VANCOUVER 2018 

THE 17TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE 

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SANSKRIT 17 
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CONFERENCE 
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UNIVERSITY VANCOUVER, JULY OF BRITISH 
9-13, COLUMBIA CANADA 2018 

संमेलनमागदशका CONFERENCE 
PROGRAMME 
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SANSKRIT STUDIES 
CONSULATE GENERAL OF INDIA VANCOUVER 
www.mandalarts.ca 
 
WSC2018 Local Organizing Committee IASS International Committee 
Timothy Bellefleur 
Adheesh Sathaye (Lead) 
WSC2018 Production Team 
Mandakranta Bose 
Sloane Geddes 
Tom Hunter 
Charles Li 
Vidyut Aklujkar 
Ashok Aklujkar 
Shagun Chheda 
Rishabh Gunvante 
Chandima Silva 
Dominik Wujastyk 
Alex Parappilly 
Katrina Lim 
Parth Sharma 
Yadi Qu 
Ginnie Schuster Cramer 
Alyssa Kwong-Taylor 
VANCOUVER 2018 
THE 17TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE 
Proudly presented by the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, in partnership with the Indian 
Summer Arts Society, Click On Tours, and Mandala Arts & Culture, with generous support from the Social Science and 
Humanities Research Council, Canada, BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, International Buddhist Society, Indian Council for 
Cultural Relations, and the Consul General of India, Vancouver. 
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SANSKRIT STUDIES 
Hiren Gandhi BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha Liaison 
Hari Dutt Sharma (Coordinator, क वस मायः/शा चचा्ग) 

Supriya Bhattacharya Banquet Organizer 

V. Kutumba Shastry (President) 
Jo-Anne Rockwood Conference Manager, UBC 
Ram Karan Sharma (Past President) 
John Brockington (Hon. Vice President) 

WSC2018 Coordinators 
Madhu Varshney Community Liaison 
Amarjiva Lochan (Past Organizer) 

Georges Pinault (Treasurer) 

Jayandra Soni (Secretary General) 
Sarika Bose Banquet Organizer 
 
www.ubc.ca | www.asia.ubc.ca 
www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca This conference is made possible through support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research 
Council of Canada. 
www.baps.org We are honoured to acknowledge the robust support of the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, Canada, a global 
socio-spiritual and volunteer-driven Hindu organization that has been one of the largest supporters of international Sanskrit 
Studies, as inspired by the teachings of Bhagwan Swaminarayan and the spiritual leadership of Pramukh Swami Maharaj & 
Mahant Swami Maharaj. 
buddhisttemple.ca We have been generously supported by the International Buddhist Society, led by Ven. Guan Cheng, an ardent 
proponent of Buddhist learning & practice the Vancouver Area for decades, who has built a magnificent temple complex in 
Richmond, BC dedicated to Guanyin and designed in a classical Chinese imperial style—be sure to visit them during our 
“Highway to Heaven” excursion! 
cisar.iar.ubc.ca The Centre for India and South Asia Research at UBC fosters excellence in academic research on South Asia, and 
is a generous sponsor of WSC chai breaks. 
sfu.ca Nepathya’s support of External of the Relations workshop Faculty at on of Simon Kūṭiyāṭṭaṃ Communication, Fraser has 
University.. 
been Art, made and Technology possible through and the the 
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www.sgvp.ca The SGVP Gurukul, Canada has been a strong promoter of Sanskrit studies, and has been working to support 
sādhus and other traditional scholars at the WSC. 
www.iccr.gov.in We acknowledge the prominent support of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in arranging for the travel 
of the full 12-person Nepathya troupe from Muzhikkulam, Kerala. ICCR is dedicated to strengthening the cultural relations and 
mutual understanding between India and the world. 
www.harisharma.org We have been given generous support for Tuesday’s Public Forum on Gender and Caste in Sanskrit Studies 
from the Dr. Hari Sharma Foundation, a prominent area supporter of the advancement of knowledge about South Asia and of 
cultural development in the diaspora.. 
semperviva.com | www.shophalfmoon.ca Semperviva, a prominent proponent of yoga practice & teacher training, along with 
Halfmoon, a leading vendor of innovative products to supplement yoga practice, wellness, and meditation, have both supported 
our WSC Volunteers through generous in-kind donations. 
nanakfoods.com | gaganfoods.com | naturespath.com We have received generous in-kind support from three of Vancouver’s most 
prominent and successful food companies - Nanak Foods will provide desserts at public events while Gagan Foods and Nature’s 
Path are donating complimentary snack/breakfast products for delegates. We are grateful to these local companies for their 
support, and especially to Madhu Varshney, our Community Liaison and President of the Arya Samaj Educational and Cultural 
Society of British Columbia, who has facilitated these sponsorships.. 

Sponsors Partners 
We Department VPR-I, & Freddie their Accommodation, would time Depts. Wood and like of of to Theatre, support Asian 
Music thank UBC Studies, and in AMS the Food organizing Theatre faculty Student Faculty Services, & & this staff Film, Nest, 
of the Arts, conference. 
of Conferences and Chan the 
SPARC, 
Arts Centre, 
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Benefactors 
Vinay Chaskar 
Rajendra Ghosh 
Hiretakur Gopinath 
Peter Harnetty 
Shashank Hedao 
Ashok & Lynn Katey 
Jaya Mazumdar 
Suseela Reddy 
Atul Shah 
Vijaya & Shyam Vipat 
indiansummerfest.ca 
www.mandalarts.ca 
The 17th World Sanskrit Conference serendipitously occurs at the same time as the annual Indian Summer Festival, Vancouver’s 
acclaimed contemporary multi-arts festival (running July 6-15 ). Through an inspirational and synergetic partnership, ISF has 
helped us promote two WSC events to the general public: Living Legends - Nepathya’s gala performance of Kūṭiyāṭṭam, and 
James Mallinson’s public lecture on Yoga: To Mortify or Cultivate the Body.Delegates are encouraged to attend ISF events 
throughout the week, including their premier event, a rare live performance by the great bansuri maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia on 
Saturday, July 14. WSC delegates will receive a 25% discount by buying tickets online using an exclusive promotional code 
(ISFWSC2018) (available at indiansummerfest.ca). 
mandalarts.ca We are excited to partner with Mandala Arts and Culture, a prominent Vancouver area Bharatanāṭyam dance 
company and academy led by Jai Govinda, to bring you a puṣpāñjali performance to inaugurate the conference, as well as a 
feature performance of South Indian classical dance on Wednesday evening. 
clickontours.com Our travel partners Clickon Tours have worked hard to assist delegates travelling to Vancouver from all over 
the world, to plan and arrange post-conference excursions, and to provide airport transfer services before and after the 
conference. 
sanskritifoundation.ca Naren Ganesan, founder and leader of the Sanskriti Temple of Fine Arts in Edmonton, Alberta, will 
perform alongside dancers from the Mandala Arts Academy as part of the Wednesday evening programme of Dākṣiṇātya, Music 
and Dance from South India. 
naadfoundation.ca | sudnyadanceacademy.com Our local cultural partners Naad Foundation and Sudnya Dance Academy will be 
performing a set of live classical music and dance compositions based on the enigmatic identity of Śiva on Tuesday evening. 
CONSULATE GENERAL OF INDIA VANCOUVER 
www.cgivancouver.org The Consul General of India, Vancouver, Hon. Smt. Abhilasha Joshi has enthusiastically supported the 
17th World Sanskrit Conference, particularly in the facilitation of ICCR support for Nepathya and the protocol surrounding the 
visit of our Principal Guest of Honour. 
www.allindiasweetsrestaurant.com We are proud to be partnering with our friends at the All India Sweets Restaurant, a mainstay 
in the Punjabi Market neighbourhood of Vancouver, who are providing us with their wonderful catering during the chai/coffee 
breaks. 
THE 17TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE is made possible through an incredible outpouring of generosity from a 
diverse group of academic institutions, religious and philanthropic organizations, arts & cultural groups, corporate 
sponsors,government agencies, and, above all, the individuals and families who are our benefactors. We are overwhelmed by the 
passionate support and encouragement that the Indo-Canadian communities of the greater Vancouver Area have shown toward 
Sanskrit learning and culture over the past two years. We especially thank our enthusiastic teams of volunteers—those kind souls 
who have donated hours of their time & resources, and immeasurable energy and goodwill toward making this landmark 
gathering a success. 
We are grateful for the support you have given us! 
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We  are  honoured  to  welcome  as  our  Chief  Guest  one  of  the  most  recognizable 
faces  of  the  Union  Council  of  Ministers,  Hon’ble  Prakash  Keshav  Javadekar,  who 
serves  as  the  Union  Minister  of  Human Resource Development, Republic of India. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Rajya Sabha, representing the state of Madhya Pradesh, and 
has  had  a political career dedicated to confronting socio-economic issues as well as 
corruption  and  criminality  within  Indian  politics.  For  many  years,  Shri  Javadekar 
has  served  as  a  veteran  National  Spokesperson  for  the  Bharatiya  Janata  Party,  and 
since  2016  has  overseen  the  Ministry  of  Human  Resource  Development,  a  robust 
portfolio  that  includes  the  Department  of  Higher  Education,  the  Indian  Council  of 
Historical  Research,  the  Indian  Council  of  Philosophical  Research,  as  well  as  the 
Rashtriya  Sanskrit  Sansthan,  an  apex  for  the  promotion  and  development  of 
Sanskrit Studies in India. 

Guest of Honour Hon. Prakash 

Javadekar 
 
Table of Contents WSC Organizing Team 
Sponsors, Partners, Benefactors Guest of Honour 
Table of Contents General Information 
Maps/Floorplans Cultural Events Plenary & 
Keynote Speakers Special Panels Schedule of 
Papers Index of Delegates Conference Schedule 
At-a-glance 
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General 
Information 
About Vancouver and UBC 
Nestled between the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, Vancouver, Canada offers a spectacular and 
serene natural backdrop for the 17th World Sanskrit Conference. It’s an active, energetic city that 
embraces outdoor adventures & the natural landscape. Vancouver is also home to world-class 
gastronomic delights, especially Asian & Asian-inspired cuisines of the Pacific Northwest. 
The 17th WSC will be held at the Point Grey campus of the University of British Columbia, located on 
the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam Nation. UBC is on a peninsula overlooking the 
ocean, separated from the rest of the city by a forest (Pacific Spirit Regional Park). The campus is 
approximately a 30-minute drive from downtown Vancouver. There are numerous safe and reliable bus 
routes that start from UBC, which will allow you to easily explore the city during your stay. 
Weather 
Vancouver is noted for its mild summers: the average temperaturse for July are 22°C (high) and 14°C 
(low). Conference-goers will experience nearly 16 hours of sunlight, with sunrise at (approximately) 
5.15am and sunset at 9.15pm. Though the Pacific Northwest is famous for its rain, July is Vancouver’s 
driest month, with an average rainfall of only 42.7mm. We don’t anticipate inclement weather during the 
conference—but of course anything is possible, so please plan accordingly! 
Getting to Campus & Checking In 
If you are coming from the Vancouver Airport, please come to the UBC campus by taxi, public transit, or 
special airport shuttles being arranged by our partners at Clickon Tours. Please see the FOURTH 
CIRCULAR for specific details of ground transfer to the UBC Campus. We will have WSC Volunteers 
present throughout the day on Sunday, July 8 to greet you at the Vancouver Airport (YVR). They will 
help you find the right option for getting to UBC. They can also assist you to find a convenient store at 
the airport, where you may buy a phone/data sim card or any essentials that you may need. 
If  you  are  staying  at  one  of  the  UBC  Guest  Houses,  you  will  receive  instructions  on  how  to  check  into 
your  guest  room from UBC Conferences & Accommodations. Please print out these instructions and keep 
them  securely  with  you,  as  well  as  all  conference  contact  numbers  and  email  addresses  in  case  of 
emergency. 
ESSENTIAL CONTACT INFO: WSC2018 Secretariat: wsc.ubcsanskrit.ca / [email protected] / 
+1.604.822.5188 (only for urgent issues) UBC Housing Reservation Office: +1.888.822.1030, 
[email protected] Public Transit (TRANSLINK): 604.953.3333 Taxi: 604.681.1111 (Yellow); 
604.681.3201 (Black Top); 604.831.1111 (McClure’s) POLICE/FIRE/EMERGENCY: 911 
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Pre-Conference Events/ Indian Summer Festival 
If you arrive early, please consider attending the Indian Summer Festival (July 
6-15)(www.indiansummerfest.ca), Vancouver’s vibrant and eclectic multi-arts festival, which will be 
going on from July 6-15. In particular, you may wish to participate in a hands-on workshop on Kūṭiyāṭṭam 
by the Nepathya troupe on Sunday, July 8 (2-5PM), held at the downtown campus of Simon Fraser 
University. For more information (and to register), see: 
https://www.indiansummerfest.ca/event/behind-the-curtain/ 
The featured performance at the Indian Summer festival is a concert by Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia on July 
14, 8PM, at the Orpheum Theatre. WSC delegates will receive an EXCLUSIVE 25% discount on tickets 
with the code ISFWSC2018 which you can enter when purchasing your tickets through the ISF website. 
On-Site Registration 
Please visit the WSC Information Desk after you arrive so that you may register, pay fees, and be cleared 
to attend all sessions and events. After registering and paying any outstanding fees (by major credit card 
or cash in Canadian Dollars), you will receive your conference badge, bag, printed programme, and other 
gift materials. You will also receive MEAL CARDS if you purchased an add-on meal plan.Please feel 
free to ask any logistical questions at the WSC Information Desk. 
Registration Hours/Location 
Sunday, July 8, 6-9PM, Gather Cafeteria (at Dinner) Monday, July 9, 8AM-12PM, Chan Centre for the 
Performing Arts (at Inaugural Ceremony) Tuesday, July 10, 8AM-12PM, Buchanan A Upper-level Lobby 
If you have not yet paid registration fees, or if you have a balance owing, you may do so using major 
credit cards or cash (CAD). If you arrive after Tuesday, you are requested to visit the WSC Information 
Desk, Buchanan A Upper-level Lobby, where preregistered delegates will be able to to check-in and get 
their conference packs, while non-registered delegates will be given instructions on how to pay the 
required fees. 
WSC2018 Guidebook App 
We  encourage  you  to  install  the  WSC2018  GUIDEBOOK  mobile  app  on  your  smartphone,  so  that  you 
can  have  all  relevant  infor-  mation  for  the  conference  at  your  fingertips!  You  can  use  it  to  keep  track of 
the  sessions  that  you  want  to  attend,  learn  of  cancel-  lations,  view  paper  abstracts,  consult  maps,  and 
enhance your WSC experience in a number of different ways. 
Just go to https://guidebook.com/g/wsc2018/, download & install the WSC2018 GUIDEBOOK for your 
Android or iOS mobile phone or tablet, and keep up with all the panels, papers and special events at the 
WSC, and much more!! 
 
Chai/Coffee Breaks 
Between the AM sessions (10-10.30am) and again between the PM sessions (4-4.30pm), chai, coffee, and 
snacks will be served at multiple stations in the main conference venue. For security purposes, please be 
sure to wear your conference badge when visiting the chai stations, and please be sure to dispose of any 
garbage within the proper bins in the Buchanan Building. Please note that food and drink are not 
permitted in the classrooms, as per official UBC policy. To save our precious natural resources, we 
strongly urge you to bring a personal travel mug or spill-proof cup for your tea/coffee or water. Let’s help 
the WSC “go green”! 
Exhibitors’ Tables 
You will be able to visit a number of reputed publishers, booksellers, and other vendors of Sanskrit and 
Indology-related materials in the lobby area at the Inaugural ceremonies on Monday, and near the 
chai/coffee tables during the regular sessions thereafter, until Friday at 12.30pm. Please see the 
Conference Programme and the Mobile App for exclusive deals and offers! 
Meals 
BREAKFAST (6.30-8am): If you have secured your lodgings on campus through the WSC group block, 
breakfast is included with your stay. If you are staying at Gage Apartments or West Coast Suites, your 
breakfast will be served in Gage Tower. If you are staying at Ponderosa Cedar House or Place Vanier 
Residence, please go to GATHER Dining Hall located in the Place Vanier Residence, 1935 Lower Mall. 
LUNCH (12.30-2pm) & DINNER (6-8pm): If you bought an add-on meal plan, please take your meal 
card to GATHER Dining Hall in Place Vanier (1935 Lower Mall), for a buffet-style vegetarian/vegan or 
non-vegetarian lunch & dinner. If you have been approved for a special restricted diet meal plan (e.g., 
Jain or Swaminarayan), your meals will be served at the Asian Centre (1871 West Mall). 
Meals Served: 
Lunches (12.30-2PM) - Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat Dinners (6-8PM) - Sun, Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat 
RESTAURANTS & BARS: Please consult our entertainment guide, काल ेप, for recommendations of 
many veg-friendly restaurants and bars, on the UBC campus and in the city, to satisfy any tastes and any 
budget. Please enjoy exploring our foodie city! 
Evening Cultural Events 
All evening cultural events are free to registered participants of the WSC, but capacity is limited, and so 
admission will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. Be sure to arrive early so that you can get a 
seat, and please bring your WSC conference badge with you to get complimentary admission. 
 
Certificates of Participation 
Certificates will be prepared and made available at the WSC Information Desk after you successfully 
present your paper at the conference, and at the General Assembly on Friday, July 13. 
Printing Services 
If you need to print your paper or to make handouts, “Pay to Print” facilities ($.07 per page) are available 
at the UBC Library (1961 East Mall, 2nd Floor). It is 2-3 minutes from the venue and you will need to 
buy a $5 (CAD) UBC Guest Card to begin. There are also two copy stores (15-20 min. walk) in the 
University Village complex: Copiesmart (5728 University Blvd, 8.30AM-5PM, 604.222.3189) & Staples 
(2135 Allison Rd, 9AM-7PM, 604.221.4780). Please inquire at the WSC Information Desk—we will be 
happy to help you find the best option. 
Wifi, Phone/Data Sims, Electric Chargers 
Wifi: Most UBC buildings (including all WSC venues & guest rooms) feature free wifi access through the 
“ubcvisitor” network. To activate it, point your Wifi-ready laptop or mobile device to “ubcvisitor” and 
open a web browser. You will be directed to a login page where you may create an account and begin 
using the service. If you belong to an institution that subscribes to the “eduroam” network, you will also 
be able to use this high-speed service throughout the UBC campus. 
Phone/Data Sim: If you need a prepaid sim/data card for your mobile while in Vancouver, the best option 
is to visit the 7-eleven convenient store at the AIRPORT located in the Domestic Terminal, or at UBC, 
please visit Wirelesswave in the UBC Student Nest (6133 University Dr., M-F 10am-6pm,Sun closed). 
Most convenient stores on campus (and off) will have top-up prepaid phone cards, but not the sim cards 
themselves. Please ask WSC Volunteers for further assistance. 
Electrical Outlets: Canada’s electrical supply and outlets are identical to the USA — 120 Volts/60Hz, 
with mostly three-prong “type B” outlets. Please be sure to purchase a travel adapter in advance for your 
chargers if you are travelling from India, Europe, the UK, or other locations that use different electrical 
standards. 
Post-Conference Excursions 
There is still a bit of time left to sign up for post-conference excursions, which will take place at various 
times on Saturday, July 14! Visit the registration portal on the WSC website (wsc.ubcsanskrit.ca) and 
login to your account to book your excursion. Because of time limitations, each person can take only one 
excursion. 
Departure Procedures 
Our partners at CLICKONTOURS.COM are planning to offer several low-cost transfer buses to take you 
to the airport at the end of the conference. More info & shuttle booking forms will be available at the 
WSC Information Desk. Besides this option, we recommend sharing taxis to go to the airport—please 
book in advance using one of the services given above. 
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Length of Presentations 
To ensure that the 17th WSC maintains high scholarly standards, we urge that all presenters, moderators, 
and audience members maintain professional decorum during presentations and discussions. Please be 
respectful of time limits and be respectful of one another. Please note that every presenter is given 20 
MINUTES for their presentation, and an additional 10 MINUTES are allotted for discussion & 
changeover between papers. Please be aware of these time restrictions, and obey the instructions of your 
session Moderator, who is mandated to keep the . Additionally, since regular UBC Summer courses will 
be in session, we will be sharing the classroom building with undergraduate students and their professors 
& instructors. Please respect their need to have a peaceful place to study and attend classes. 
Session Schedule 
There will be four daily sessions of papers, with the exception of Monday (only one PM session) & 
Friday (only two AM sessions): 
AM1: 8-10am (four papers) AM2: 10.30am-12.30pm (four papers) PM1: 2-4pm (four papers) PM2: 
4.30-6pm (three papers) 
Each session should strictly follow the published Schedule of Papers. Sessions will start and end exactly 
at the times stipulated, and papers must follow the exact sequence given in the schedule. If a paper has 
been cancelled, a gap of 30 minutes must be maintained so that the the next paper begins exactly at the 
time given in the WSC2018 Schedule of Papers. 
Also note that room assignments differ from day to day, and that the Allard Forum is located in a separate 
building. 
Please ask one of our friendly WSC 2018 Volunteers if you are looking for a particular room or 
session—we are happy to help! 
Presentation Format 
If you wish to use an overhead (“powerpoint”) presentation, you will be pleased to know that all 
classrooms that we are using at UBC are outfitted with built-in projectors that have both VGA and HDMI 
inputs. Cables to connect your laptop to the projector will be provided, but you will need to bring your 
own laptop computer (or tablet or other device), as well as any extra dongle/ adapter needed to connect 
your device to the VGA or HDMI cable going to the projector. It will not be sufficient to bring only a 
USB drive or “memory stick” with your presentation on it. You will need to bring your own laptop or 
tablet, or seek the assistance of a colleague with such a device. 
There will be a WSC Volunteer present in each room to assist with simple tasks like connecting your 
computer, starting the projector, handling lights and sound, distributing handouts, etc. We are not able to 
provide full IT support or to provide computers for your use. 
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UBC Campus: While the UBC Campus is a large, sprawling area, we are located mostly in the NORTHWEST 
“cultural” quadrant of the campus, close to the Museum of Anthropology, Nitobe Gardens, and other attractions. 
Use these maps to find your way from your guest house to the dining hall (Gather), evening event locations (Chan 
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Venues for Paper Sessions: Most paper sessions are held in the A, B, and D wings of the BUCHANAN Building, the 
main classroom building for the UBC Faculty of Arts. Use this floor plan to navigate your way around the building, 
and also to get to the ALLARD FORUM, which is in the Law School, adjacent to Buchanan D. Ask a WSC 
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VANCOUVER 2018 
THE 17 TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE 
 
event Inaugural 
Session 
Guest of Honour: Shri Prakash Javadekar, Hon’ble Minister of 
Human Resource Development, Republic of India 
Please  join  us  in  welcoming  our  prinicipal  Guest  of  Honour,  Hon’ble  Minister  of  Human  Resource 
Development,  Republic  of  India,  Shri  Prakash  Javadekar,  who  will  inaugurate  the  17th  World  Sanskrit 
Conference,  being  held  for  the  first  time  in  Canada.  The  event  will  be  opened  with  a  special  solo 
puṣpāñjali  dance  in  the  Bharatanāṭyam  style  by  Kiruthika  Rathanaswami  of  Mandala  Arts  &  Culture, 
under the direction of Jai Govinda. 
Upon conclusion of the inaugural ceremonies, three eminent Sanskrit scholars will deliver plenary talks: 
George Cardona [University of Pennsylvania] 
“Philology and Text History” Dipti Tripathi [University of Delhi] 
“Reflections on Manuscriptology: Forays into Indian Paradigms of Knowledge Management” Arvind 
Sharma [McGill University] 
“The Surprising Modernity of Bhavabhūti’s Uttararāmacarita” 
The  Inaugural  Session  will  conclude  with  a  special  address  by  Mahāmahopādhyāya Bhadreshdas Swami 
(BAPS  Swaminarayan  Research  Institute,  Delhi),  and  a  launch  of  the  Svāminārāyaṇa-bhāṣya,  a  new 
comprehensive  Sanskrit  commentary  on  the  sacred  texts  of  the  Prasthānatrayī  and  the 
Svāminārāyaṇa-siddhāntasudhā,  a  Sanskrit  vādagrantha  that  offers  an  exposition,  justification,  and 
defense  of  the  darśanic  principles  of  the Akṣara- Puruṣottama Darśana. The session will be introduced by 
Deven  Patel  (Univ.  of  Pennsylvania)  and  include  remarks  by  George  Cardona  and  Ashok  Aklujkar 
(University of British Columbia). 
All registered delegates and guests are invited to attend the Inaugural Session. Registration for 
conference delegates will commence in the lobby of the Chan 16 
Centre for the Performing Arts at 8AM. Refreshments will be provided. 

monday July 9 8am-12.30pm 

location Chan Centre for the Performing Arts University 6265 Crescent of British Rd 
Columbia 
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 
 
CONSULATE GENERAL OF INDIA gala kūṭiyāṭṭam 
performance 
VANCOUVER 

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts University 6265 Crescent of British Rd 
Columbia 
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 

Living Legends 
July 9 7-11pm 
A Rare Performance Sanskrit of Kūṭiyāṭṭam Theatre 
Featuring: Nepathya (Muzhikkulam, Kerala) Performing 
Bālivadham, from the Abhiṣekanāṭakam attributed to Bhāsa 
In Sanskrit w/ English Subtitles 
As the featured cultural event within the 17th World 
Sanskrit Conference, monday 
we are pleased to offer a rare performance of Kūṭiyāṭṭam, the only surviving tradition of Sanskrit theatre, 
and deemed by UNESCO to be a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.” This 
will be the first time that this mesmerizing and sophisticated theatrical tradition has ever been performed 
in Western Canada. Through the generous assistance of ICCR and the Consul General of India 
(Vancouver), we are especially pleased to welcome Nepathya, one of India’s leading Kūṭiyāṭṭam troupe 
who are based at the Nepathya Centre for Excellence in Kūṭiyāṭṭam in Muzhikkulam, in central Kerala. 
Led by Margi Madhu, the son of Kochukuttan Chakyar and a pupil of introduction: 7-8pm performance: 
8-11pm 
Ammanur  Madhavacharya,  and  his  wife  Dr.  Indu  G.,  this  award-winning  troupe  has gained international 
acclaim,  having  performed  at  select  locations  around  the  world,  including  Europe,  Japan,  Singapore, 
Israel, and the United States. 
location 
Bringing  a  full,  12-person  ensemble, Nepathya will present a rendering of the Bālivadham scene from the 
Abhiṣekanāṭakam,  attributed  to  Bhāsa.  Their  3-hour  performance  will  be  preceded  by  a  general 
introduction  to  the  art  form  by  Professor  Heike  Oberlin (Tübingen), a foremost international specialist of 
Kūṭiyāṭṭam, who will help both specialists and the general public to better appreciate the style, techniques, 
and aesthetics of this ancient art form. 
The  17th  World  Sanskrit  Conference  and  the  IASS  are  pleased  to  acknowledge  Shri  Prakash  Javadekar, 
Hon’ble  Minister  of  Human  Resource  Development,  Republic  of  India,  as  the  Guest  of  Honour  at  this 
gala event. 
Living  Legends  is  produced  for  the  general  public  through  a  partnership  with  the  Indian  Summer 
Festival,  a  major  multi-arts  festival  in  Vancouver  that runs from July 5-15. All pre-registered conference 
participants  will  receive  complimentary  tickets  to the Kūṭiyāṭṭam performance; accompanying guests and 
other  non-registered  participants  should  purchase  advance  tickets  through  Indian  Summer  Festival 
(CAD$35/$25) [indiansummerfest.ca/event/living-legends]. 
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cultural event 
Presented by Naad Foundation & Sudnya Dance Academy 
AMARJEET SINGH is the award-winning founder of Naad Foundation, a vibrant music academy and cultural organization 
based in Surrey, B.C. He began his studies with his elder brother Deedar Singh, followed by Guru Shri Thakur Kishan Singh ji of 
Benaras Gharana. He was appointed a Cultural Ambassador by ICCR New Delhi, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Later on he took up 
as a staff artist at the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts , Univ. of Delhi. He has trained many students, performed, and 
accompanied, on the tabla, a myriad of leading Indian musicians and dancers. His numerous awards include the Sangeet Bhushan 
(Rajasthan Education Department-Bikaner), Leadership Circle (Canadian Red Cross), Heritage Defender (Darpan magazine), 
Innovation in the Arts (Drishti magazine). SUDNYA MULYE is founder of the Sudnya Dance Academy, a thriving school based 
in Richmond, BC, that seeks to integrate training in Bharatanāṭyam dance with exposure of students to cultural heritage, 
languages, and the traditional arts of India. She is trained in Bharatanāṭyam and Choreography from Nalanda Nritya Kala 
Mahavidyalaya in Mumbai, and has studied under the great masters Guru T.Soundararajah and Smt. Tangamani, Padmashri Dr. 
Kanak Rele and Padma Bhushan Smt. Kalanidhi Narayanan, Guru Lata Raman. She has been the artistic director for numerous 
festivals and events in the greater Vancouver Area, including her current position as Artistic Director of International Dance Day, 
Richmond. BALJIT SINGH is a multi-instrumentalist teacher and performer of Sarangi, Dilruba, Esraj, and Tar Sehnai within the 
Naad Foundation. He has trained in Dilruba first from Prof. Avtar Singh and then Ustad Piara Singh Padam. Baljeet has 
performed with and accompanied numerous renowned artists internationally. SANDY (SURINDER) KHAIRA is a director and 
musician at the Naad Foundation, who performs guitar and drums and is well-versed in eastern and western styles of music. He 
has trained with renowned drummer and percussionist Mike Michalkow and has studied with greats like Dom Famularo and 
Chuck Silverman. Training with Amarjeet Singh, Sandy ‘s percussion style shows a fusion of western, jazz, Latin rhythms with 
hints of classical & popular Indian grooves. BRUCE HARDING is an award-winning singer, songwriter and 
multi-instrumentalist with a PhD in musicology (Univ. Toronto) and over 30 years’ experience making music with artists from 
around the world. Harding delights in bridging the gap between the sacred and the profane, creating instrumental and vocal music 
for people who thirst for musical and spiritual nourishment. He has many recordings to his credit, including a solo album of flute 
improvisations, Let Everything That Breathes, and A Black and White Christmas, a delightful intercultural album with sitar 
maestro Neeraj Prem. 

This  event  is  free  and  open  to  the  general  public,  and  made  possible  through  the  generous  support  and 
partnership of Naad Foundation and the Sudnya Dance Academy. 

श शोऽहम।।
् Śivo’ham 
Śiva Dance 
through Indian Classical Music & 
Through synergies between Hindustani classical music and Bharatanāṭyam dance, 
Śivo’ham explores the universality of Shiva. Shiva’s manifestation - in both nature and 
appearance - transcends yet embraces duality, multiplicity and unity. 

tuesday 
about the artists: 
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July 10 8-9.30pm 
location Frederic Wood Theatre University 6354 Crescent of British Rd. 
Columbia 
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 
 
public forum 
Roy Barnett Recital Hall University 6361 Memorial of British Rd 
Columbia 
Vancouver BC V6T1Z2 

अ मतं ् कृतम।।् The Story of 

Our Sanskrit 
July 10 8-10pm 
Gender & Caste in Sanskrit Studies Kaushal Panwar 
(Motilal Nehru College, DU) & Ananya Vajpeyi (CSDS, 
Delhi) in conversation with Mandakranta Bose (UBC) 
This special public forum at the 17th World Sanskrit Conference invites two prominent 
women Sanskritists to share their experiences as students, teachers and scholars within 
the traditionally male- tuesday 
dominated discipline of Sanskrit Studies. The panelists will look at attitudes to women as 
revealed through Sanskrit texts and traditions over the centuries, describe their own 
journeys of research and pedagogy, and discuss broader issues around gender, caste, and 
Sanskrit in contemporary institutions within India and around the world. about the 
speakers: KAUSHAL PANWAR, Assistant Professor of Sanskrit, Motilal Nehru College, 
University of Delhi (PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru Univ., 2009), is a prominent educator, 
activist, and author of a number of books and essays in Hindi and English on the social 
history of Śūdras and Dalits, location 
casteism,  gender,  and  social  movements  in  premodern  India,  as  seen  through  the  lens  of the Dharmaśāstras. She was awarded a 
Samman  Award in 2012 by Ambedkar in India magazine in recognition of her writing and activism, and was acknowledged as an 
Outstanding Woman by the National Commission for Women on International Women’s Day in March 2013. 
ANANYA  VAJPEYI,  Fellow  and  Associate  Professor  at  the  Centre  for  the  Study  of  Developing  Societies,  New  Delhi  (PhD, 
Chicago,  2004)  is  a  noted  writer  and  public intellectual who works at the intersection of intellectual history, political theory, and 
critical  philology.  Her  Righteous  Republic:  The  Political  Foundations  of  Modern  India  (Harvard, 2012) was named Book of the 
Year  by  the  Guardian  &  the  New  Republic,  and  won  the  Tata  First  Book  Award  (2013),  the  Crossword  Award,  and  the  2011 
Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (best first manuscript at Harvard University Press). 
MANDAKRANTA BOSE, Professor Emerita, University of British Columbia, and former Director, Centre for India and South 
Asia Research, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada’s Academy of Arts, holds degrees in Sanskrit and Comparative 
Literature from Calcutta, UBC, and Oxford, and has published numerous books and articles on dramaturgy, religious studies, the 
Rāmāyaṇa, and gender studies. This event is open to the general public, and made possible through the generous assistance of the 
Hari Sharma Foundation and the Department of Music, UBC. 
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cultural event 
Dakṣiṇāpatha The Classical Music & Dance of 
South India Featuring Padma Sugavanam (Chennai/USA) and 
Mandala Arts & Culture (Vancouver), with guest dancer Naren 
Ganesan (Edmonton) 
Padma poetic will Nirmal be beauty accompanied Sugavanam Narayan of (Seattle) Saṃskṛta presents by 
Vidvan on compositions mridangam. 
a Carnatic Raman Iyer vocal in (Seattle) South recital Indian on offering the classical violin glimpses and 
music. Vidvan of She the 
Mandala Arts & Culture present five masterful compositions of solo Bharatanāṭyam dance, including two 
by special guest Naren Ganesan (Sanskriti). 
Sūrya Kautuvam | Naren Ganesan 

wednesday 
Śṛṅgāra-lahari | Kiruthika Rathanaswami (choreography: Jai Govinda) Yāhi Mādhava | Arno Kamolika (choreography: Jai 
Govinda) Śiva-Śakti | Naren Ganesan Thillana | Aishwarya Roshan (choreography: Jai Govinda) about the artists: PADMA 
SUGAVANAM, is an A-graded musician in the South Indian (Carnatic) genre of Indian Classical Music, as well as a Sanskrit 
scholar, with a PhD in Sanskrit and Music. She is a faculty member at the University of Silicon Andhra, a one-of- its-kind 
University for Indian literature and arts, setup by the Indian community in the USA. Padma is currently pursuing research on 
feminine narratives in the music of bridal mysticism. ARNO KAMOLIKA is a Vancouver-based bharata natyam dance artist and 
instructor. Originally trained under Professor C.V. Chandrasekhar, she completed her arangetram in Vancouver with the Jai 
Govinda Dance Academy where she is also one of the instructors. She performs regularly as a solo artist for Mandala Arts and 
Culture and the Vancouver Tagore Society , and has also performed in the USA and Dhaka. KIRUTHIKA RATHANASWAMI 
completed her Bharatanāṭyam āraṅgetram at the Jai Govinda Dance Academy in 2004 and has performed for many of Mandala’s 
professional productions and presentations as a soloist, and ensemble. She has performed widely at major festivals across North 
America and is the recipient of the 2012 City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for emerging artist in Dance, and the 2016 
Dancing Damsel Women Achiever Award for the Performing Arts. AISHWARYA ROSHAN was first introduced to Bharata 
Natyam under the guidance of Smt. Sundari Ramesh. She later joined the Jai Govinda Dance Academy and had her āraṅgetram in 
2014. Aishwarya recently presented her first solo, professional production, Satya: The Ultimate Reality, with choreography by Jai 
Govinda and Bragha Bessell, on July 7th. Aishwarya studies life sciences at the University of British Columbia and will be 
entering medical school in August. NAREN GANESAN, Founder and Artistic Director of Sanskriti Temple of Fine Arts, 
Ganesan has carved a unique niche to build capacity in South-Asian Classical Arts in Alberta over the last 5 years. He is a senior 
disciple of Padmabhushan Kalaimamani Smt. Ranganayaki Jayaraman and Kalaimamani Acharya Choodamani Smt. Jayanthi 
Subramaniam. With over 20 years of professional development in bharathanatyam, and a decade of performances spanning 
across India, the UK and now, Canada, Naren has been one of the most sought after male Bharatanāṭyam dancer across Alberta. 
JAI GOVINDA, is the artistic director of Mandala Arts & Culture in Vancouver. He has been performing, teaching and 
choreographing Bharatanāṭyam for the past 40 years, and started his dance training on scholarships with Les Grands Ballets 
Canadiens in Quebec City in Montreal. He is the recipient of the Dance Centre’s 2006 Isadora Award for excellence in teaching 
and outstanding achievements in BC’s dance community. He is also the recipient of the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award 2014 - 
Honouree/ Dance. Jai Govinda is presently on the board of directors of the Dance Centre. 
This event is free and open to the general public, made possible through the generous support and partnership of 
Mandala Arts & Culture Society (Vancouver, BC) and the 20 
Sanskriti Temple of Fine Arts (Edmonton, AB). 
www.mandalarts.ca 

July 11 7.30-10pm 
location Frederic Wood Theatre University 6354 Crescent of British Rd. 
Columbia 
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 
 
public lectures 
Frederic Wood Theatre University 6354 Crescent of British Rd. 
Columbia 
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 

Vikram Chandra 
The Poetry of Amazement 
thursday 

James Mallinson 
July 12 6.30-9.30pm 
Yoga: To Mortify or Cultivate the Body? 
Vikram Chandra: 6.30-7.30pm James Mallinson: 8-9.30PM 

Public Lectures & Book Signings, in partnership with Indian 

Summer Festival 
Vikram Chandra, The Poetry of Amazement (Chitra Kavya) The poets of the Indian subcontinent have 
practised—for thousands of years—the art of ingenious verse. Citra Kavya (or pictorial poetry) is a fiendishly 
difficult form in which a poem reveals hidden pictorial figures or clusters of simultaneous meaning. These verses are 
designed to evoke reactions of amazement in the reader, and awe at the technical dexterity of the poet. 
Taking  us  on  this  marvelous journey through Citra Kavya is the award-winning novelist Vikram Chandra, described 
by  Nicola  Davis  in  the  Observer  as  a  “linguistic  gazelle”.  Chandra’s  talk  concentrates  on  examples  in  the  ancient 
classical language of Sanskrit, but points at the limitless possibilities of language itself. 
James Mallinson, Yoga: To Mortify of Cultivate the Body? Early Sanskrit texts tell us that Indian yogis of old 
undertook yoga as a practice of severe austerity. They mortified their bodies through fasting, extreme breath-control, 

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and penances such as holding their arms in the air for years on end. It was only when the first texts on hatha yoga 
began to appear, around a thousand years ago, that the promise of the physical benefits of yoga began to be made. 
By the 18th century, the practice of yoga integrated more and more dynamic physical movements aimed at 
strengthening the body, and in the present day, yoga has become an instrument for physical wellness, to the point of 
mythification. James Mallinson takes us on a historical journey, explaining how and why yoga has changed from 
being a practice for world-renouncing, self-mortifying ascetics, to the body-cultivating one that it is today. 
When  he  is  not  paragliding  across  the  Himalayan  sky,  or  being  anointed  a  ‘Mahant’  at  the  Kumbh  Mela,  James 
Mallinson  (SOAS,  London)  is  an  internationally  recognized  textual  scholar,  yoga  practitioner,  and  documentary 
filmmaker  with  a  public  intellectual profile that speaks in equal measure to Sanskrit scholars as well as international 
yoga practitioners. 
All  registered  WSC  delegates  will  receive  complimentary  admission  to  both  talks,  while  accompanying  guests  are 
asked  to  purchase  tickets  through  the  Indian Summer Festival (indiansummerfest.ca, $15/18 per talk, $30 for both). 
Note:  complimentary  admission  will  be  available  on  a  first-come  first-served  basis,  as  seating  is  limited  at  the 
venue. 
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event All-Conference 
Banquet 
Banquet design by Sarika Bose & Supriya Bhattacharya 
Let’s  close out the 17th World Sanskrit Conference in style! The All-Conference Banquet 
will  be  held  at  the  Great  Hall  at  the  NEST,  UBC’s  magnificent  Student  building. 
Delegates  will  be  treated  to  exquisite  Indian  vegetarian  cuisine  served  by  Dhaliwal 
Catering,  Surrey.  Jain  &  Sāttvika  options  will  be  available.  Dinner  will  be followed by a 
talk by Gary Tubb (Univ. of Chicago) and other valedictory festivities. 
This event is open to all pre-registered conference participants; admission of accompanying 
guests and late registrants will be based on seating availability. 
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friday July 13 6-9pm 

location The Great Hall at the NEST University 6133 University of British Blvd. 
Columbia 
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 
 
plenary & keynote lectures 
VANCOUVER 2018 
THE 17 TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE 
 
plenary lecture 
About the Speaker: 

George Cardona University of Pennsylvania 

Professor  Cardona  is  widely  held  to  be  the  world’s  authority  on  Sanskrit  grammar  and 
linguistics.  His  landmark  volume,  Pāṇini: His Work and its Traditions (1997 [1988]) remains the 
most  detailed  scholarly  exposition  of  this  seminal  Sanskrit  grammarian.  His  magisterial 
1300-page  Indo-Aryan  Languages,  co-edited  with  Dhanesh  Jain  (2007  [2003])  serves  as  the 
definitive  modern  linguistic  survey  for  North  Indian  languages.  From  1978  to  1987,  Cardona 
served as Head of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. As an emeritus scholar, Cardona 
continues  to  carry  on  an  active  research  agenda,  publishes  widely,  mentors  students,  and 
participates actively in conferences and workshops around the world. 

George Cardona Philology, Text History and 

History of Ideas 
Plenary Session: Monday, July 9, 9.45am-12pm Chan Centre for the Performing 
Arts 
I  consider  several  aspects  of  a  passage  from  the  beginning  of  Yāska’s  Nirukta.  In  manuscripts, 
the  text  itself  commonly  is  not  punctuated.  The  earliest  commentator  on  the  Nirukta,  Durga, 
adopts  a  division  of  the  text  that  is  also  found  not  only  in  Skandasvāmin’s  commentary  but  in 
citations  by  later  authors  in  different  contexts:  Śabarasvāmin,  Maṇḍanamiśra,  and  Śaṅkara,  the 
author  of  the  Yogaśāstravivaraṇa.  Moreover,  this  textual  division  is  in  harmony  with  Yāska’s 
presentation of ideas and a particular syntactic feature. 
In 1916, however, P. D. Gune argued that this division is unacceptable. Gune’s main reason 
given for this claim is that the traditionally accepted textual division reflects an interest in the 
sentence and its meaning which should not be attributed to Yāska. Since Yāska was an 
etymologist, claimed Gune, he was interested only in the individual word. In his own words, 
“Moreover, to the etymologist with a vengeance, as Yaska (sic) surely is one, the word or पद is 
everything and the sentence or वा य is nothing.” This assertion was advanced without 
supporting it with textual evidence from the Nirukta itself. Nevertheless, as I show, this work 
shows that Yāska did indeed concern himself with the sentence. Consequently, the argument 
against the traditional textual division fails. Another important consequence is that the text shows 
Yāska held a view concerning the sentence which matches the position of Pāṇini: the principal 
meaning of a sentence with a finite verb form is the 24 
action denoted by this verb. 
 
plenary lecture 
Dipti Tripathi Reflections on Manuscriptology: 
Forays into Indian Paradigms of Knowledge 
Management Plenary Session: Monday, July 9, 
9.45am-12pm Chan Centre for the Performing 
Arts 
Ten million is the moderate estimate of surviving manuscripts in India. This 
About the Speaker: does 
not include the number of Indian manuscripts available, across the world. Welcome to the world of 
manuscriptology in India! 
Let  us  remind  ourselves  that  these  are the ones that have survived pillage, brigandage, arson, loot, natural 
disasters  &  plain  human  crassness.  Spanning  a  period  of  5000+  years  of  known  &  documented  history, 
they cover the almost 
Dipti S. Tripathi University of Delhi, National Mission for Manuscripts entire range of human knowledge 
& endeavor. Manuscripts contain the cumulative knowledge, experience, history as well as practices of 
the people of 
Professor Tripathi is an 
academician India covering this period. The kaleidoscope of Indian manuscripts is neither 
of international repute 
in the fields of language specific nor script specific nor region specific. Broadly divisible 
Sanskrit grammar, 
modern linguistics, in three categories—classical languages like Sanskrit or Persian; modern Indo-Aryan 
& Dravidian languages; and tribal languages like Mizo or Tao— enormous linguistic, archival capabilities 
and resources are required to keep this knowledge resource alive, to access and usage. In an era where 
developing a history of ideas is the key to innovation and progress, it is plausible to argue that 
manuscriptology is the bed rock of knowledge management. Like all strong and capable civilizations, 
Indian traditions of knowledge management are deep, efficient and durable. 
This  paper  seeks  to  explore  the  foundations of Sanskrit manuscriptology as a source of wisdom and ideas 
needed  for  certain  aspects  of  modern  progress.  To  do  so,  it  is  natural  to  reflect  on  the  paradigms  of 
knowledge management in India. One of them being that in the Indian system of 
poetics and manuscriptology. With 7 books and more than 60 papers to her credit, she has been a 
pathbreaking and influential contributor to the development of an Indian School of Linguistics. 
She was the first woman to serve as the Head of Delhi University, and most notably served as the 
the Director of the National Mission for Manuscripts under the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of 
India. Under her inspirational and dynamic leadership, the NMM project not only catalogued and 
classified knowledge management the oral and written 
many millions of manuscripts across traditions of 
knowledge have coexisted in 
India at an unprecedented scale, but a complementary 
way. This idea could give 
also intensively promoted technological rise to an 
entire discipline of comparative knowledge management studies. 
interventions for their preservation. 
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About the Speaker: 

Arvind Sharma McGill University 

Professor  Sharma,  Birks  Professor  of  Comparative  Religion  at  McGill,  is  Canada’s  most  prolific  living 
scholar  of  Hinduism.  A  widely-respected  authority  on  Hindu  thought,  philosophy  of  religion,  and 
comparative  religions,  Professor  Sharma  has,  over  a  remarkable  career  spanning  five  decades,  authored 
45  monographs  (e.g.,  Sharma  2005,  2006, 2011), co-authored and edited dozens more (e.g., Sharma 2010 
and  Sharma  and  Young  1998,  which  won  the  CHOICE  Outstanding  Book  Award  for  1999),  along  with 
numerous  essays,  articles,  and  book  reviews  on  Hindu  philosophy,  culture,  literature,  and  comparative 
religion.  Sharma  serves  in  the  capacity  of “Renowned Academician” on the Governing Board of Nalanda 
University,  and  was  the  Convenor  of  three Global Conferences on World’s Religions after September 11, 
leading  to  the  adoption  of  the  Universal  Declaration  of  Human  Rights  by  the  World’s  Religions  in 
September 2016. 

plenary lecture 
Arvind Sharma The Surprising Modernity of 
Bhavabhūti’s Uttararāmacarita 
Plenary Session: Monday, July 9, 9.45am-12pm Chan Centre for the Performing 
Arts Modernity is a polysemic word, but for our purposes may be said to include 
the following features in an Indian context: 
(1) The idea of a progressive revelation as opposed to a final one (theologically) 
(2) A sensitivity for the rights of others (ethically) (3) A greater voice for the role 
of the wife in domestic life (matrimonially) (4) A questioning of the caste system 
(socially) (5) Allowing women and Śūdras access to the Vedas (traditionally), and 
(6) The questioning of untouchability (morally). 
This paper will argue that if these as accepted as features of modernity in an Indian 
context then the Uttararāmacarita of Bhavabhūti displays some of these features to 
a discernible and sometimes even remarkable degree. 
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inaugural address 
Mahāmahopādhyāya Bhadreshdas Swami Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana: 
Introduction & Book Launch Inaugural Session: Monday, July 9, 12pm-12.30pm 
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Mahāmahopādhyāya Bhadreshdas Swami 
will elaborate 
About the Speaker: 
on the Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana as a contemporary addition to the Vedānta 
school of thought and as founded on 
Bhadreshdas 
Swami the teachings of Svāminārāyaṇa and the Prasthānatrayī: the 
BAPS 
Swaminarayan Research Upaniṣads, Bhagavadgītā, and the Brahmasūtras. 
Institute, Delhi 
There  will  be  an  introduction  and  launch  of  the  recently  authored 
Svāminārāyaṇabhāṣyam,  a comprehensive Sanskrit commentary on the sacred texts 
of the Prasthānatrayī, and 
Mahāmahopādhyāya Bhadreshdas Swami is renowned as an “abhinava bhāṣyakāra.” He has 
authored numerous the Svāminārāyaṇasiddhāntasudhā – a Sanskrit vādagrantha 

Sanskrit works 
including the five-volume that offers an exposition, justification, and defense of the 
darśanic principles of the Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana. 
Prasthānatrayī  Svāminārāyaṇabhāṣya  and  the  vādagrantha  Svāminārāyaṇa-  siddhāntasudhā.  He 
has  received  six  masters degrees on the Ṣaḍdarśana; a D. Litt. for his work on the Prasthānatrayī; 
and  notable  recognitions  including  the  Mahāmahopādhyāya,  Darśanakesarī,  Vedāntamārtaṇḍa, 
and the Abhinava Bhāṣyakāra awards for his outstanding contributions in Sanskrit literature. 
Bhadreshdas Swami will be introduced by Deven Patel (University of Pennsylvania), with brief 
remarks by George Cardona (University of Pennsylvania) and Ashok Aklujkar (University of 
British Columbia) 
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keynote lecture 
Alexis Sanderson The Śākta Transformation of 
Śaivism 
About the Speaker: 

Alexis Sanderson University of Oxford 

Professor  Sanderson  is  Spalding  Professor  Emeritus  of  Eastern  Religions  and  Ethics  in  the University of 
Oxford, and an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College. He is widely recognized as the world’s authority on 
Śaiva  and  Tantric  textual  traditions,  whose  pioneering  work  has  fundamentally  reshaped  how  we  think 
about  the  intellectual  and  cultural  history  of  religion  in  first-millennium  India.  Key  publications  include 
“Śaivism  and  the  Tantric  Traditions”  (1990),  “The  Śaiva  Age:  The  Rise  and  Dominance  of  Śaivism 
during  the  Early  Medieval  Period”  (2009),  and  “The  Śaiva  Literature”  (2012-13).  In  addition  to  his 
decades  of  intensive  study  of  Śaivism,  especially  with  the noted Kashmiri scholar Swami Lakshman Joo, 
Professor Sanderson has also guided a great number of students, in this field and in others, over the course 
of his long career. 
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Tuesday, July 10, 10.30am-12.30pm, Buchanan A104 In this lecture I shall provide 
the basic elements of a history of the development of major currents within 
Śaivism by the influx or incorporation of extreme forms of Śākta observance, 
beginning in the Atimārga and continuing into the Mantramārga and Kulamārga. I 
shall then consider how and why these forms of observance were both legitimated 
and transformed in the thought of Abhinavagupta. 
Alexis Sanderson will be introduced by Mandakranta Bose (University of British Columbia). 
 
keynote french lecture En hommage à André 
Padoux / in homage to André Padoux Lyne 
Bansat-Boudon Registres de la théâtralité 
indienne : le théâtre comme pratique 
religieuse Wednesday, July 11, 4.30-6pm, 
Buchanan A103 
Théâtre et religion ont en commun d’être, avant tout, des « pratiques ». Pas de 
About the Speaker: 
religion sans ses rites, pas de théâtre (dans les conceptions indiennes, comme en Occident) sans sa 
représentation, c’est-à-dire sans sa mise en œuvre et en jeu. 

Lyne Bansat-Boudon 
C’est ce que met en évidence le Nāṭyaśāstra, non seulement dans le mythe d’origine qui se déploie au 
long des cinq premiers chapitres (et dans les deux 
École Pratiques des Hautes Études, Paris derniers), mais aussi dans la majeure partie des autres chapitres 
du traité, consacrés à la « fabrique » du théâtre, en particulier, et très longuement, aux 
Professor 
Bansat-Boudon is Director of registres de jeu (abhinaya). 
Studies in the 
Department of Religious Il en est de l’histoire du théâtre indien comme de celle du théâtre occidental : on 
pose pour lui l’hypothèse d’une origine religieuse. Dans ce 
Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, and serves as Chair of contexte, nous 
examinerons le mythe d’origine du théâtre, dans lequel le 
Indian Religions (Śaiva 
Studies). She modèle herméneutique dominant est celui du rite. Outre que le théâtre 
is involved in a 
leadership capacity s’accompagne de rites réels, il vaut, métaphoriquement, pour un rituel, 
in numerous French 
Indological participant ainsi, à divers degrés, de la pratique religieuse. Toutefois, il n’est plus question de 
métaphore quand on en vient à considérer le fruit même de la pratique dramatique, à savoir l’émotion 
esthétique (rasa). Avec le rasa, c’est directement, cette fois, que le théâtre se constitue en pratique 
religieuse, puisqu’il s’agit d’une expérience de l’ordre de l’intime et de l’intériorité, au 
même titre que l’expérience spirituelle. 
Ce  sera  l’occasion  de  rapporter  à  l’expérience  esthétique  les  spéculations  du  śivaïsme  non  dualiste  du 
Cachemire. 
projects, including Le Monde indien : Textes, societés, representations. She has published 
widely in French on Sanskrit theatre and aesthetics, as well as Kashmir Śaiva philosophy. Key 
works include: Poétique du théâtre indien : Lectures du Nāṭyaśāstra (1992), Théâtre de l’Inde 
ancienne (2006), and An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy (For English version, please see 
abstract book) 
(2011), with K. D. Tripathi. 
Lyne Bansat-Boudon will be joined by Gavin Flood (Oxford, NUS Singapore), who will offer an 
homage to André Padoux in English. 
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In Memoriam 
In memory of my older brother, Shri Vinaykumar Katey, of Nagpur, Maharashtra, who was always a 
strong supporter of the Sanskrit Bhasha Pracharini Sabha, India until he passed away in 2012 at the age of 
82. When he was 10 years old, he won a city-wide contest for memorizing the Bhagavadgītā. He obtained 
his MA in Sanskrit from Banaras Hindu University in 1947. He subscribed to Bhavitavyam all his life and 
contributed many articles to the weekly publication Bhavitavyam. He wrote a short play in Sanskrit, 
which was broadcast by All India Radio, Nagpur. If you knew my brother or met him, I would like to 
have a brief chat with you. Please contact me, Ashok Katey, in Vancouver, Canada. Tel: 
+1-778-855-3152 Email: [email protected] 
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Special Panels 
VANCOUVER 2018 
THE 17 TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE 
 
darśanic scholarly session 
Bhadreshdas Swami BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute, Delhi Svāminārāyaṇa’s 
Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana (Ontology, Soteriology, & Identity) 
Deven Patel 
Univ. of Pennsylvania The Role of the Guru Within the Akṣara- Puruṣottama 
Darśana 
Paramtattvadas Swami 
London Deconstructing ‘Brahmajijñāsā’ in the 
Brahmasūtra-Svāminārāyaṇa-Bhāṣya: A Study of Grammar, Hermeneutics, and Theology 

Aksharananddas Swami 
New  York  The  Akṣara-Puruṣottama  Darśana  and  the  Gītā  Verse: 
“Brahmabhūtaḥ Prasannātmā...” 
Aksharvatsaldas Swami 
Delhi The Tradition of the Śikhara Within Mandir Architecture - 
A Study Based on Ancient Treatises and the Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana 
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Tuesday, July 10 10.30am-12.30pm 

Allard Forum 
अ पु षो मदशनम ् । Akṣara-Puruṣottama- 
Darśanam 
Chair: Mahāmahopādhyāya Bhadreshdas Swami, BAPS Swaminarayan Research 
Institute, Delhi 
Since  eternity,  humanity  in  its search for truth has always continued to give birth to new systems 
of  thought.  To  fulfill  its  search,  it  has  often  relied  on  sacred  texts.  One  bears  witnesses  to  this 
among  the  darśanic  schools  of  India.  From  unanimously  accepted  sacred  texts,  such  as  the 
Upaniṣads  and  the  Bhagavadgītā,  new  perspectives,  schools,  and  system  of  thought  have  come 
into  existence  from  time  to  time.  Hence,  it  can  be  said  that  novel  philosophical  and  darśanic 
reflections  are  not  bound  to  a  specific  period  of time. For example, although Śaṅkara introduced 
the  Advaita  darśana,  new  darśanic  schools,  such  as  Viśiṣṭādvaita,  Dvaita,  and  others,  came  into 
existence thereafter at different times. 
The  recent  introduction  of  the  Akṣara-Puruṣottama  Darśana  also  serves  as  an  example  of  the 
changing  landscape  of  darśanic  thought.  This  darśana  is  a distinct and original darśanic tradition 
with its own commentarial literature, characteristic philosophical position, and ritual practice. 
This session presents a unique opportunity to investigate this darśana’s philosophical and textual 
features as they are highlighted within the Prasthānatrayī Svāminārāyaṇabhāṣya and the 
Svāminārāyaṇasiddhāntasudhā. Within the world of Sanskrit literature, it is a moment of great 
pride that after many centuries such classical texts have been created within the 21st century. We 
are pleased to host a series of scholarly sessions to introduce these two remarkable textual 
achievements to the scholars of the world. 
 
special session 
अ पु षो मदशन-वव व ◌ो ठ   । 
Akṣara-Puruṣottama- 
Darśana-Vidvadgoṣṭhī 
Tuesday, July 10 4.30-6pm 
Moderator: Deven Patel 

Allard Forum 
A scholarly forum conducted in Sanskrit ( व व ◌ो ठ ) on the 
invited speakers: 
significance of the स ्◌ाममनारायणसस ◌ा तसध ु ◌ा, a new philosophical 
vādagrantha on the Akṣarapuruṣottama school, composed 
George Cardona 
by Mahāmahopādhyāya Sadhu Bhadreshdas. The session will 
Univ. of Pennsylvania 
involve several of the world’s foremost experts on Sanskrit language and culture, 
religion, and philosophy, coming 
Deven Patel together 
to discuss the intellectual, cultural, and historical 
Un
iv. of Pennsylvania impact of the Akṣara-Puruṣottama-Darśana as an emergent 
system of philosophy and religious doctrine. 
Sadananda Das 
Univ. of Leipzig 
C. Rajendran 
Univ. of Calicut 
Sthaneshwar Timalsina 
San Diego State University 
Shrikant Bahulkar 
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 
Dharm Bhawuk 
Univ. of Hawaii 
Bhadreshdas Swami 
BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute, Delhi 
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special panel 1 
Jesse R. Knutson 
University of Hawaii, Manoa The Grammar of Poetry and the Poetics of 
Grammar: the Bhaṭṭikāvya in Early Medieval India 
Robert P. Goldman 
University of California, Berkeley Vālmīki’s Children: Adulation, Imitation and 
Ethical Critique in Poets of the Rāmakathā 
Thomas M. Hunter 
University of British Columbia The Old Javanese Uttarakāṇḍa as a Commentary 
Sally Sutherland Goldman 
University of California, Berkeley Revamping the Rākṣasas: The Rākṣasas of 
Bhavabhūti’s Mahāvīracarita 
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Wednesday, July 11 2-4pm 

Buchanan A103 
Ādikāvyāni: Regional Kāvya Rāmāyaṇas in 
Early Medieval South and Southeast Asia 
Organizer: Jesse R. Knutson 
The Rāmāyaṇa narrative, perhaps more than any other in classical India, projects a 
political imagination onto a geographical matrix; famously meditating on center 
and periphery, city and jungle, and the interaction between non- human 
civilizations and the human, quasi divine kingdoms of the Āryāvarta. It is about 
cultural/civilizational contradictions, competing moralities, and the imperatives of 
dharma when combined with political authority. Classical Sanskrit kāvya as a 
genre—in text and inscription—often served to reiterate the classical, big 
tradition-political imagination at regional courts, beginning with the various 
powerbrokers of the intercellated Gupta empire (325-550 C.E.), but especially as 
power became more regionalized in the early medieval period (late 6th-13th 
centuries, C.E.). This panel will explore questions of sociopolitical order, 
geographical spaces, and cultural encounter in kāvya retellings of the Rāma 
story— from Gujarat to Java, from the 7th to the 9th century, in Sanskrit as well as 
Old Javanese. As the ādikāvya was retold in various subsequent ādikāvyas, what 
subtle and not-so-subtle discontinuities can be observed— in both form and 
content, politics and dharma—within the famously incomparable framework of the 
rāmarāvaṇayor yuddham? 
 
special panel 2 
After the Critical Edition: What Next For 
Mahābhārata Studies? 
Organizer: Joydeep Bagchee 
This  panel  examines  the  remaining  tasks  for  Mahābhārata  studies  following  the 
completion  of  the  Mahābhārata  critical  edition  (CE).  As  several  scholars  have 
recently argued, the completion of the CE represents a “watershed” in Mahābhārata 
studies  (Adluri  2013).  This  panel  provides  an  overview  of  contemporary  debates 
concerning  the  CE’s  reception  and  proper  use.  Does  it,  as  some  argue,  merely 
reconstruct  a  “normative  redaction”  such  that  “higher criticism” can reconstruct an 
earlier  stage  of  the  transmission  (Bigger  1998)?  Or  does  it,  as others argue, offer a 
definitive text for exploring 

Monday, July 9 2-4pm 

Buchanan D219 
Joydeep Bagchee 
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Working With the Mahābhārata Critical Edition 
Vishwa Adluri 
Hunter College, New York Higher Criticism and the Bhagavadgītā: the 
Mahābhārata’s “literary design” (Hiltebeitel 2001, Adluri 
Lessons From a Close 
Reading and Bagchee, eds. 2016)? This three-part workshop covers textual 
criticism and the creation of the Mahābhārata CE, the application of “critical” 
methods to the Mahābhārata and the Bhagavadgītā, and the Mahābhārata’s 
traditional reception. 
Jahnavi Bidnur It is 
intended as an introduction for students wishing to 
I
ndic Academy undertake research into the Mahābhārata. 
Prayojana and Phala: The Mahābhārata’s Reception Through Its Commentaries 
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special panel 3 
Harunaga Isaacson 
University of Hamburg Keynote Speech on Liberation 
Kengo Harimoto 
Mahidol University Denying Saṃsāra in the First Place 
Kei Kataoka 
Kyushu University Jayanta on Kumārila’s View of Liberation 
Alex Watson 
Ashoka University Some Reflections about the Diversity of Views 
Concerning Liberation and How to Classify Those Views 
Commentators: Yuko Yokochi, Kyoto University Somadeva Vasudeva, Kyoto University 
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Friday, July 13 10.30am-12.30pm 

Buchanan A202 
Binding Liberation: A Roundtable Around 
the Idea of Liberation in Sanskrit Culture 
Organizer: Kengo Harimoto 
The  idea  of  liberation  is  one  of  defining  and  binding  characteristics  of  Indic 
spiritual  culture. Most religious and philosophical systems originated in South Asia 
describe  what  liberation  is  and  how  to  achieve  it.  For  many,  their  systems  are 
constructed  around  the  idea  of  getting  liberated  (from  normal  existence).  Yet  for 
some,  we  cannot  refer  to  their  ideal  as  liberation.  If  we  look  outside 
religious/philosophical  sphere,  liberation  is  not  always  the  ultimate  goal.  Some 
even  ridiculed  those  who  sought  liberation.  This  special  panel  aims  at  illustrating 
the  diversity  and  dynamism  of Sanskritic civilization using liberation as the central 
theme. 
 
special panel 4 
Introducing Commentaries: Vaiṣṇava 
Perspectives from the 13th and Bhāgavata on 
Advaita 
to the 19th Opening Centuries Purāṇa 
Verse 
Organizers: David Buchta & Jonathan Edelmann 
The Bhāgavata Purāṇa has the richest receptive tradition of all the 
Jonathan Edelmann 
Purāṇas. With its poetic narration of Kṛṣṇa’s life and what Daniel 
U
niversity of Florida Sheridan calls its Adviatic theism, it attracted commentaries from 
both Vaiṣṇava and Advaita thinkers. This panel inaugurates a collaborative scholarly 
engagement with the wide variety 
Making a Vaiṣṇava Theologian: Vaṃśīdharaśarma’s Reading of Śrīdharasvāmin’s Bhāvārthadīpikā 

of commentaries on the Bhāgavata, recognizing it as a site of theological exploration and 

contestation. The currently available scholarship on Bhāgavata Purāṇa commentaries 
largely consists of valuable, focused studies of individual commentators, examining their 
theology as presented through their commentaries. By bringing together specialists on a 
variety of commentators and focusing primarily on a single passage from the Bhāgavata, 
this panel will highlight the connections between these commentators, whether in the 
form of influence and borrowing or contradiction and refutation, and thus begin the 
process of mapping out a history of the text’s exegesis. The theological perspectives 
examined range from the Advaita of Śrīdhara Svāmin and Madhusūdana Sarasvatī to the 
stark Dvaita of Madhva. The commentaries examined in the panel likewise cover nearly 
the entire historical range of Bhāgavata exegesis available to us today, beginning with 
Madhva’s 13th century commentary and extending all the way into the 19th century with 
Vaṃśīdhara’s subcommentary on Śrīdhara Svāmin and commentaries from the 
Swaminarayan tradition. 
Wednesday, July 11 2-6pm 
Buchanan B313 
Tomohiro Manabe 
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science The Three Interpretations of the Word “dhīmahi”: The 
Commentary of Madhusūdana Sarasvatī on Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.1.1. 
Kiyokazu Okita 
Sophia University Rejecting Absolute Monism: The Commentaries of 
Madhva and Vijayadhvaja on Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1.1.1. 
Arun Brahmbhatt 
Kenyon College Sahajānand Svāmī’s Vacanāmṛt and Later Swaminarayan 
Sanskrit Commentaries on Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.1.1 David Buchta 
Brown University Tradition Beyond Sub-commentaries: Influence and 
Innovation in Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa’s Commentary on Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.1.1 Ravi Gupta 
Utah State University “Bait for the Advaitins”: The Enigmatic Theology of 
Śrīdhara Svāmī in His Commentary on the Bhāgavata Purāṇa 
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special panel 5 
Marcus Schmücker 
Austrian Academy of Sciences Do Knowledge (jñāna), Effort (prayatna) and Will 
(icchā) Need a Body? Veṅkaṭanātha’s Concept of God (Īśvara) at the Time of Creation (sṛṣṭikāle) 
Michael Williams 
Austrian Academy of Sciences Vyāsatīrtha’s Arguments Against Inferring God’s 
Existence 
Ajay Rao 
University of Toronto Valerie Stoker 
Wright State University Polemics and Social Hierarchies: Viśiṣṭādvaita and 
Dvaita Perspectives on the Apaśūdrādhikaraṇa 
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Thursday, July 12 4.30-6pm 

Buchanan D314 
Key Debates about Theology and Society in 
later Viśiṣṭādvaita and Madhva Vedānta 
Organizer: Marcus Schmücker 
The  panel  focus  on  two  important  issues  concerning  the  relationship  between  two 
important  traditions  of  theistic  Vedānta,  i.e.  the  Viśiṣṭādvaita  Vedānta  which  is 
represented  by  Veṅkaṭanātha  (fl.  1268-1369)  and  the  Dvaita-Vedānta  which  is 
represented  here  by  Vyāsatīrtha  (fl.  1460-1539).  One  is  to  show  the  similar 
structure  of  arguments  in  the  refutation  of  the  inference  of  God’s  existence  and  to 
demonstrate  the  presuppositions  that  must  be  made  to  defeat  the  opponent,  i.e.  the 
Naiyāyika,  who  is  Udayana  (fl.  984)  for  Veṅkaṭanātha,  and  who  is  Gaṅgeśa  (fl. 
1350)  for  Vyāsatīrtha.  The  other  issue  deals  with  the  fact  that  the  concept  of  a 
highest  personal  Being  does  not  only  enable  these  philosophers  to  give  arguments 
against  other  traditions,  it  has  also  consequences  for  the  structure  of  the  religious 
community concerning ultimate liberation. 
 
special panel 6 
Literary Commentaries and the Intellectual 
Life of South Asia 
Organizers: Elisa Ganser & Daniele Cuneo 
Commentaries  on  literary  texts,  be  they  Kāvyas  or  Nāṭyas,  are  a  prolific  though 
still  much  understudied  genre  in  South  Asia.  The  stress  on  the  literary  text  as  the 
achieved  and  circumscribed  “work  of  art”  has undermined studies on the reception 
history,  transmission  and  practices  of  composing  and  staging  of  literary  texts, 
where  the  poem  or  drama  in  its  entirety  is  not  always  the  main  unit  to  be 
considered. Along these lines, literary commentaries are 
Chiara Livio 
University La Sapienza, Rome Untangling the Mahākāvya: Jonarāja’s 
commentaries on Bhāravi’s Kirātārjunīya and Maṅkha’s Śrīkaṇṭhacarita crucial for 
understanding the relation between theoretical prescriptions and 
compositional/performative practices, as they often put these two dimensions of 
literature (the theoretical and the practical) into dialogue. Moreover, a 
Csaba Dezső 
Eötvös Loránd University Commentaries on the Raghuvaṃśa 
host of knowledge systems (nāṭyaśāstra, alaṃkāraśāstra, vyākaraṇa, mīmāṃsā, 
etc.), along with their philosophical insights, technical vocabulary and 
hermeneutical practices, are employed, combined and creatively re-functionalized 
in literary commentaries, which therefore represent a liminal genre of śāstra that 
crosses the seemingly well-established boundaries among disciplines and offers to 
the modern scholar a unique window into the intellectual life of premodern South 
Asia. 

Thursday, July 12 8.30am-12.30pm 

Buchanan A104 
Part 1. Kāvya through Commentaries, Commentaries through Kāvya Deven Patel 

University of Pennsylvania Commentary as Metalinguistic Communication 

Part 2. Nāṭya through Commentaries, Commentaries through Nāṭya Daniele Cuneo & Elisa Ganser 

Paris III, Sourbonne Nouvelle / Univ. of Zürich Stage Philology: Between Theory and Practice in 
Nāṭaka-Commentaries from Kerala Luther Obrock 
University of Toronto Nāṭaka as Śāstra: Over (and Under) Interpreting 
Bhavabhūti Heike Oberlin 
University of Tübingen Commentaries in the South Indian Sanskrit Theatre Tradition 
Kūṭiyāṭṭam: A Medieval Integration Project? 

Pambungal Kunjunny Dharmarajan 

Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady Nāstikanindā in Kūṭiyāṭṭam Stage Manuals 
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special panel 7 
Andrew Ollett 
Harvard University Mīmāṃsā, Pragmatics, and the Toolbox of Literary 
Interpretation 
Patrick Cummins 
Cornell University The Hermeneutics of the Rational Inquiry: Gaṅgeśa 
and the Prābhākaras 
Manasicha Akepiyapornchai 
Cornell University Pre-Vedāntadeśika Application of Mīmāṃsā 
Hermeneutics in the Doctrinal Validation of Self-Surrender (Prapatti) 
Lawrence McCrea 
Cornell University Quality and Qualification in 16th Century Vedānta 
and its Mīmāṃsā Roots 
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Thursday, July 12 8-10am 

Buchanan B313 
Mīmāṃsā Beyond the Yāgaśālā 
Organizer: Manasicha Akepiyapornchai 
The  most  sophisticated  theories  of  textual  interpretation  in  premodern  India  were 
developed  by  thinkers  in  the  Mīmāṃsā  tradition,  who  formulated  principles  for 
understanding  the  meaning  of  the  ritual  portions  of  the  Vedas.  This  panel  draws 
attention  to  the  radical  implications  of Mīmāṃsā’s hermeneutics outside of its core 
domain  of  Vedic  interpretation.  It  shows  that  intellectuals  in  other  disciplines, 
namely,  literary  interpretation,  logic,  salvific  theology,  and  speculative  ontology, 
felt  the  need  to  confront  Mīmāṃsā’s  hermeneutics  to  defend  their  commitments. 
Within  the  500-year  period  these  intellectuals  span,  Mīmāṃsā’s  hermeneutics 
served  as  a  stepping  stone  to  the  developments  of  these  other  intellectual 
disciplines. 
 
special panel 8 
Research on the Gārgīyajyotiṣa: Composition 
and Transmission 
Organizer: Bill Mak 
The  Gārgīyajyotiṣa  (also known as Gargasaṃhitā), dated at around the first century 
CE,  is  believed  to  be  among  the  oldest  extant  compilations  of  Indian  astral  texts, 
with  topics  ranging  from  astonomy,  astrology,  omens,  rituals,  physiognomy  to 
purāṇic  narration.  The  work  has  attracted  the  attention  of  Indologists,  from  Weber 
and  Kielhorn,  to  more  recently  Mitchiner  and  Pingree.  Despite  the  intense  interest 
it  has  drawn,  the  text  has  not  been  fully  edited  and  published.  This  panel  is  a  part 
of  a  project  initiated  by  the  Garga  workgroup,  established  in  2016  during  the 
“Cosmos: 

Thursday, July 12 2-4pm 

Buchanan D314 
Bill Mak 
Kyoto University Planetary Science and Time-reckoning in the 
Gārgīyajyotiṣa 
Marko Geslani 
Emory University The Formation of the Indradhvaja East and West” conference 
(ISAW, New York University) as 
ceremony, with 
reference to the an effort to advance the research on this important text, with 
Gārgīyajyotiṣa the 
goal to produce an edition of the text in the near future. A preliminary report of the 
workgroup was published in HSSA 2017 5:1. 
Koji Kumagai 
International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies (Tokyo) The Place of Utpāta-lakṣaṇa 
(chapter 39 of Gārgīyajyotiṣa) in Divination Literature 
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special panel 9 
Michaël Meyer 
Université de Paris VII-EPHE How Speech Does Condition Us? The Viewpoint 
of the Śaiva Spanda System 
Marco Ferrante 
University of Oxford “I Speak Therefore (I Know that) I Am”: The 
Pratyabhijñā on Language and Self- consciousness Ma’ayan Nidbach 
Hebrew University of Jerusalem What does Language See? Somānanda’s Dispute 
with Bhartṛhari on the Power of Language Gavin Flood 
University of Oxford; NUS, Singapore Implicit Anthropologies in Pre- Philosophical 
Śaivism 
John Nemec 
University of Virginia Philosophy and Critical Editing: On the Textual Variants 
and Necessary Emendations of the Śāstric Passages of the Śivadṛṣṭi and Śivadṛṣṭivṛtti Isabelle Ratié 
Université de Paris III On Utpaladeva, Abhinavagupta and Śaṅkaranandana: 
Remarks on a Recently Recovered Chapter of Utpaladeva’s Īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛti 

Śaiva Philosophy 
Tuesday, July 10 2-6pm 
Buchanan A201 
Organizer: Lyne Bansat-Boudon Moderators: Lyne Bansat-Boudon & John 
Nemec 
Śaivism,  and  particularly  Śaiva  tantrism,  is  most  often  treated  as a ritual system or 
as  a  doctrinal  system  based  on  ritual  theory.  Without  denying  or  ignoring  the 
importance  of  ritual,  this  panel  aims  to  examine  some  of  the  philosophical  and 
theological  foundations of Śaiva tantrism, the theoretical framework that makes it a 
darśana,  as  it  is  expounded  in  the  scriptures  as  well  as  in  the  exegetical  literature. 
In  this  perspective,  much  attention  will  be  paid  to  the  ways  in  which  Śaiva 
brahmanical exegesis situates itself in the philosophical context of its period. 
Our  goal is to encourage cooperation and debate in the style of a workshop; and we 
hope  that  most  papers  will  concentrate  on  or  at  least  include  the  presentation  and 
analysis  of  particular textual passages in Sanskrit. These passages will give the raw 
material  for  debate  and  provide  a  textual  foundation  to  more  general  problems  to 
be discussed. 
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special panel 10 
Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts: Texts, 
Techniques, and Traditions 
Organizer: Charles DiSimone 
Buddhist textual traditions have been developed and transmitted historically 
Charles DiSimone through 
the production of manuscripts. Sanskrit has been an exceptionally 
BDRC/Ludwig-M
aximilians-University important language used in the creation of Buddhist canonical texts and 
The Hole Story: Techniques 
for Mūlasarvāstivāda it is through Buddhist manuscripts composed in Sanskrit that much of the 
Manuscript Production 
Used by a Scriptorium in Buddhist faith was able to spread throughout the globe over the course of the 
first millennium of the Common Era. In recent years there have been revolutionary new finds of Sanskrit 
Buddhist manuscripts and the scholarly community is in the process of evaluating these texts. With the 
study of these manuscripts, previously accepted notions of Buddhist development are 

Monday, July 9, 2-4pm Tuesday, July 10, 8-10am 

Buchanan A203 (M) Buchanan A104 (Tu) 
Gilgit Kazunobu Around Matsuda 
the 8th Century CE 
Bukkyo University On Leather Manuscript Fragments in the Schøyen Collection, Norway beginning to be 
reevaluated in light of new findings. This panel, in two sessions, will focus on recent research on various 
aspects of the study of Buddhist manuscripts written in Sanskrit. With a mind to engage the whole range 
of study surrounding the topic, the participants of the panel will each explore the topic within a threefold 
rubric: “texts, techniques, and traditions,” allowing the papers to come together into a panel that presents 
the multivalent nature of manuscript study in a Buddhological framework. In regard to “texts,” we will 
present research on the nature of the texts in question themselves, providing attempts at solutions to 
questions of intertextuality, textual reuse, and narrative structure of manuscripts that have been recently 
discovered as well 
Jowita Kramer 
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Some Remarks on the Tattvārthā in Comparison with 
Other Works Attributed to Sthiramati Gergely Hidas 
The British Museum Varṣāpaṇavidhi collections - Buddhist ritual manuals for 
rainmaking 
as reexamining previously studied manuscripts. For “techniques”, participants will examine the 
techniques used in the creation and study of the manuscripts, 
David V. Fiordalis 
L
infield College drawing on philological and manuscriptological methodologies in order 
The Avadānaśataka and the to develop a more nuanced understanding of the process of the physical 
production of these manuscripts. Finally, we will provide analysis on the impact these 
Kalpadrumāvadānamālā: Manuscript Traditions and Kazuo Intertextual Kano 
Questions 
texts and the techniques of their production 
Komazawa University have had 
on the broader issues surrounding 
Some Recent Findings of Sanskrit Manuscripts the textual 
and manuscript traditions they 
from Tibet and Ongoing Projects came to influence. 
Youngjin Lee 
Geumgang University Verses in the Nidānaparivarta of the Daśabhūmikasūtra: Their 
Corrections and Suggestions Based on the 7th Century Sanskrit Manuscript 
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special panel 11 
Debasree Sadhu Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya The Social History of the Female 
in Ancient Sanskrit Literature: A Feministic Study 
Arghadip Paul Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya Women’s Education in the Vedic 
Age: A Study from a Feministic Perspective 
Ashis Biswas Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya A Feministic Deconstructive Study 
of An- cient Sanskrit Literature 
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Wednesday, July 11 8.30-10am 

Buchanan B313 
The Representation of History and Education 
of Women in Vedic Literature: A Feministic 
and Deconstructive Study 
Organizer: Debashree Sadhu 
The  panel  focuses  on  Vedic  Literature  and  tries  to  analyze  how  it  represents  the 
position  of  women  in  ancient  Indian  socio-cultural  and  intellectual  life.  The  panel 
distributes  its  arguments  in  three  basic  areas:  Firstly,  how  Vedic  literature  upheld 
the  empowered  position  of  women;  secondly  how  women’s  participation  in  Vedic 
education  helped  them  to  attain  their  empowered  position;  and  thirdly,  how  the 
intervention  of  patriarchy  robbed  women  of  their  destiny  and  constructed  an 
epistemological discourse for the subjugation of women. 
 
special panel 12 
The Vedas Out Loud: New Approaches to 
Vedic Recitation 
Organizer: Finnian Gerety 
Although  the  importance  of  the  spoken  word  and  sacred  sound  in  the  Vedas  is 
widely  acknowledged,  Vedic  recitation  remains  a  fairly  neglected  area  of  modern 
scholarship,  limited to a handful of important but technical studies. This panel aims 
to  shed  new  light  on  the  topic  by  considering  Vedic  recitation  from  several 
different  perspectives:  ethnographic,  performative,  philological,  and  religious. 
United  by  a  shared  interest  in understanding how Vedic mantras are brought to life 
in  different  circumstances  and  contexts,  the  four  papers  offer  snapshots  of  Vedic 
recitation throughout its long history 

Tuesday, July 10 2-4pm 

Allard Forum 
Finnian M. M. Gerety 
Yale University The “Other” Sacred Syllable: The Case of Hiṃ 
Thennilapuram Mahadevan 
Howard University From Prātaranuvāka to the Āśvinaśastra: in India, from the 
earliest phases around Kurukṣetra to its 
The Fixed Oral 
Tradition of the Ṛgveda modern iterations in the sacrifices of Kerala. 
P. C. Muraleemadhavan 
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady New Discoveries in Vedic Exegesis and the 
Saman Chant 
Laurie Patton 
Middlebury College Discussant (via remote video link) 
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special panel 13 
Timothy Norman Thomas Lubin 
Washington and Lee University What Did the Authors of the Śivadharma and the Viṣṇudharma 
Mean by the Word “Dharma”? 
Nirajan Kafle 
Leiden University Proliferative Strategies of the Śivadharma(śāstra) and Its Impact on the 
Spread of Śaivism in Post 6-7th Century South and Southeast Asia Peter Bisschop 
Leiden University The Śivadharmaśāstra: Composition, Transmission and Revision 
Nina Mirnig 
Austrian Academy of Sciences Donating and Creating Space for Śaiva Communities in Early 
Medieval India: The Śivakṣetra in the Śivadharmaśāstra Florinda De Simini 
Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Early Śaivism and the Brahmanical Tradition 
Yuko Yokochi 
Kyoto University Mahāgaṇapatir Bhavet: Gaṇa-Hood as a Religious Goal in Early 
Śaivism 
Marion Rastelli 
Austrian Academy of Sciences The Worship of Viṣṇu’s Twelve Manifestations 
Through the History of Vaiṣṇava Traditions 
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Wednesday, July 11 8.30am-12.30pm 

Buchanan A103 
The Viṣṇu- And Śivadharma: Early Medieval 
Lay Religion in a Socio-religious and 
Historical Perspective 
Organizers: Nina Mirnig & Florinda De Simini 
During the tail end of the Gupta era or soon thereafter, a pivotal moment in the history of 
medieval Indian society and culture, a new type of texts appeared that called their doctrine 
Śivadharma or Viṣṇudharma. Targeting the lay communities of Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava devotees, 
respectively, these works detailed the duties of the householders in matter of ritual and religion, 
giving norms that aimed to regulate both the private behaviours and the public religious sphere. 
The works promoting the Viṣṇu- and the Śivadharma, such as the Viṣṇudharma, the 
Śivadharmaśāstra, or the Śivadharmottara, were thus conceived with a broad scope, as their 
audience constituted the backbone of medieval Indian society, and, according to the picture that 
the sources depict, was entirely charged with the material support of religious institutions and 
initiated practitioners. The papers of this panel will deal with topics relating to the formation of 
its founding sources, tracing developments regarding their institutions as well as features of 
doctrine that are central to early medieval lay religion, with the aim to identify specific aspects 
that tell us more about the nature of the emergence and development of this text corpus. The 
panel is conceived of as two interlinked and subsequent parts: The first part will focus on topics 
that relate to the concrete strategies concerning the organization of society in this project to 
provide a model for a social order shaped by these devotional traditions and their agents. The 
second part will deal with the examination of doctrinal sections, through which we can establish 
the religious milieu and the concrete textual sources the authors of these Dharma texts were 
familiar with and identify continuities and innovations that took place in the process of 
formulating the respective normative corpuses. 
 
special panel 14 
The Yuktidīpikā Forging a Place for Sāṅkhya 
in Indian Intellectual History 
Organizers: Hyoung Seok Ham & Noemie Verdon 
The  Yuktidīpikā  remains  the  key  text  for  historians  of  Indian  philosophy  in  that  it 
documents  the  development  of  Sāṅkhya  thought  in  the  form  of a rigorous debate with its 
opponents,  quite  likely  prompted  by  the  Buddhists’  sharp  criticism.  This  panel 
extrapolates  diverse  historically  meaningful  information  by  examining  how  the 
Yuktidīpikā  positioned  itself  in  relation  to  past  Sāṅkhya  teachers,  general  Brahmanical 
tradition  and  Mīmāṃsā  in  particular,  and  by  tracing  their  epistemological  development. 
The  goal  is  to  understand  the  breadth  and depth of the Sāṅkhya as an essential part of the 
philosophical landscape around the middle of the first millennium CE. 

Friday, July 13 8-10am 

Buchanan D204 
Noemie Verdon 
Swiss National Foundation Early Sāṅkhya Teachers through the Lens of the 
Yuktidīpikā 
Ołena Łucyszyna University of Humanities & Economics in Lodz The Yuktidīpikā on the Origin 
of the Vedas 
Hyoung Seok Ham 
R.H.N. Ho Foundation; Kyushu University On Being the Orthodox Ascetics: Capturing the 
Moment When the Sāṅkhyas Began to Reflect Seriously on their Conflict with Vedic Authority 
Edeltraud Harzer 
University of Texas at Austin Early Roots of Propositional Perception from the 
Ṣaṣṭitantra to the Yuktidīpikā 
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special panel 15 
Caley Charles Smith 
McGill University Vāc as a Socio-Political Ideal 
Lauren M. Bausch 
Dharma Realm Buddhist University The Place of Vāc in the Cosmic Exchange 
Stephanie Amelia Majcher 
University of Sydney Bound by Names, They Rejoiced in the Revealed: 
Grammar and the Revelation of Vāc in Aitareya Āraṇyaka 2.3.8 
Steven Lindquist 
Southern Methodist University Everything New Is Old Again: Vāc and the 
“Creation” of the White Yajurveda 
Jan Houben, EPHE (Discussant) 
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Tuesday, July 10 8-10am 

Allard Forum 
vāg evedaṃ sarvam 
Organizer: Caley Charles Smith 
While  philologists  have  always  been  concerned  with  retrieving  culturally  specific 
notions  from  texts  and  establishing  their  meaning  against  linguistic  data,  these 
notions  have  rarely  been  allowed  to  color  the  way  that  texts  are  handled  in  turn. 
This  results  in  the  tacit  projection  of  the  modern  objects  “text”  and  “language” 
onto  premodernity,  as  though  they  were  universal  and  continuous  categories 
instead  of  culturally  specific  and  path-dependent  ones.  This  panel is built upon the 
close  analysis  of  Vāc  in  situ  in  order  to  excavate  the  phenomenon  of  language 
native  to  Vedic  texts  themselves.  The  papers  in  this  panel  pay  special  attention  to 
unique  characteristics  of  Vāc  which  defy  modern  academic  theorizations  of 
language,  and,  through  these  differences,  the  panelists  will  lay  the  foundation  for 
exploring broader questions of textuality in Vedic India. 
 
special panel 16 
Vedānta’s Polyglot Lives: Querying Vedānta 
and the Vernacular, 1650-1900 
Wednesday, July 11 10.30am-12.30pm 
Organizers: Jonathan Peterson & Puninder Singh 

Buchanan B313 
Building on recent scholarship that brings sharper resolution to the 
cosmopolitan-vernacular dyad, this panel analyzes 
Jonathan Peterson 
Un
iversity of Toronto Vedāntic discourses across multiple linguistic contexts. By 
Delinquency and 
Dereliction in the understanding Vedānta as a multi-sited, multi-lingual, and 
Śāstras: Linguistic 
Authority in Early- socially active system, each paper grapples with issues of 
Modern Vedānta 
Polemic linguistic, religious, and political power as a factor in the development of 
Vedānta as it traverses both cosmopolitan and vernacular registers. 
Puninder Singh 
University of Michigan The Sikh Nirmala Panth and Sikh-Vedānta 
Engagement 
Michael S. Allen 
University of Virginia Greater Advaita Vedānta: The Case of Sundardās 
Anand Venkatkrishnan 
Harvard University Vedānta from the Bottom Up: Eknāth’s Hastāmalaka 
Stotra 
Christopher Minkowski 
University of Oxford (Affiliated paper, in Session 3.1, S14.6) The 
Daharavidyā in Appayya’s Nyāyarakṣāmaṇi and Nīlakaṇṭha’s Vedāntakataka 
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special panel 17 
Margi Madhu Chakyar 
& the Nepathya Ensemble Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady 
Kūṭiyāṭṭam, the Play and the Performance: A Lecture-demonstration 
Featuring: 
Margi Madhu Chakyar 
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady Heike Oberlin 
University of Tübingen Elisa Ganser 
University of Zürich Elena Mucciarelli 
Hebrew University, Jerusalem Mandakranta Bose 
University of British Columbia C. Rajendran 
Univ. of Calicut Lyne Bansat-Boudon 
EPHE Ma’ayan Nidbach 
Hebrew University, Jerusalem 

Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Living Sanskrit 

Thursday, July 12 
Theater Tradition 
in the Kerala 
2-6pm 
Buchanan A103 
Organizers: Mucciarelli 
Heike Oberlin, Elisa Ganser, Elena 
lecture/demonstration: [2-4pm] 

Kūṭiyāṭṭam  (“combined  acting”,  “acting  together”)  is  the  name  given  to  India’s  sole 
surviving  tradition  of  staging  Sanskrit  plays.  At  least  about  a  thousand  years  old  it  is 
indigenous  to  the  Southwest  Indian  state  of  Kerala  and  springs  from  this  in  many  ways 
unique  culture.  Thus,  the  Sanskrit  and  Prakrit  of  the  plays  are  complemented  though 
Malayalam,  different  kinds  and  layers  of  narrative  get  mixed  into  the  original  Sanskrit 
play. Further 
roundtable discussion: [4.30-6pm] Kūṭiyāṭṭam beyond Academics - Touching the Heart 
of Tradition 
commentaries  and  dhvani  texts  from  several  centuries  try  to  explain,  to  describe,  report, 
criticise  and  analyse  what  we  calll  today  “Kūṭiyāṭṭam.”  On  the  top  of  that  Kūṭiyāṭṭam 
distinguishes  different  kinds  of  texts  on  stage,  and  distinct  ways  to  perform,  recite, 
transform and transmit them. 
The participants of the roundtable will try to go deeper into these textual foundations, of 
their fusion, interaction and transformation on and behind the stage. They consist of 
senior experts working for decades in the field of Kūṭiyāṭṭam, of performers, who are 
simultaneously researchers, and of emerging scholars who are highly inspired and 
specialized in particular aspects of the tradition. The actors and musicians of the 
Nepathya troupe are the closest ones to the heart of the tradition, and will serve as a 
bridge between the more academic world of the texts and the sphere of the stage, a bridge 
that is necessary to get a holistic understanding of India’s only historical yet highly 
complex Sanskrit theatre form. 
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special panel 18 
Sanskrit Corpus Management 
Organizers: Amba Kulkarni & Gérard Huet 
Several  digital  libraries  for  Sanskrit  exist.  GRETIL,  SARIT,  The  Sanskrit Library, 
and  Digital  Sanskrit  Corpus  are  some  of  them.  The  advantage  of  digital  libraries 
over  physical  libraries  is  that  digital  libraries  can  be  interlinked  with  the  online 
language  processing  tools.  Such  inter-linking  then  facilitates  the  creation  of 
annotated  texts.  There  is  also  a  database,  PANDIT,  that  shares  works,  people, 
places  and  manuscripts  of  South  Asia.  This  panel  provides  a  platform  for  the 
developers  of  various  digital  libraries  and  the  developers  of computational tools to 
come together and discuss 

Thursday, July 12 10.30am-12.30pm 

Buchanan B313 
Peter Scharf 
The Sanskrit Library The TEI Tagger of the Sanskrit Library 
Dominik Wujastyk 
University of Alberta The SARIT Digital Library and debate on existing resources, 
their representations, envisioned improvements, linking of various resources, use 
of computational tools, use of various existing standards, and so on. 
Yigal Bronner 
Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Prosopographical Database for Indic Texts 
Moderators: Gérard Huet 
Inria Paris Center Amba Kulkarni 
University of Hyderabad 
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Wednesday, July 11 10.30am-12.30pm 
Buchanan B202/204 
Abhijit Dixit 
A digitization process for Laukikanyāyas of Mahābhāṣya in Animation approach 
Martin Gluckman 
Sanskrit Research Institute 7 Years in the Woods of Sanskrit: A Review of the Work of 
the Sanskrit Research Institute, Auroville 
Venkata Subramanian 
Vyoma Linguistic Labs Language Lab for Sanskrit: A Scalable Techno- 
Pedagogical-Content Knowledge (TPACK) Approach 
Harnsukworapanich Sumachaya 
Dhammachai Tipitaka Project Introduction to the Indic Text Analysis Program (ITAP) 
Shivani V. & Swati Basapur 
Karnataka Samskrita University, Bangalore सा गशणकपा स (Computational Tools for Pali Language) 
Malhar Kulkarni 
IIT Bombay Some New Computational Sanskrit Tools at IIT Bombay 
Amba Kulkarni & Sanjeev Panchal 
University of Hyderabad Samsaadhanii: A Parser and a Generator for 
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Digital Sanskrit Workshop, Part 1: Sanskrit 

Computational Linguistics 
Organizers: Amba Kulkarni & Sanjeev Panchal 
These  two  unique  workshops  will  showcase  cutting-edge  tools  for  working 
with  Sanskrit  texts  and  linguistics.  Both  sessions  will  taking  place  in  a 
computer lab. 
The  workshop  on  Computational  Lingustics  will  focus  on  software  for 
linguistic  analysis.  Malhar  Kulkarni,  Amba  Kulkarni,  and  Sanjeev  Panchal 
will  present  their  work  on  lexicography,  morphological  analysis,  sandhi 
splitting,  and  dependency  parsing,  and  Martin  Gluckman  will  demonstrate 
research  tools  for  Pāṇinian  grammar.  In  addition  to  Sanskrit,  Pāli  linguistics 
will  also  be  discussed  by  H.  Sumachaya,  Shivani  V,  and  Swati  Basapur. 
Finally,  Abhijit  Dixit  and  Venkata  Subramanian  will  present  their  digital 
approaches to Sanskrit pedagogy. 

special panel 19.1 

 
special panel 19.2 
Digital Sanskrit Workshop, Part 2: Digital 
Humanities 
Organizers: Timothy Bellefleur & Charles Li 
The workshop on Digital Humanities will feature projects 
Gérard Huet that 
involve editing, organizing, and visualizing texts. Gérard Huet and Yigal Bronner 
will lead hands-on sessions 
INRIA, Paris Experiments with a Corpus Manager in which delegates will have a 
chance to work with experimental features of The Sanskrit Heritage Engine and 
learn how to contribute to the PANDiT prosopography project. Then, there will be 
two presentations on online databases, by Michael Willis, Daniel Balogh, and 
Stefan 

Wednesday, July 11 2-4pm 

Buchanan B202/204 
Yigal Bronner 
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hands-on with the PANDiT Project 
Baums, collecting inscriptions and Gāndhārī texts. Finally, delegates will get a 
taste of research environments, currently 
Michael Willis & 
Daniel Balogh in development, for analyzing Sanskrit documents and texts 
B
ritish Museum — Ian McCrabb and Andrea Schlosser will talk about READ, 
Introduction to 
Siddham: the Asia and Tim Bellefleur, Charles Li, and Adheesh Sathaye will 
Inscriptions Database 
demonstrate tools for working with fluid textual traditions. 
Stefan Baums 
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Gandhari.org Corpus of Gāndhārī Texts: 
Linguistic Analysis, Text-Image Linking & Synoptic Editions 
Ian McCrabb & Andrea Schlosser 
READ READ ― Research Environment for Ancient 
Documents 
Timothy Bellefleur, Charles Li, & Adheesh Sathaye 
Univ. of British Columbia The Vetāla Project: Digital Tools for Working with 
Fluid Texts 
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special panel 20 
Speakers: Jason Birch 
SOAS, University of London 
Mark Singleton 
SOAS, University of London 
Jacqueline Hargreaves 
Independent Researcher 
James Mallinson 
SOAS, University of London 
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Wednesday, July 11 4.30-6pm 

Allard Forum 
Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: A Precursor of 
Modern Yoga Practice 
Organizers: Jason Birch & Jacqueline Hargreaves 
The  Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati  is  one  of  the  ten  Sanskrit  texts  that  is  to  be  critically 
edited  and  translated  as  part  of  Haṭha  Yoga  Project  (HYP),  a  5-year ERC research 
project  hosted  at  SOAS,  University  of  London.  The  Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati  extends 
our  knowledge  of  Haṭhayoga  in  India  prior  to  the  onset  of British colonialism as it 
locates  moving  and  strenuous  āsanas  within  a  premodern  tradition.  Another 
striking  innovation  is  the  categorisation  of  āsanas  in  sequences.  This  panel  will 
begin with an introduction by Jason Birch and Mark Singleton, followed by a video 
re-construction  of  an  āsana  section  along  with  Sanskrit  recitation.  A  Q&A  session 
will conclude the panel. 
 
Schedule of Papers 
VANCOUVER 2018 
THE 17 TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE 
 
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8am Registration, Puṣpāñjali Dance Performance by Mandala Arts, Welcoming Addresses & 
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Address by Guest of Honour Introduced by V. Kutumba Sastry [President, International Association of Sanskrit 
Studies] 

9.45 9.30 am 

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Break 
Plenary Lectures: (introduced by Ashok Aklujkar, University of British Columbia) George 
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[Univ. of Pennsylvania] “Philology, Text History, and History of Ideas” 9.45 - 
11.55 am 
Dipti Tripathi 
[Univ. of Delhi] “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, Minister 5-6.30pm 
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: 7-7.25PM 7-8pm 
Heike Oberlin (Univ. of Tübingen) Introduction to Kūṭiyāṭṭam, 7.25-7.45PM 
Intermission: 7.45-8PM 
8-11pm 
CONSULATE GENERAL OF INDIA VANCOUVER 

57 The Nepathya 
Troupe (Muzhikkulam, Kerala), led by Margi Madhu Chakyar Ensemble Kūṭiyāṭṭam 
performance of Bālivadham 
 
Monday | July 9 || 2-4pm Session 1.3 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

2-2:30pm 2:30-3pm 3-3:30pm 3:30-4pm 

1 buch d219 
Discussion 
Organizer: Joydeep Bagchee 

2 buch a203 
SPECIAL PANEL 2: After the Critical Edition: What Next For Mahābhārata Studies? 
Joydeep Bagchee 
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 
Working With the Mahābhārata Critical Edition 
Vishwa Adluri 
Hunter College, New York 
The Text-Historical Method Reconsidered: Lessons From the Bhagavadgītā 
Jahnavi Bidnur 
Indic Academy 
Prayojana and Phala: The Mahābhārata’s Reception Through Its Commentaries 
SPECIAL PANEL 10.1: Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts: Texts, Techniques, and Traditions, Part 1 
Charles DiSimone 
BDRC, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Hole Story: Techniques for Mūlasarvāstivāda Manuscript Production 
Used by a Scriptorium in Gilgit Around the 8th Century CE 
Kazunobu Matsuda 
Bukkyo University 
On Leather Manuscript Fragments in the Schøyen Collection, Norway 
Jowita Kramer 
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 
Some Remarks on the Tattvārthā Abhidharmakośaṭīkā 
Gergely Hidas 
British Museum 
How to Enter the Residence of Nāgas and Convert Them to the 
Organizer: Charles 
Buddha’s Teachings 
DiSimone 

3 
S14.1 | द गन ◌ावन, त वशा म ् - Philosophy Mīmāṃsā & Īśvara 
Kashinath Nyaupane Nepal Sanskrit University 

मठ मांसानय ई वरवनरासः 
Sandhya Pruthi 
University of Delhi 
Application of Syntactical Principles of Mīmāṃsā to Brahmasūtra 
Akane Saito 
EFEO, Pondicherry 

buch b218 
Maṇḍanamiśra’s Application of the Mīmāṃsā Rules in 
Moderator: Lawrence McCrea 
the Tarkakāṇḍa of the Brahmasiddhi 

4 buch d201 
S9.1 | ि◌ैज ् ◌ावनकं ि◌ा मयम ् - Scientific Literature 
Anupriya Aggarwal 
IIT Bombay 
A Study of Three Questions and their Answers in Karaṇakaustubha 
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen University of Copenhagen 
A Mirror Surface, a Tortoise Shell, and a Lotus: Ideas of the Shape of the Earth 
Ronnie Dreyer 
Deconstructing Eclipses in Bṛhatsaṃhitā 
Lokraj Poudel 
Purviya Darshan Vidyapeeth, World Astro- Federation फलादे शप
े राशरसूत ्◌ाशण ि◌ गमानयुरेऽवप ता त 
Moderator: Dominik 

ि◌ैज ् ◌ावनकावन 
Wujastyk 

5 buch b313 
S8.1 | का यमल ◌ार च - Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics 
Whitney Cox 
University of Chicago 
Bilhaṇa, Kalhaṇa, Jalhaṇa 
Iris Iran Farkhondeh 
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 
Kṣemendra’s Samaya- Mātṛkā Within Kashmirian Sanskrit Literary’s History 
Peter Pasedach 
University of Hamburg 
Ratnākara’s Haravijaya: Critical Edition, Including Commentaries, and Annotated Translation 
Hamsa Stainton 
McGill University 
Metapoetic Poetry From Kashmir: Maṅkha’s Śrīkaṇṭha- 
Moderator: Lyne Bansat- Boudon 
carita and Jagaddhara Bhaṭṭa’s Stuti- kusumāñjali 

6 
S17.1 | सं कृतशशक् ◌ाशा म ् - Sanskrit Pedagogy 
Jayaraman Mahadevan Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram 
Imparting Yoga Texts in Sanskrit: A Teaching Experiment and Its Outcome 
Sanhita Joshi 
Deccan College PGRI w/ M. Kulkarni Some Remarks on the Interface Between the Aṣṭādhyāyī-krama and the 
Prakriyā-krama: a Modern Dichotomy in the Pedagogy of Pāṇinian Grammar 
Varun Khanna 
Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth w/ V.R.M. Ganesh 
Understanding Dīkṣita: On the Meaning of the Word “Siddhānta” in Siddhāntakaumudī 
Gayatri Murali Krishna Ravuri Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan buch d218 
Moderator: Sadananda Das 

ि◌ाचनाशभ य य मताः न ्◌ूनठ कतंु ि◌ेदा गशशक् ◌ासस ◌ा तानां ि◌ैज ्◌ावनकानु योरः 
 
Monday Session 1.3 | July 9 || 2-4pm Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

2-2:30pm 2:30-3pm 3-3:30pm 3:30-4pm 

7 buch a202 
S21.1 | ध गश ◌ा मगशा ं च - Law and Society Status and Its Regulation 
Patrick Olivelle 
University of Texas at Austin 
Revisiting the Āśrama System: A New Hypothesis of Its Origin 
Donald Davis 
University of Texas at Austin 
Slaves and Slavery in the Smṛticandrikā 
David Brick 
Yale University 
Śaiva and Dharmaśāstra Treatments of Penance in Comparative Perspective 
Tek Chand Meena 
University of Delhi 

मनु म कृतौ शू ◌ाणां सामािजक वतः Moderator: Timothy Lubin 

8 buch b309 
S2.1 | भाषाशा म ् - Linguistics 
Jared Stephen Klein 
University of Georgia 
The Syntax and Semantics of Rigvedic Nú “Now” 
Zachary Rothstein- Dowden 
Harvard University 
On the ī-preterits of Sanskrit 
Giacomo Benedetti 
The Meaning and Etymology of Ārya 
Madhav Deshpande 
University of Michigan 
Antiquity and Nature of Early Non-Ritual 
Moderator: Jan E. M. 
Sanskrit Usage 
Houben 

9 buch d204 
S11.1 | ि◌ैन व ◌ा - Jaina Studies 
Jolly Sandesara 
Gujarat University 
The Concept of Omniscience and the Theory of Destiny 
Jayandra Soni 
IASS, Univ. of Marburg 
The Concept of Manas in Jaina Philosophy 
Lucas den Boer 
Leiden University 
The Authorship of the Āryās in the Tattvārthasūtrabhāṣya 
Marie-Hélène Gorisse 
Ghent University 
Is Cognition Based on Authoritative Discourse 
Moderator: Eva De Clercq 
a Type of Inference? A Jain Perspective 

10 
S1.1 | ि◌ेदः - Veda Ṛgveda 
Murlimanohar Pathak 
D. D. Upadhyay Gorakhpur University 
Elements of Creation in Nāsadīya Hymn (Ṛgveda 10.129) 
B. N. Narahari Achar 
University of Memphis 
On the Structure of the Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 
Mislav Jeźić 
University of Zagreb 
A Closer Reading of Ṛgvedic Poetry 
Georges-Jean Pinault 
EPHE 

buch d222 
An Early Pun of the Ṛgveda 
Moderator: Frank Köhler 
।। व ् कूरं सु द रम ् ।। व ◌ुल ्◌ेखा अक लक
ु र 
भम
ू म गत ् सश
ु ा तसार रकृता सो म ाहै यु ्गता 
ि◌कृक् ◌ाच ्◌ाददत प ्गत ◌ै: पर रकृता प ्ग पण
ू ◌ा्ग सदा | 
नानादे शनै: समे य नररं य स ्◌ावपतं ि◌धतं 
क् ◌ीडास ्◌ानममदं समि तरतो व ्ं कूरं सु द रम ् ।। १ ।। 
ि◌नकुहर-मरररशठ ः शोभते चचत ्ि◌णा्ग 
हररणशशक शााः शा वले केललमगाः । 
द वकुलकलनादै र ् ि◌कृ ािजः सचेता 
बहु व धनशब ्◌ैर ् ि◌ठ रयः नादपण
ू ◌ा्गः ।। २ ।। 
59 
 
Tuesday | July 10 || 8-10am Session 2.1 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am 

1 forum allard 
SPECIAL PANEL 15: vāg evedaṃ sarvam 
Caley Charles Smith 
McGill University 
Vāc as a Socio-Political Ideal 
Lauren M. Bausch 
Dharma Realm Buddhist University 
The Place of Vāc in the Cosmic Exchange 
Stephanie A. Majcher 
University of Sydney 
Bound by Names, They Rejoiced in the Revealed: Grammar and the Revelation of Vāc in Aitareya Āraṇyaka 2.3.8 
Steven Lindquist 
Southern Methodist University 
Everything New Is Old Again: Vāc and the 
Organizer: Caley C. Smith Discussant: Jan Houben 
“Creation” of the White Yajurveda 

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

3 buch b218 
S14.2 | द गन ◌ावन, त वशा म ् - Philosophy Navyanyāya & Nyāya 
Toshihiro Wada 
Nagoya University 
Causality in Early Navya-Nyāya: The Definitions of Cause Formulated by Śaśadhara 
Yoichi Iwasaki 
Nagoya University 
Death in Varanasi: Reasons to Be Religious in Navya Nyāya Soteriology 
Piotr Balcerowicz 
University of Warsaw 
Anumāna, Inference and “Inference” in the Critique of Jayarāśi 
Moderator: Alex Watson 
Bhaṭṭa 

4 buch d201 
S21.2 | ध गश ◌ा मगशा ं च - Law and Society Dharmaśāstra in the Modern Era 
Ranjeet Kumar Mishra 
University of Delhi 
Kauṭilya’s Taxation Model and Its Relevance to the Present Global Economic Scenario 
Borayin Larios 
Heidelberg University 
Rejecting Reform and Defending One’s Dharma: The Dharmatattva-nirṇaya of Vāsudevaśāstrī Abhyaṅkar (1863-1942) 
Simon Cubelic 
Heidelberg University 
Politico-Didactic Literature in 19th-Century Nepal: Raṅganātha Pauḍyāla’s Rājavidhānasāra in Moderator: Donald Davis 
Comparative Perspective 5 
S8.2 | का यमल ◌ार च - Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics 
Pankaj Kumar Mishra 
University of Delhi 
Kālidāsa: An Orphan without any Offspring 
Shrikrishna Sharma 
Kurukshetra University 

मेघ दतठ यकरानक- स ्◌ोतो वमशशे नठ नो ि◌ाना 

V. Kutumba Sastry 
President, IASS 
A Note on Verse 1.16 of Kumārasambhava of Kālidāsa 
Satyanarayan Chakraborty 

buch b313 
A Case Study on the Concept of “Anvarthatva” and 
Moderator: C. Rajendran 
Its Application in the Śiśupālavadha of Māgha, with Reference to Words for Mountain 

6 
S17.2 | सं कृतशशक् ◌ाशा म ् - Sanskrit Pedagogy 
Amrita Kaur Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan 

सं कृतपठनदोषव नारणे असधरमेएका तायाः सम ्◌ादनेच कूटचचत ्◌ाणामनु योरः 

Iwona Milewska 
Jagiellonian University 
Didactic Strategies in the European Tradition of Sanskrit Pedagogy 
Neelam Trivedi 
Dayanand Girls P.G. College buch d221 
The Perspective of New Pedagogy in Sanskrit Teaching: Importance Moderator: Sanhita Joshi 
of Pronunciations and Recitation in Sanskrit Learning 
 
Tuesday Session 2.1 | July 10 || 8-10am 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am 

7 buch d307 
S18.1 आधव
ु नकं | 
सं कृतसादह यम ् - Modern Sanskrit Writings 
Devsinh Bhalabhai Rathva 
Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University 
Contribution of Gujarat in Modern Sanskrit Literature 
Geetha Kasha 
Government Degree College for Women, Hyderabad 
Kālāya Tasmai Namaḥ- The Life Journey of Ogeti Parikshit Sharma 
Pushpa Jha 
The Meter Analysis of 
Moderator: Charles Preston 
Sanskrit Ghazal 

8 buch d213 
S2.2 भाषाशा म ् | - Linguistics 
Chakrapani Khanal 
Tribhuvan University 

मठ मांसाद गनानस
ु ारठ ि◌ाक् ◌ाग वश ्◌ेषण ि तानम ् 
Sharda Narayanan Dr. MGR Janaki College of Arts & Science for Women 
Relation Between Word and Meaning: A Comparison Between Vākyapadīya and Ślokavārtikā 
Hetal M. Pandya 
Gujarat University 
Bhartṛhari: The Concept of “Meaning” 
Anselmo Hernández Quiroz 
National Autonomous University of Mexico On Bahuvrīhi Compounds in Sanskrit: 
Moderator: Madhav Deshpande 
A Cognitive Analysis of External Predication as Metonymic 

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

10 
S11.2 ि◌ैन व ◌ा | 
- Jaina Studies 
Anubha Jain Guru Nanak Girls College 
The Teaching of Mātrās in the Jain Ādipurāṇa 
Saloni Joshi 
Gujarat University 
Jainism Depicted in Allegorical Stories in Prakrit Literature (With Reference to Two Texts of the 12th Century) 
Heleen De Jonckheere 
Ghent University 

buch d204 
“Hari Is Not Even Satisfied by 16000 Gopis!”: The Dharma- 
Moderator: Jayandra Soni 
parīkṣā by Amitagati as Jain Expression of a Puranic Mode 

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

ि◌नकुहर-व नासठ ायशः शा तशठ लः 

म तदनसमेतः पा थ सेा ठ णः । 
पदपररमनेस ्◌ात ् यानमारशे भे वा 
सक लनसख
ु ारथी क् ◌ीडते क गयोरठ ।। ३ ।। 
61 
 
Tuesday | July 10 || 10.30-12.30pm Session 
2.2 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm 

1 forum allard 
DARŚANIC SCHOLARY SESSION: Akṣara- Puruṣottama Darśanam 
Bhadreshdas Swami, Delhi BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute Svāminārāyaṇa’s Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana (Ontology, 
Soteriology, and Identity) 
Deven Patel, Univ. of Pennsylvania The Role of the Guru Within the Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana 
Paramtattvadas Swami, London Deconstructing “Brahmajijñāsā” in the Brahmasūtra- Svāminārāyaṇa-Bhāṣya: A Study Of 
Grammar, Hermeneutics, And Theology Aksharananddas Swami, New York The Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana and the Gītā 
Verse: “Brahmabhūtaḥ Prasannātmā...” Chair: Mahāmahopādhyāya 
Aksharvatsaldas Swami, Delhi Bhadreshdas 
Swami 
The Tradition of the Śikhara within Mandir Architecture: Origins, Development, and Philosophy 

2 buch a104 
Alexis Sanderson, Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford The Śākta Transformation of Śaivism 
Introduced by Mandakranta Bose 

3 buch b218 
KEYNOTE LECTURE: Alexis Sanderson 
S14.3 | द गन ◌ावन, त वशा म ् - Philosophy Jayantabhaṭṭa & Nyāya 
Alex Watson 
Ashoka University 
Jayanta Bhaṭṭa on Whether Perception Supports or Refutes the Buddhist Doctrine of Momentariness 
Ryushin Sudo 
Kyushu University 
On Aprayojaka and Upādhi 
Udita Bhattacharyya 
University of Delhi 
Jayantabhaṭṭa’s Notion on Perceptibility of Abhāva 
Agnieszka Rostalska 
Ghent University 
Epistemic Autonomy of Testimony in Nyāya: The Key Anti- Reductionist Argument Moderator: Monika 
Posed by Uḍḍyoṭakara, 
Nowakowska 
Bhāsarvajña & Jayanta 

4 
S1.2 | ि◌ेदः - Veda Ṛgveda & Around 
Michael Brattus Jones 
University of Texas at Austin 
The Vedic Association of Prosperity and Plow 
Ryutaro Takezaki 
University of Tokyo 
The Function of the Heart and Emotion in the Ṛgveda 
Reeja Bhas Kavanal 
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit 
Ṛgvedic Society in the Akṣasūkta 
Jarrod Whitaker 
Wake Forest University 

buch d201 
Moderator: Hans Henrich Hock 
“Sorcerer” or “Sack of Shit?” Rethinking Yātú and Yātudhāna in the Ṛgveda and Atharvaveda 

5 
S8.3 का यमल ◌ार च | 
- Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics 
Narayan Dutt Mishra 
Jawaharlal Nehru University 

लल गचनस ्◌ार समप

ु ेतः सादह यशा सा दभको ि◌ैल य वम गः 
Aruna Sharma 
Kurukshetra University 

भारत ठ कृच त वम गः 

Ivana Vashishtha 
Jawaharlal Nehru University 
अल ◌ार- लोकन ्◌ाययोर तःस बन ्ः 
G. S. Srinivasa Murthy 

buch b313 
Moderator: C. Rajendran 
Computer-Aided Study of Rhythm in Akṣaragaṇa-Based Metres: An Exploration in Sanskrit Prosody 

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

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm 

7 buch d307 
S18.2 | आधव
ु नकं सं कृतसादह यम ् - Modern Sanskrit Writings 
Hari Dutt Sharma 
University of Allahabad 
Modern Sanskrit Poetry in Global Perspective 
Rumaliben Rathva S. R. Bhabhor Arts College 
Contribution of Harshdev Madhav in Modern Sanskrit Literature 
Soumyajit Sen 
Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University 
सं कृत-खकृष ् ठ य-सादह ये ि◌न- मरु -ि◌या्गणां (John Muir) सार त मदानम ् 
Rajendra Kumar Tripathi 
University of Allahabad 

स ्◌ात ो त राा्गचठ नसं कृत- का यानश

ु ठ लनम ् Moderator: Hari Dutt Sharma 

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

9 buch b310 
S3.2 | याकरणम ् - Vyākaraṇa 
Toru Yagi 
Osaka Gakuin University 
On the Application of P.4.3.134, 140, and 144 
Yūto Kawamura 
University of Oxford 
What Is the Purpose of Restating “dā” in Aṣṭādhyāyī 5.3.19, “tado dā ca”? 
Prasad P. Joshi 
Deccan College PGRI 
Considering the Commentaries on “kratuyajñebhyaś ca” (Aṣṭādhyāyī 4.3.68) 
Jo Brill 
University of Chicago 
Underdetermination in the Aṣṭādhyāyī? 
Moderator: Peter M. Scharf 

10 
S11.3 | ि◌ैन व ◌ा - Jaina Studies 
Yutaka Kawasaki 
University of Tokyo 
Haribhadrasūri on Steya-/Caura-Śāstra 
Priyanka Mayur Shah 
Gujarat University 
Class System as in Jainism 
Claire Maes 
University of Texas at Austin 
Gāhāvaï and Gihattha: The Householder in the Early Jaina Sources 
Ruixuan Chen 
Heidelberg University 

buch d204 
Notes on Uttarajjhāyā 27 
Moderator: Luitgard Soni 
11 buch d314 
S4.2 | रामायणं महाभारतं च - Epics 
Vishal Sharma 
University of Oxford 
If the Thighs Are Not Hit, You Must Acquit: Madhva’s Reading of the Gadāyuddha Episode 
Zuzana Špicová 
Charles University 
Bhīṣma, an (Un)reliable Narrator 
Wendy J. Phillips- Rodriguez 
National Autonomous University of Mexico 
Different Sections, Different Textual 
Moderator: James Hegarty 
Histories: Evidence of the “Observer Effect” in the Written Transmission of the Mahābhārata 

कणा्गघावतवननादोऽत ् नै ि◌ाहनचालने। 
नाहमहममका मारशेनापशब ्◌ा तरा वचचत ् ।। ४ ।। क् ◌ीडामगा तु य ते 
परु मध ्◌े ऽवप नाररा: । 
बम
ु बलपटं स ् रम ते यत ् तत ् ते ।। ५ ।। 
63 
 
Tuesday | July 10 || 2-4pm Session 2.3 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm 

1 forum allard 
SPECIAL PANEL 12: The Vedas Out Loud: New Approaches to Vedic Recitation 
Finnian M. M. Gerety 
Yale University 
The “Other” Sacred Syllable: The Case of Hiṃ 
Thennilapuram Mahadevan 
Howard University 
From Prātaranuvāka to the Āśvinaśastra: The Fixed Oral Tradition of the Ṛgveda 
P. C. Muraleemadhavan Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit 
New Discoveries in Vedic Exegesis and Saman Chant 
Laurie L. Patton 
Middlebury College 
Discussant (via video feed) 
Organizer: Finnian M. M. Gerety 

2 buch a201 
Discussion 
Organizer: Lyne Bansat- Boudon Moderator: John Nemec 

3 buch b218 
SPECIAL PANEL 9.1: Śaiva Philosophy Part 1 
Michaël Meyer 
EPHE, Université Paris Diderot 
How Does Speech Condition Us? The Viewpoint of the Śaiva Spanda System 
Marco Ferrante 
University of Oxford 
“I Speak Therefore (I Know That) I Am”: The Pratyabhijñā on Language and Self- Consciousness 
Ma’ayan Nidbach The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
What Does Language See? Somānanda’s Dispute With Bhartṛhari on the Power of Language 
S14.4 | द गन ◌ावन, त वशा म ् - Philosophy Bhartṛhari, Dharmakīrti, & Perception 
Evgeniya Desnitskaya 
Saint Petersburg State University 
Functional Approach in the Vākyapadīya and Dharmakīrti’s Concept of Arthakriyā 
Charles Li 
University of British Columbia 
Dravya: From an Individual Thing to Absolute Brahman 
Miyuki Nakasuka 
Hiroshima University The Change of Concept of Adhyavasāya in the Buddhist Logico- Epistemological Tradition: 
Dharmakīrti, Dharmottara, and Jñānaśrīmitra 
Nilanjan Das 
New York University Shanghai 
Śrīharṣa on Object Reidentification and 
Moderator: Taiken Kyuma 
the Perceptual/non- Perceptual Distinction 

4 buch d201 
S12.1 | ि◌ै ण ि◌मतं शैमतं च - Vaiṣṇavism and Śaivism (Joint Session with Section 13) 
Sadananda Das 
Leipzig University 
Bhakti as a Means to Advaita: The Devotee and the Devotion in Utpaladeva’s Śivastotrāvalī 
Ravina Meena 
Jawaharlal Nehru University The Making of a Sacred Landscape: Śaivism in Early Medieval Rajasthan 
Pramita Mishra 
University of Delhi 

मक
ु ् ◌े: परा भ क् : 
Himani Mittal 
Jawaharlal Nehru University Is the Upaniṣadic Brahman Saguṇa or Nirguṇa? (With Special Reference to Moderator: Elaine 
Fisher 
Vedārthasaṅgraha of Rāmānujācārya) 

5 buch b313 
S21.3 | ध गश ◌ाv मगशा ं च - Law and Society Norms, Rules, and Codification 
Nicholas Witkowski 
University of Tokyo 
Does Institutionalization Cool the Fire of Ascetic Discipline? A Case Study Examining an Indian Buddhist Legal Code for 
Evidence of Begging in the Monastic Context 
Christian Haskett 
Centre College 
The Exclusion of Laity From the Buddhist Prātimokṣa Recitation in Pāli and Sanskrit Vinayas 
Anagha Vishwas Joshi 
Savitribai Phule Pune University 
Socio-Legal Position of Kalivarjyas and Dharmaśāstra 
Ananya Mitra 
Basanti Devi College 
HER Story, HIS Voice: Exclusion, Marginalization and Moderator: David Brick 
Gendering of Women in Pañcatantra 

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

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm 

7 buch d307 
S18.3 | आधव
ु नकं सं कृतसादह यम ् - Modern Sanskrit Writings 
Charles S. Preston 
Millsaps College 
Saṃskṛta Pratibhā: Literary Print Nationalism at the Dawn of Postcolonialism 
Sarita Sharma 
University of Delhi 
Eco-critical Poems in 21st Century Sanskrit Literature 
Abhishek Das 
University of Calcutta 
Vāmācaraṇavaibhavam: A Gem of Modern Sanskrit Literature 
Kanumuldeniye Chandasoma Thero 
Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka Modern Sanskrit Literature in Sri Lanka: 
Moderator: Deven Patel 
Dauldena Gnaneswara Thera’s Contribution 

8 buch d213 
S2.4 | भाषाशा म ् - Linguistics 
Prem Nagar 
Oracle Corporation w/ B. Kosaras, B. Misra, J. Singh, S. Ramaswamy, H. Mann Study of Pāṇinian Alphabet in a 
Neurological Perspective - Part I - the Consonants 
Avnish Kumar 
University of Delhi 

कारक य वश ्◌ेषणस ् सा्गभ ◌ावषकत ्◌े ि वक् ◌ाया: माहा यम ् । 

Konthoujam Kabi Khanganba Jawaharlal Nehru University 
Meitei- śabdānuśāsanam: A Case of Verb Morphology 
Satyapal Singh 
University of Delhi 
Śikṣā: The Study of Language Production 
Moderator: Thomas Hunter 
and All Its Essential Features 

9 buch b310 
S3.3 | याकरणम ् - Vyākaraṇa 
Sharon Ben-Dor 
University of Helsinki 
Similarity and Dissimilarity between the Cāndra- vyākaraṇavṛtti, the Kāśikāvṛtti and the Jainendra Mahāvṛtti 
Pratik Gajanan Rumde 
University of Göttingen 
From Kātantra to Kāśikā: The Development of the Indigenous Sanskrit Grammar 
Malhar Kulkarni 
IIT Bombay w/ E. Kahrs Some More Reflections on the Role of the Nyāsa & the Padamañjarī in Reconstructing the 
Textual History of Transmission of the Kāśikāvṛtti 
Balasaheb Wagh 
K. J. Somaiya Bharatiya Sanskriti Peetham w/ M. Kulkarni 
A Study of the 
Moderator: Yūto Kawamura 
Gaṇapāṭhas in the Printed Editions of the Kāśikāvṛtti 

10 buch d204 
S11.4 | ि◌ैन व ◌ा - Jaina Studies 
Luitgard Soni 
University of Marburg 
On the Lightness of the Jīva: Karma Matters at the Time of Dying 
Giles Hooper 
University of Sydney 
A Study of Śubhacandra’s Presentation of the Twelve Reflections (Dvādaśa- bhāvanā) in the Jñānārṇava as an Example of 
“Premeditation” in Jainism 
Tine Vekemans 
Ghent University 
Between Ritual and Therapy: The Bhaktamar Stotra in Faith Healing 
Steven M. Vose 
Florida International University 
Introducing Gujarati Jain Women to Their Virtue in the 15th Century: Moderator:Paul Dundas 
The Śīlopadeśamālā- Bālāvabodha of Merusundaragaṇi 

11 buch d314 
S4.3 | रामायणं महाभारतं च - Epics 
Krešimir Krnic 
University of Zagreb 
Static Epithets in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa 
Vidyullekha Aklujkar 
University of British Columbia 
Multiplications and Divisions in the Ānanda- Rāmāyaṇa 
Nagamanickam Ganesan 
Institute of Asian Studies 
The Krauñca Bird of the Rāmāyaṇa: Its 
Moderator: Greg Bailey 
Identification From Sanskrit and Tamil Sources 

क् ◌ीडा ेम मनाः ममल त नररे पधा्गव याः संततम ् 

व ◌ु ठ पयत
ु े काशसदनेक्◌ीडांरणे ि◌ा मद
ु ा । 
न ध ्◌ा तं रणय त नै शशशशरं दठ घा्गयष
ु ा संयत
ु ाः 
ा य गप दं मोदसदहताः पधा्ग तरायो ताः।। ६ ।। 
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Tuesday | July 10 || 4.30-6pm Session 2.4 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm 

1 forum allard 
Invited Speakers: 
George Cardona 
Univ. of Pennsylvania Deven Patel 
Univ. of Pennsylvania . 
Sadananda Das 
University of Leipzig C. Rajendran 
University of Calicut Sthaneshwar Timalsina 
San Diego State Univ. 
Shrikant Bahulkar 
BORI Dharam Bhawuk 
University of Hawaii Bhadreshdas Swami 
BAPS Swaminarayan 
Moderator: Deven Patel 
Research Institute, Delhi 

2 buch a201 
SPECIAL SESSION: अ पु षो तमद गन - व व ◌ो ठ (Forum on the Akṣara-puruṣottama Darśana) 
SPECIAL PANEL: Śaiva Philosophy, Part 2 
Gavin Dennis Flood 
Univ. of Oxford, National Univ. of Singapore 
Implicit Anthropologies in Pre-Philosophical Śaivism 
John Nemec 
University of Virginia 
Philosophy and Critical Editing: On the Textual Variants and Necessary Emendations of the Śāstric Passages of the Śivadṛṣṭi and 
Śivadṛṣṭivṛtti 
Isabelle Ratié 
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 
On Utpaladeva, Abhinavagupta and Śaṅkaranandana: remarks Organizer: Lyne Bansat- 
on a recently recovered Boudon 
chapter of Utpaladeva’s Īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛti 

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

4 
S1.3 | ि◌ेदः - Veda Atharva & Other Vedas 
Tarak Nath Adhikari 
Rabindra Bharati University 
Religion and Philosophy of the Atharvaveda: A New Approach 
Pankaj Kumar Sharma 
Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan 

शु ल यःु ावतशा यस ् अ काशशतदठ वपकाटठ कायाः ि◌ैशश यम ् 

Sanu Babu Acharya 
Tribhuvan University 

ि◌ैददक-सादह ये ाककृवतक- वप तठ नां समाधानम ् Moderator: Jarrod Whitaker 

5 
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S16.1 | सं कृतं दे शभाषा च - Sanskrit & Regional Languages, (& Southeast Asia) 
Elaine Fisher 
Stanford University 
Sanskrit in the Age of Devotion: The Hooli Bṛhanmaṭha and the History of Sanskritic Vīraśaivism 
Tomoyuki Yamahata 
Hokkaido University of Science 
The Connection of Old Gujarati Literature with Jain Carita: Capturing Kṛṣṇa Tales and Its Effect 
Andrea Acri 
EPHE 

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Moderator: Whitney Cox 
Influence of Śāstric Sanskrit on Old Javanese Syntax in the Tattva Genre 

6 
S8.5 | का यमल ◌ार च - Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics 
Ranjan Kumar Tripathi University of Delhi 

काललदासस ् ककृवतषु पु पमाि यै भम ् 

Bhartendu Pandey 
University of Delhi 

यास ्◌ीयत ्◌ेन यावपतस ् का याल ◌ारसू थस ् संसकृ य ल ◌ारवन पणे ि◌ामनाशभमतमा ताया समच
ु ् 
◌ेदः 
Sushil Kumari 
Maitreyi College 

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भोोक् ◌ा ि◌ैश ◌ेवषक ण ि◌ाधारणा - एकमनश
ु ठ लनम ् Moderator: Bhartendu Pandey 
 
Tuesday Session 2.4 | July 10 ||4.30-6pm 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm 

7 buch d307 
S18.4 | आधव
ु नकं सं कृतसादह यम ् - Modern Sanskrit Writings 
Beate Guttandin 
University of Bonn “Trying to Get Along After Getting Together”: Investigation Into the Relationship of Couples in 
Post-Independence Sanskrit Prose Narratives 
Yogesh Pandey 
Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan 

वंशवतशताब ◌ां ललखखतानां सं कृतका यानां कृच तः Moderator: McComas Taylor 

8 buch b310 
S21.4 | ध गश ◌ा मगशा ं च - Law and Society Canon Formation & Sources 
Deepak Sahu 
Jawaharlal Nehru University Tantrayukti: Indian Theory of Discourse, Constitution and Analysis with Reference to Kauṭilya’s 
Arthaśāstra 
Shaminaj Khan 
Jawaharlal Nehru University 
The Vedic Sources of the Kāmaśāstra 
Deepak Kalia 
University of Delhi 

आ म ब नं पंचत स ् अपरठ श तकारकत च 

Moderator: Patrick Olivelle 

ि◌ गमान रानठ वतस दभ 

9 buch d204 
S11.5 | ि◌ैन व ◌ा - Jaina Studies 
Paul Dundas 
University of Edinburgh 
Shutting Kumudacandra’s Mouth: Yaśaścandra’s Mudritakumudacandra as a Source for the Intra-Jain Debate at Aṇahillapaṭṭana 
in 1125 
Eva de Clercq 
Ghent University 
Forest Adventures Transformed in the Jain Rāmāyaṇas 
Adrian Plau 
SOAS, Univ. of London 
“A Joke Amongst the Paṇḍits”: Jain Brajbhāṣā Poets, Their Rāmāyaṇas, 
Moderator: Yutaka Kawasaki 
and Their Relations to Sanskrit Literary Culture 

10 
S4.4 | रामायणं महाभारतं च - Epics 
R. Shobha 
Maharani’s College for Women Changing Patterns of Women’s Resistance: Śakuntalā’s Journey From Śakuntalopākhyāna to 
Abhijñāna-śākuntalam 
Roberto Morales-Harley University of Costa Rica 
Ambā’s Speech to Bhīṣma (Mbh I, 96, 48.1 – 49.2) 
Raj G. Rajan 

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Some Unique Aspects of the Ahalyā Story in the Mahābhārata 
Moderator: Sally J. Sutherland Goldman 

Evening Public Events Where & When: public forum: अ मत ्ं कृतम ्।। 
The Story of Our Sanskrit A Public Forum on Gender & Caste in Sanskrit Studies Kaushal 
Panwar (Motilal Nehru College, DU) & Ananya Vajpeyi (CSDS, Delhi) in conversation with 
Mandakranta Bose (UBC) 
67 Barnett Hall 6361 Memorial Rd. 8-10pm 
cultural event: Naad Foundation & Sudnya Dance Academy present: श शोऽहम ्।। Śivo’ham Śiva 
through Indian Classical Music & Dance 
Frederic Wood Theatre 6354 Crescent Rd. 8-9.30pm 
 
Wednesday | July 11 || 8-10am Session 3.1 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am 

1 
SPECIAL PANEL 13.1: The Viṣṇu- and Śivadharma: Early Medieval Lay Religion in a Socio-Religious & Historical 
Perspective, Part 1 
Timothy Lubin 
Washington and Lee University 
What Did the Authors of the Śivadharma and the Viṣṇudharma Mean by the Word Dharma? 
Nirajan Kafle 
Leiden University 
Proliferative Strategies of the Śivadharma(śāstra) and its Impact on the Spread of Śaivism in Post 6-7th Century South and 
Southeast Asia 
Peter Bisschop 
Leiden University 

buch A103 
The Śivadharmaśāstra: Composition, Transmission and Organizers: Nina Mirnig, 
Revision Florinda De 
Simini 

2 buch b313 
SPECIAL PANEL 11:The Representation of History and Education of Women in Vedic Literature: A Feministic and 
Reconstructive Study’ 
Debasree Sadhu 
Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya 
The Social History of the Female in Ancient Sanskrit Literature: A Feministic Study 
Arghadip Paul 
Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya 
Women’s Education in the Vedic Age: A Study From a Feministic Perspective 
Ashis Biswas 
Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya 
A Feministic Deconstructive Study of the Ancient Sanskrit Organizer: Debasree Sadhu Literature 3 forum 

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

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

5 
S1.4 | ि◌ेदः - Veda Atharvaveda 
Shilpa Sumant 
BORI , Deccan College PGRI 
Upākarmavidhi in the Atharvaveda Tradition 
Julieta Rotaru 
Södertörn University 
Survival in a Decadent Age: The Contribution of the Gores, the Atharvavedin Royal Chaplains From Maharashtra 
Piyali Biswas 
University of Burdwan 
New Materials of the Atharvaveda of the Odishan Paippalāda Saṃhitā 
Kalindi Shukla 
S. V. Arts College 
Vedic Remedies to Eradicate Ādhidaivika Sorrow 
Moderator: Shrikant Bahulkar 
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Wednesday Session 3.1 | July 11 || 8-10am 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am 

6 buch d218 
S2.5 | भाषाशा म ् - Linguistics 
Hullur Rajarao Meera 
National Institute of Advanced Studies 
A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Anyokti-s and Laukika Nyāya-s 
Dipesh Vinod Katira 
Shree Somnath Sanskrit University w/ M. Kulkarni 
Honorificity in Sanskrit 
Hariram Mishra 
Jawaharlal Nehru University 
Sources of 
Moderator: Renate Söhnen- Thieme 
Abhinavagupta’s Linguistic Philosophy 

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

वद धबोधः – याकरणशा े Moderator: Sharon Ben-dor यशोभष

ू ण थः 8 buch 

b211 
S4.5 | रामायणं महाभारतं च - Epics 
Hetal S. Patel 
Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University w/ D. C. Patel 
The Mahābhārata and the Iliad: A Comparison 
Himanshu Kumar 
University of Delhi 
Curse as a Facilitator of 
Moderator: Vidyullekha Aklujkar 
Action and Terminator of Complexity in the Mahābhārata 

9 
S8.6 | का यमल ◌ार च - Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics 
Saurabh Dwivedi 
Banaras Hindu Univ. 

व वधशा शा उपमानपदागि वेच नम ् 

Ashutosh Kumar 
University of Delhi 

सं कृतका यशा े वतभा प चः 

Ramesh Chandra Nailwal 

Jawaharlal Nehru Univ. आचाया्गशभ न त स ् सौ द गशा ठ यसस ◌ा तानां शा ठ यस दभा्गः 

Subhash Kuntal 

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का य काशे स :मक
ु ् ◌े ◌ोष: 
Moderator: C. Rajendran 

संि◌ समा तौ ते धा त ि◌लकेलये* । 

*(polar bear swim इवत भाषायाम ्) म ात ्◌ौ च शठ ताब ्◌ौ 
दहमऋक् ◌ौपमा नराः ।। ७ ।। त ्◌ा णैकप ग तं कु्ग त ि◌लत गण म ् | 
ि न गस ् ◌ारताय व ् कूर-व नाससनः ।। ८ ।। 
मरर रा शारदा ल ठ ः मरररसाररसंरमे। 
क् ◌ीडा ं ममललताः भा त वदषां तोषदाः सदा ।। ९ ।। व ◌ारथी लभते व ◌ां 
क् ◌ीडारथी क् ◌ीडनं तरा 
सशेमनोरराः पण
ू ◌ा्गः व ् कूर-व नाससनाम ् ।। १० ।। 
69 
 
Wednesday | July 11 || 10.30-12.30pm 
Session 3.2 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm 

1 buch A103 
SPECIAL PANEL 13.2: The Viṣṇu- and Śivadharma: Early Medieval Lay Religion in a Socio-Religious and Historical 
Perspective, Part 2 
Nina Mirnig 
Austrian Academy of Sciences Donating and Creating Space for Śaiva Communities in Early Medieval India: The Śivakṣetra in 
the Śivadharmaśāstra 
Florinda De Simini 
University of Naples “L’Orientale” 
Early Śaivism and the Brahmanical Tradition 
Yuko Yokochi 
Kyoto University 
Mahāgaṇapatir Bhavet: Gaṇa-Hood as a Religious Goal in Early Śaivism 
Marion Rastelli 
Austrian Academy of Sciences 
The Worship of Viṣṇu’s Twelve Manifestations Through the History of 
Organizers: Florinda De 
Vaiṣṇava Traditions Simini, 
Nina Mirnig 

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

3 forum allard 
[See also: Christopher Minkowski,”The Daharavidyā...” in Session 3.1, S14.6] 
S22.2 | योरा यद
ु ौ - Yoga and Āyurveda 
James Mallinson 
SOAS, Univ. of London 
Bandhas in Sanskrit Texts on Haṭhayoga 
Seth Powell 
Harvard University 
Reconciling Yogic Difference: Śivayoga as the Unification of Ritual Worship and Haṭhayoga in the Śivayogapradīpikā 
S.V.B.K.V. Gupta EFEO, Pondicherry, SOAS, Univ. of London The Yogārṇava: An Unpublished Compendium on Yoga 
Valters Negribs 
University of Oxford 
Can Kings Be Yogis? Readings From the Mokṣadharmaparvan 
Moderator: Karen O’Brien- Kop 

4 
S14.7 | द गन ◌ावन, त वशा म ् - Philosophy Śaṅkara 
Ivan Andrijanić 
University of Zagreb 
The Authorship of the Īśopaniṣad- and Kaṭhopaniṣad-Bhāṣya Attributed to Śaṅkara 
Anaïs Dornier-Viavant 
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 
The Many Sources Used by Śaṅkara in His Critique of the Idealist Dreaming Argument 
Neil Dalal 
University of Alberta 
Smṛtisantati: The Problem of Continuous Memory for Śaṅkara 
Kalpesh Bhatt 
University of Toronto 

buch b218 
Understanding Brahman: A Comparative Study of the Vedāntic 
Moderator: Philipp Maas 
Darśanas of Śaṅkara & Swaminarayan 

5 buch d201 
S1.5 | ि◌ेदः - Veda Ṛgveda 
Laszlo Forizs 
Dharmagate Buddhist College 
The Gāyatrī Mantra 
Joanna Jurewicz 
University of Warsaw 
Cognition Begins in the Morning: An Analysis of Ṛgveda 3.62. 
Frank Köhler 
University of Tübingen 
“Who Has Found Speech Having Entered Into the Seers?“ on RV 10.71.3 
Christiane Schaefer 
Uppsala University 
Myth and Literary Imagery of Rock and Mountain in Early Vedic 
Moderator: Mislav Ježić 
Texts 

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

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm 

7 buch d219 
S20.1 | ह तलेख वज ्◌ानम ् - Manuscriptology 
Reeta Bhattacharya 
Kolkata Nivedita Shakti 
The Mīmāṃsakas on the Meaning of Ākhyāta from an Unpublished Text, Ākhyātaviveka 
Priti N. Pancholi 
B. J. Institute of Learning & Research 

मकृर ◌ा -प ि◌ातठ पररचयः 

Vijay Vishwanath Rajopadhyay 
Daly College 
Unique and Unexplored Miniature Painting of Manuscripts 
Nirmala R. Kulkarni 
Savitribai Phule Pune University 
Imprints of Existence: Place-Names in the 
Moderator: Saraju Rath 
Post-Colophonic Statements of Vedic Manuscripts 

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

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

10 
S8.7 | का यमल ◌ार च - Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics 
Melinda Fodor 
Gonda Foundation 
Why is a Saṭṭaka not an Uparūpaka? 
Kathryn Marie Sloane Geddes 
University of British Columbia 
Gendered Differences: Verse, Prose, and Affect in the Kaumudīmahotsava 
Manjunath Hegde 
Dr. A. V. Baliga College 
Towards an Alternative Aesthetics: A Study of the Prahasana 
Natalia Lidova Russian Academy of Sciences 

buch d222 
Moderator: Elisa Ganser 
Embodying the Divine. Sanskrit Drama and the Genesis of Hindu Iconography 

11 buch d322 
S10.1 | बौ व ◌ा - Buddhist Studies 
Katarzyna Marciniak 
Soka University 
The Importance of a New Edition of the Mahāvastu for Buddhist Philology 
Seishi Karashima 
Soka University 
Narrative Verses and Expository Prose: Commonalities Between the Mahāvastu and the Early Mahāyāna Scriptures 
Amarjiva Lochan 
University of Delhi w/ S. Leurmsai 
Māleyya- devattheravatthu: A Lan 
Moderator: Stefan Baums 
Nā Thai Text Inspired by Mahāvastu 
SPECIAL SESSION 19.1: 
10:30] Abhijit Dixit, “A digitization process for Laukikanyāyas ...” buch b202 b204 
Digital Sanskrit Workshop, Part 1: Sanskrit Computational Linguistics 
10:45] Martin Gluckman, “A Review of the Work of the Sanskrit Research Institute, 
Auroville” ‡ 
11:00] Venkata Subramanian, “Language Lab for Sanskrit” 11:15] H. Sumachaya, “Introduction to The Indic Text Analysis 
Program (ITAP)” 11:30] Shivani V. & Swati Basapur, “सा गशणकपा स (Computational Tools for Pali Language)” 
Coordinator:Amba Kulkarni, Sanjeev Panchal 
11:45] Malhar Kulkarni, “Some New Computational Sanskrit Tools at IIT Bombay” 12pm] Amba Kulkarni & Sanjeev Panchal, 
“Samsaadhanii: A Parser and Generator for Sanskrit” 
71 
 
Wednesday | July 11 || 2-4pm Session 3.3 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm 

1 
SPECIAL PANEL 1: Ādikāvyāni: Regional Kāvya Rāmāyaṇas in Early Medieval South and Southeast Asia 
Jesse Knutson 
University of Hawai’i 
The Grammar of Poetry and the Poetics of Grammar: The Bhaṭṭikāvya in Early Medieval India 
Robert P. Goldman 
University of California, Berkeley 
Vālmīki’s Children: Adulation, Imitation and Ethical Critique in Poets of the Rāmakathā 
Thomas Hunter 
University of British Columbia 
Commentary and Text-Building in the Old Javanese Uttarakāṇḍa 
Sally J. Sutherland Goldman 
University of 
California, buch 
B
erkeley A103 
Revamping the Rākṣasas: The Rākṣasas Organizer: Jesse Knutson 
of Bhavabhūti’s Mahāvīracarita 

2 buch b313 
SPECIAL PANEL 4.1: Introducing Bhāgavata Purāṇa Commentaries: Vaiṣṇava & Advaita Perspectives on the Opening 
Verse from the 13th to 19th Centuries, Part 1 
Jonathan Edelmann 
University of Florida 
Making a Vaiṣṇava Theologian: Vaṃśīdharaśarma’s Reading of Śrīdharasvāmin’s Bhāvārthadīpikā 
Tomohiro Manabe 
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 
The Three Interpretations of the Word Dhīmahi: Madhusūdana Sarasvatī’s Commentary on Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.1.1. 
Kiyokazu Okita 
Sophia University 
Rejecting Absolute Monism: The Commentaries of Madhva and Vijayadhvaja on Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1.1.1 
Arun Brahmbhatt 
St. Lawrence University 
Pratyakṣa: The “Manifest Form” in Swaminarayan Interpretations of Organizers: David Buchta 
Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.1.1 & 
Jonathan Edelmann 

3 forum allard 
S22.3 | योरा यद
ु ौ - Yoga and Āyurveda 
Christèle Barois 
University of Vienna 
On a List of Sixty-Four Yoga Powers in Śaiva Purāṇic Literature 
Nils Jacob Liersch 
Heidelberg University 
The Gorakṣayogaśāstra: An Early Text of Haṭhayoga 
Jason Birch 
SOAS, Univ. of London 
The Haṭhābhyāsa- paddhati: A Manual on the Practice of Haṭhayoga 
Mark Singleton 
SOAS, Univ. of London 
The Haṭhābhyāsa- paddhati in Relation to Modern Yoga 
Moderator: Dagmar Wujastyk 

4 
S14.8 | द गन ◌ावन, त वशा म ् - Philosophy Vaiśeṣika/Nyāya 
Taiken Kyuma 
Mie University 
On the Relationship Between Dharma and Mokṣa in the Tradition of the Vaiśeṣika School 
Kuniko Hosono 
Nakamura Hajime Eastern Institute 
Negation Square Diagram in the Nyāyavārttika- tātparyaṭīkā 
Katsunori Hirano 
Nakamura Hajime Eastern Institute 
A Re-Examination of the Definition of Universal in the Nyāya- Vaiśeṣika 
Watanabe Masayoshi 
University of Tokyo 

buch b218 
Perceptibility of Time in Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Philosophy 
Moderator: Nilanjan Das 

5 buch d201 
S1.6 | ि◌ेदः - Veda Atharvaveda & Around 
Ruzana Pskhu 
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia 
The Place of Puruṣa- Sūkta in Metaphysics of Pañcarātra and Viśiṣṭādvaita 
Purvi D. Mahendra 
Gujarat University 
Elements of the Śramaṇa Tradition as Found in the Vedas 
Shrikant Bahulkar 
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 
From Myth to Ritual: Further Observations (With Special Reference to AVŚ 6.80) 
Carmen Spiers 
EPHE 
New Finds From the Atharvaveda Paippalāda Moderator: Georges-Jean Pinault 

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

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm 

7 buch d219 
S20.2 | ह तलेख वज ्◌ानम ् - Manuscriptology 
Purnima Koul 
University of Delhi 
The Origin and Date of the Bower Manuscript 
Shivani V 
Karnataka Sanskrit University w/ S. S. Nair 
Tracing the Manuscript of Sarvapratyayamālā (The Garland of All Affixes) Through the Ages: A Historical Approach 
Saraju Rath 
IIAS, Leiden 
The Development of Śāradā and Related 
Moderator: Nirmala Kulkarni 
Scripts : Some Evidence From Manuscripts 

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

9 
S2.7 | भाषाशा म ् - Linguistics 
Smitha Sabu 
Government Sanskrit College, Thiruvananthapuram 
Positive and Negative Poles of Meaning 
Shyam Sundar Sharma 
University of Delhi 
Logician’s Theory of Verbal Roots 
Rekha Singh 
University of Delhi 

buch b211 
Moderator: Jared Klein 
The Problem of Substratum of Linguistic Expectancy 

10 buch d222 
S8.8 | का यमल ◌ार च - Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics 
Vidya Shimladka 
Nrithyaloka 
The Deśī Dance Tradition: Is ‘Deśī’ a Misnomer in the Present Scenario of Indian Classical Dance? 
Padmaja Venkatesh 
Aatmalaya Academy of Art and Culture 
Sanskrit for a Dance Repertoire 
Parimal Phadke 
Savitribai Phule Pune University 
Muḍḍupa Cāris and Their Link with the Footwork Technique of Bharatanāṭyam 
Deepak Paramashivan 
University of Alberta 
Music of India and Arabia - Interactions and Influences: A Study Based on Paṇḍarīka Viṭṭhala’s 
Moderator: Mandakranta Bose 
Rāgamālā, Rāgamañjarī and Ṣaḍrāgacandrodayaḥ from the 16th Century 

11 buch d322 
S10.2 | बौ व ◌ा - Buddhist Studies 
James B. Apple 
University of Calgary 
The Stairway of Correct Conventional Reality: Significant Variant Readings in Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatāra (6.79) 
Cristina Pecchia 
Austrian Academy of Sciences The Omniscient Buddha: Dharmakīrti’s Remarks 
Vibha Aggarwal 
Kurukshetra University 
Contribution of Ratnakīrti to Buddhist Epistemology and Metaphysics (with Special Reference to His Work Īśvarasādhana- 
dūṣaṇam) 
Dipen Barua 
University of Hong Kong 
A Linguistic Approach to the Use of the Terms Bhavaṅga and Moderator: Charles 
Bhavaṅga-Citta in the 
DiSimone 
Theory of Continuity of Personality 
SPECIAL SESSION 19.2: 
2:00] Gérard Huet, “Experiments with a Corpus Manager” ‡ 

buch b202 b204 

Digital Sanskrit Workshop, 
2:15] Yigal Bronner, “Hands-on with the PANDiT project” Part 2: Software Tools for 
the Digital Humanities 
2:30] Michael Willis & Daniel Balogh, “Introduction to Siddham” 2:45] Stefan Baums, “The Gandhari.org Corpus 
of Gāndhārī Texts” 3:00] Ian McCrabb & Andrea Schlosser, “READ” Coordinators: Bellefleur 
Charles Li & Timothy 
3:15] Timothy Bellefleur, Charles Li, & Adheesh Sathaye, “The Vetāla Project” 73 
 
Wednesday | July 11 || 4.30-6pm Session 3.4 
Room कक् ◌ा 
Section/ Theme वभारः/ वषयः 

4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm 

1 
Location स ्◌ानम ् 
KEYNOTE FRENCH 
Lyne Bansat-Boudon, École Pratique des Hautes Études LECTURE, in 
Registres de la théâtralité indienne : buch 
Homage to André Padoux a103 
le théâtre comme pratique religieuse (Registers of Indian Theatricality: Theatre as Religious Practice) 
Lyne Bansat-Boudon, Gavin Flood 
w/ 
to be followed by an homage to Prof. André Padoux, with Gavin Flood (NUS, Singapore, Oxford) 

2 forum allard 
ROUNDTABLE: Haṭhābhyāsa-paddhati: A Precursor of Modern Yoga Practice Participants: Jason Birch, 
Mark Singleton, James Mallinson (SOAS, University of London) Organizers: Jason Birch & Jacqueline 
Hargreaves Jacqueline Hargreaves 3 
SPECIAL SESSION 20: Haṭhābhyāsa- paddhati: A Precursor of Modern Yoga Practice 
Discussion 
Organizers: David Buchta & Jonathan Edelmann 

4 
SPECIAL PANEL 4.2: Introducing Bhāgavata Purāṇa Commentaries: Vaiṣṇava & Advaita Perspectives on the Opening 
Verse from the 13th to 19th Centuries, Part 2 
David Buchta 
Brown University 
Tradition Beyond Sub-Commentaries: Influence and Innovation in Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa’s Commentary on Bhāgavata Purāṇa 
1.1.1 
Ravi M. Gupta 
Utah State University 

buch 
“Bait for the Advaitins”: The Enigmatic Theology b313 
of Śrīdhara Svāmī in his Commentary on the Bhāgavata Purāṇa 
S14.9 | द गन ◌ावन, त वशा म ् - Philosophy Bhagavad-gītā (joint session with Section 21) 
Mansi Sharma 
Jawaharlal Nehru University 

शठ म ठ तायां स ्◌ा य वज ्◌ानम ् 

V. Balarama Murty w/ V. Kutumba Sastry 
Semantics of Yoga: With Special Reference to the Bhagavadgītā 
Ithamar Theodor 
University of Haifa 
Dharma in the Bhagavad Gītā 
Moderator: Arvind Sharma 

5 
buch b218 
S6.2 | तंि वम गः - Tantra Studies 
Shaman Hatley 
University of Massachusetts 
Observations on Meter in Early Śaiva Tantras 
Advaitavadini Kaul 
IGNCA 
The Tradition of Sun Worship in Kashmir 
Saranathan Sasikala 
University of Madras 
From Text to Kriyāvidhi: Relating Lalitopākhyāna with the 
Moderator: Madhu Khanna 
Navāvaraṇapūjā 
74 

buch d218 
 
Wednesday Session 3.4 | July 11 || 4.30-6pm 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm 

6 buch d219 
S20.3 | ह तलेख वज ्◌ानम ् - Manuscriptology 
Nrusingha Charan Kar 
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies 
Creation of National Manuscript Database and Its Impediments: A Critical Perspective, with Special Reference to the National 
Mission for Manuscripts 
Shweta Jejurkar 
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda 
Critical Evaluation of Saṅgīta-Sāroddharaḥ and Saṅgītopanisat- Sāroddharaḥ 
Narasingha Panda 
Silpakorn University 
Indian Traditional Manuscript Writing: Roles & Functions of the Moderator: Shweta Jejurkar 
Scribe: A Critique 

7 
S19.1 | सं कृतं वज ्◌ानता क च - Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities 
Sanjeev Panchal 
University of Hyderabad w/ A. Kulkarni 
Yogyatā as an Absence of Non-Congruity 
Amrith Krishna 
IIT Kharagpur w/ B.P. Majumder, P. Goyal 
An “Ekalavya” Approach to Learning Context Free Grammar Rules for Sanskrit Using Adaptor Grammar 
Brendan Gillon 
McGill University 

buch B211 
Moderator: Gérard Huet 
Word Complementation in Sanskrit Treated by a Modest Generalization of Categorial Grammar 

8 
S3.7 | याकरणम ् - Vyākaraṇa 
Ankit J. Raval 
Shree Somnath Sanskrit University 

इवतहाससाश भत
ू ावन पाशणवनसत
ू ्◌ाशण 
Athira Jathavedan 
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit 
Syntax in Nāṭyaśāstra: Some Resemblances With the Aṣṭādhyāyī 
Yogesh N. Pandya 
Darshanam Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya buch b318 

याकरणोदाहरणका येषु ल लकार यो रै व म ् Moderator: Malhar Kulkarni 

9 buch d222 
S8.9 | का यमल ◌ार च - Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics 
Sundari Siddhartha 
Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute 
A Critical Study of the Manuscript, Kandarpadarpaṇa Bhāṇa of Lokanāthādhvarin 
Radhika Koul 
Stanford University 
Meaning and Aesthetic Effect in Poetry: A Conversation Between Indian Aestheticians and Modern Literary Critics 
Ramakrishna Pejathaya 
Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth भासनाटकचक् ◌े तानां ि◌ाचोयु ठ नां समठ क् ◌ा 
Moderator: Lidia Wojtczak 
कि पतै दाहरणै तासां तव
ु त च 

10 buch d322 
S10.3 | बौ व ◌ा - Buddhist Studies 
Prem Raj Neupane Nepal Sanskrit University 
The Adoption and Adaptation of Sanskrit in Buddhist Literature 
Kazuho Yamasaki 
Nakamura Hajime Eastern Institute 
On Ornaments of Speech in Kṣemendra’s Buddhist Legends 
Pranali Waingankar 
Savitribai Phule Pune University 
A Study of the Manuscript Material of 
Moderator: Lata Deokar 
the Vīrakuśāvadāna 

Evening Public Event Where & When: 

cultural event: 
Frederic Wood 
ദ ിണാപഥ ।। Dakṣiṇāpatha: The Classical Music & Dance of South India featuring: 
Padma Sugavanam, Mandala Arts, & Sanskriti 
Theatre 6354 Crescent Rd. www.mandalarts.ca 
7.30-10pm 75 
 
Thursday | July 12 || 8-10am Session 4.1 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am 

1 buch a104 
SPECIAL PANEL 6.1: Literary Commentaries and the Intellectual Life of South Asia, Part 1 
Deven Patel 
Univ. of Pennsylvania 
Commentary as Metalinguistic Communication 
Chiara Livio 
Sapienza Univ., Rome 
Untangling the Mahākāvya: Jonarāja’s Commentaries of Bhāravi’s Kirātārjunīya and Maṅkha’s Śrīkaṇṭhacarita 
Csaba Dezső 
Eötvös Loránd University 
“galitavayasām Ikṣvākūnām idaṃ hi kulavratam”: The Commentators’ Interpretations of the Organizers: Elisa Ganser & Daniele 
Cuneo 
Passages Describing the Renunciation of Kings in the Raghuvaṃśa 

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

3 forum allard 
S22.4 | योरा यद
ु ौ - Yoga and Āyurveda 
Lubomír Ondračka 
Charles University 
Prognostication by Breath in Yoga: Analysis of the Vasiṣṭhasaṃhitā (Yogakāṇḍa, Chapter 7) 
Mahabaleshwara Shivarama 
Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthanam 
आ मैकि वज ्◌ान मे योरः, ि◌ेदः िए योरस ् मल
ू थः, ऋषयः िए योमरनः 
Zoë Slatoff 
Lancaster University 
Beyond the Body: Yoga 
Moderator: Dominik Wujastyk 
and Advaita Vedānta in the Aparokṣānubhūti 

4 
S14.10 | द गन ◌ावन, त वशा म ् - Philosophy Upaniṣads & Vedānta 
Harald Wiese 
Leipzig University 
Why Prāṇa Is the Most Excellent Among the Vital Functions, or the Shapley Value in the Upaniṣads 
Pawan Kumar Upadhyay 
University of Delhi 
Nature of Brahman: An Analysis of Suṣupti and Turiya in Maṇdukyakārikā 
Prabhawati Chowdhary Jainarain Vyas University 

buch b218 
ठ य ते चास ् कमा्गशण’ इ यस ् समठ णम ् 
Moderator: Kengo Harimoto 

5 buch d201 
S6.3 | तंि वम गः - Tantra Studies 
Yohei Kawajiri 
Chikushi Jogakuen University 
On the Transmission of the Pratyabhijñā to South India 
Jonathan Duquette 
University of Oxford 
Śākta and Pratyabhijñā Sources in Vīraśaiva Vedānta 
Gowri T. Raghavendran Ethiraj College for Women 
Upāyas for Eternal Bliss in Traita Philosophy 
Moderator: Judit Törzsök 

6 
S16.2 | सं कृतं दे शभाषा च - Sanskrit & Regional Languages, (& Southeast Asia) 
Bhakti Mamtora 
University of Florida 
Vernacular to Sanskrit: An Inquiry Into the Enduring Significance of Sanskrit in 20th- Century Western India 
Jamal A. Jones 
University of California 

buch d221 
Moderator: Robert Zydenbos 
Cāṭuprabandha and Theorization of Regional Genres in Sanskrit Poetics 
 
Thursday Session 4.1 | July 12 || 8-10am 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am 

7 buch d307 
S19.2 | सं कृतं वज ्◌ानता क च - Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities 
Samir Sohoni 
IIT Bombay 
A Functional Core for Computational Aṣṭādhyāyī 
Sai Susarla 
MIT-ADT University w/ T. M. Rao, S. Susarla 
PAIAS: Panini Ashtadhyayi Interpreter as a Service 
Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan 
Modeling the Phonology of Consonant Duplication and Allied Changes in the Recitation of Tamil Taittirīyaka-S 
Jayashree Gajjam 
IIT Bombay w/ D. Kanojia, M. Kulkarni 
New Vistas to Study Bhartṛhari: Cognitive 
Moderator: Peter M. Scharf 
Natural Language Processing (NLP) 

8 buch b310 
S3.8 | याकरणम ् - Vyākaraṇa 
Paolo Visigalli Shanghai Normal/New York Univ.,Shanghai 
Kasmāt in Nirukta: From Which Root? Why? Whence? Or on the Purpose(s) of Yāska’s Etymologizing 
Somveer 
University of Delhi 

मठ मांसा याकरणयोः स बन ्◌ानश

ु ठ लनम ् 
Beatrice Bonino 
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 The Verbal Root Bhū in the Mādhavīya- dhātuvṛtti of Sāyaṇa : Problems and Solutions of 
Certain Traditional Grammatical Questions 
Mohini Arya 
University of Delhi 

उ तरपाशणनठ य याकरण- 
Moderator: Ashok Aklujkar 

स दायेषक
ु कृ ययानां प
ू वश ्◌ेषणम ् 

9 buch d204 
S5.2 | परु ाणावन - Purāṇas 
Stuart Sarbacker 
Oregon State University 
The Yoga of the Śiva Purāṇa 
Sanne Mersch 
Leiden University 
Union With Śiva, Viṣṇu’s Ultimate Goal? 
Mrunal Patki 
Deccan College PGRI 
Tying of Maṇi and Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇa (Ch. 2.109) 
Moderator: Sven Sellmer 

10 
S8.10 | का यमल ◌ार च - Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics 
Anil Pratap Giri 
Pondicherry University 
Epistemology of Vibhāva in the Light of Navya-Nyāya Language and Methodology 
Raj Kumar Mahajan 
Panjab University 
Bhavabhūti’s Nature Description and Its Characteristics in Uttararāmacarita 
Divya Mishra 
University of Delhi 

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Moderator: Melinda Fodor 
Karuṇa Rasa in the Poetry of Kālidāsa and Bhavabhūti: Its Social Implication 

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

शा तसमु तठ रे ऽ मन ् शैल पा्गत सठ मतः । आ ◌्लनौकासधप या ◌ैः पंूु दशते ले 

॥ दहर य वरपष
ु ्◌ेयं व ◌ालयादद वशतु ा । 
Here on the shore of the Pacific ocean, 
bordering on the Rocky Mountains, in an area earlier discovered by the English captain (George Vancouver) & others, having 
grown on account of gold-fever, हो ◌ेशो ि◌ा या या ि◌न ्ि◌ुर ् शोभते सदा ॥ 
(now) famous on account of its universities, with a name originating from Holland – यन ् हुबन ्
(Van Coevorden >> Vancouver), this (city of) Vancouver is forever beautiful... 
Jan Houben 
77 
 
Thursday | July 12 || 10.30-12.30pm Session 
4.2 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm 

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

2 buch b313 
Discussion 
Organizers: Amba Kulkarni, Gérard Huet 

3 forum allard 
Peter M. Scharf 
IIT Hyderabad, The Sanskrit Library 
TEITagger of the Sanskrit Library SPECIAL PANEL 18: 
Dominik Wujastyk 
Yigal Bronner Sanskrit Corpus 
University of Alberta 
The Hebrew University of Management 
Jerusalem 
The SARIT Digital 
The Prosopographical Library 
Database for Indic Texts 
S22.5 | योरा यद
ु ौ - Yoga and Āyurveda 
Karen O’Brien-Kop 
SOAS, Univ. of London 
Pratipakṣabhāvanā: Yoga as the Path of Cultivation of the Counterstates 
Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette 
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 
“A Church by Daylight”: Reviewing the Position of Yoga in Early Indian Doxography 
Laura von Ostrowski 
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 
Reviewing the Haṭhayogic Content in 
Moderator: Philipp Maas 
the Sarvasiddhānta- saṅgraha Section on Patañjali 

4 
S14.11 | द गन ◌ावन, त वशा म ् - Philosophy Later Philosophers 
Manjushree Hedge 
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 
Analysis of Suṣupti Acc. To Śri Satchidānandendra Sarasvatī 
Gavish 
University of Delhi 

काशान दस ् य त ्ं ककृवत च 
Bhagirath Trivedi 
Darshanam Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya buch b218 

द वतठ य या त प
ू े ि◌रदठ शरदाधरयोः साम ्ं Moderator: Sthaneshwar Timalsina ि◌ैष च 5 buch 

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

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

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm 

7 buch b310 
S7.1 | व नुष ्◌ान वम गः - Ritual Studies (Joint Session with Section 13) 
Chinmay D. Goswami 
Veer Narmad South Gujarat University 
The Ritualization of Divine Love in the Puṣṭīmārga by Śrī Vallabhācarya 
Kaushal Panwar 
University of Delhi w/ N. Kumar, M. Kumar 
Right of Śūdras to Acquire Brahmavidyā: An Analysis 
Sharda Sharma 
University of Delhi 

ि वाहसंस ्◌ारे वदहतानां व वधद याणां महत ्ं स दे श च 

Jagadish Sarma 
Gauhati University 
Practice of Samskaras in Assam, a North-Eastern 
Moderator: Anne Keßler- 
Part of India: A Note 
Persaud 

8 buch d204 
S5.3 | परु ाणावन - Purāṇas 
Anusha S. Rao 
University of Calgary 
Talking to Tradition: A Study of Śukasaptati and the Purāṇas 
Raj Balkaran 
University of Toronto 
Birdcalls Across Itihāsa: How Avian Expositions in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa Answer an Epic Riddle 
Christopher Austin 
Dalhousie University 
Kṛṣṇa’s Son Pradyumna as Kāmadeva and Māyin in the Viṣṇu, Bhāgavata and Brahmavaivarta Purāṇas 
Elizabeth Rohlman 
University of Calgary 
Quests and Questioning in the Markāṇḍeya Purāṇa: Intertextual 
Moderator: Noor van Brussel 
Frames and the Boundaries of Genre 

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

10 
S10.5 | बौ व ◌ा - Buddhist Studies 
Mark Allon 
University of Sydney 
Uddānas in Early Buddhist Texts: Their Origin, Function, and Importance 
Stefan Baums 
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 
The Gāndhārī Arthapada in Commentaries and a New Manuscript 
Richard Salomon University of Washington 
A Previously Unknown Biography of the Buddha in Gandhārī 
Andrea Schlosser 
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich buch d313 
Moderator: Jason Neelis 
Just One Step: On the Worship of Buddhas in Gandhāra 

ि◌न- पू ्ग-कुबेर-नामकं परु म तु तरददि वभष

ू णम ् । 
मरर राररसधसंवनधौ तं सकलान दकरं सु वशत
ु म ् ।। रमया रमतेऽत ् भारतठ  
सम
ु नोशभ: समपु ाससता सदा । 
वदषाममह स गमोऽ तु ि◌ः सख
ु दः सं कृ तािि व गनः ।। 
- मा ध दे शपांड े
79 
 
Thursday | July 12 || 2-4pm Session 4.3 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm 

1 wood 
Margi Madhu Chakyar & the Nepathya Ensemble Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, 
Kalady Kūṭiyāṭṭam, the Play and the Performance: A Lecture-Demonstration (to be followed by 
an open discussion) 
Organizers: Heike Oberlin, Elisa Ganser, Elena Mucciarelli 

2 buch d314 
SPECIAL PANEL 17.1: Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Living Sanskrit Theater in the Kerala Tradition, Part 1 

Discussion 
Organizer: Bill Mak 

3 forum allard 
SPECIAL PANEL 8: Research on the Gārgīyajyotiṣa - Composition and Transmission 
Bill Mak 
Kyoto University 
Planetary Science and Time-Reckoning in the Gārgīyajyotiṣa 
Marko Geslani 
Emory University 
The Formation of the Indradhvaja Ceremony, With Reference to Gārgīyajyotiṣa 45 
Koji Kumagai 
International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies (Tokyo) The Place of Utpāta- Lakṣaṇa (Chapter 39 of Gārgīyajyotiṣa) 
in Divination Literature 
S22.6 | योरा यद
ु ौ - Yoga and Āyurveda 
Gerald Penn 
University of Toronto 
Yoga, Vedānta and South India 
Gudrun Melzer 
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 
Fragments of Medical Texts From Buddhist Manuscript Finds 
Dagmar Wujastyk 
University of Alberta 
On Medicine and Alchemy in the Kalyāṇakāraka 
Dominik Wujastyk 
University of Alberta 
What Is “Vimāna” in the Compendium of 
Moderator: Philipp Maas 
Caraka? 

4 
S14.12 | द गन ◌ावन, त वशा म ् - Philosophy Topics in Philosophy 
Shrinivasa Varakhedi 
Kavikulaguru Kalidasa Sanskrit University 
Do Prior Commitments of Philosophers to Their Ontological Categories Govern Epistemology in Indian Philosophies? 
Shyam Ranganathan 
York University 
Interpretation, Explication and the Determination of Philosophical Concepts Expressed in Sanskrit 
Purushottama Bilimoria 
GTU/Univ. of California, Berkeley 
Epic and Ethics: Matilal’s Dogma of Dharma Ethic 
Andrew J. Nicholson 
SUNY, Stony Brook 

buch b218 
Moderator: Paolo Magnone 
Making Space for God: Theism, Anti-Theism, and Devotion in Vedānta Cosmologies 

5 
S1.8 | ि◌ेदः - Veda Vedic Ritual 
Barbora Sojková 
University of Oxford 
Fertility in Vedic Ritual: Towards a New Interpretation of Ucchiṣṭa 
Ambarish Khare 
Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth 
Apropos the Piṇḍapitṛyajña With Special Reference to the Āpastamba Śrautasūtra 
N. K. Sundareswaran 
University of Calicut 
The Concept of Pañca Mahāyajña: Origin and Transformation 
Chisei Oshima 
University of Tokyo 
On Smell or Incense in the Vedic Ritual 
Moderator: Kyoko Amano 

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

Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 

Theme 

2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm 

7 buch d221 
S23.1 | सं कृतं पञ ्◌ाब दे श च - Sanskrit and the Panjab 
Virendra K. Alankar 
Panjab University 

पंि◌ाब दे शस ् ि◌ेदा यनेऽि◌दानम ् 

Sushma Alankar 
D.A.V. College 

स ्◌ात ो तरपंि◌ाब दे शस ् सं कृतकाि यादानम ् 

Pushpinder Joshi 
Punjabi University 

पञ ्◌ाबठ भाषायाः पररर णे पररसंि◌ गनेच सं कृतस ्ि◌ादानम ् 

Mohammad Idris Lourey 
Punjabi University The Glorious Past of Sanskrit Language: Studying the 
Moderator: Virendra Kumar Alankar 
Contribution of Educational Institutions in Punjab 

8 buch d307 
S19.3 | सं कृतं वज ्◌ानता क च - Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities 
Devaraj Adiga 
IIT Bombay 
Improving the Learnability of Classifiers for Sanskrit OCR Corrections 
Nikhil Chaturvedi 
IIT Delhi w/ R. Garg 
A Tool for Transliteration of Multilingual Sanskrit Texts 
Shreevatsa Rajagopalan 
A User-Friendly Tool for Metrical Analysis of Sanskrit Verse Moderator: Amba Kulkarni 
9 
S7.2 | व नष
ु ्◌ान वम गः - Ritual Studies 
Atsuko Izawa 
International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies 
How Are Heads Regarded in Funeral Rites? 
Anne Keßler-Persaud 
Heidelberg University 
Giving the Bride and Binding the Organ of Thought: A Meaningful Sequence of Rites 
Shobhana Sharma 
Jawaharlal Nehru University 
Hindu Saṃskāras: Ritual Practices Among the Hindu ‘Dogras’ of Jammu 
U. K. V. Sarma 
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham buch b310 
An Overview of Kāmyeṣṭis as Per Moderator: Chinmay 
Śrautasūtras With a 
Goswami 
Special Reference to Āyuṣkāmeṣṭi 

10 buch d204 
S5.4 | परु ाणावन - Purāṇas 
Sushma Jatoo 
IGNCA 
Mapping the Sacred Vitasta: A Study Based on the Sthalapurāṇas 
Madhavi Narsalay 
University of Mumbai 
The ‘Sthala’ Analysis of the Karavīra-Māhātmya 
Nicolas Dejenne 
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 
Analysis of a Group of Sthala Māhātmyas Appended to the Sahyādrikhaṇḍa, an Early Modern Regional Sanskrit Text From 
Western Deccan 
Sudhir Kumar Lall 
IGNCA 
Investigating the Mārtaṇḍa Māhātmya of 
Moderator: McComas 
Bhṛṅgīśa Samhitā 
Taylor 
11 
S10.6 | बौ व ◌ा - Buddhist Studies 
Qian Lin 
ICLP Academia Sinica 
How to Contemplate “Internally” and “Externally” in the Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation? 
Savita Chintaman Deo 
Savitribai Phule Pune University The Impact of Buddhism on the Conceptualization of Wellbeing in the Field of Psychology 
A. K. Chaubey 
Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan 

अपोह वम ग: 
P. V. Viswanath 
Pace University Asset Markets, the buch d313 
Agency Problem and Gifts to the Early Medieval Buddhist 
Moderator: Mahesh Deokar 
Sangha in India: Evidence From the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya 
81 
 
Thursday | July 12 || 4.30-6pm Session 4.4 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm 

1 buch a103 
SPECIAL SESSION 17.2: Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Living Sanskrit Theater in the Kerala Tradition, Part 2 
ROUNTABLE DISCUSSION: Kūṭiyāṭṭam beyond Academics: Touching the Heart of Tradition featuring: Margi Madhu Chakyar, 
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady Heike Oberlin, University of Tübingen Elisa Ganser, University of Zürich 
Elena Mucciarelli, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 
Organizers: Heike Oberlin, Elisa Ganser, Elena 
Mandakranta Bose, University of British Columbia C. Rajendran, Univ. of Calicut Lyne Bansat-Boudon, EPHE Mucciarelli 
Ma’ayan Nidbach, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 

2 buch d314 
SPECIAL PANEL 5: 
Marcus Schmücker 
Michael Williams 
Ajay Rao & Key Theology Debates and 
about 
Society in later 
Austrian Academy of Sciences 
Do Knowledge (jñāna), Effort (prayatna) and Will (icchā) Need a Body? Veṅkaṭanātha’s Concept of God (Īśvara) at the Time of 
Creation (sṛṣṭikāle) 
Austrian Academy of Sciences 
Inference and God in Mādhva Vedānta: Vyāsatīrtha on Gaṅgeśa 
Valerie Stoker 
University of Toronto 
Viśiṣṭādvaita- Vedānta and Madhva Vedānta 
Polemics and Social Hierarchies: Viśiṣṭādvaita and Organizer: Marcus 
Dvaita Perspectives on Schmücker 
the Apaśūdrādhikaraṇa 
3 forum allard 
S22.7 | योरा यद
ु ौ - Yoga and Āyurveda 
Samina Pratibha Pragya 
SOAS, Univ. of London 
Kāyakalpaprekṣā: Appropriation of Āyurvedic Elements in Prekṣā Meditation 
Natalia Kanaeva 
National Research University Higher School of Economics The Paradigm of Medical Activity in 
Moderator: Dagmar Wujastyk 
Āyurveda as It Is in Caraka Saṃhitā 

4 
S14.13 | द गन ◌ावन, त वशा म ् - Philosophy Pramāṇas & Avidyā 
Ganesh Singh Kaushik 
Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University 

त वद गन ◌े माणमह वम ् 
Amit Chaturvedi 
University of Hong Kong 
There’s Something Wrong With Raw Perception, After All: Vyāsatīrtha’s Refutation of Nirvikalpaka Pratyakṣa 
S. P. Thompson 
University of Oxford 

buch b218 
Anubhūti-svarūpācārya’s Contribution to Advaita on the Nature of Mokṣa, Māyā and Avidyā, With Reference to Prakaṭārtha- 
vivaraṇam and the Moderator: Purushotama 
Ṭippaṇam on Māṇḍūkya- Bilimoria 
gauḍapādīya-kārikābhāṣya 

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

6 
S15.2 | इवतहासः कलाः स ्◌ाप यमशभलेखशा ं च - History, Art & Architecture, Epigraphy 
Dániel Balogh 
British Museum 
The Baḍoh-Paṭhārī Saptamātṛkā Panel Inscription 
Arlo Griffiths 
EFEO, Paris w/ W. A. Southworth 
The Foundation Stela of Śrī Pūrvāmaravāsinī: A New Sanskrit Inscription of Campā Found at Hà Trung 
Kunthea Chhom 
Ministry of Culture & Fine Arts, Cambodia buch b313 
Moderator: Annette Schmiedchen 
Complementarity of Sanskrit and Khmer Portions of an Eleventh- Century Inscription (K. 1198) 
 
Thursday Session 2.4 | July 12 || 4.30-6pm 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm 

7 buch d221 
S24.1 | सं कृतं पारस ठ ा मयं च Sanskrit and Indo- Persian Culture 
Meenakshi 
University of Delhi 
Āsurī Metres: In the Light of Vedic and Avestan Traditions 
Satoshi Ogura 
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Additional Annotations on Indic/Kashmiri Non-Muslim Cultures, Traditions, and 
Knowledge in the Persian Translation of the Rājataraṅgiṇīs 
Kazuyo Sakaki 
Hokkaido Musashi Women’s Junior College 
Philosophical Dialogue Through Translation – 
Moderator: Luther Obrock 
Brahmavidyā in Islamic Terminology 

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S19.4 | सं कृतं वज ्◌ानता क च - Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities 
Gérard Huet 
Inria Paris Center w/ I. Lankri 
Preliminary Design of a Sanskrit Corpus Manager 
Timothy Bellefleur 
University of British Columbia From the Web to the Desktop: IIIF-Pack, a Document Format for Manuscripts Using Linked Data 
Standards 
Anuja P. Ajotikar 
Shan State Buddhist Univ. w/ T. Ajotikar, P. Scharf 
Enriching the Digital Edition of the 
Moderator: Malhar Kulkarni 
Kāśikāvṛtti by Adding Variants From the Nyāsa and the Padamañjarī 
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S13.1 | ध ग वम गः - Religious Studies 
Chinmayi H. Deodhar 
Univ. of Mumbai, Nalanda Nritya Kala Vidyalaya The Festival of “Indradhvaja” Through the Ages 
Durga Kale 
University of Calgary 
Deliverance by Moon: Development of Lesser Known Lunar Deities in Sanskrit Literature 
Vassiliki Deroukaki 
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 
A Study on the Identity and Meaning of the 
Moderator: Travis Smith 
Vedic Ritual Drink Soma 

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

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S10.7 | बौ व ◌ा - Buddhist Studies 
Jinghao Bai 
Hiroshima University Rehabilitation of Devadatta: Does the Story of Devadatta in the Saddharma- puṇḍarīkasūtra Talk About 
the Attainment of Buddhahood by the Wicked? 
Yasutomo Nishi 
Chuo Academic Research Institute of Rissho Kosei- kai 
Research on Acintika-, Acintiya-, and Acintya- in Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 
Jason Neelis Wilfrid Laurier University 
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Moderator: Richard Salomon 
Buddhist Literature, Epigraphy, and Material Culture in Gilgit 

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 
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Friday | July 13 || 8-10am Session 5.1 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am 

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शा चचा्गसदस ् - Śāstracarcāsadas 
Facilitated by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan Coordinated by Manoj Kumar Mishra and Hari Dutt Sharma 
Coordinators: Manoj Kumar Mishra, Hari Dutt Sharma 

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SPECIAL शा चचा्गसदस ् EVENT: 
- Śāstracarcāsadas 
SPECIAL PANEL 14: The Yuktidīpikā Forging a Place for Sāṅkhya in Indian Intellectual History 
Noemie Verdon 
Swiss National Science Foundation 
Early Sāṅkhya Teachers Through the Lens of the Yuktidīpikā 
Ołena Łucyszyna 
University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz 
The Yuktidīpikā on the Origin of the Vedas 
Hyoung Seok Ham 
Kyushu University On Being the Orthodox Ascetics: Capturing the Moment when the Sāṅkhyas Began to Reflect 
Seriously on Their Conflict with Vedic Authority 
Edeltraud Harzer 
University of Texas at Austin 
Early Roots of Propositional 
Organizers: Hyoung Seok Ham & Noemie Verdon 
Perception from the Ṣaṣṭitantra to the Yuktidīpikā 

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

4 
S1.10 | ि◌ेदः - Veda Vedas - General 
Ramaiya Balachandra 
The Vedic View of the Origin and Nature of the Universe 
Mugdha Gadgil 
Savitribai Phule Pune University 
Epithets of Waters in Tradition of Vedic Ritual 
Neelima Thatte 
Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth 
Thirty-Three Gods: Who Are They? 
Moderator: Mau Das Gupta 
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Friday Session 5.1 | July 13 || 8-10am Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am 

5 buch d316 
S6.4 | तंि वम गः - Tantra Studies 
Judit Törzsök 
Université Charles-de- Gaulle Lille III 
How Śāktism Began 
Madhu Khanna 
Jamia Millia Islamia 
The Making of Tantric Rādhā: A Reading From the Śrīkṛṣṇayāmala 
Mrinal Kaul 
Manipal Centre for Philosophy & Humanities 
Goddess as “Reflection” in Abhinavagupta 
Jason Schwartz 
University of California, Santa Barbara 
Whatever He Speaks Becomes Mantra: The 
Moderator: Michael Slouber 
Evidence for the Śākta Transmissions Among the Kālamukhas of the Atimārga 

6 
S15.3 | इवतहासः कलाः स ्◌ाप यमशभलेखशा ं च - History, Art & Architecture, Epigraphy 
Ganga Jee Prasad Oli 
Tribhuvan University 
A Short Analytical Study of Vāstuśāstra 
Libbie Mills 
University of Toronto 
Rhythm in Building 
Sujatha Mohan Dr. MGR Janaki College of Arts & Science for Women 
The Influence of Nāṭyaśāstra in the 
Moderator: Arlo Griffiths 
Karaṇa Sculptures 

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S8.12 | का यमल ◌ार च - Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics 
Pokhraj Chakraborty 
Gurudas College 
का कुक् ◌ो ल ◌ार पेण ठ करणठ या न ि◌ेवत अल ◌ारशा ो ददशा का कुक् ◌ोक् ◌ेरल ◌ारिि वेच नं ि◌ाचचकाशभनये 
उपयोरवनधा्गरणं च। 
Arjun Bharadwaj 
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 
Universality of the Tenets of Nāṭyaśāstra: An Analysis in Terms of Applicability to Shakespearean Plays With Special Reference 
to Hamlet 
Shankarji Jha 
Panjab University 
Piquant Views of Contemporary Thinkers on Sanskrit Poetics 
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Moderator: Daniele Cuneo 
On the Textual History of the Bhāminīvilāsa With Reference to the Paṇḍitarājaśataka 
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Friday | July 13 || 10.30-12.30pm Session 
5.2 
Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm 

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क वस मायः - Kavisamavāyaḥ 
क वस मायः - Kavisamavāya Facilitated by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan 
Coordinated by Manoj Kumar Mishra and Hari Dutt Sharma 
Coordinators: Manoj Kumar Mishra, Hari Dutt Sharma 

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SPECIAL PANEL 3: Binding Liberation: A Roundtable around the Idea of Liberation in Sanskrit Culture 
Harunaga Isaacson 
University of Hamburg 
Keynote Speech on Liberation 
Kengo Harimoto 
Mahidol University 
Denying Saṃsāra in the First Place 
Kei Kataoka 
Kyushu University 
Jayanta on Kumārila’s View of Liberation 
Alex Watson 
Ashoka University 
Some Reflections about the Diversity of Views Concerning Liberation 
Organizer: Kengo Harimoto Commentators: Yuko Yokochi, 
and How to Classify Those Views 
Somadeva Vasudeva 

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S14.15 | द गन ◌ावन, त वशा म ् - Philosophy Darśanas 
Kaushlendra Tripathy 
Banaras Hindu University 

मठ मांसाद गन ◌े माणमठ मांसाया: वचार: 

Rakesh Kumar 
Jawaharlal Nehru University 

त चच तामणौ या ते: प
ू म ् 
Vijay Laxmi 
CCS University 

क गकमा्गशय च योरद गन रठ तास दभ 

Anita Rajpal 
University of Delhi 

न ्◌ा यैश ◌ेवषक-द गन योः लौदककन ्◌ायानां Moderator: Kashinath शश ण वसध पेण योरः Nyaupane 

4 
S1.11 | ि◌ेदः - Veda Vedas-General 
Vijay Shankar Dwivedi 
University of Delhi 

ि◌ेदेषऋ
ु तानकृतयो ग ब न ् वम गः 
Usha Kiran Yadav 
SMM Government Girls PG College 

ि◌ेदस ्◌ा यनेवन स ् भम

ू मका 
Brahmadev 
Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya 

आधव
ु नककाले ि◌ैददकशशक् ◌ाि यस ्◌ायाः Moderator: Bhagyalata ासद गकता Pataskar 

5 
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S6.5 | तंि वम गः - Tantra Studies 
Patricia Sauthoff 
SOAS Univ. of London 
Visualizing Protection: The Iconography of the Divine in the Netra Tantra 
S. A. S. Sarma 
EFEO, Pondicherry 
Kerala Ritual Manuals and the Bali-Offering 
Jung-Lan Bang 
University of Hamburg 
Stunning Bonds (Pāśastobha) of the Tantrasadbhāva 
Anil Kumar 
Jawaharlal Nehru University 

अ र् गेदठ याशभचारक गण ◌ां ककृवत तेषां Moderator: Mrinal Kaul सामािजकसंद ग च 86 

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Friday Session 5.2 | July 13 || 
10.30-12.30pm Room 
Location कक् ◌ा 

स ्◌ानम ् 
Section/ वभारः/ वषयः 
Theme 

10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm 

6 buch d218 
S15.4 | इवतहासः कलाः स ्◌ाप यमशभलेखशा ं च & Epigraphy 
- Architecture, History, Art 
Elizabeth Ann Cecil 
Leiden University 
Columns in Context: Monumental Inscriptions and Landscapes of Memory in Early India 
Suchandra Ghosh 
University of Calcutta 
The Valkha Kingdom: A Socio-Religious Study from a Hoard of Copper-Plates (4th –5th Cent. C.E.) 
Cristina Bignami 
University of Tübingen w/ E. Mucciarelli 
Centre and Peripheries Through Temples and Inscriptions in Medieval Karnataka 
Annette Schmiedchen 
Humboldt University 
Temple Colleges (Maṭha): Epigraphic Evidence for the 
Moderator: Anna Slaczka 
Patronage of Religious Institutions 

7 buch d219 
S12.2 | ि◌ै ण ि◌मतं शैमतं च - Vaiṣṇavism and Śaivism 
Gautam Naunihal 
Dr. Harisingh Gour University 

आरासधकाऽऽराध ्◌ा च शठ राधा 

Brindaban Bihari Das 
Sri Sri Dhananjoy Das Kathiababa Charitable Trust Importance of Srī Rādhā in Nimbārka Philosophy 
Mukta Biswas 
Gauhati University 
A Comparative Note on the Concept of Absolute as Perceived by Nimbārka and Śrīpati 
Avni Chag 
SOAS Univ. of London 
Reconfiguring Scripture: The Vaiṣṇava Nuances of 
Moderator: David Buchta 
the Svāminārāyaṇa Sampradāya’s Redacted Śikṣāpatrī 

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

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S8.13 | का यमल ◌ार च - Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics 
James Reich 
Pace University 
Poetry and the Play of the Goddess in Jayaratha’s Alaṃkāravimarśinī 
Lidia Wojtczak 
SOAS Univ. of London 
Rītir Ātmā Kāvyasya: What Is “Literary Style” in Sanskrit Poetics? 
Prabha Shankar Dwivedi 
IIT Tirupati 
Beyond Text and Textuality: Anumāna as a Post-Transformational Agenda for a Theory of Poetry 
Chettiarthodi Rajendran 
University 
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Moderator: Daniele Cuneo 
Mahimabhaṭṭa’s Epistemology: The History and Significance of the 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 
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88 
 
Index of Delegates 
VANCOUVER 2018 
THE 17 TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE 
 
INDEX of PRESENTERS 
Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time 
Achar, B. N. Narahari University of Memphis (Memphis, TN, USA) Monday, 14:30 
Acharya, Sanu Babu Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu, Nepal) Tuesday, 17:30 
Acri, Andrea EPHE (Paris, France) Tuesday, 17:30 
Adhikari, Tarak Nath Rabindra Bharati University (Kolkata, WB, India) Tuesday, 16:30 
Adiga, Devaraj IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Thursday, 14:30 
Adluri, Sucharita Cleveland State University (Cleveland, OH, USA) Wednesday, 12:00 
Adluri, Vishwa Hunter College (New York, NY, USA) Monday, 14:30 
Aggarwal, Anupriya IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Monday, 14:00 
Aggarwal, Vibha Kurukshetra University (Kurukshetra, HR, India) Wednesday, 15:00 
Ajotikar, Anuja P. Shan State Buddhist University (Taunggyi, Myanmar) Thursday, 17:30 
Ajotikar, Tanuja B. KA, M. India) 
Kankanwadi Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya (Belgaum, 
Wednesday, 08:30 
Akepiyapornchai, 
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) Thursday, 09:00 Manasicha 
Aklujkar, Vidyullekha University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Tuesday, 14:30 
Aksharananddas Swami New York (New York, NY, USA) Tuesday, 11:30 
Aksharvatsaldas Swami London (London, England) Tuesday, 12:00 
Alankar, Sushma D.A.V. College (Chandigarh, India) Thursday, 14:30 
Alankar, Virendra Kumar Panjab University (Chandigarh, India) Thursday, 14:00 
Allen, Michael S. University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA, USA) Wednesday, 11:30 
Allon, Mark University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) Thursday, 10:30 
Amano, Kyoko Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) Thursday, 16:30 
Andrijanić, Ivan University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia) Wednesday, 10:30 
Apple, James B. University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada) Wednesday, 14:00 
Arora, Shubham Nalanda University (Rajgir, BR, India) Friday, 12:00 
Arya, Anil Kumar Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 09:30 
Arya, Mohini University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 09:30 
Austin, Christopher Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) Thursday, 11:30 
Bagchee, Joydeep Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Monday, 14:00 
Bahulkar, Shrikant Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 15:00 
Bai, Jinghao Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan) Thursday, 16:30 
Bailey, Greg La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) Tuesday, 09:00 
Balachandra, Ramaiya Independent Scholar, USA Friday, 08:30 
Balakailasanathasarma, 
University of Jaffna (Jaffna, Sri Lanka) Tuesday, 11:00 Maheshwarakurukkal 
Balarama Murty, Vempaty Life Fellow, IEEE (USA) Wednesday, 17:00 
Balcerowicz, Piotr University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) Tuesday, 09:30 
Balkaran, Raj University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 11:00 
Balogh, Dániel British Museum (London, England) Thursday, 16:30 
Bang, Jung-Lan University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) Friday, 11:30 
Barois, Christèle University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria) Wednesday, 14:00 
Barua, Dipen University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) Wednesday, 15:30 
Baums, Stefan Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Thursday, 11:00 
Bausch, Lauren M. Dharma Realm Buddhist University (Ukiah, CA, USA) Tuesday, 08:30 
Bellefleur, Timothy University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Thursday, 17:00 
Ben-Dor, Sharon University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland) Tuesday, 14:00 
Benedetti, Giacomo Ex., University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy) Monday, 15:00 
Bhadreshdas Swami BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 10:30 
Bharadwaj, Arjun Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Bangalore, KA, India) Friday, 08:30 
Bhatt, Kalpesh University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Wednesday, 12:00 
Bhattacharya, Reeta Kolkata Nivedita Shakti (Kolkata, WB, India) Wednesday, 10:30 
Bhattacharyya, Udita University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 11:30 
Bhide, Prasad R. K. J. Somaiya College of Arts & Commerce (Mumbai, MH, 
Tuesday, 10:30 India) 
Bhowmik, Anasuya The Asiatic Society (Kolkata, WB, India) Thursday, 17:30 
Bidnur, Jahnavi Indic Academy (Pune, MH, India) Monday, 15:00 
Bignami, Cristina University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) Friday, 11:30 
Bilimoria, Purushottama University of California, Davis (Davis, CA, USA) Thursday, 15:00 
Birch, Jason SOAS University of London (London, England) Wednesday, 15:00 
Bisschop, Peter Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) Wednesday, 09:30 
Biswas, Ashis Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya (WB, India) Wednesday, 09:30 
Biswas, Mukta Gauhati University (Guwahati, AS, India) Friday, 11:30 
Biswas, Piyali The University of Burdwan (Bardhaman, WB, India) Wednesday, 09:00 
Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time 
Blinderman, Radha Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 09:00 
Bonino, Beatrice Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Thursday, 09:00 
Bouthillette, Karl-Stéphan Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Thursday, 11:00 
Brahmadev Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya (Haridwar, UK, India) Friday, 11:30 
Brahmbhatt, Arun St. Lawrence University (New York, NY, USA) Wednesday, 15:30 
Brick, David Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) Monday, 15:00 
Brill, Jo University of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA) Tuesday, 12:00 
Bronkhorst, Johannes Université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) Thursday, 14:00 
Buchta, David Brown University (Providence, RI, USA) Wednesday, 16:30 
Cahill, Timothy C. Loyola University New Orleans (New Orleans, LA, USA) Friday, 09:30 
Cecil, Elizabeth Ann Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) Friday, 10:30 
Chag, Avni SOAS University of London (London, England) Friday, 12:00 
Chakraborty, Deepro University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Wednesday, 10:30 
Chakraborty, Pokhraj Gurudas College (Kolkata, WB, India) Friday, 08:00 
Chakraborty, 
Independent Scholar, Kolkata, WB (India) Tuesday, 09:30 Satyanarayan 
Chakyar, Margi Madhu Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (Kalady, KL, 
Thursday, 14:00 India) 
Chandasoma Thero, 
Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka (Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka) Tuesday, 15:30 Kanumuldeniye 
Chandra, Subhash University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 11:30 
Chandra, Voddugalaiah 
Karnataka Sanskrit University (Bangalore, KA, India) Thursday, 11:30 Girish 
Chaturvedi, Amit University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) Thursday, 17:00 
Chaturvedi, Nikhil IIT Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 15:00 
Chaubey, A. K. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Thursday, 15:00 
Chen, Ruixuan Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) Tuesday, 12:00 
Chhom, Kunthea Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) Thursday, 17:30 
Choudry, Anuradha IIT Kharagpur (Kharagpur, WB, India) Tuesday, 11:00 
Chowdhary, Prabhawati Jai Narain Vyas University (Jodhpur, RJ, India) Thursday, 09:30 
Cox, Whitney University of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA) Monday, 14:00 
Cubelic, Simon Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) Tuesday, 09:30 
Cummins, Patrick T. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) Thursday, 08:30 
Cuneo, Daniele Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Thursday, 10:30 
Dalal, Neil University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Wednesday, 11:30 
Das, Abhishek University of Calcutta (Kolkata, WB, India) Tuesday, 15:00 
Das, Brindaban Bihari Sri (Vrindavan, Sri Dhananjoy UP, India) 
Das Kathiababa Charitable Trust 
Friday, 11:00 
Das, Nilanjan New York University Shanghai (Shanghai, China) Tuesday, 15:30 
Das, Sadananda Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany) Tuesday, 14:00 
Das Gupta, Mau University of Calcutta (Kolkata, WB, India) Thursday, 17:00 
Davis, Donald University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) Monday, 14:30 
De Clercq, Eva Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 17:00 
Dejenne, Nicolas Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Thursday, 15:00 
De Jonckheere, Heleen Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 09:30 
den Boer, Lucas Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) Monday, 15:00 
Deo, Savita Chintaman Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Thursday, 14:30 
Deodhar, Chinmayi H. Nalanda Nritya Kala Mahavidyalaya, University of Mumbai 
Thursday, 16:30 (Mumbai, MH, India) 
Deokar, Lata Mahesh Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 11:30 
Deokar, Mahesh A. Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 09:00 
Deroukaki, Vassiliki Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece) Thursday, 17:30 
Deshpande, Madhav University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) Monday, 15:30 
De Simini, Florinda University of Naples “L'Orientale” (Naples, Italy) Wednesday, 11:00 
Desnitskaya, Evgeniya Saint Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg, Russia) Tuesday, 14:00 
Dezső, Csaba Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) Thursday, 09:30 
Dharmarajan, Pambungal 
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (Kalady, KL, 
Thursday, 12:00 Kunjunny 
India) 
Dharurkar, Chinmay Vijay Central University of Kerala (Kasaragod, KL, India) Tuesday, 11:30 
DiSimone, Charles BDRC, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 
Monday, 14:00 (Cambridge, MA, USA) 
Dornier-Viavant, Anaïs Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Wednesday, 11:00 
Dorsey, Donna MacEwan University (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Thursday, 09:30 
Dreyer, Ronnie Independent Scholar, USA Monday, 15:00 
Dundas, Paul University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland) Tuesday, 16:30 
Duquette, Jonathan University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Thursday, 09:00 
Dwivedi, Prabha Shankar IIT Tirupati (Tirupati, AP, India) Friday, 11:30 
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Dwivedi, Saurabh Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, UP, India) Wednesday, 08:00 
 
Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time 
Dwivedi, Shreyansh Haryana Sanskrit Academy (Panchkula, HR, India) Tuesday, 08:30 
Dwivedi, Vijay Shankar University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Friday, 10:30 
Edelmann, Jonathan University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA) Wednesday, 14:00 
Farkhondeh, Iris Iran Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Monday, 14:30 
Ferrante, Marco University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Tuesday, 14:30 
Figueroa, Oscar National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City, 
Friday, 11:00 Mexico) 
Fiordalis, David Linfield College (McMinnville, OR, USA) Tuesday, 08:30 
Fisher, Elaine Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Tuesday, 16:30 
Flood, Gavin University (Oxford, England) 
of Oxford, National University of Singapore 
Tuesday, 16:30 
Fodor, Melinda Zulejka Gonda Foundation (Leiden, Netherlands) Wednesday, 10:30 
Fórizs, László Dharmagate Buddhist College (Budapest, Hungary) Wednesday, 10:30 
Gadgil, Mugdha Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Friday, 09:00 
Gajjam, Jayashree Aanand IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Thursday, 09:30 
Gandhi, Nilotpala Gujarat University (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Tuesday, 12:00 
Ganesan, Nagamanickam Institute of Asian Studies (Chennai, TN, India) Tuesday, 15:00 
Ganguli, Sarbani Jadavpur University (Kolkata, WB, India) Thursday, 12:00 
Ganser, Elisa University of Zurich (Zürich, Switzerland) Thursday, 10:30 
Gavish University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 11:00 
Geddes, Kathryn Marie 
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Wednesday, 11:00 Sloane 
Gerety, Finnian M. M. Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 
Geslani, Marko Emory University (Atlanta, GA, USA) Thursday, 14:30 
Ghag, Nandini Dilip IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Wednesday, 15:30 
Ghosh, Suchandra University of Calcutta (Kolkata, WB, India) Friday, 11:00 
Gillon, Brendan McGill University (Montréal, Canada) Wednesday, 17:30 
Giri, Anil Pratap Pondicherry University (Pondicherry, TN, India) Thursday, 08:30 
Goldman, Robert P. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, USA) Wednesday, 14:30 
Goldman, Sally J. 
University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, USA) Wednesday, 15:30 Sutherland 
Gorisse, Marie-Hélène Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Monday, 15:30 
Goswami, Bijoya Jadavpur University (Kolkata, WB, India) Thursday, 10:30 
Goswami, Chinmay Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (Surat, GJ, India) Thursday, 10:30 
Griffiths, Arlo EFEO Paris (Paris, France) Thursday, 17:00 
Gupta, Ravi M. Utah State University (Logan, UT, USA) Wednesday, 17:00 
Gupta, S.V.B.K.V. EFEO (Pondicherry, Pondicherry, TN, India) 
SOAS University of London 
Wednesday, 11:30 
Guttandin, Beate University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany) Tuesday, 16:30 
Ham, Hyoung Seok Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) Friday, 09:00 
Harimoto, Kengo Mahidol University (Salaya, Thailand) Friday, 11:00 
Harzer, Edeltraud University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) Friday, 09:30 
Haskett, Christian Centre College (Danville, KY, USA) Tuesday, 14:30 
Hatley, Shaman University of Massachusetts (Boston, MA, USA) Wednesday, 16:30 
Hedge, Manjushree Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Bangalore, KA, India) Thursday, 10:30 
Hegde, Manjunath Dr. A. V. Baliga College (Kumta, KA, India) Wednesday, 11:30 
Hens, Sander Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 15:00 
Hidas, Gergely British Museum (London, England) Monday, 15:30 
Hirano, Katsunori Nakamura Hajime Eastern Institute (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 15:00 
Hock, Hans Henrich University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, 
Thursday, 10:30 IL, USA) 
Hooper, Giles University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) Tuesday, 14:30 
Hosono, Kuniko Nakamura Hajime Eastern Institute (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 14:30 
Houben, Jan E. M. EPHE (Paris, France) Wednesday, 12:00 
Huet, Gérard Centre de recherche Inria de Paris (Paris, France) Thursday, 16:30 
Hunter, Thomas University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Wednesday, 15:00 
Indananda, Welipitiye Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka (Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka) Thursday, 08:00 
Isaacson, Harunaga University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) Wednesday, 14:00 
Ishimura, Suguru Ex., Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan) Friday, 08:30 
Iwasaki, Yoichi Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan) Tuesday, 09:00 
Izawa, Atsuko International (Tokyo, Japan) 
College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies 
Thursday, 14:00 
Jain, Anubha Guru Nanak Girls College (Ludhiana, PB, India) Tuesday, 08:30 
Jathavedan, Athira Sree India) 
Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (Kalady, KL, 
Wednesday, 17:00 
Jatoo, Sushma IGNCA (Delhi, India) Thursday, 14:00 
Jejurkar, Shweta The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (Vadodara, 
Wednesday, 17:00 GJ, India) 
Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time 
Ježić, Mislav University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia) Monday, 15:00 
Jha, Pushpa Government Autonomous Mankunwar Bai College 
Tuesday, 09:30 (Jabalpur, India) 
Jha, Shankarji Panjab University (Chandigarh, India) Friday, 09:00 
Jones, Jamal A. University of California, Davis (Davis, CA, USA) Thursday, 09:30 
Jones, Michael Brattus University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) Tuesday, 10:30 
Joshi, Anagha Vishwas Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Tuesday, 15:00 
Joshi, Prasad P. Deccan College PGRI (Pune, MH, India) Tuesday, 11:30 
Joshi, Pushpinder Punjabi University (Patiala, PB, India) Thursday, 15:00 
Joshi, Saloni Gujarat University (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Tuesday, 09:00 
Joshi, Sanhita Deccan College PGRI (Pune, MH, India) Monday, 14:30 
Jurewicz, Joanna University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) Wednesday, 11:00 
Kafle, Nirajan Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) Wednesday, 09:00 
Kale, Durga University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada) Thursday, 17:00 
Kalia, Deepak University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 17:30 
Kanaeva, Natalia National Research University Higher School of Economics 
Thursday, 17:00 (Moscow, Russia) 
Kannan, K. S. Infinity Foundation India (Chennai, TN, India) Wednesday, 09:00 
Kano, Kazuo Komazawa University (Tokyo, Japan) Tuesday, 09:00 
Kar, Nrusingha Charan Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, Republic of 
Wednesday, 16:30 Korea) 
Karashima, Seishi Soka University (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 11:00 
Kasha, Geetha Government Degree College for Women (Hyderabad, 
Tuesday, 09:00 AP, India) 
Kataoka, Kei Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) Friday, 11:30 
Katira, Dipesh Vinod Shree Somnath Sanskrit University (Veraval, GJ, India) Wednesday, 09:00 
Kaul, Advaitavadini IGNCA (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 17:00 
Kaul, Mrinal Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities (Manipal, 
Friday, 09:00 KA, India) 
Kaur, Amrita Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 08:30 
Kaushik, Ganesh Singh Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University (Rajpur, CG, India) Thursday, 16:30 
Kavanal, Reeja Bhas Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (Kalady, KL, 
Tuesday, 11:30 India) 
Kawajiri, Yohei Chikushi Jogakuen University (Fukuoka, Japan) Thursday, 08:30 
Kawamura, Yūto University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Tuesday, 11:00 
Kawasaki, Yutaka University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Tuesday, 10:30 
Keßler-Persaud, Anne Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) Thursday, 14:30 
Khan, Shaminaj Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 17:00 
Khanal, Chakrapani Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu, Nepal) Tuesday, 08:00 
Khanganba, Konthoujam 
Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 15:00 Kabi 
Khanna, Madhu Jamia Millia Islamia (Delhi, India) Friday, 08:30 
Khanna, Varun Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth (Veliyanad, KL, India) Monday, 15:00 
Khare, Ambarish Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth (Pune, MH, India) Thursday, 14:30 
Kiparsky, Paul Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Wednesday, 11:00 
Klein, Jared University of Georgia (Athens, GA, USA) Monday, 14:00 
Knudsen, Toke Lindegaard University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark) Monday, 14:30 
Knutson, Jesse University of Hawai'i (Manoa, HI, USA) Wednesday, 14:00 
Kobayashi, Masato University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 12:00 
Köhler, Frank University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) Wednesday, 11:30 
Koul, Purnima University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 14:30 
Koul, Radhika Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Wednesday, 17:00 
Kramer, Jowita Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Monday, 15:00 
Krishna, Amrith IIT Kharagpur (Kharagpur, WB, India) Wednesday, 17:00 
Krnic, Krešimir University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia) Tuesday, 14:00 
Kulkarni, Irawati IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Wednesday, 15:00 
Kulkarni, Malhar IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Tuesday, 15:00 
Kulkarni, Nirmala R. Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 12:00 
Kumagai, Koji International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies 
Thursday, 15:00 (Tokyo, Japan) 
Kumar, Anil Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Friday, 12:00 
Kumar, Ashutosh University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 08:30 
Kumar, Avnish University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 14:30 
Kumar, Himanshu University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 09:30 
Kumar, Rakesh Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Friday, 11:00 
Kumari, Sushil Maitreyi College (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 17:30 
Kuntal, Subhash Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 09:30 
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Name Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time 
Affiliation & Location Day & Time 
Kutumba Sastry, Vempaty President, International Association of Sanskrit Studies 
Tuesday, 09:00 
Molina-Muñoz, Adriana University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, 
Wednesday, 
11:30 (Delhi, India) 
IL, USA) 
Kyuma, Taiken Mie University (Tsu, Japan) Wednesday, 14:00 
Morales-Harley, Roberto University of Costa Rica (San José, Costa Rica) Tuesday, 17:00 
Lall, Sudhir Kumar IGNCA (Delhi, India) Thursday, 15:30 
Morgan, Les Independent Scholar, San Francisco, CA (USA) Wednesday, 11:00 
Larios, Borayin Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) Tuesday, 09:00 
Muraleemadhavan, 
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (Kalady, KL, 
Tuesday, 15:00 Puvathur Chelichery 
India) Lawrence, David Peter 
University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND, USA) Wednesday, 08:00 
Murthy, G. S. Srinivasa Independent Scholar, India 
Tuesday, 12:00 Leclère, Basile Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (Lyon, France) Thursday, 15:00 
Nagar, Prem Oracle Corporation (Redwood Shores, 
CA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 Lee, Youngjin Geumgang University (Nonsan, Republic of Korea) Tuesday, 09:30 
Nailwal, Ramesh Chandra Jawaharlal Nehru 
University (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 09:00 Li, Charles University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Tuesday, 
14:30 
Nakasuka, Miyuki Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, 
Japan) Tuesday, 15:00 Lidova, Natalia Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia) Wednesday, 12:00 
Narayanan, Sharda Dr. MGR Janaki College of Arts & Science for Women 
T
uesday, 08:30 Liersch, Nils Jacob Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) Wednesday, 14:30 
(Chennai, TN, India) 
Lin, Qian ICLP Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) Thursday, 14:00 
Narsalay, Madhavi Raghav University of Mumbai (Mumbai, MH, India) Thursday, 14:30 
Lindquist, Steven Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX, USA) Tuesday, 09:30 
Naunihal, Gautam Dr. Harisingh Gour University (Sagar, MP, India) Friday, 10:30 
Livio, Chiara Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy) Thursday, 09:00 
Neelis, Jason Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, ON, Canada) Thursday, 17:30 
Lochan, Amarjiva University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 11:30 
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 NY, USA) 
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 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 (Tokyo, Academic Japan) 
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 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 (Milan, 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 
Oberlin, Heike University of Tübingen (Tübingen, 
Germany) Thursday, 11:30 Thennilapuram 
Obrock, Luther University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, 
Canada) Thursday, 11:00 Mahajan, Raj Kumar Panjab University (Chandigarh, India) Thursday, 09:00 
Ogawa, Hideyo Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, 
Japan) Tuesday, 08:00 Mahendra, Purvi D. Gujarat University (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Wednesday, 14:30 
Ogura, Satoshi Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 
(Tokyo, Japan) Thursday, 17:00 Majcher, Stephanie Amelia University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) Tuesday, 09:00 
Okita, Kiyokazu Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan) 
Wednesday, 15:00 Majumdar, Rani Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh, UP, India) Tuesday, 14:30 
Oli, Ganga Jee Prasad Tribhuvan University 
(Kathmandu, Nepal) Friday, 08:30 Mak, Bill M. Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) Thursday, 14:00 
Olivelle, Patrick University of Texas at Austin 
(Austin, TX, USA) Monday, 14:00 Mallinson, James SOAS University of London (London, England) Wednesday, 10:30 
Ollett, Andrew Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 
USA) Thursday, 08:00 Mamtora, Bhakti University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA) Thursday, 09:00 
Ondračka, Lubomír Charles University (Prague, 
Czech Republic) Thursday, 08:30 Manabe, Tomohiro Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 
14:30 
Oshima, Chisei University of Tokyo (Tokyo, 
Japan) Thursday, 15:30 Marciniak, Katarzyna Soka University (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 10:30 
Panchal, Sanjeev University of Hyderabad 
(Hyderabad, AP, India) Wednesday, 16:30 Masayoshi, Watanabe University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 15:30 
Pancholi, Priti Nayan B. J. Institute of Learning and Research (Ahmedabad, GJ, 
W
ednesday, 11:00 Matsuda, Kazunobu Bukkyo University (Kyoto, Japan) Monday, 14:30 
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 
(Bangalore, KA, India) 
Wednesday, 08:30 
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 India) Minkowski, Christopher University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Wednesday, 09:30 
Pathak, Murlimanohar D. D. Upadhyay Gorakhpur 
University (Gorakhpur, India) Monday, 14:00 Mirnig, Nina Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Wednesday, 10:30 
Patki, Mrunal Suhas Deccan College PGRI (Pune, 
MH, India) Thursday, 09:30 Mishra, Divya University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 09:30 
Paul, Arghadip Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya (Bamanpukur, 
W
ednesday, 09:00 Mishra, Hariram Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 09:30 
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, Wendy J. 
National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico) Mohan, Sujatha Dr. MGR Janaki College of Arts & Science 
for Women 
(Chennai, TN, India) 
Tuesday, 11:30 
Pierce, James F. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA) Thursday, 16:30 
Pinault, Georges-Jean EPHE (Paris, France) Monday, 15:30 
Plau, Adrian SOAS University of London (London, England) Tuesday, 17:30 
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Friday, 09:30 
Mohan, V. C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research 
Tuesday, 14:00 (Chennai, TN, India) 
 
Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time 
Poudel, Lokraj Purviya Darshan Vidyapeeth, World Astro-Federation 
Monday, 15:30 (Kathmandu, Nepal) 
Powell, Seth Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Wednesday, 11:00 
Pragya, Samina Pratibha SOAS University of London (London, England) Thursday, 16:30 
Preston, Charles S. Millsaps College (Jackson, MS, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 
Pruthi, Sandhya University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Monday, 15:00 
Pskhu, Ruzana Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Moscow, Russia) Wednesday, 14:00 
Quiroz, Anselmo 
National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City, 
Tuesday, 09:30 Hernández 
Mexico) 
Raghavendran, Gowri T. Ethiraj College for Women (Chennai, TN, India) Thursday, 09:30 
Raghunathan, 
Chinmaya Vidyalaya (Chennai, TN, India) Wednesday, 09:30 Ranganathan 
Rajagopalan, Shreevatsa Independent Scholar, USA Thursday, 15:30 
Rajan, Raj G. Independent Scholar, USA Tuesday, 17:30 
Rajendran, C. University of Calicut (Thenjipalam, KL, India) Friday, 12:00 
Rajopadhyay, Vijay 
Daly College (Indore, MP, India) Wednesday, 11:30 Vishwanath 
Rajpal, Anita University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Friday, 12:00 
Rajpurohit, Shikha Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Thursday, 12:00 
Ramakrishnan, 
Independent Scholar, USA Thursday, 09:00 Balasubramanian 
Ramjatton, Kirthee Devi Mahatma Gandhi Institute (Moka, Mauritius) Tuesday, 10:30 
Ranganathan, Shyam York University (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 14:30 
Rao, Ajay University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 17:30 
Rao, Anusha S. University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada) Thursday, 10:30 
Rastelli, Marion Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Wednesday, 12:00 
Rath, Saraju IIAS (Leiden, Netherlands) Wednesday, 15:30 
Rathva, Devsinh 
Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University (Patan, GJ, 
Tuesday, 08:30 Bhalabhai 
India) 
Rathva, Rumaliben S. R. Bhabhor Arts College (Singvad, GJ, India) Tuesday, 11:00 
Ratié, Isabelle Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Tuesday, 17:30 
Raval, Ankit Jitendrakumar Shree Somnath Sanskrit University (Veraval, GJ, India) Wednesday, 16:30 
Ravuri, Gayatri Murali 
Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Monday, 15:30 Krishna 
Reich, James Pace University (New York, NY, USA) Friday, 10:30 
Rimal, Madhusudan University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Wednesday, 09:30 
Rohlman, Elizabeth University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada) Thursday, 12:00 
Rostalska, Agnieszka Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 12:00 
Rotaru, Julieta Adina Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden) Wednesday, 08:30 
Rothstein-Dowden, 
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Monday, 14:30 Zachary 
Rumde, Pratik Gajanan University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany) Tuesday, 14:30 
Ruzsa, Ferenc Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) Thursday, 14:30 
Sabu, Smitha Government Sanskrit College (Thiruvananthapuram, KL, 
Wednesday, 14:30 India) 
Sabu, Susmi University of Kerala (Sasthamcotta, KL, India) Tuesday, 17:00 
Saccone, Serena Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Thursday, 08:30 
Sadhu, Debasree Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya (Bamanpukur, 
Wednesday, 08:30 WB, India) 
Sahu, Deepak Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 16:30 
Saito, Akane EFEO Pondicherry (Pondicherry, TN, India) Monday, 15:30 
Sakaki, Kazuyo Hokkaido Musashi Women's Junior College (Sapporo, 
Thursday, 17:30 Japan) 
Sakuma, Hidenori Tsukuba University (Tsukuba, Japan) Thursday, 09:00 
Salomon, Richard University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA) Thursday, 11:30 
Sandesara, Jolly Gujarat University (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Monday, 14:00 
Sarbacker, Stuart Ray Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR, USA) Thursday, 08:30 
Sarma, Jagadish Gauhati University (Guwahati, AS, India) Thursday, 12:00 
Sarma, S. A. S. EFEO Pondicherry (Pondicherry, TN, India) Friday, 11:00 
Sarma, U. K. V. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Bangalore, KA, India) Thursday, 15:30 
Sasikala, Saranathan University of Madras (Chennai, TN, India) Wednesday, 17:30 
Sauthoff, Patricia SOAS University of London (London, England) Friday, 10:30 
Schaefer, Christiane Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) Wednesday, 12:00 
Scharf, Peter M. IIIT Hyderabad, The Sanskrit Library (Hyderabad, AP, India) Wednesday, 14:00 
Schlosser, Andrea Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Thursday, 12:00 
Schmiedchen, Annette Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) Friday, 12:00 
Schmücker, Marcus Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Thursday, 16:30 
Schwartz, Jason University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, 
Friday, 09:30 CA, USA) 
Sellmer, Sven Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poznań, Poland) Wednesday, 10:30 
Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time 
Sen, Soumyajit Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University (Cooch Behar, 
Tuesday, 11:30 WB, India) 
Shah, Priyanka Mayur Gujarat University (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Tuesday, 11:00 
Sharma, Aruna Kurukshetra University (Kurukshetra, HR, India) Tuesday, 11:00 
Sharma, Hari Dutt University of Allahabad (Allahabad, UP, India) Tuesday, 10:30 
Sharma, Mansi Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 16:30 
Sharma, Pankaj Kumar Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 17:00 
Sharma, Sarita University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 14:30 
Sharma, Sharda University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 11:30 
Sharma, Shobhana Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Thursday, 15:00 
Sharma, Shrikrishna Kurukshetra University (Kurukshetra, HR, India) Tuesday, 08:30 
Sharma, Shyam Sundar University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 15:00 
Sharma, Vishal University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Tuesday, 10:30 
Shen, Yiming University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Wednesday, 14:30 
Shida, Taisei University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan) Friday, 09:00 
Shimladka, Vidya Nrithyaloka (Bangalore, KA, India) Wednesday, 14:00 
Shivarama, 
Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthanam (Bangalore, KA, India) Thursday, 09:00 Mahabaleshwara 
Shobha, R. Maharani's Arts, Commerce and Management College for 
Tuesday, 16:30 Women (Bangalore, KA, India) 
Shukla, Balram University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 09:30 
Shukla, Kalindi S. V. Arts College (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Wednesday, 09:30 
Siddhartha, Sundari Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute (Chennai, TN, India) Wednesday, 16:30 
Singh, Puninder University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) Wednesday, 11:00 
Singh, Rekha University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Wednesday, 15:30 
Singh, Satyapal University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 15:30 
Singleton, Mark SOAS University of London (London, England) Wednesday, 15:30 
Slatoff, Zoë Lancaster University (Lancaster, England) Thursday, 09:30 
Smith, Caley Charles McGill University (Montréal, Canada) Tuesday, 08:00 
Smith, Travis L. Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea) Friday, 11:30 
Söhnen-Thieme, Renate SOAS University of London (London, England) Wednesday, 11:00 
Sohoni, Samir Janardan IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Thursday, 08:00 
Sojková, Barbora University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Thursday, 14:00 
Somveer University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 08:30 
Soni, Jayandra IASS, University of Marburg (Innsbruck, Austria) Monday, 14:30 
Soni, Luitgard University of Marburg (Marburg, Germany) Tuesday, 14:00 
Špicová, Zuzana Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) Tuesday, 11:00 
Spiers, Carmen EPHE (Paris, France) Wednesday, 15:30 
Stainton, Hamsa McGill University (Montréal, Canada) Monday, 15:30 
Stosic, Mirela University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 11:30 
Sudo, Ryushin Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) Tuesday, 11:00 
Sugavanam, Padma University of Silicon Andhra (Milpitas, CA, USA) Tuesday, 15:30 
Sugiki, Tsunehiko Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan) Wednesday, 15:00 
Sumant, Shilpa Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Deccan College 
Wednesday, 08:00 PGRI (Pune, MH, India) 
Sundareswaran, N. K. University of Calicut (Thenjipalam, KL, India) Thursday, 15:00 
Susarla, Sai Rama Krishna MIT-ADT University (Pune, MH, India) Thursday, 08:30 
Szántó, Péter Dániel University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Wednesday, 14:30 
Takezaki, Ryutaro University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Tuesday, 11:00 
Taylor, McComas Australian National University (Canberra, Australia) Wednesday, 11:30 
Thatte, Neelima Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth (Pune, MH, India) Friday, 09:30 
Thayanithy, Maithili Independent Scholar, Canada Thursday, 11:30 
Theodor, Ithamar University of Haifa (Haifa, Israel) Wednesday, 17:30 
Thompson, S. P. University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Thursday, 17:30 
Timalsina, Sthaneshwar San Diego State University (San Diego, CA, USA) Wednesday, 08:30 
Törzsök, Judit Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III (Lille, France) Friday, 08:00 
Tripathi, Rajendra Kumar University of Allahabad (Allahabad, UP, India) Tuesday, 12:00 
Tripathi, Ranjan Kumar University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 16:30 
Tripathy, Kaushlendra Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, UP, India) Friday, 10:30 
Trivedi, Bhagirath Darshanam Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Thursday, 11:30 
Trivedi, Neelam Dayanand Girls P.G. College (Kanpur, UP, India) Tuesday, 09:30 
Upadhyay, Pawan Kumar University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 09:00 
V, Shivani Karnataka Sanskrit University (Bangalore, KA, India) Wednesday, 15:00 
van Brussel, Noor Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Thursday, 17:00 
Varakhedi, Shrinivasa Kavikulaguru Kalidasa Sanskrit University (Nagpur, India) Thursday, 14:00 
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Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time 
Vashishtha, Ivana Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 11:30 
Vekemans, Tine Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 15:00 
Venkatesh, Padmaja Aatmalaya Academy of Art and Culture (Bangalore, India) Wednesday, 14:30 
Venkatkrishnan, Anand Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Wednesday, 12:00 
Verdon, Noemie Nalanda University, SNF (Rajgir, BR, India) Friday, 08:00 
Vijay Laxmi CCS University (Muzaffarnagar, UP, India) Friday, 11:30 
Visigalli, Paolo New (Shanghai, York University China) 
Shanghai, Shanghai Normal University 
Thursday, 08:00 
Viswanath, P. V. Pace University (New York, NY, USA) Thursday, 15:30 
von Ostrowski, Laura Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Thursday, 11:30 
Vose, Steven M. Florida International University (Miami, FL, USA) Tuesday, 15:30 
Wada, Toshihiro Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan) Tuesday, 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, 10:30 
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 
Wiese, Harald Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany) Thursday, 08:30 
Williams, Michael Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Thursday, 17:00 
Witkowski, Nicholas University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Tuesday, 14:00 
Wojtczak, Lidia SOAS University of London (London, England) Friday, 11:00 
Wujastyk, Dagmar University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Thursday, 15:00 
Wujastyk, Dominik University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Thursday, 15:30 
Wulff Alonso, Fernando University of Málaga (Malaga, Spain) Tuesday, 08:30 
Yadav, Usha Kiran SMM Government Girls PG College (Bhilwara, RJ, India) Friday, 11:00 
Yagi, Toru Osaka Gakuin University (Osaka, Japan) Tuesday, 10:30 
Yamahata, Tomoyuki Hokkaido University of Science (Sapporo, Japan) Tuesday, 17:00 
Yamasaki, Kazuho Nakamura Hajime Eastern Institute (Tokyo, Japan) Wednesday, 17:00 
Yanchevskaya, Nataliya Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA) Wednesday, 09:00 
Yokochi, Yuko Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) Wednesday, 11:30 
Zydenbos, Robert J. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Thursday, 10:30 
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INDEX of SECONDARY AUTHORS 
Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time 
Ajotikar, Anuja P. Shan State Buddhist University (Taunggyi, Myanmar) Wednesday, 08:30 
Ajotikar, Tanuja B. M. Kankanwadi Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya (Belgaum, 
KA, India) 
Thursday, 17:30 
Ganesh, Vinayak Rajat Madippu 
Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth (Veliyanad, KL, India) Monday, 15:00 
Garg, Rahul IIT Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 15:00 
Goyal, Pawan IIT Kharagpur (Kharagpur, WB, India) Wednesday, 17:00 
Kahrs, Eivind George University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England) Tuesday, 15:00 
Kanojia, Diptesh IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Thursday, 09:30 
Kosaras, Bela Harvard Medical School (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 
Kulkarni, Amba University of Hyderabad (Hyderabad, AP, India) Wednesday, 16:30 
Kulkarni, Malhar IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Monday, 14:30 Tuesday, 15:30 Wednesday, 09:00, 15:00 Thursday, 09:30 
Kumar, Mukesh University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 11:00 
Kumar, Nitin University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 11:00 
Kumar, Vivek University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 11:30 
Kutumba Sastry, Vempaty President, International Association of Sanskrit Studies 
(Delhi, India) 
Wednesday, 17:00 
Lankri, Idir Université Paris Diderot (Paris, France) Thursday, 16:30 
Leurmsai, Samniang Silpakorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) Wednesday, 11:30 
Majumder, Bodhisattwa Prasad 
Walmart Labs (Mountain View, CA, USA) Wednesday, 17:00 
Mann, Hardeep South Asia Center (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 
Mishra, Hariram Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 10:30 
Misra, Bijoy M. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 
Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time 
Mucciarelli, Elena The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel) Friday, 11:30 
Nair, Sivaja S. University of Hyderabad (AP, India) Wednesday, 15:00 
Patel, Dilipkumar Chimanlal 
Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University (Patan, GJ, India) 
Wednesday, 09:00 
Ramaswamy, Seshadri Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, 
USA) 
Tuesday, 14:00 
Rao, Tilaka Mohan MIT-ADT University (Pune, MH, India) Thursday, 08:30 
Scharf, Peter M. IIIT Hyderabad, The Sanskrit Library (Hyderabad, AP, India) Thursday, 17:30 
Singh, Jaspal South Asia Center (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 
Southworth, William A. Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Thursday, 17:00 
Stoker, Valerie Wright State University (Dayton, OH, USA) Thursday, 17:30 
Subramanian, Navaneethakrishnan 
University of Jaffna (Jaffna, Sri Lanka) Tuesday, 11:00 
Susarla, Sarada Karnataka Sanskrit University (Bangalore, KA, India) Thursday, 08:30 

Keynotes, Chairs, Moderators, etc. 

Name Affiliation & Location Session (Day & Time) 
Acri, Andrea EPHE (Paris, France) S16.3 (Thursday, 10:30) 
Akepiyapornchai, Manasicha 
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) SP7 (Thursday, 08:00) 
Aklujkar, Ashok University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, 
Canada) 
Monday, 09:45 Monday, 12:00 S3.8 (Thursday, 08:00) 
Aklujkar, Vidyullekha University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, 
Canada) 
S4.5 (Wednesday, 08:00) 
Alankar, Virendra Kumar Panjab University (Chandigarh, India) S23.1 (Thursday, 14:00) 
Amano, Kyoko Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) S1.8 (Thursday, 14:00) 
Apple, James B. University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada) S10.4 (Thursday, 08:00) 
Austin, Christopher Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) S13.2 (Friday, 10:30) 
Bagchee, Joydeep Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, 
Germany) 
SP2 (Monday, 14:00) 
Bahulkar, Shrikant Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Pune, 
MH, India) 
Tuesday, 16:30 S1.4 (Wednesday, 08:00) 
Bailey, Greg La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) S4.3 (Tuesday, 14:00) 
Balcerowicz, Piotr University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) S14.14 (Friday, 08:00) 
Balkaran, Raj University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) S5.5 (Thursday, 16:30) 
Balogh, Daniel British Museum (London, England) SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
Bansat-Boudon, Lyne EPHE (Paris, France) S8.1 (Monday, 14:00) 
SP9.1 (Tuesday, 14:00) SP9.2 (Tuesday, 16:30) Wednesday, 16:30 
Basapur, Swati Karnataka Sanskrit University (Bangalore, KA, 
India) 
SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
Baums, Stefan Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, 
Germany) 
S10.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
Bellefleur, Timothy University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, 
Canada) 
SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
Ben-Dor, Sharon University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland) S3.4 (Wednesday, 08:00) 
Bhadreshdas Swami BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute (Delhi, 
India) 
Monday, 12:00 Tuesday, 10:30 Tuesday, 16:30 
Bhawuk, Dharam University of Hawai'i (Manoa, HI, USA) Tuesday, 16:30 
Bilimoria, Purushottama University of California, Davis (Davis, CA, USA) S14.13 (Thursday, 16:30) 
Birch, Jason SOAS University of London (London, England) S22.1 (Wednesday, 08:00) SP20 (Wednesday, 16:30) 
Bose, Mandakranta University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, 
Canada) 
Tuesday, 20:00 Tuesday, 10:30 S8.8 (Wednesday, 14:00) SP17.2 (Thursday, 16:30) 
Brick, David Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) S21.3 (Tuesday, 14:00) 
Bronner, Yigal The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 
Israel) 
SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
Buchta,  David  Brown  University  (Providence,  RI,  USA)  SP4.1  (Wednesday,  14:00)  SP4.2  (Wednesday,  16:30)  S12.2  (Friday, 
10:30) 
Cardona, George University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, 
USA) 
Monday, 09:45 Monday, 12:00 Tuesday, 16:30 S3.6 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
 
Name Affiliation & Location Session (Day & Time) 
Chakyar, Margi Madhu Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit 
(Kalady, KL, India) 
Monday, 20:00 SP17.2 (Thursday, 16:30) 
Chandra, Vikram Mumbai, MH, India Thursday, 18:30 
Cox, Whitney University of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA) S16.1 (Tuesday, 16:30) 
Cuneo, Daniele Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, 
France) 
SP6.1 (Thursday, 08:00) SP6.2 (Thursday, 10:30) S8.12 (Friday, 08:00) S8.13 (Friday, 10:30) 
Dalal, Neil University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) S14.6 (Wednesday, 08:00) 
Das, Nilanjan New York University Shanghai (Shanghai, China) S14.8 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
Das, Sadananda Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany) S17.1 (Monday, 14:00) 
Tuesday, 16:30 
Das Gupta, Mau University of Calcutta (Kolkata, WB, India) S1.10 (Friday, 08:00) 
Davis, Donald University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) S21.2 (Tuesday, 08:00) 
De Clercq, Eva Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) S11.1 (Monday, 14:00) 
Dejenne, Nicolas Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, 
France) 
S5.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
Deokar, Lata Mahesh Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, 
India) 
S10.3 (Wednesday, 16:30) 
Deokar, Mahesh A. Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, 
India) 
S10.6 (Thursday, 14:00) 
Deshpande, Madhav University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) S2.2 (Tuesday, 08:00) 
S2.6 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
De Simini, Florinda University of Naples “L'Orientale” (Naples, Italy) SP13.1 (Wednesday, 08:00) SP13.2 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
DiSimone, Charles BDRC, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 
(Cambridge, MA, USA) 
SP10.1 (Monday, 14:00) SP10.2 (Tuesday, 08:00) S10.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
Dixit, Abhijit IGNCA (Delhi, India) SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
Dundas, Paul University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland) S11.4 (Tuesday, 14:00) 
Edelmann, Jonathan University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA) SP4.1 (Wednesday, 14:00) SP4.2 (Wednesday, 16:30) 
Farkhondeh, Iris Iran Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, 
France) 
S8.11 (Thursday, 10:30) 
Fisher, Elaine Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA) S12.1 (Tuesday, 14:00) 
Flood, Gavin University of Oxford, National University of 
Singapore (Oxford, England) 
Wednesday, 16:30 
Fodor, Melinda Zulejka Gonda Foundation (Leiden, Netherlands) S8.10 (Thursday, 08:00) 
Fórizs, László Dharmagate Buddhist College (Budapest, 
Hungary) 
S1.9 (Thursday, 16:30) 
G, Indu Nepathya Centre for Excellence in Kudiyattam 
(Muzhikkulam, KL, India) 
Monday, 20:00 SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00) 
Ganesan, Naren Sanskriti Temple of Fine Arts (Edmonton, AB, 
Canada) 
Wednesday, 19:30 
Ganser, Elisa University of Zurich (Zürich, Switzerland) S8.7 (Wednesday, 10:30) SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00) SP17.2 (Thursday, 
16:30) SP6.1 (Thursday, 08:00) SP6.2 (Thursday, 10:30) 
Gerety, Finnian M. M. Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) SP12 (Tuesday, 14:00) 
Gluckman, Martin Sanskrit Research Institute (Auroville, TN, India) SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
Goldman, Robert P. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, 
CA, USA) 
S4.1 (Tuesday, 08:00) 
Goldman, Sally J. Sutherland 
University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, USA) 
S4.4 (Tuesday, 16:30) 
Goswami, Chinmay Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (Surat, 
GJ, India) 
S7.2 (Thursday, 14:00) 
Govinda, Jai Mandala Arts and Culture (Vancouver, BC, 
Canada) 
Wednesday, 19:30 
Griffiths, Arlo EFEO Paris (Paris, France) S15.3 (Friday, 08:00) 
Ham, Hyoung Seok Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) SP14 (Friday, 08:00) 
Hargreaves, Jacqueline Independent Scholar, UK (London, England) SP20 (Wednesday, 16:30) 
Harimoto, Kengo Mahidol University (Salaya, Thailand) S14.10 (Thursday, 08:00) SP3 
(Friday, 10:30) 
Hegarty, James Cardiff University (Cardiff, Wales) S4.2 (Tuesday, 10:30) 
Hock, Hans Henrich University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 
(Champaign, IL, USA) 
S1.2 (Tuesday, 10:30) 
Houben, Jan E. M. EPHE (Paris, France) S2.1 (Monday, 14:00) S2.3 (Tuesday, 10:30) SP15 (Tuesday, 08:00) 
Huet, Gérard Centre de recherche Inria de Paris (Paris, France) S19.1 (Wednesday, 16:30) 
SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) SP18 (Thursday, 10:30) 
Hunter, Thomas University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, 
Canada) 
S2.4 (Tuesday, 14:00) 
Isaacson, Harunaga University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) SP3 (Friday, 10:30) 
Iwasaki, Yoichi Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan) S14.5 (Tuesday, 16:30) 
Name Affiliation & Location Session (Day & Time) 
Jejurkar, Shweta Avdhoot The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda 
(Vadodara, GJ, India) 
S20.3 (Wednesday, 16:30) 
Ježić, Mislav University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia) S1.5 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
Joshi, Prasad P. Deccan College PGRI (Pune, MH, India) S3.5 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
Joshi, Sanhita Deccan College PGRI (Pune, MH, India) S17.2 (Tuesday, 08:00) 
Jurewicz, Joanna University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) S1.7 (Thursday, 10:30) 
Kamolika, Arno Mandala Arts and Culture (Vancouver, BC, 
Canada) 
Wednesday, 19:30 
Kaul, Mrinal Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities 
(Manipal, KA, India) 
S6.5 (Friday, 10:30) 
Kawamura, Yūto University of Oxford (Oxford, England) S3.3 (Tuesday, 14:00) 
Kawasaki, Yutaka University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) S11.5 (Tuesday, 16:30) 
Keßler-Persaud, Anne Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) S7.1 (Thursday, 10:30) 
Khaira, Sandy (Surinder) Naad Foundation (Surrey, BC, Canada) Tuesday, 20:00 
Khanna, Madhu Jamia Millia Islamia (Delhi, India) S6.2 (Wednesday, 16:30) 
Klein, Jared University of Georgia (Athens, GA, USA) S2.7 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
Knutson, Jesse University of Hawai'i (Manoa, HI, USA) SP1 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
Köhler, Frank University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) S1.1 (Monday, 14:00) 
Kulkarni, Amba University of Hyderabad (Hyderabad, AP, India) SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
S19.3 (Thursday, 14:00) SP18 (Thursday, 10:30) 
Kulkarni, Malhar IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) S3.7 (Wednesday, 16:30) 
SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) S19.4 (Thursday, 16:30) 
Kulkarni, Nirmala R. Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, 
India) 
S20.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
Kutumba Sastry, Vempaty President, International Association of Sanskrit 
Studies (Delhi, India) 
Monday, 09:00 
Kyuma, Taiken Mie University (Tsu, Japan) S14.4 (Tuesday, 14:00) 
Li, Charles University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, 
Canada) 
SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
Lubin, Timothy Washington and Lee University (Lexington, 
VA, USA) 
S21.1 (Monday, 14:00) 
Maas, Philipp Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany) S14.7 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
S22.5 (Thursday, 10:30) S22.6 (Thursday, 14:00) 
Magnone, Paolo Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan, 
Italy) 
S14.12 (Thursday, 14:00) 
Mak, Bill M. Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) SP8 (Thursday, 14:00) 
Mallinson, James SOAS University of London (London, England) SP20 (Wednesday, 16:30) 
Thursday, 18:30 
McCrabb, Ian University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
McCrea, Lawrence Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) S14.1 (Monday, 14:00) 
Milewska, Iwona Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) S17.3 (Tuesday, 10:30) 
Mills, Libbie University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) S15.1 (Thursday, 14:00) 
Mirnig, Nina Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) SP13.1 (Wednesday, 08:00) SP13.2 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
Mishra, Manoj Kumar Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Friday, 08:00 Friday, 10:30 
Mucciarelli, Elena The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 
Israel) 
SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00) SP17.2 (Thursday, 16:30) 
Mulye, Sudnya Sudnya Dance Academy (Richmond, BC, 
Canada) 
Tuesday, 20:00 
Neelis, Jason Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, ON, 
Canada) 
S10.5 (Thursday, 10:30) 
Nemec, John University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA, USA) SP9.1 (Tuesday, 14:00) 
Nepathya Nepathya Centre for Excellence in Kudiyattam 
(Muzhikkulam, KL, India) 
Monday, 20:00 SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00) 
Nowakowska, Monika University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) S14.3 (Tuesday, 10:30) 
Nyaupane, Kashinath Nepal Sanskrit University (Beljhundi, Nepal) S14.15 (Friday, 10:30) 
O'Brien-Kop, Karen SOAS University of London (London, England) S22.2 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
Oberlin, Heike University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) Monday, 19:00 
SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00) SP17.2 (Thursday, 16:30) 
Obrock, Luther University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) S8.4 (Tuesday, 14:00) 
S24.1 (Thursday, 16:30) 
Olivelle, Patrick University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) S21.4 (Tuesday, 16:30) 
Panchal, Sanjeev University of Hyderabad (Hyderabad, AP, India) SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
Pandey, Bhartendu University of Delhi (Delhi, India) S8.5 (Tuesday, 16:30) 
Panwar, Kaushal University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 20:00 
Pataskar, Bhagyalata Vaidika Samshodhana Mandala (Pune, MH, 
India) 
S1.11 (Friday, 10:30) 
Patel, Deven University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, 
USA) 
Monday, 12:00 Tuesday, 10:30 S18.3 (Tuesday, 14:00) Tuesday, 16:30 
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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, 
Canada) 
Monday, 08:30 Wednesday, 19:30 
Roshan, Aishwarya Mandala Arts and Culture (Vancouver, BC, 
Canada) 
Wednesday, 19:30 
Sadhu, Debasree Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya 
(Bamanpukur, WB, India) 
SP11 (Wednesday, 08:00) 
Salomon, Richard University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA) S10.7 (Thursday, 16:30) 
Sanderson, Alexis University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Tuesday, 10:30 
Sathaye, Adheesh University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, 
Canada) 
SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
Scharf, Peter M. IIIT Hyderabad, The Sanskrit Library (Hyderabad, 
AP, India) 
S3.2 (Tuesday, 10:30) S19.2 (Thursday, 8.00) 
Schlosser, Andrea Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, 
Germany) 
SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00) 
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, 
Poland) 
S5.2 (Thursday, 08:00) 
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, 
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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, 
WA, USA) 
S6.1 (Wednesday, 14:00) S6.4 (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 
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SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
Sumachaya, Harnsukworapanich 
Dhammachai Tipitaka Project (Bangkok, Thailand) 
SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
Taylor, McComas Australian National University (Canberra, 
Australia) 
S18.4 (Tuesday, 16:30) S5.4 (Thursday, 14:00) 
Timalsina, Sthaneshwar San Diego State University (San Diego, CA, 
USA) 
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Törzsök, Judit Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III (Lille, 
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S6.3 (Thursday, 08:00) 
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S3.1 (Tuesday, 08:00) 
V, Shivani Karnataka Sanskrit University (Bangalore, KA, 
India) 
SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30) 
Vajpeyi, Ananya Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 
(Delhi, India) 
Tuesday, 20:00 
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, 
USA) 
S1.3 (Tuesday, 16:30) 
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, 
Germany) 
S16.2 (Thursday, 08:00) 
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Saturday, Sessions Monday, July 9 Tuesday, July 10 Wednesday, July 11 Thursday, July 12 Friday, July 13 
July 14 
Inauguration Guest of Honour: Shri Prakash Javadekar, Hon. Minister, HRD, Govt. of India [8.15-9.30] Plenary Speakers 
Tripathi, George Cardona, Arvind Sharma 
Dipti 
[9.45-11.55] Akṣara Puruṣottama Darśana: Introduction & Launch with Bhadreshdas Swami [12.00-12.30] Chan Centre, 
UBC 
[Regular Paper Sessions] 
[Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Special Panel: 
Special Panel: Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts, 
History & Education of Women Part 2 
in Vedic Literature Special Panel: 
Special Panel: vāg evedaṃ sarvam 
Viṣṇu- & Śivadharma, Part 1 Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum 
Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum 
Paper Sessions] Special Panel: The Yuktidīpikā Forging a Place for Sāṅkhya रा चचा्शसदस ् (Legal Debate) Buchanan Bldg. / 
Allard Forum 

[Regular Paper Sessions] Darśanic अ पु षो म-दशनम ् 

Scholarly Session: 
| Keynote Lecture: Alexis Sanderson Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum 
[Regular Paper Sessions] Special Panel: Mīmāṃsā Beyond the Yāgaśālā Special Panel: Literary Commentaries, Part 1 
Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum 
[Regular Paper Sessions] Special Panel: Binding Liberation कववसमवायः (Poets’ Forum) Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum 
[Regular Paper Sessions] Special Panel: After the Critical Edition Special Panel: Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts, Part 1 
Buchanan Bldg. 
[Regular Paper Sessions] 
[Regular Paper Sessions] Special Panel: 
Special Panel: Vedānta’s Polyglot Lives 
Sanskrit Corpus Management Special Panel: 
Special Panel: Viṣṇu- & Śivadharma, Part 2 
Literary Commentaries, Part 2 Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum 
Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum 
[Regular Paper Sessions] 
[Regular [Regular Special Panel: The Vedas Out Loud Special Panel: Śaiva Philosophy, Part 1 Buchanan Bldg. / Allard 
Forum 
Paper Sessions] 
Paper Sessions] Special Panel: 
Special Panel: Ādikāvyāni 
Research on the Gārgīyajyotiṣa Special Panel: 
Special Panel: Introducing Bhāgavata Purāṇa 
Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Living Sanskrit Commentaries, Part 1 
Theatre, Part 1 Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum 
Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum 

IASS General Assembly Wood Theatre, UBC 

Inaugural Banquet Hosted by Hon. Shri Prakash Javadekar, MHRD, Republic of India [17.00-18.30] 
[Regular Paper Sessions] Special Panel: Key Debates in later Viśiṣṭādvaita & Madhva Thought Special Panel: Kūṭiyāṭṭam: 
Living Sanskrit Theatre, Part 2 Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum 
Gala Performance by Nepathya: A Rare Living Performance 
Legends: 
of Kutiyattam Sanskrit Dance Theatre Introductory lecture, Heike Oberlin [19.15-19.40] “Bālivadham” [20.00-23.00] 
Chan Centre, UBC 
[Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] Special Panel: Śaiva Philosophy, Part 2 

अ पु षो म-दशन-वव व ◌ो ठ Special Session: 

Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum 
Special Panel: Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati Special Panel: Introducing Bhāgavata Purāṇa Commentaries, Part 2 Keynote 
French Lecture: Lyne Bansat-Boudon Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum 
Cultural Event: Śivo’ham: Śiva through Classical Indian Music & Dance presented by Naad Foundation & Sudnya 
Dance Academy [20.00-21.30] Wood Theatre, UBC Public Forum: Caste & Gender in Sanskrit Studies, featuring Kaushal 
Panwar & Ananya Vajpeyi, with Mandakranta Bose [20.00-22.00] Barnett Recital Hall, UBC 
Dakṣiṇāpatha Cultural Event: - The Classical Music and Dance of South India, with Padma Sugavanam & 
Mandala Arts Academy [19.30-22.00] Wood Theatre, UBC 
Vikram Public Chandra: Lectures: 
The Poetry of Amazement James [18.30-19.30] 
Mallinson: Yoga: To Mortify or Cultivate the Body? [20.00-21.30] Wood Theatre, UBC 
All-Conference Banquet [18.00-21.00] Great Hall at the Nest, UBC