies in Indian Place Names, 2020, 40: 71, 3044-3071) stands amended in the light of critical comments by Professor Asko Parpola (e-mail dated June 2, 2020). The veil is removed in... more
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Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra, from the end of the fourth century BC, provides interesting insights into the problems of governance, accounting and control in the Mauryan society. This paper uses the extant English translations of Arthaśāstra to... more
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Rāmacandrācārya’s Prakriyākaumudī and Jīva Gosvāmin’s Harināmāmṛtavyākaraṇa (15th-16th centuries) are the first two grammars in the Brahminical context to include verses with bitextual meaning (śleṣa). In those verses, the authors... more
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      Sanskrit language and literatureVyakaranaSanskritSanskrit Aesthetics
P. R. Sarkar described Ráŕh, an ancient land in eastern India, as the “Cradle of Civilization”. He claimed that it is one of the areas where human beings first appeared on Earth. Bengali, or Báḿlá, which has come from the Púrvii... more
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Artha means money and Śāstra means who rules. So, the meaning of this text is “To rule by money” or “the Rule of Money”. He said that the most important element of the state is not the government or the army but the treasury (money).... more
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      TaxationSanskritTax PolicyIndology
We have seen that several vedic seals are standards containing,vedic metrology,vedic geneology and proclamations by vedic kings.In this article we are identifying the Vedic King Divodasa and his relation to Varanasi/Kaasi and the Kumbha... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryArchaeologyPrehistoric Archaeology
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pre-print draft of an article published in the 2015.2 Supplement of the Rivista di Studi Orientali, edited by G. Milanetti and R. Torella, and presented at the conference "The Human Person and Nature in Classical and Modern India, Rome,... more
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      Indian PhilosophySanskritPhilosophy of NatureMimamsa
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      BuddhismJainismIndian PhilosophyBuddhist Philosophy
Abstract : this study, which first aim was to demonstrate the correspondences between the Gaulish language and the Slavic languages, between which I found 500 common words, allowed me also to demonstrate, on the basis of genetical,... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyLanguages and LinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsCeltic Studies
in Yogajvāla. La llama del yoga. 18, Madrid 2017, p. 9–21.
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      YogaSanskritSanskrit Manuscripts
रस भारतीय साहित्य वाङ्मय का विशिष्ट प्रमेय हैं, जिस प्रकार पाश्चात्य कला-चिन्तन की केन्द्रीय संकल्पना “सौन्दर्य” है, एवं जिस प्रकार जपानी कला चिन्तन का प्रमुख केन्द्र ‘युगेन’ है तथा चीनी कला चिन्तन की मुख्य अवधारणा ध्वनि बोधक है, उसी... more
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Some information about sanskrit / yoga workshops I run from time to time
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This study, which first aim was to demonstrate correspondences between Gaulish and Slavic languages, between which I found 500 common words, allowed me also to establish, on the basis of genetical, archaeological and religious data, that... more
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      Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics)Languages and LinguisticsContact LinguisticsHistorical Linguistics
Hindu and Jain Mythology of Balarāma: Change and Continuity in an Early Indian Cult Vemsani, Lavanya Description This book studies the evolution of Balarāma in Vaişņavism through comparative analysis of Balarāma stories from... more
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A brief description on the TATPARYA VRITTI according Sanskrit Sahitya.
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      HinduismIndian studiesLaw and ReligionSanskrit language and literature
— Devnagari is the most popular script in India it is used by over 400 million people all over world. Recognition of Devnagari handwritten word has been a popular research area for many years because of its various applications. This... more
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These are slides I used to teach students the Ishavasya Upanishad. One can easily understand the whole Upanishad with Shankara Bhashya after studying the slides thoroughly. Like my students, hope the readers will also understand this... more
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“This science behind the creation of words, which was neglected for so long, should not be allowed to remain undiscovered,” claims Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar. “This is not only the case here – the same thing has been happening with all of the... more
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Possibility of Perpetual Source of Energy
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'Weighing of the heart' was an important ceremony in Egyptian civilization. It is likely that the same idea had spread to the Indian subcontinent and was followed by the 'Indus valley civilization'. The god involved in the ceremony was... more
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Heike Oberlin; Frank Köhler (ed.). 2020. Die 1000 Namen Vishnus. Viṣṇusahasranāma. Sanskrit-Handschriften aus der Sammlung Heide und Wolfgang Voelter. Begleitband zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung im Museum Alte Kulturen des Museums der... more
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      Rare Books and ManuscriptsSanskritIndologyBhagavad Gītā
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      Indian PhilosophyIndian studiesSanskrit language and literatureSanskrit
A study on Sāyaṇācārya's Commentary on Ṛgveda.

Paper published in ANVῙKṢĀ, A Peer Reviewed Research Journal of the Department of Sanskrit, Jadavpur University.
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Захаров А.О, Надпись из Чанггала 732 г. и некоторые вопросы древнеяванской истории // Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность. 2010. № 2. С. 34–45 = Zakharov, Anton O., "Nadpis iz Changgala 732 g. i nekotorye voprosy... more
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      Southeast Asian StudiesSanskrit language and literatureSanskritSoutheast Asian history
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      Greek LanguageAncient Indo-European LanguagesSanskrit language and literatureIranian Studies
This Sanskrit-English translation of the Chapter 3 of the Bhagavad Gita contains word-for-word translations with grammatical detail. It was translated by Michael Douglas Neely.
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This paper aims to discuss Kautilya’s perspective of Anvikshiki in the context of Statecraft. The effort has been taken here to understand Kautilyan way of justifying the purpose of Anvikshiki in running state affairs. In general, the... more
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Täntrikasiddhiprakaranam is an incomplete Sanskrit text written by Sri Aurobindo. The available text has thirty-seven sutras (short sentences) dealing with the sadhana of surrender to Kali, the shakti. Nothing much is known about the date... more
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