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Schedule of Papers

VANCOU VER 20 18

THE 17 TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE


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inaugural session Monday | July 9 || 8am-12.30pm
8am Registration, Puṣpāñjali Dance Performance by Mandala Arts, Welcoming Addresses & Benedictions

Address by Guest of Honour


9am Introduced by V. Kutumba Sastry [President, International Association of Sanskrit Studies]

9.30 - Break
9.45 am
Plenary Lectures: (introduced by Ashok Aklujkar, University of British Columbia)
George Cardona [Univ. of Pennsylvania]
“Philology, Text History, and History of Ideas”
9.45 - Dipti Tripathi [Univ. of Delhi]
11.55 am “Reflections on Manuscriptology: Forays into Indian Paradigms of Knowledge Management”
Arvind Sharma [McGill University]
“The Surprising Modernity of Bhavabhūti’s Uttararāmacarita”
Akṣara Puruṣottama Darśana: Introduction & Launch
of the Svāminārāyaṇa-bhāṣyam & Svāminārāyaṇa-siddhāntasudhā of
12 - 12.30 Mahāmahopādhyāya Bhadreshdas Swami [BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute, Delhi]
pm Introduced by Deven Patel [Univ. of Pennsylvania]
Remarks by George Cardona [Univ. of Pennsylvania] & Ashok Aklujkar [Univ. of British Columbia]

INAUGURAL BANQUET

Inaugural Conference Banquet, hosted by Hon’ble Shri Prakash Javadekar,


5-6.30pm Minister of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India
The Great Hall at the AMS Student Nest, 6133 University Blvd.

“Living Legends”: A Rare Performance of Kūṭiyāṭṭam Sanskrit Theatre


chan centre for the performing arts, 6265 crescent rd.
Preliminaries: 7-7.20PM
Heike Oberlin (Univ. of Tübingen)
7-8pm Introduction to Kūṭiyāṭṭam, 7.20-7.40PM
Intermission: 7.40-8PM
The Nepathya Troupe (Muzhikkulam, Kerala),
led by Margi Madhu Chakyar
8-11pm Ensemble Kūṭiyāṭṭam performance of Bālivadham CONSULATE GENERAL OF INDIA
VANCOUVER

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Monday | July 9 || 2-4pm Session 1.3
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 2-2:30pm 2:30-3pm 3-3:30pm 3:30-4pm
SPECIAL PANEL 2: Joydeep Bagchee Vishwa Adluri Jahnavi Bidnur Discussion
After the Critical Ludwig Maximilian Hunter College, New Indic Academy
Edition: What Next University of Munich York
For Mahābhārata Prayojana and Phala:
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Studies? Working With the
Mahābhārata Critical The Text-Historical
The Mahābhārata’s
Reception Through Its
Edition Method Reconsidered: Commentaries
Organizer: Joydeep
Lessons From the
Bagchee
Bhagavadgītā

SPECIAL PANEL 10.1: Charles DiSimone Kazunobu Matsuda Jowita Kramer Gergely Hidas
Sanskrit Buddhist BDRC, Ludwig Bukkyo University Ludwig Maximilian British Museum
Manuscripts: Texts, Maximilian University of University of Munich
Techniques, and Munich How to Enter the
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2 a203
Traditions, Part 1 The Hole Story: Techniques On Leather Manuscript
for Mūlasarvāstivāda
Manuscript Production
Fragments in the
Some Remarks
on the Tattvārthā
Residence of Nāgas and
Convert Them to the
Schøyen Collection, Abhidharmakośaṭīkā Buddha’s Teachings
Organizer: Charles Used by a Scriptorium
Norway
DiSimone in Gilgit Around the 8th
Century CE

S14.1 | Kashinath Nyaupane Sandhya Pruthi Akane Saito


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Nepal Sanskrit University University of Delhi EFEO, Pondicherry
Philosophy
Mīmāṃsā & Īśvara Maṇḍanamiśra’s
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3 b218
मीमांसानय ईश्वरनिरासः Application of
Syntactical Principles
Application of the
Mīmāṃsā Rules in
of Mīmāṃsā to the Tarkakāṇḍa of the
Moderator: Lawrence
Brahmasūtra Brahmasiddhi
McCrea

S9.1 | Anupriya Aggarwal Toke Lindegaard Ronnie Dreyer Lokraj Poudel


वैज्ञानिकं वाङ्मयम् - IIT Bombay Knudsen Purviya Darshan
Scientific Literature University of Copenhagen Vidyapeeth, World Astro-
Federation
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4 d201
A Study of Three
Questions and
A Mirror Surface, a
Tortoise Shell, and
Deconstructing Eclipses
in Bṛhatsaṃhitā
फलादेशे पराशरसूत्राणि
वर्तमानयुगेऽपि तावन्ति
their Answers in a Lotus: Ideas of the
Moderator: Dominik वैज्ञानिकानि
Karaṇakaustubha Shape of the Earth
Wujastyk

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

S17.1 | Jayaraman Mahadevan Sanhita Joshi Varun Khanna Gayatri Murali Krishna
सं स्कृ तशिक्षाशास्त्रम् - Krishnamacharya Yoga Deccan College PGRI Chinmaya Ravuri
Sanskrit Pedagogy Mandiram w/ M. Kulkarni Vishwavidyapeeth Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
w/ V.R.M. Ganesh
buch Some Remarks on the

6 d218
Imparting Yoga Texts Interface Between the
in Sanskrit: A Teaching Aṣṭādhyāyī-krama and
the Prakriyā-krama: a
वाचनाभिव्यक्त्यक्षमताः
Understanding Dīkṣita: न्यूनीकर्तुं
Moderator: Sadananda Das Experiment and Its Modern Dichotomy in
On the Meaning of the वेदाङ्गशिक्षासिद्धान्तानां
Outcome Word “Siddhānta” in
the Pedagogy of Pāṇinian वैज्ञानिकानुप्रयोगः
Siddhāntakaumudī
Grammar
Session 1.3 Monday | July 9 || 2-4pm
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 2-2:30pm 2:30-3pm 3-3:30pm 3:30-4pm
S21.1 | Patrick Olivelle Donald Davis David Brick Tek Chand Meena
धर्मशास्त्रमर्थशास्त्रं च - Law University of Texas at University of Texas at Yale University University of Delhi
and Society Austin Austin
Status and Its
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Regulation Revisiting the Āśrama
System: A New
Slaves and Slavery in
the Smṛticandrikā
Śaiva and
Dharmaśāstra
मनुस्तमृ ौ शूद्राणां
सामाजिकी स्थितिः
Hypothesis of Its Origin Treatments of Penance
Moderator: Timothy in Comparative
Lubin Perspective

S2.1 | Jared Stephen Klein Zachary Rothstein- Giacomo Benedetti Madhav Deshpande
भाषाशास्त्रम् - Linguistics University of Georgia Dowden University of Michigan
Harvard University

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8 b309
The Syntax and
Semantics of Rigvedic
On the ī-preterits of
Sanskrit
The Meaning and
Etymology of Ārya
Antiquity and Nature
of Early Non-Ritual
Nú “Now” Sanskrit Usage
Moderator: Jan E. M.
Houben

S11.1 | Jolly Sandesara Jayandra Soni Lucas den Boer Marie-Hélène Gorisse
जैनविद्या - Jaina Studies Gujarat University IASS, Univ. of Marburg Leiden University Ghent University

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9 d204
The Concept of
Omniscience and the
The Concept of Manas
in Jaina Philosophy
The Authorship of
the Āryās in the
Is Cognition Based on
Authoritative Discourse
Theory of Destiny Tattvārthasūtrabhāṣya a Type of Inference? A
Moderator: Eva De Clercq
Jain Perspective

S1.1 | Murlimanohar Pathak B. N. Narahari Achar Mislav Jeźić Georges-Jean Pinault


वेदः - Veda D. D. Upadhyay University of Memphis University of Zagreb EPHE
Ṛgveda Gorakhpur University

buch
10 d222
Elements of Creation in On the Structure of the
Nāsadīya Hymn (Ṛgveda Ṛgveda Saṃhitā
A Closer Reading of
Ṛgvedic Poetry
An Early Pun of the
Ṛgveda
10.129)
Moderator: Frank Köhler

।। व्हँ कू वरं सुन्दरम् ।।


विद्युल्लेखा अकलुजकर

भूमिर्यत्र सुशान्तसागरवृता सोष्मप्रवाहैर्युता


वृक्षाच्छादितपर्वतै: परिवृता पर्जन्यपूर्णा सदा |
नानादेशजनै: समेत्य नगरं यत्स्थापितं वर्धितं
क्रीडास्थानमिदं समस्तजगतो व्हॅं कू वरं सुन्दरम् ।। १ ।।
वनकु हर-गिरिश्रीः शोभते चित्रवर्णा
हरिणशशकशावाः शाद्वले के लिमग्नाः ।
द्विजकु लकलनादैर् वृक्षराजिः सचेता
बहुविधजनशब्दैर् वीथयः नादपूर्णाः ।। २ ।।
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Tuesday | July 10 || 8-10am Session 2.1
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am
SPECIAL PANEL 15: Caley Charles Smith Lauren M. Bausch Stephanie A. Majcher Steven Lindquist
vāg evedaṃ sarvam McGill University Dharma Realm Buddhist University of Sydney Southern Methodist
University University

1 allard
forum
Vāc as a Socio-Political
Ideal
The Place of Vāc in the
Cosmic Exchange
Bound by Names,
They Rejoiced in the
Everything New Is Old
Again: Vāc and the
Revealed: Grammar and “Creation” of the White
Organizer: Caley C. Smith the Revelation of Vāc in Yajurveda
Discussant: Jan Houben
Aitareya Āraṇyaka 2.3.8

SPECIAL PANEL 10.2: David Fiordalis Kazuo Kano Youngjin Lee


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

S14.2 | Alex Watson Toshihiro Wada Yoichi Iwasaki Piotr Balcerowicz


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Ashoka University Nagoya University Nagoya University University of Warsaw
Philosophy
Jayanta Bhaṭṭa on Causality in Early Death in Varanasi: Anumāna, Inference
buch Navyanyāya & Nyāya
3 b218
Whether Perception
Supports or Refutes the
Buddhist Doctrine of
Navya-Nyāya: The
Definitions of Cause
Formulated by
Reasons to Be Religious
in Navya Nyāya
Soteriology
and “Inference” in the
Critique of Jayarāśi
Bhaṭṭa
Moderator: Alex Watson
Momentariness Śaśadhara

S21.2 | Ranjeet Kumar Mishra Borayin Larios Simon Cubelic


धर्मशास्त्रमर्थशास्त्रं च - University of Delhi Heidelberg University Heidelberg University
Law and Society
buch Rejecting Reform Politico-Didactic Literature

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Dharmaśāstra in the Kauṭilya’s Taxation
and Defending in 19th-Century Nepal:
Modern Era Model and Its
d201 Relevance to the One’s Dharma: The Raṅganātha Pauḍyāla’s
Rājavidhānasāra in
Present Global Dharmatattva-nirṇaya
Moderator: Donald Davis Comparative Perspective
Economic Scenario of Vāsudevaśāstrī
Abhyaṅkar (1863-1942)
S8.2 | Pankaj Kumar Mishra Shrikrishna Sharma V. Kutumba Sastry Satyanarayan
University of Delhi Kurukshetra University President, IASS Chakraborty
काव्यमलङ्कारश्च -
Poetry, Drama and
A Case Study on
buch Aesthetics
5 b313
Kālidāsa: An Orphan
without any Offspring मेघदू तीयकथानक-
स्रोतोविमर्शे नवीनोद्भावना
A Note on Verse 1.16
of Kumārasambhava of
Kālidāsa
the Concept of
“Anvarthatva” and
Its Application in the
Moderator: C. Rajendran Śiśupālavadha of Māgha,
with Reference to
Words for Mountain
S17.2 | Amrita Kaur Iwona Milewska Neelam Trivedi
Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan Jagiellonian University Dayanand Girls P.G.
सं स्कृ तशिक्षाशास्त्रम् -
Sanskrit Pedagogy College
सं स्कृ तपठनदोषनिवारणे
buch
6 d221
अधिगमे एकाग्रतायाः
सम्पादने च
Didactic Strategies in
the European Tradition
The Perspective of New
Pedagogy in Sanskrit
Teaching: Importance
of Sanskrit Pedagogy
Moderator: Sanhita Joshi कू टचित्राणामनुप्रयोगः of Pronunciations and
Recitation in Sanskrit
Learning
Session 2.1 Tuesday | July 10 || 8-10am
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am
S18.1 | Devsinh Bhalabhai Geetha Kasha Pushpa Jha
आधुनिकं सं स्कृ तसाहित्यम् Rathva Government Degree
- Modern Sanskrit Hemchandracharya College for Women,
Writings North Gujarat University Hyderabad
buch
7 d307 Contribution of Gujarat Kālāya Tasmai Namaḥ- The Meter Analysis of
in Modern Sanskrit The Life Journey of Sanskrit Ghazal
Moderator: Charles Preston
Literature Ogeti Parikshit Sharma

S2.2 | Chakrapani Khanal Sharda Narayanan Hetal M. Pandya Anselmo Hernández


भाषाशास्त्रम् - Tribhuvan University Dr. MGR Janaki College of Gujarat University Quiroz
Linguistics Arts & Science for Women National Autonomous
University of Mexico
buch
8 d213
मीमांसादर्शनानुसारी Relation Between
Word and Meaning: A
वाक्यारव्थ िश्लेषणप्रस्तावनम् Comparison Between
Bhartṛhari: The Concept On Bahuvrīhi
of “Meaning” Compounds in Sanskrit:
A Cognitive Analysis of
Moderator: Madhav
Vākyapadīya and External Predication as
Deshpande
Ślokavārtikā Metonymic

S3.1 | Hideyo Ogawa Shreyansh Dwivedi Radha Blinderman Balram Shukla


व्याकरणम् - Vyākaraṇa Hiroshima University Haryana Sanskrit Harvard University University of Delhi
Academy
On Bhartṛhari’s Bitextual Meaning Anekāntavāda as a
buch क्रियाविमर्शः
9 b310
Redefinition of Karman:
*Kriyāviṣayatvaṃ
in Two Pre-Navya
Vyākaraṇas: The Case of
Grammatical Device

Karmatvam Rāmacandrācārya and


Moderator: Dipti Tripathi
Jīva Gosvāmin

S11.2 | Anubha Jain Saloni Joshi Heleen De Jonckheere


जैनविद्या - Jaina Guru Nanak Girls College Gujarat University Ghent University
Studies
The Teaching of Mātrās Jainism Depicted in “Hari Is Not Even
buch
10 d204
in the Jain Ādipurāṇa Allegorical Stories in
Prakrit Literature (With
Satisfied by 16000
Gopis!”: The Dharma-
Reference to Two Texts parīkṣā by Amitagati
Moderator: Jayandra Soni
of the 12th Century) as Jain Expression of a
Puranic Mode

S4.1 | Fernando Wulff Alonso Greg Bailey Anil Kumar Arya


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

वनकु हर-निवासी प्रायशः शान्तिशीलः


स्मितवदनसमेतः पान्थसेवाप्रवीणः ।
पदपथगमने स्यात् यानमार्गे भवेद्वा
सकलजनसुखार्थी क्रीडते कर्मयोगी ।। ३ ।।
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Tuesday | July 10 || 10.30-12.30pm Session 2.2
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm
DARŚANIC Bhadreshdas Swami, Delhi Paramtattvadas Swami, London
SCHOLARY BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute Deconstructing “Brahmajijñāsā” in the Brahmasūtra‐
SESSION: Akṣara- Svāminārāyaṇa’s Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana (Ontology, Svāminārāyaṇa‐Bhāṣya: A Study Of Grammar,
Soteriology, and Identity) Hermeneutics, And Theology
Puruṣottama
1 allard Aksharananddas Swami, New York
Darśanam Deven Patel, Univ. of Pennsylvania The Akṣara-Puruṣottama Darśana and the Gītā Verse:
forum The Role of the Guru Within the Akṣara-Puruṣottama “Brahmabhūtaḥ Prasannātmā…”
Chair: Mahāmahopādhyāya Darśana Aksharvatsaldas Swami, Delhi
Bhadreshdas Swami The Tradition of the Śikhara within Mandir Architecture:
Origins, Development, and Philosophy

KEYNOTE LECTURE: Alexis Sanderson, Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford
Alexis Sanderson The Śākta Transformation of Śaivism

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2 a104
Introduced by
Mandakranta Bose

S14.3 | Ryushin Sudo Udita Bhattacharyya Agnieszka Rostalska


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Kyushu University University of Delhi Ghent University
Philosophy Epistemic Autonomy
Jayantabhaṭṭa & On Aprayojaka and Jayantabhaṭṭa’s Notion
buch
3
of Testimony in
Nyāya Upādhi on Perceptibility of Nyāya: The Key Anti-
b218 Abhāva Reductionist Argument
Moderator: Monika Posed by Uḍḍyoṭakara,
Nowakowska Bhāsarvajña & Jayanta

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

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

S8.3 | Narayan Dutt Mishra Aruna Sharma Ivana Vashishtha G. S. Srinivasa Murthy
काव्यमलङ्कारश्च - Jawaharlal Nehru Kurukshetra University Jawaharlal Nehru
Poetry, Drama and University University
Aesthetics
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5 b313
लिङ्गवचनस्वारस्यसमुपेतः
साहित्यशास्त्रसान्दर्भिको
भारतीवृत्तिविमर्शः अलङ्कार-
लोकन्याययोरन्तःसम्बन्धः
Computer-Aided
Study of Rhythm in
Akṣaragaṇa-Based
Moderator: C. Rajendran वैलक्षण्यविमर्शः Metres: An Exploration
in Sanskrit Prosody

S17.3 | Kirthee Devi Maheswarakurukkal Subhash Chandra


सं स्कृ तशिक्षाशास्त्रम् - Ramjatton Balakailasanathasarma University of Delhi
Sanskrit Pedagogy Mahatma Gandhi Institute University of Jaffna w/ V. Kumar
w/ N. Subramanian
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Re-Structuring of
The Voyage of Sanskrit
Preservation of Traditional Pāṇinian bhvādigaṇa
d221 From India to Mauritius
Sanskrit Teaching Among Verb Roots for
Moderator: Iwona the Sri Lankan Tamils: Teaching and Learning
Milewska Current Status and Future Derivational Process of
Perspectives Sanskrit Verb
Session 2.2 Tuesday | July 10 || 10.30-12.30pm
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm
S18.2 | Hari Dutt Sharma Rumaliben Rathva Soumyajit Sen Rajendra Kumar
आधुनिकं सं स्कृ तसाहित्यम् University of Allahabad S. R. Bhabhor Arts College Cooch Behar Panchanan Tripathi
- Modern Sanskrit Barma University University of Allahabad
Writings
buch
7 d307
Modern Sanskrit Poetry
in Global Perspective
Contribution of
Harshdev Madhav
सं स्कृ त-खृष्टीय-साहित्ये जन-
मुर-वर्याणां (John Muir)
स्वातन्त्र्योत्तरार्वाचीनसं स्कृ त-
काव्यानुशीलनम्
in Modern Sanskrit सारस्वतमवदानम्
Moderator: Hari Dutt
Literature
Sharma

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

S3.2 | Toru Yagi Yūto Kawamura Prasad P. Joshi Jo Brill


व्याकरणम् - Vyākaraṇa Osaka Gakuin University University of Oxford Deccan College PGRI University of Chicago

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

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

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

S4.2 | Vishal Sharma Zuzana Špicová Wendy J. Phillips-


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

कर्णाघातिनिनादोऽत्र नैव वाहनचालने ।


नाहमहमिका मार्गे नापशब्दास्तथा क्वचित् ।। ४ ।।
क्रीडामग्नास्तु दृश्यन्ते पुरमध्ये ऽपि नागरा: ।
बुद्धिबलपटं न्यस्य रमन्ते यत्र तत्र ते ।। ५ ।।
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Tuesday | July 10 || 2-4pm Session 2.3
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm
SPECIAL PANEL 12: Finnian M. M. Gerety Thennilapuram P. C. Muraleemadhavan Laurie L. Patton
The Vedas Out Loud: Yale University Mahadevan Sree Sankaracharya Middlebury College
New Approaches to Howard University University of Sanskrit
Vedic Recitation
1 allard
forum
The “Other” Sacred
Syllable: The Case of
From Prātaranuvāka to
the Āśvinaśastra: The
New Discoveries in
Vedic Exegesis and
Discussant
(via video feed)
Hiṃ Fixed Oral Tradition of Saman Chant
Organizer: Finnian M. M.
the Ṛgveda
Gerety

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

buch
2 a201
How Does Speech
Condition Us? The
“I Speak Therefore
(I Know That) I Am”:
What Does Language
See? Somānanda’s
Viewpoint of the Śaiva The Pratyabhijñā on Dispute With
Organizer: Lyne Bansat-
Spanda System Language and Self- Bhartṛhari on the Power
Boudon
Moderator: John Nemec Consciousness of Language

S14.4 | Evgeniya Desnitskaya Charles Li Miyuki Nakasuka Nilanjan Das


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Saint Petersburg State University of British Hiroshima University New York University
Philosophy University Columbia The Change of Concept Shanghai
Bhartṛhari, of Adhyavasāya in
buch
3 b218
Dharmakīrti, &
Perception
Functional Approach
in the Vākyapadīya and
Dravya: From an
Individual Thing to
the Buddhist Logico-
Epistemological
Śrīharṣa on Object
Reidentification and
Dharmakīrti’s Concept Absolute Brahman Tradition: Dharmakīrti, the Perceptual/non-
Moderator: Taiken Kyuma
of Arthakriyā Dharmottara, and Perceptual Distinction
Jñānaśrīmitra

S12.1 | Sadananda Das Ravina Meena Pramita Mishra Himani Mittal


वैष्णवमतं शैवमतं च - Leipzig University Jawaharlal Nehru University of Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru
Vaiṣṇavism and University University
Śaivism Bhakti as a Means to The Making of a Sacred मुक्:ते परा भक्ति: Is the Upaniṣadic
buch
4 d201
(Joint Session with
Section 13)
Advaita: The Devotee
and the Devotion
Landscape: Śaivism
in Early Medieval
Brahman Saguṇa
or Nirguṇa? (With
in Utpaladeva’s Rajasthan Special Reference to
Moderator: Elaine Fisher Śivastotrāvalī Vedārthasaṅgraha of
Rāmānujācārya)

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

S8.4 | V. Mohan Rani Majumdar Sander Hens Padma Sugavanam


काव्यमलङ्कारश्च - Poetry, C. P. R. Institute of Aligarh Muslim Ghent University University of Silicon
Drama and Indological Research University Andhra
Aesthetics
buch
6 d221
Historical Kāvyas on
Sant Tyāgarāja
The Vikramāṅkābhudaya Toward a New Poetics of
of Someśvara III: A History in Sanskrit Kāvya:
Tragedy, Irony and the
A Lost Legacy:
Abhinavagupta and
Bharata’s Enigmatic “Son”
Stylistic Analysis
Moderator: Luther Obrock Problem of Poetic Justice
in Nayacandra Sūri’s
Hammīramahākāvya
Session 2.3 Tuesday | July 10 ||2-4pm
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm
S18.3 | Charles S. Preston Sarita Sharma Abhishek Das Kanumuldeniye
आधुनिकं सं स्कृ तसाहित्यम् Millsaps College University of Delhi University of Calcutta Chandasoma Thero
- Modern Sanskrit Bhiksu University of Sri
Writings Saṃskṛta Pratibhā: Eco-critical Poems in Vāmācaraṇavaibhavam: Lanka
buch
7 d307
Literary Print
Nationalism
21st Century Sanskrit
Literature
A Gem of Modern
Sanskrit Literature
Modern Sanskrit
Literature in Sri Lanka:
at the Dawn of Dauldena Gnaneswara
Moderator: Deven Patel Thera’s Contribution
Postcolonialism

S2.4 | Prem Nagar Avnish Kumar Konthoujam Kabi Satyapal Singh


भाषाशास्त्रम् - Oracle Corporation University of Delhi Khanganba University of Delhi
Linguistics w/ B. Kosaras, B. Misra, J. Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University
S. Ramaswamy, H. Mann
buch
8 d213
Study of Pāṇinian
Alphabet in a
कारकीयविश्लेषणस्य
सार्वभाषिकत्वे विवक्षाया:
Meitei-
śabdānuśāsanam:
Śikṣā: The Study of
Language Production
Neurological A Case of Verb and All Its Essential
Moderator: Thomas Hunter माहात्म्यम् ।
Perspective - Part I - the Morphology Features
Consonants

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

S4.3 | Krešimir Krnic Vidyullekha Aklujkar Nagamanickam


रामायणं महाभारतं च - University of Zagreb University of British Ganesan
Epics Columbia Institute of Asian Studies

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

क्रीडाप्रेमिजनाः मिलन्ति नगरे स्पर्धाप्रियाः सं ततम्


विद्युद्दीपयुते प्रकाशसदने क्रीडांगणे वा मुदा ।
न ध्वान्तं गणयन्ति नैव शिशिरं दीर्घायुषा सं युताः
प्राप्य स्वर्णपदं प्रमोदसहिताः स्पर्धान्तरायोद्यताः।। ६ ।।
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Tuesday | July 10 || 4.30-6pm Session 2.4
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm
SPECIAL SESSION: Invited Speakers: Sadananda Das Shrikant Bahulkar
अक्षरपुरुषोत्तमदर्शन-विद्वद्गोष्ठी University of Leipzig BORI
(Forum on the George Cardona C. Rajendran Dharam Bhawuk

1 allard Akṣara-puruṣottama Univ. of Pennsylvania University of Calicut University of Hawaii


Darśana) Deven Patel Sthaneshwar Bhadreshdas Swami
forum Univ. of Pennsylvania Timalsina BAPS Swaminarayan
. San Diego State Univ. Research Institute, Delhi
Moderator: Deven Patel

SPECIAL PANEL: Gavin Dennis Flood John Nemec Isabelle Ratié


Śaiva Philosophy, Univ. of Oxford, National University of Virginia Université Sorbonne
Part 2 Univ. of Singapore Nouvelle - Paris 3

buch
2 Implicit Anthropologies Philosophy and Critical On Utpaladeva,

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

S14.5 | Philipp Maas Susmi Sabu Paolo Magnone


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Leipzig University University of Kerala Catholic University of the
Philosophy Sacred Heart
Yoga On the Relation of the Authorship of
buch
3 b218
Pātañjalalayogaśāstra
and the Nyāyabhāṣya
Pātañjalayogasūtra-
bhāṣyavivaraṇa
Becoming Is
Remembering:
‘Anamnesis’ in the
Moderator: Yoichi Iwasaki
Yogasūtras

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

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

S16.1 | Elaine Fisher Tomoyuki Yamahata Andrea Acri


सं स्कृ तं प्रदेशभाषाश्च - Stanford University Hokkaido University of EPHE
Sanskrit & Regional Science
Languages, (&
buch
5 b313
Southeast Asia) Sanskrit in the Age of
Devotion: The Hooli
The Connection of Old
Gujarati Literature with
Influence of Śāstric
Sanskrit on Old
Bṛhanmaṭha and the Jain Carita: Capturing Javanese Syntax in the
Moderator: Whitney Cox
History of Sanskritic Kṛṣṇa Tales and Its Tattva Genre
Vīraśaivism Effect

S8.5 | Ranjan Kumar Tripathi Bhartendu Pandey Sushil Kumari


काव्यमलङ्कारश्च - Poetry, University of Delhi University of Delhi Maitreyi College
Drama and
Aesthetics
buch कालिदासस्य कृतिषु यास्कीयत्वेन ख्यापितस्य भोजोक्ता
6 d221 पुष्पमाल्यवैभवम् काव्यालङ्कारसूत्रग्रन्थस्य
सं सृष्ट्यलङ्कारनिरूपणे
वैशेषिकगुणावधारणा -
एकमनुशीलनम्
Moderator: Bhartendu वामनाभिमतमान्यताया
Pandey
समुच्छेदः
Session 2.4 Tuesday | July 10 ||4.30-6pm
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm
S18.4 | Beate Guttandin Yogesh Pandey
आधुनिकं सं स्कृ तसाहित्यम् University of Bonn Rashtriya Sanskrit
- Modern Sanskrit “Trying to Get Along Sansthan
Writings After Getting Together”:
buch
7 d307
Investigation Into the
Relationship of Couples
सं

विशतिश
स्कृ
ताब्द्यां लिखितानां
तकाव्यानां प्रवृत्तिः
in Post-Independence
Moderator: McComas
Sanskrit Prose
Taylor
Narratives

S21.4 | Deepak Sahu Shaminaj Khan Deepak Kalia


धर्मशास्त्रमर्थशास्त्रं च - Law Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru University of Delhi
and Society University University
Canon Formation & Tantrayukti: Indian
buch
8
आत्मप्रबन्धनं पं चतन्त्रस्य
Sources Theory of Discourse, The Vedic Sources of
b310 Constitution and
Analysis with Reference
the Kāmaśāstra अपरीक्षितकारकतन्त्रञ्च
वर्तमानराजनीतिसन्दर्भे
Moderator: Patrick Olivelle
to Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra

S11.5 | Paul Dundas Eva de Clercq Adrian Plau


जैनविद्या - Jaina Studies University of Edinburgh Ghent University SOAS, Univ. of London

Shutting Forest Adventures “A Joke Amongst the


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

Evening Public Events Where & When:


public forum: Barnett Hall
अस्मत्सं स्कृ तम्।। The Story of Our Sanskrit 6361 Memorial Rd.
A Public Forum on Gender & Caste in Sanskrit Studies 8-10pm
Kaushal Panwar (Motilal Nehru College, DU) & Ananya Vajpeyi (CSDS,
Delhi) in conversation with Mandakranta Bose (UBC)
cultural event: Frederic Wood Theatre
Naad Foundation & Sudnya Dance Academy present: 6354 Crescent Rd.
शिवोऽहम्।। Śivo’ham 8-9.30pm
Śiva through Indian Classical Music & Dance
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Wednesday | July 11 || 8-10am Session 3.1
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am
SPECIAL PANEL 13.1: Timothy Lubin Nirajan Kafle Peter Bisschop
The Viṣṇu- and Washington and Lee Leiden University Leiden University
Śivadharma: Early University
Medieval Lay Religion
buch
1
in a Socio-Religious & What Did the Authors Proliferative Strategies The Śivadharmaśāstra:
Historical Perspective,
A103 Part 1
of the Śivadharma and
the Viṣṇudharma Mean
of the Śivadharma(śāstra)
and its Impact on the
Composition,
Transmission and
Spread of Śaivism in Post
Organizers: Nina Mirnig, by the Word Dharma? 6-7th Century South and Revision
Florinda De Simini Southeast Asia

SPECIAL PANEL 11:The Debasree Sadhu Arghadip Paul Ashis Biswas


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

S22.1 | K. S. Kannan Madhusudan Rimal


योगायुर्वेदौ - Yoga and Infinity Foundation India University of Alberta
Āyurveda
Svādhīna Sañjīvanam: The Kathmandu

3 allard
forum
A 20th Century Work
on Yoga
Laṅkāvatāra
Manuscript: A Buddhist
Medical Text?
Moderator: Jason Birch

S14.6 | David Peter Lawrence Sthaneshwar Nataliya Yanchevskaya Christopher Minkowski


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् University of North Timalsina Princeton University University of Oxford
- Philosophy Dakota San Diego State University (affiliated w/ Special Panel 16)
Pratyabhijñā
buch
4 Śakti in a Kṣaṇa: What Does “Anubhava” Time in Indian The Daharavidyā
b218 Understandings of Time Mean? A Hermeneutic Philosophy in Appayya’s
Approach to Experience in
in the Pratyabhijñā Nyāyarakṣāmaṇi
Moderator: Neil Dalal the Philosophy of Utpala
Texts of Utpaladeva and and Abhinavagupta
and Nīlakaṇṭha’s
Abhinavagupta Vedāntakataka

S1.4 | Shilpa Sumant Julieta Rotaru Piyali Biswas Kalindi Shukla


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

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Session 3.1 Wednesday | July 11 || 8-10am
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am
S2.5 | Hullur Rajarao Meera Dipesh Vinod Katira Hariram Mishra
भाषाशास्त्रम् - Linguistics National Institute of Shree Somnath Sanskrit Jawaharlal Nehru
Advanced Studies University University
w/ M. Kulkarni
buch
6 d218 A Cognitive Linguistic Honorificity in Sanskrit Sources of
Analysis of Anyokti-s Abhinavagupta’s
Moderator: Renate Söhnen-
and Laukika Nyāya-s Linguistic Philosophy
Thieme

S3.4 | Tanuja Ajotikar Mahesh Deokar Raghunathan


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

S4.5 | Hetal S. Patel Himanshu Kumar


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

S8.6 | Saurabh Dwivedi Ashutosh Kumar Ramesh Chandra Subhash Kuntal


काव्यमलङ्कारश्च - Poetry, Banaras Hindu Univ. University of Delhi Nailwal
Drama and Jawaharlal Nehru Univ.
Aesthetics
buch आचार्याभिनवगुप्तस्य
9
विविधशास्त्रदृशा सं स्कृ तकाव्यशास्त्रे काव्यप्रकाशे
सौन्दर्यशास्त्रीयसिद्धान्तानां सद्य:मुक्रुते द्घोष:
d222 उपमानपदार्थविवेचनम् प्रतिभाप्रपञ्चः
शास्त्रीयसन्दर्भाः
Moderator: C. Rajendran

सं वत्सरसमाप्तौ ते धावन्ति जलके लये* । *(polar bear swim इति भाषायाम्)


मध्यरात्रौ च शीताब्दौ हिमऋक्षौपमा नराः ।। ७ ।।
स्थित्वा क्षणैकपर्यन्तं कु र्वन्ति जलतर्पणम् |
नववर्षस्वागताय व्हँ कू वर-निवासिनः ।। ८ ।।

गिरिजा शारदा लक्ष्मीः गिरिसागरसं गमे ।


क्रीडार्थं मिलिताः भान्ति विदषु ां तोषदाः सदा ।। ९ ।।
विद्यार्थी लभते विद्यां क्रीडार्थी क्रीडनं तथा
सर्वे मनोरथाः पूर्णाः व्हँ कू वर-निवासिनाम् ।। १० ।।
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Wednesday | July 11 || 10.30-12.30pm Session 3.2
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm
SPECIAL PANEL 13.2: Nina Mirnig Florinda De Simini Yuko Yokochi Marion Rastelli
The Viṣṇu- and Austrian Academy of University of Naples Kyoto University Austrian Academy of
Śivadharma: Early Sciences “L’Orientale” Sciences
Medieval Lay Religion Donating and
buch
1 A103
in a Socio-Religious
and Historical
Creating Space for
Śaiva Communities in
Early Śaivism and the
Brahmanical Tradition
Mahāgaṇapatir Bhavet:
Gaṇa-Hood as a
The Worship of Viṣṇu’s
Twelve Manifestations
Perspective, Part 2 Early Medieval India: Religious Goal in Early Through the History of
Organizers: Florinda De The Śivakṣetra in the Śaivism Vaiṣṇava Traditions
Simini, Nina Mirnig Śivadharmaśāstra

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

S22.2 | James Mallinson Seth Powell S.V.B.K.V. Gupta Valters Negribs


योगायुर्वेदौ - Yoga and SOAS, Univ. of London Harvard University EFEO, Pondicherry, SOAS, University of Oxford
Āyurveda Univ. of London
Bandhas in Sanskrit Reconciling Yogic The Yogārṇava: Can Kings Be Yogis?

3 allard
forum
Texts on Haṭhayoga Difference: Śivayoga
as the Unification of
Ritual Worship and
An Unpublished
Compendium on Yoga
Readings From the
Mokṣadharmaparvan

Moderator: Karen O’Brien- Haṭhayoga in the


Kop Śivayogapradīpikā

S14.7 | Ivan Andrijanić Anaïs Dornier-Viavant Neil Dalal Kalpesh Bhatt


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - University of Zagreb Université Sorbonne University of Alberta University of Toronto
Philosophy Nouvelle - Paris 3
Understanding
buch Śaṅkara
4 b218
The Authorship of
the Īśopaniṣad- and
The Many Sources Smṛtisantati: The Brahman: A
Used by Śaṅkara in His Problem of Continuous Comparative Study
Kaṭhopaniṣad-Bhāṣya Critique of the Idealist Memory for Śaṅkara of the Vedāntic
Moderator: Philipp Maas Attributed to Śaṅkara Dreaming Argument Darśanas of Śaṅkara &
Swaminarayan

S1.5 | Laszlo Forizs Joanna Jurewicz Frank Köhler Christiane Schaefer


वेदः - Veda Dharmagate Buddhist University of Warsaw University of Tübingen Uppsala University
Ṛgveda College

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

S2.6 | Deepro Chakraborty Renate Söhnen- Adriana Molina-Muñoz Jan E. M. Houben


भाषाशास्त्रम् - Linguistics University of Alberta Thieme University of Illinois at EPHE
SOAS, Univ. of London Urbana–Champaign La Formule de
Various Traditional Versteegh dans les
buch
6 d218
Enumerations and
Classifications of
The “Gerund/
Absolutive” in Epic-
In the Light of Change: Anciens Mondes
Multi-Headed Relative Indien et Iranien (The
Sanskrit Speech Puranic and Classical Clauses in Sanskrit and Versteegh Formula in
Moderator: Madhav
Sounds: A Comparative Sanskrit Literature Hindi the Ancient Indian and
Deshpande
Analysis Iranian Worlds)
Session 3.2 Wednesday | July 11 || 10.30-12.30pm
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm
S20.1 | Reeta Bhattacharya Priti N. Pancholi Vijay Vishwanath Nirmala R. Kulkarni
हस्तलेखविज्ञानम् - Kolkata Nivedita Shakti B. J. Institute of Learning Rajopadhyay Savitribai Phule Pune
Manuscriptology & Research Daly College University

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

S3.5 | Malgorzata Wielinska- Paul Kiparsky Lata Deokar Masato Kobayashi


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

S5.1 | Sven Sellmer Les Morgan McComas Taylor Sucharita Adluri


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

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

S10.1 | Katarzyna Marciniak Seishi Karashima Amarjiva Lochan


बौद्धविद्या - Buddhist Soka University Soka University University of Delhi
Studies w/ S. Leurmsai
Narrative Verses and
buch
11 d322
The Importance of a
New Edition of the
Expository Prose:
Commonalities
Māleyya-
devattheravatthu: A Lan
Mahāvastu for Buddhist Between the Mahāvastu Nā Thai Text Inspired by
Moderator: Stefan Baums
Philology and the Early Mahāyāna Mahāvastu
Scriptures

SPECIAL SESSION 19.1: 10:30] Abhijit Dixit, “A digitization process for Laukikanyāyas ...”
Digital Sanskrit 10:45] Martin Gluckman, “A Review of the Work of the Sanskrit Research Institute, Auroville”
buch Workshop, Part 1: 11:00] Venkata Subramanian, “Language Lab for Sanskrit”

‡ b202 Sanskrit Computational


Linguistics
11:15] H. Sumachaya, “Introduction to The Indic Text Analysis Program (ITAP)”
11:30] Shivani V. & Swati Basapur, “साङ्गणिकपाळि (Computational Tools for Pali Language)”
b204 Coordinator:Amba Kulkarni,
11:45] Malhar Kulkarni, “Some New Computational Sanskrit Tools at IIT Bombay”
12pm] Amba Kulkarni & Sanjeev Panchal, “Samsaadhanii: A Parser and Generator for Sanskrit”
Sanjeev Panchal

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Wednesday | July 11 || 2-4pm Session 3.3
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm
SPECIAL PANEL 1: Jesse Knutson Robert P. Goldman Thomas Hunter Sally J. Sutherland
Ādikāvyāni: Regional University of Hawai’i University of California, University of British Goldman
Kāvya Rāmāyaṇas Berkeley Columbia University of California,
in Early Medieval Berkeley
buch
1 A103
South and Southeast
Asia
The Grammar of
Poetry and the Poetics
of Grammar: The
Vālmīki’s Children: Commentary and
Adulation, Imitation
Revamping the
Text-Building in the Old Rākṣasas: The Rākṣasas
Organizer: Jesse Knutson Bhaṭṭikāvya in Early and Ethical Critique in Javanese Uttarakāṇḍa of Bhavabhūti’s
Medieval India Poets of the Rāmakathā Mahāvīracarita

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

3 allard
forum
On a List of Sixty-Four
Yoga Powers in Śaiva
The Gorakṣayogaśāstra:
An Early Text of
paddhati: A Manual
on the Practice of
paddhati in Relation to
Modern Yoga
Purāṇic Literature Haṭhayoga Haṭhayoga
Moderator: Dagmar
Wujastyk

S14.8 | Taiken Kyuma Kuniko Hosono Katsunori Hirano Watanabe Masayoshi


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Mie University Nakamura Hajime Nakamura Hajime University of Tokyo
Philosophy Eastern Institute Eastern Institute
Vaiśeṣika/Nyāya
buch
4 b218
On the Relationship
Between Dharma and
Mokṣa in the Tradition
Negation Square
Diagram in the
Nyāyavārttika-
A Re-Examination
of the Definition of
Universal in the Nyāya-
Perceptibility of Time
in Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika
Philosophy
of the Vaiśeṣika School tātparyaṭīkā Vaiśeṣika
Moderator: Nilanjan Das

S1.6 | Ruzana Pskhu Purvi D. Mahendra Shrikant Bahulkar Carmen Spiers


वेदः - Veda Peoples’ Friendship Gujarat University Bhandarkar Oriental EPHE
Atharvaveda & Around University of Russia Research Institute
buch
5 d201
The Place of Puruṣa-
Sūkta in Metaphysics
Elements of the
Śramaṇa Tradition as
From Myth to Ritual:
Further Observations
New Finds From the
Atharvaveda Paippalāda
Moderator: Georges-Jean of Pañcarātra and Found in the Vedas (With Special Reference
Pinault Viśiṣṭādvaita to AVŚ 6.80)

S6.1 | Harunaga Isaacson Péter Dániel Szántó Tsunehiko Sugiki Aleksandra Wenta
तं त्रविमर्शः - Tantra University of Hamburg University of Oxford Hiroshima University University of Oxford
Studies
Buddhist Tantra Initiatory Ideals in New Sources for the The Structure and Magical Grimoire in the
buch
6 d218
Tantric Buddhism:
Abhayākaragupta on
the Initiation of the
Saraha Corpus Meanings of the
Heruka Maṇḍala in the
Buddhist Ḍākārṇava
Vajrabhairavatantra

Moderator: Michael Superior Student by the Scriptural Tradition


Slouber Superior Master
Session 3.3 Wednesday | July 11 || 2-4pm
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm
S20.2 | Purnima Koul Shivani V Saraju Rath
हस्तलेखविज्ञानम् - University of Delhi Karnataka Sanskrit IIAS, Leiden
Manuscriptology University
w/ S. S. Nair
buch
7 d219
The Origin and Date of
the Bower Manuscript Tracing the Manuscript of
Sarvapratyayamālā (The
The Development of
Śāradā and Related
Garland of All Affixes)
Scripts : Some Evidence
Moderator: Nirmala
Through the Ages: A From Manuscripts
Kulkarni
Historical Approach

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

S2.7 | Smitha Sabu Shyam Sundar Sharma Rekha Singh


भाषाशास्त्रम् - Linguistics Government University of Delhi University of Delhi
Sanskrit College,
Thiruvananthapuram
buch
9 b211 Positive and Negative Logician’s Theory of The Problem of
Moderator: Jared Klein Poles of Meaning Verbal Roots Substratum of
Linguistic Expectancy

S8.8 | Vidya Shimladka Padmaja Venkatesh Parimal Phadke Deepak Paramashivan


काव्यमलङ्कारश्च - Poetry, Nrithyaloka Aatmalaya Academy of Savitribai Phule Pune University of Alberta
Drama and Art and Culture University
Aesthetics The Deśī Dance Music of India and
buch
10 d222
Tradition: Is ‘Deśī’
a Misnomer in the
Sanskrit for a Dance
Repertoire
Muḍḍupa Cāris and
Their Link with the
Arabia - Interactions and
Influences: A Study Based
on Paṇḍarīka Viṭṭhala’s
Present Scenario of Footwork Technique of
Moderator: Mandakranta Rāgamālā, Rāgamañjarī and
Indian Classical Dance? Bharatanāṭyam Ṣaḍrāgacandrodayaḥ from
Bose
the 16th Century
S10.2 | James B. Apple Cristina Pecchia Vibha Aggarwal Dipen Barua
बौद्धविद्या - Buddhist University of Calgary Austrian Academy of Kurukshetra University University of Hong Kong
Studies Sciences
buch The Stairway of Correct The Omniscient Contribution of Ratnakīrti A Linguistic Approach
11 d322
Conventional Reality:
Significant Variant
Readings in Candrakīrti’s
Buddha: Dharmakīrti’s
Remarks
to Buddhist Epistemology
and Metaphysics (with
Special Reference to His
to the Use of the
Terms Bhavaṅga and
Moderator: Charles Madhyamakāvatāra (6.79) Work Īśvarasādhana- Bhavaṅga-Citta in the
DiSimone dūṣaṇam) Theory of Continuity of
Personality

SPECIAL SESSION 19.2: 2:00] Gérard Huet, “Experiments with a Corpus Manager”
Digital Sanskrit Workshop, 2:15] Yigal Bronner, “Hands-on with the PANDiT project”
buch Part 2: Software Tools for the

2:30] Michael Willis & Daniel Balogh, “Introduction to Siddham”
b202 Digital Humanities 2:45] Stefan Baums, “The Gandhari.org Corpus of Gāndhārī Texts”
b204 Coordinators: Charles Li & Timothy
3:00] Ian McCrabb & Andrea Schlosser, “READ”
3:15] Timothy Bellefleur, Charles Li, & Adheesh Sathaye, “The Vetāla Project”
Bellefleur

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Wednesday | July 11 || 4.30-6pm Session 3.4
Section/ Theme
Room Location 4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः
KEYNOTE FRENCH Lyne Bansat-Boudon, École Pratique des Hautes Études
LECTURE, in Registres de la théâtralité indienne :
Homage to André le théâtre comme pratique religieuse
buch
1
Padoux (Registers of Indian Theatricality: Theatre as Religious Practice)
a103
to be followed by an homage to Prof. André Padoux,
Lyne Bansat-Boudon, w/
Gavin Flood
with Gavin Flood (NUS, Singapore, Oxford)

SPECIAL SESSION 20: ROUNDTABLE:


Haṭhābhyāsa- Haṭhābhyāsa-paddhati: A Precursor of Modern Yoga
paddhati: A Precursor Practice

2
allard of Modern Yoga Participants:
Practice
forum Jason Birch, Mark Singleton, James Mallinson
(SOAS, University of London)
Organizers: Jason Birch & Jacqueline Hargreaves
Jacqueline Hargreaves

SPECIAL PANEL 4.2: David Buchta Ravi M. Gupta Discussion


Introducing Bhāgavata Brown University Utah State University
Purāṇa Commentaries:
Vaiṣṇava & Advaita Tradition Beyond “Bait for the Advaitins”:
buch
3
Perspectives on Sub-Commentaries: The Enigmatic Theology
the Opening Verse Influence and of Śrīdhara Svāmī in his
b313 from the 13th to 19th Innovation in Baladeva Commentary on the
Centuries, Part 2 Vidyābhūṣaṇa’s Bhāgavata Purāṇa
Commentary on
Organizers: David Buchta
& Jonathan Edelmann Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.1.1

S14.9 | Mansi Sharma V. Balarama Murty Ithamar Theodor


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Jawaharlal Nehru w/ V. Kutumba Sastry University of Haifa
Philosophy University
buch
4
Bhagavad-gītā (joint
श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतायां Semantics of Yoga: Dharma in the
session with Section 21)
b218 स्वास्थ्यविज्ञानम्
With Special Reference
to the Bhagavadgītā
Bhagavad Gītā

Moderator: Arvind Sharma

S6.2 | Shaman Hatley Advaitavadini Kaul Saranathan Sasikala


तं त्रविमर्शः - Tantra University of IGNCA University of Madras
Studies Massachusetts
buch
5 d218
Observations on Meter
in Early Śaiva Tantras
The Tradition of Sun
Worship in Kashmir
From Text to
Kriyāvidhi: Relating
Lalitopākhyāna with the
Moderator: Madhu Khanna Navāvaraṇapūjā

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Session 3.4 Wednesday | July 11 || 4.30-6pm
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm
S20.3 | Nrusingha Charan Kar Shweta Jejurkar Narasingha Panda
हस्तलेखविज्ञानम् - Hankuk University of Maharaja Sayajirao Silpakorn University
Manuscriptology Foreign Studies University of Baroda

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

S3.7 | Ankit J. Raval Athira Jathavedan Yogesh N. Pandya


व्याकरणम् - Vyākaraṇa Shree Somnath Sanskrit Sree Sankaracharya Darshanam Sanskrit
University University of Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya

buch
8 b318
इतिहाससाक्षिभूतानि
पाणिनिसूत्राणि
Syntax in Nāṭyaśāstra:
Some Resemblances
व्याकरणोदाहरणकाव्येषु
लट्लकारप्रयोगवैविध्यम्
With the Aṣṭādhyāyī
Moderator: Malhar
Kulkarni

S8.9 | Sundari Siddhartha Radhika Koul Ramakrishna


काव्यमलङ्कारश्च - Poetry, Kuppuswami Sastri Stanford University Pejathaya
Drama and Research Institute Chinmaya
Aesthetics Meaning and Aesthetic Vishwavidyapeeth
buch
9 d222
A Critical Study of
the Manuscript,
Effect in Poetry: A
Conversation Between
भासनाटकचक्रे स्थितानां
वाचोयुक्तीनां समीक्षा
Kandarpadarpaṇa Bhāṇa Indian Aestheticians स्वकल्पितैरुदाहरणैस्तासां
Moderator: Lidia Wojtczak
of Lokanāthādhvarin and Modern Literary
प्रस्तुतिश्च
Critics

S10.3 | Prem Raj Neupane Kazuho Yamasaki Pranali Waingankar


बौद्धविद्या - Buddhist Nepal Sanskrit University Nakamura Hajime Savitribai Phule Pune
Studies Eastern Institute University

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

Evening Public Event Where & When:


cultural event: Frederic Wood
ദക്ഷിണാപഥ ।। Dakṣiṇāpatha: Theatre
6354 Crescent Rd.
The Classical Music & Dance of South India
7.30-10pm
www.mandalarts.ca

featuring: Padma Sugavanam, Mandala Arts, & Sanskriti


75
Thursday | July 12 || 8-10am Session 4.1
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am
SPECIAL PANEL 6.1: Deven Patel Chiara Livio Csaba Dezső
Literary Univ. of Pennsylvania Sapienza Univ., Rome Eötvös Loránd University
Commentaries and
the Intellectual Life Commentary as Untangling the “galitavayasām Ikṣvākūnām
buch
1 Metalinguistic Mahākāvya: Jonarāja’s idaṃ hi kulavratam”:
of South Asia, Part 1
a104 Communication Commentaries of
Bhāravi’s Kirātārjunīya
The Commentators’
Interpretations of the
Organizers: Elisa Ganser & Passages Describing the
and Maṅkha’s Renunciation of Kings in
Daniele Cuneo
Śrīkaṇṭhacarita the Raghuvaṃśa

SPECIAL PANEL 7: Andrew Ollett Patrick Cummins Manasicha Lawrence McCrea


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

S22.4 | Lubomír Ondračka Mahabaleshwara Zoë Slatoff


योगायुर्वेदौ - Yoga and Charles University Shivarama Lancaster University
Āyurveda Veda Vijnana Shodha
Samsthanam

3 allard
forum Prognostication by आत्मैकत्वविज्ञानमेव योगः, Beyond the Body: Yoga
Breath in Yoga: Analysis वेदः एव योगस्य मूलग्रन्थः, and Advaita Vedānta in
Moderator: Dominik
of the Vasiṣṭhasaṃhitā the Aparokṣānubhūti
Wujastyk ऋषयः एव योगिनः
(Yogakāṇḍa, Chapter 7)

S14.10 | Harald Wiese Pawan Kumar Prabhawati Chowdhary


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Leipzig University Upadhyay Jainarain Vyas University
Philosophy University of Delhi
Upaniṣads & Vedānta
buch
4 b218
Why Prāṇa Is the Most
Excellent Among the
Nature of Brahman:
An Analysis of
क्षीयन्ते चास्य कर्माणि’ इत्यस्य
समीक्षणम्
Vital Functions, or the Suṣupti and Turiya in
Moderator: Kengo
Shapley Value in the Maṇdukyakārikā
Harimoto
Upaniṣads

S6.3 | Yohei Kawajiri Jonathan Duquette Gowri T. Raghavendran


तं त्रविमर्शः - Tantra Chikushi Jogakuen University of Oxford Ethiraj College for
Studies University Women

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

S16.2 | Bhakti Mamtora Jamal A. Jones


सं स्कृ तं प्रदेशभाषाश्च - University of Florida University of California
Sanskrit & Regional
Languages, (&
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6 d221
Southeast Asia) Vernacular to Sanskrit:
An Inquiry Into the
Cāṭuprabandha
and Theorization of
Enduring Significance Regional Genres in
Moderator: Robert
of Sanskrit in 20th- Sanskrit Poetics
Zydenbos
Century Western India
Session 4.1 Thursday | July 12 || 8-10am
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am
S19.2 | Samir Sohoni Sai Susarla Balasubramanian Jayashree Gajjam
सं स्कृ तं विज्ञानतान्त्रिकी IIT Bombay MIT-ADT University Ramakrishnan IIT Bombay
च - Computational w/ T. M. Rao, S. Susarla w/ D. Kanojia, M. Kulkarni
Sanskrit & Digital Modeling the
buch
7 d307
Humanities
A Functional Core
PAIAS: Panini Phonology of
Ashtadhyayi Interpreter Consonant Duplication
New Vistas to Study
Bhartṛhari: Cognitive
for Computational as a Service and Allied Changes in Natural Language
Moderator: Peter M. Scharf
Aṣṭādhyāyī the Recitation of Tamil Processing (NLP)
Taittirīyaka-S

S3.8 | Paolo Visigalli Somveer Beatrice Bonino Mohini Arya


व्याकरणम् - Vyākaraṇa Shanghai Normal/New University of Delhi Université Sorbonne University of Delhi
York Univ.,Shanghai Nouvelle - Paris 3
The Verbal Root Bhū
buch
8 b310
Kasmāt in Nirukta:
From Which Root?
मीमांसाव्याकरणयोः
सम्बन्धानुशीलनम्
in the Mādhavīya-
dhātuvṛtti of Sāyaṇa : उत्तरपाणिनीयव्याकरण-
Why? Whence? Or Problems and Solutions सम्प्रदायेषु कृ त्प्रत्ययानां
Moderator: Ashok Aklujkar
on the Purpose(s) of of Certain Traditional स्वरूपविश्लेषणम्
Yāska’s Etymologizing Grammatical Questions

S5.2 | Stuart Sarbacker Sanne Mersch Mrunal Patki


पुराणानि - Purāṇas Oregon State University Leiden University Deccan College PGRI

Tying of Maṇi and


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

S8.10 | Anil Pratap Giri Raj Kumar Mahajan Divya Mishra


काव्यमलङ्कारश्च - Poetry, Pondicherry University Panjab University University of Delhi
Drama and
Aesthetics
buch
10 d314
Epistemology of
Vibhāva in the Light of
Bhavabhūti’s Nature
Description and Its
Karuṇa Rasa in the
Poetry of Kālidāsa and
Navya-Nyāya Language Characteristics in Bhavabhūti: Its Social
Moderator: Melinda Fodor
and Methodology Uttararāmacarita Implication

S10.4 | Welipitiye Indananda Serena Saccone Hidenori Sakuma Donna Dorsey


बौद्धविद्या - Buddhist Bhiksu University of Sri Austrian Academy of Tsukuba University MacEwan University
Studies Lanka Sciences
Giving by Giving
buch
11 d313
The Importance of the
Suhṛllekha of Nāgārjuna
Nothing: The Practice
of the Perfections in
Asaṅga and Kamalaśīla’s
Was Sthiramati
of Valabhī the
Upekṣā in Santideva’s
Śikṣāsamuccaya and
as a Buddhist Same Person as Bodhicaryāvatāra
Moderator: James B. Apple Commentaries on
Dharmakāvya the Vajracchedikā the Commentator
Prajñāpāramitā Sthiramati?

शान्तसमुद्रतीरेऽस्मिन् शैलपार्वतसीमतः । Here on the shore of the Pacific ocean,


bordering on the Rocky Mountains,
आङ्ग ्लनौकाधिपत्याद्यैः पूर्वं प्रदर्शिते स्थले ॥ in an area earlier discovered by the English captain
(George Vancouver) & others,
हिरण्यज्वरपुष्यटे ं विद्यालयादिविश्रुता । having grown on account of gold-fever,
(now) famous on account of its universities,
होल्लन्द्देशोद्भवाख्यात्या वन्कुवर् शोभते सदा ॥ with a name originating from Holland
(Van Coevorden >> Vancouver),
– यन् हुबन् this (city of) Vancouver is forever beautiful...
Jan Houben
77
Thursday | July 12 || 10.30-12.30pm Session 4.2
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm
SPECIAL PANEL 6.2: Elisa Ganser & Daniele Luther Obrock Heike Oberlin P. Kunjunny
Literary Cuneo University of Toronto University of Tübingen Dharmarajan
Commentaries and Univ. of Zürich/ Paris III Sree Sankaracharya
the Intellectual Life University of Sanskrit
buch
1 a104
of South Asia
Part 2
Stage Philology:
Between Theory and
Nāṭaka as Śāstra:
Over (and Under)
Commentaries in the
South Indian Sanskrit
Nastikanindā in
Kūṭiyāṭṭam Stage
Practice in Nāṭaka- Interpreting Theatre Tradition Manuals
Organizers: Elisa Ganser &
Commentaries From Bhavabhūti Kūṭiyāṭṭam: A Medieval
Daniele Cuneo
Kerala Integration Project?

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

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

S22.5 | Karen O’Brien-Kop Karl-Stéphan Laura von Ostrowski


योगायुर्वेदौ - Yoga and SOAS, Univ. of London Bouthillette Ludwig Maximilian
Āyurveda Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
University of Munich

3 allard
forum
Pratipakṣabhāvanā:
Yoga as the Path of “A Church by Daylight”:
Reviewing the
Haṭhayogic Content in
Cultivation of the Reviewing the Position the Sarvasiddhānta-
Moderator: Philipp Maas
Counterstates of Yoga in Early Indian saṅgraha Section on
Doxography Patañjali

S14.11 | Manjushree Hedge Gavish Bhagirath Trivedi


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Amrita Vishwa University of Delhi Darshanam Sanskrit
Philosophy Vidyapeetham Mahavidyalaya
Later Philosophers
buch
4 b218
Analysis of
Suṣupti Acc. To Śri
प्रकाशानन्दस्य व्यक्तित्वं
कृतित्वञ्च
द्वितीयव्याप्तिस्वरूपे
जगदीशगदाधरयोः साम्यं
Satchidānandendra
Moderator: Sthaneshwar वैषम्यञ्च
Sarasvatī
Timalsina

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

S16.3 | Robert Jan Zydenbos Timothy Lorndale Maithili Thayanithy


सं स्कृ तं प्रदेशभाषाश्च - Ludwig Maximilian Univ. of Pennsylvania
Sanskrit & Regional University of Munich
Languages, (& From Satyarādheya Karṇa in Sanskrit and
buch
6 d221
Southeast Asia) Kannada and the
Language of the Gods:
to Nanniyoḷ
Inasutan: Karṇa’s
Tamil Texts

A Joyful and Difficult Characterization in


Moderator: Andrea Acri
Relationship the Old Kannada
Mahābhāratas
Session 4.2 Thursday | July 12 || 10.30-12.30pm
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm
S7.1 | Chinmay D. Goswami Kaushal Panwar Sharda Sharma Jagadish Sarma
विध्यनुष्ठानविमर्शः - Ritual Veer Narmad South University of Delhi University of Delhi Gauhati University
Studies Gujarat University w/ N. Kumar, M. Kumar
(Joint Session with
buch
7 b310
Section 13) The Ritualization of
Divine Love in the
Right of Śūdras to
Acquire Brahmavidyā:
विवाहसं स्कारे विहितानां
विविधक्रियाणां महत्वं
Practice of Samskaras in
Assam, a North-Eastern
Puṣṭīmārga by Śrī An Analysis Part of India: A Note
Moderator: Anne Keßler-
Vallabhācarya सन्देशश्च
Persaud

S5.3 | Anusha S. Rao Raj Balkaran Christopher Austin Elizabeth Rohlman


पुराणानि - Purāṇas University of Calgary University of Toronto Dalhousie University University of Calgary

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

S8.11 | Bijoya Goswami Dolores Pizarro Voddugalaiah Girish Shikha Rajpurohit


काव्यमलङ्कारश्च - Poetry, Jadavpur University Minakakis Chandra Jawaharlal Nehru
Drama and Karnataka Sanskrit University
Aesthetics University
buch
9 d314
The Aesthetic Aspects
of the Lalitavistara
Similar to Him With
the Lotus Navel:
Madhurāvijayam
Mahākāvya of
The Concept of
Sahṛdaya: A Synthesis
Transformation in the Gaṅgādevī : A Literary of Abhinavagupta’s
Moderator: Iris Iran
Āryāsaptaśatī Analysis Philosophy and
Farkhondeh
Aesthetics

S10.5 | Mark Allon Stefan Baums Richard Salomon Andrea Schlosser


बौद्धविद्या - Buddhist University of Sydney Ludwig Maximilian University of Washington Ludwig Maximilian
Studies University of Munich University of Munich

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

वन-पूर्व-कु बेर-नामकं पुरमस्त्युत्तरदिग्विभूषणम् । 


गिरिवारिधिसं निधौ स्थितं सकलानन्दकरं सुविश्रुतम् ।।
रमया रमतेऽत्र भारती सुमनोभि: समुपासिता सदा ।
विदषु ामिह सङ्गमोऽस्तु वः सुखदः सं स्कृ तवाग्विवर्धनः ।।
- माधव देशपांडे

79
Thursday | July 12 || 2-4pm Session 4.3
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm
SPECIAL PANEL 17.1: Margi Madhu Chakyar & the Nepathya Ensemble
Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Living Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady
Sanskrit Theater in
the Kerala Tradition, Kūṭiyāṭṭam, the Play and the Performance: A Lecture-Demonstration
1 wood Part 1 (to be followed by an open discussion)

Organizers: Heike Oberlin,


Elisa Ganser, Elena
Mucciarelli

SPECIAL PANEL 8: Bill Mak Marko Geslani Koji Kumagai Discussion


Research on the Kyoto University Emory University International College for
Gārgīyajyotiṣa - Postgraduate Buddhist
Composition and Studies (Tokyo)
buch
2 d314
Transmission Planetary Science and
Time-Reckoning in the
The Formation of the The Place of Utpāta-
Indradhvaja Ceremony, Lakṣaṇa (Chapter 39
Gārgīyajyotiṣa With Reference to of Gārgīyajyotiṣa) in
Organizer: Bill Mak
Gārgīyajyotiṣa 45 Divination Literature

S22.6 | Gerald Penn Gudrun Melzer Dagmar Wujastyk Dominik Wujastyk


योगायुर्वेदौ - Yoga and University of Toronto Ludwig Maximilian University of Alberta University of Alberta
Āyurveda University of Munich

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

S14.12 | Shrinivasa Varakhedi Shyam Ranganathan Purushottama Andrew J. Nicholson


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

S1.8 | Barbora Sojková Ambarish Khare N. K. Sundareswaran Chisei Oshima


वेदः - Veda University of Oxford Tilak Maharashtra University of Calicut University of Tokyo
Vedic Ritual Vidyapeeth

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

S15.1 | Johannes Bronkhorst Ferenc Ruzsa Basile Leclère James McHugh


इतिहासः कलाः Université de Lausanne Eötvös Loránd University Université Jean Moulin University of Southern
स्थापत्यमभिलेखशास्त्रं Lyon 3 California
च - History, Art Plagues and Brahmins:
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6 b313
& Architecture,
Epigraphy
Did a Combination
of Epidemics and
The Old Capital of
the Pāṇḍyas: The
A Controversy
Under Debate: On
Sugarcane-Based
Liquor in Sanskrit Texts
Ideology Empty India’s Coherence of the the Historicity of
Moderator: Libbie Mills Cities and Buddhism’s Legends Kumudacandra’s Defeat
Monasteries? at the Caulukya Court
Session 4.3 Thursday | July 12 ||2-4pm
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 2-2.30pm 2.30-3pm 3-3.30pm 3.30-4pm
S23.1 | Virendra K. Alankar Sushma Alankar Pushpinder Joshi Mohammad Idris
सं स्कृ तं पञ्जाबप्रदेशश्च - Panjab University D.A.V. College Punjabi University Lourey
Sanskrit and the Punjabi University
Panjab The Glorious Past of
buch
7 d221 पं जाबप्रदेशस्य स्वा त न्त्र्योत्तरपं जा बप्रदे शस्य पञ्जा ब ीभाषायाः
Sanskrit Language:
Studying the
Contribution of
Moderator: Virendra वेदाध्ययनेऽवदानम् सं स्कृ तकाव्यावदानम् परिरक्षणे परिसं वर्धने च
Educational Institutions
Kumar Alankar सं स्कृ तस्यावदानम् in Punjab

S19.3 | Devaraj Adiga Nikhil Chaturvedi Shreevatsa


सं स्कृ तं विज्ञानतान्त्रिकी IIT Bombay IIT Delhi Rajagopalan
च - Computational w/ R. Garg
Sanskrit & Digital
buch
8 d307
Humanities Improving the
Learnability of
A Tool for
Transliteration of
A User-Friendly Tool
for Metrical Analysis of
Classifiers for Sanskrit Multilingual Sanskrit Sanskrit Verse
Moderator: Amba Kulkarni OCR Corrections Texts

S7.2 | Atsuko Izawa Anne Keßler-Persaud Shobhana Sharma U. K. V. Sarma


विध्यनुष्ठानविमर्शः - Ritual International College for Heidelberg University Jawaharlal Nehru Amrita Vishwa
Studies Postgraduate Buddhist University Vidyapeetham
Studies
buch
9 b310 How Are Heads
Giving the Bride and
Binding the Organ of
Hindu Saṃskāras:
Ritual Practices Among
An Overview of
Kāmyeṣṭis as Per
Moderator: Chinmay Regarded in Funeral Thought: A Meaningful the Hindu ‘Dogras’ of Śrautasūtras With a
Goswami Rites? Sequence of Rites Jammu Special Reference to
Āyuṣkāmeṣṭi

S5.4 | Sushma Jatoo Madhavi Narsalay Nicolas Dejenne Sudhir Kumar Lall
पुराणानि - Purāṇas IGNCA University of Mumbai Université Sorbonne IGNCA
Nouvelle - Paris 3

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

S10.6 | Qian Lin Savita Chintaman Deo A. K. Chaubey P. V. Viswanath


बौद्धविद्या - Buddhist ICLP Academia Sinica Savitribai Phule Pune Rashtriya Sanskrit Pace University
Studies University Sansthan Asset Markets, the
How to Contemplate The Impact of Agency Problem
buch
11 d313
“Internally” and
“Externally” in
Buddhism on the
Conceptualization of
अपोहविमर्श: and Gifts to the Early
Medieval Buddhist
the Satipaṭṭhāna Wellbeing in the Field Sangha in India:
Moderator: Mahesh Deokar Meditation? of Psychology Evidence From the
Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya

81
Thursday | July 12 || 4.30-6pm Session 4.4
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm
SPECIAL SESSION 17.2: ROUNTABLE DISCUSSION:
Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Living Kūṭiyāṭṭam beyond Academics: Touching the Heart of Tradition
Sanskrit Theater in featuring:
the Kerala Tradition, Margi Madhu Chakyar, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady
buch
1
Heike Oberlin, University of Tübingen
Part 2 Elisa Ganser, University of Zürich
a103 Elena Mucciarelli, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Mandakranta Bose, University of British Columbia
Organizers: Heike Oberlin, C. Rajendran, Univ. of Calicut
Elisa Ganser, Elena Lyne Bansat-Boudon, EPHE, Paris
Mucciarelli Ma’ayan Nidbach, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

SPECIAL PANEL 5: Marcus Schmücker Michael Williams Ajay Rao &


Key Debates about Austrian Academy of Austrian Academy of Valerie Stoker
Theology and Sciences Sciences University of Toronto
Society in later
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2 d314
Viśiṣṭādvaita-
Vedānta and
Madhva Vedānta
Do Knowledge (jñāna),
Effort (prayatna) and
Will (icchā) Need a Body?
Inference and God
in Mādhva Vedānta:
Polemics and
Social Hierarchies:
Vyāsatīrtha on Gaṅgeśa Viśiṣṭādvaita and
Veṅkaṭanātha’s Concept of
Organizer: Marcus
God (Īśvara) at the Time of Dvaita Perspectives on
Schmücker the Apaśūdrādhikaraṇa
Creation (sṛṣṭikāle)

S22.7 | Samina Pratibha Natalia Kanaeva


योगायुर्वेदौ - Yoga and Pragya National Research
Āyurveda SOAS, Univ. of London University Higher School
of Economics

3 allard
forum
 Kāyakalpaprekṣā:
Appropriation
The Paradigm of
Medical Activity in
of Āyurvedic Āyurveda as It Is in
Moderator: Dagmar
Elements in Prekṣā Caraka Saṃhitā
Wujastyk
Meditation

S14.13 | Ganesh Singh Kaushik Amit Chaturvedi S. P. Thompson


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Pandit Ravishankar University of Hong Kong University of Oxford
Philosophy Shukla University
There’s Something Anubhūti-svarūpācārya’s
Pramāṇas & Avidyā
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Contribution to Advaita
तत्त्वदर्शने प्रमाणमहत्त्वम् Wrong With Raw on the Nature of Mokṣa,
b218 Perception, After All:
Vyāsatīrtha’s Refutation
Māyā and Avidyā, With
Reference to Prakaṭārtha-
of Nirvikalpaka vivaraṇam and the
Moderator: Purushotama Pratyakṣa Ṭippaṇam on Māṇḍūkya-
Bilimoria gauḍapādīya-kārikābhāṣya

S1.9 | Kyoko Amano Mau Das Gupta Naoko Nishimura


Vedic Ritual Kyoto University University of Calcutta Tohoku University
वेदः - Veda
A Non-Śrauta Ritual in Similes and Metaphors Rites for a Delivery of
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the Oldest Yajurveda
Text: Maitrāyaṇī
in the Agnihotra of
Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa
Fetus and Afterbirth in
Veda
Saṃhitā IV 2 (Gonāmika
Moderator: László Fórizs Chapter)

S15.2 | Dániel Balogh Arlo Griffiths Kunthea Chhom


इतिहासः कलाः British Museum EFEO, Paris Ministry of Culture &
स्थापत्यमभिलेखशास्त्रं w/ W. A. Southworth Fine Arts, Cambodia
च - History, Art
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& Architecture,
Epigraphy
The Baḍoh-Paṭhārī
Saptamātṛkā Panel
Inscription
The Foundation Stela
of Śrī Pūrvāmaravāsinī:
A New Sanskrit
Complementarity of
Sanskrit and Khmer
Portions of an Eleventh-
Moderator: Annette
Inscription of Campā Century Inscription (K.
Schmiedchen
Found at Hà Trung 1198)
Session 4.4 Thursday | July 12 || 4.30-6pm
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 4.30-5 5-5.30 5.30-6pm
S24.1 | Meenakshi Satoshi Ogura Kazuyo Sakaki
सं स्कृ तं पारसीवाङ्मयं च University of Delhi Tokyo University of Hokkaido Musashi
Sanskrit and Indo- Foreign Studies Women’s Junior College
Persian Culture Additional Annotations
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Āsurī Metres: In the
Light of Vedic and
Avestan Traditions
on Indic/Kashmiri
Non-Muslim Cultures,
Traditions, and
Philosophical Dialogue
Through Translation –
Brahmavidyā in Islamic
Moderator: Luther Obrock
Knowledge in the Terminology
Persian Translation of
the Rājataraṅgiṇīs
S19.4 | Gérard Huet Timothy Bellefleur Anuja P. Ajotikar
सं स्कृ तं विज्ञानतान्त्रिकी Inria Paris Center University of British Shan State Buddhist Univ.
च - Computational w/ I. Lankri Columbia w/ T. Ajotikar, P. Scharf

buch Sanskrit & Digital From the Web to the


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Humanities Preliminary Design
of a Sanskrit Corpus
Desktop: IIIF-Pack, a
Document Format for
Enriching the Digital
Edition of the
Manager Manuscripts Kāśikāvṛtti by Adding
Moderator: Malhar Variants From the Nyāsa
Using Linked Data
Kulkarni
Standards and the Padamañjarī

S13.1 | Chinmayi H. Deodhar Vassiliki Deroukaki


धर्मविमर्शः - Religious Univ. of Mumbai, Aristotle University of
Studies Nalanda Nritya Kala Thessaloniki
Vidyalaya
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The Festival of
“Indradhvaja” Through
A Study on the Identity
and Meaning of the
the Ages Vedic Ritual Drink
Moderator: Travis Smith
Soma

S5.5 | James F. Pierce Noor Van Brussel Anasuya Bhowmik


पुराणानि - Purāṇas Univ. of Pennsylvania Ghent University The Asiatic Society

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Deceptive Gods and The Appeal of the Asura Critical Observations
Virtuous Demons of the - Strategies of Affect in on the Daśagrīva-
d204 Devīpurāṇa: Morality at a Regional Purāṇa rākṣasavadhacaritam,
the Fringe an Unpublished
Moderator: Raj Balkaran
Rāmopākhyāna

S10.7 | Jinghao Bai Yasutomo Nishi Jason Neelis


बौद्धविद्या - Buddhist Hiroshima University Chuo Academic Research Wilfrid Laurier University
Studies Rehabilitation of Institute of Rissho Kosei-
Devadatta: Does the kai
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Story of Devadatta
in the Saddharma-
puṇḍarīkasūtra Talk
Research on Acintika-,
Acintiya-, and Acintya-
Buddhist Literature,
Epigraphy, and Material
Moderator: Richard
About the Attainment in Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Culture in Gilgit
Salomon
of Buddhahood by the
Wicked?

Evening Public Event Where & When:


public lectures: Frederic Wood Theatre
Vikram Chandra, The Poetry of Amazement 6.30-7.30PM 6354 Crescent Rd.
James Mallinson, Yoga: To Mortify or Cultivate the Body? 8-9.30PM 6.30-9.30pm

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Friday | July 13 || 8-10am Session 5.1
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am
SPECIAL EVENT: शास्त्रचर्चासदस् - Śāstracarcāsadas
शास्त्रचर्चासदस् -
Facilitated by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
Śāstracarcāsadas
Coordinated by Manoj Kumar Mishra and Hari Dutt Sharma
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Coordinators: Manoj
Kumar Mishra, Hari Dutt
Sharma

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

S14.14 | Suguru Ishimura Taisei Shida Monika Nowakowska


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - University of Tsukuba University of Warsaw
Philosophy
Kumārila’s Theory of Editorial Notes on the Tracking Memory Usage
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Intrinsic Validity: The
Suspicion (Āśaṅkā)
Ninth Chapter of the
Prakaraṇapañcikā
– Smṛti as (Individual)
Recollection and Smṛti
of Invalidity and the as (Collective) Memory
Moderator: Piotr
Absence of a Cognition in Kumārila’s Mīmāṃsā
Balcerowicz
(Ajñāna)

S1.10 | Ramaiya Balachandra Mugdha Gadgil Neelima Thatte


वेदः - Veda Savitribai Phule Pune Tilak Maharashtra
Vedas - General University Vidyapeeth

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

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Session 5.1 Friday | July 13 || 8-10am
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 8-8.30am 8.30-9am 9-9.30am 9.30-10am
S6.4 | Judit Törzsök Madhu Khanna Mrinal Kaul Jason Schwartz
तं त्रविमर्शः - Tantra Université Charles-de- Jamia Millia Islamia Manipal Centre for University of California,
Studies Gaulle Lille III Philosophy & Humanities Santa Barbara

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

S8.12 | Pokhraj Chakraborty Arjun Bharadwaj Shankarji Jha Timothy C. Cahill


काव्यमलङ्कारश्च - Poetry, Gurudas College Amrita Vishwa Panjab University Loyola University New
Drama and Vidyapeetham Orleans
Aesthetics काकु वक्रोक्तिरलङ्काररुपेण
buch
7 d322
स्वीकरणीया न वेति
अलङ्कारशास्त्रोक्तदिशा
Universality of the Tenets
of Nāṭyaśāstra: An Analysis
in Terms of Applicability
Piquant Views of
Contemporary Thinkers
On the Textual History
of the Bhāminīvilāsa
on Sanskrit Poetics With Reference to the
Moderator: Daniele Cuneo काकु वक्रोक्रते लङ्कारत्वविवेचनं to Shakespearean Plays
With Special Reference to Paṇḍitarājaśataka
वाचिकाभिनये उपयोगनिर्धारणं
Hamlet
च।

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Friday | July 13 || 10.30-12.30pm Session 5.2
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm
कविसमवायः - कविसमवायः - Kavisamavāya
Kavisamavāyaḥ Facilitated by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
Coordinated by Manoj Kumar Mishra and Hari Dutt Sharma
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Coordinators: Manoj
Kumar Mishra, Hari Dutt
Sharma

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

S14.15 | Kaushlendra Tripathy Rakesh Kumar Vijay Laxmi Anita Rajpal


दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् - Banaras Hindu Jawaharlal Nehru CCS University University of Delhi
Philosophy University University
Darśanas
buch
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मीमांसादर्शने
प्रमाणमीमांसाया: विचार:
तत्वचिन्तामणौ व्याप्ते:
स्वरूपम्
कर्म कर्माशयश्च
योगदर्शनगीतासन्दर्भे
न्यायवैशेषिक-दर्शनयोः
लौकिकन्यायानां
Moderator: Kashinath शिक्षणप्रविधिरूपेण प्रयोगः
Nyaupane

S1.11 | Vijay Shankar Dwivedi Usha Kiran Yadav Brahmadev


वेदः - Veda University of Delhi SMM Government Girls Gurukul Kangri
Vedas-General PG College Vishwavidyalaya

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वेदेषु ऋतानृतयोर्सम्बन्ध
विमर्शः
वेदस्याध्ययने निरुक्तस्य
भूमिका
आधुनिककाले
वैदिकशिक्षाव्यवस्थायाः
Moderator: Bhagyalata प्रासङ्गिकता
Pataskar

S6.5 | Patricia Sauthoff S. A. S. Sarma Jung-Lan Bang Anil Kumar


तं त्रविमर्शः - Tantra SOAS Univ. of London EFEO, Pondicherry University of Hamburg Jawaharlal Nehru
Studies University

buch
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Visualizing Protection:
The Iconography of
Kerala Ritual Manuals
and the Bali-Offering
Stunning Bonds
(Pāśastobha) of the
अथर्ववेदीयाभिचारकर्मणां
प्रकृतिस्तेषां
the Divine in the Netra Tantrasadbhāva
Moderator: Mrinal Kaul
Tantra सामाजिकसं दर्शश्च

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Session 5.2 Friday | July 13 || 10.30-12.30pm
Room Location Section/ Theme
कक्षा स्थानम् विभागः/विषयः 10.30-11am 11-11.30am 11.30-12pm 12-12.30pm
S15.4 | Elizabeth Ann Cecil Suchandra Ghosh Cristina Bignami Annette Schmiedchen
इतिहासः कलाः Leiden University University of Calcutta University of Tübingen Humboldt University
स्थापत्यमभिलेखशास्त्रं w/ E. Mucciarelli
च - History, Art Columns in Context: The Valkha Kingdom: Temple Colleges
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& Architecture,
Epigraphy
Monumental
Inscriptions and
A Socio-Religious
Study from a Hoard of
Centre and Peripheries
Through Temples and
(Maṭha): Epigraphic
Evidence for the
Landscapes of Memory Copper-Plates (4th –5th Inscriptions in Medieval Patronage of Religious
Moderator: Anna Slaczka
in Early India Cent. C.E.) Karnataka Institutions

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

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

S8.13 | James Reich Lidia Wojtczak Prabha Shankar Chettiarthodi


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

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

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

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Index of Delegates

VANCOU VER 20 18

THE 17 TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE


INDEX of PRESENTERS Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time

Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time Blinderman, Radha Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 09:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alankar, Sushma D.A.V. College (Chandigarh, India) Thursday, 14:30 Chandasoma Thero, Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka (Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka) Tuesday, 15:30
Kanumuldeniye
Alankar, Virendra Kumar Panjab University (Chandigarh, India) Thursday, 14:00
Chandra, Subhash University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 11:30
Allen, Michael S. University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA, USA) Wednesday, 11:30
Chandra, Voddugalaiah Karnataka Sanskrit University (Bangalore, KA, India) Thursday, 11:30
Girish
Allon, Mark University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) Thursday, 10:30
Chaturvedi, Amit University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) Thursday, 17:00
Amano, Kyoko Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) Thursday, 16:30
Chaturvedi, Nikhil IIT Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 15:00
Andrijanić, Ivan University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia) Wednesday, 10:30
Chaubey, A. K. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Thursday, 15:00
Apple, James B. University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada) Wednesday, 14:00
Chen, Ruixuan Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) Tuesday, 12:00
Arora, Shubham Nalanda University (Rajgir, BR, India) Friday, 12:00
Chhom, Kunthea Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) Thursday, 17:30
Arya, Anil Kumar Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 09:30
Choudry, Anuradha IIT Kharagpur (Kharagpur, WB, India) Tuesday, 11:00
Arya, Mohini University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 09:30
Chowdhary, Prabhawati Jai Narain Vyas University (Jodhpur, RJ, India) Thursday, 09:30
Austin, Christopher Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) Thursday, 11:30
Cox, Whitney University of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA) Monday, 14:00
Bagchee, Joydeep Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Monday, 14:00
Cubelic, Simon Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) Tuesday, 09:30
Bahulkar, Shrikant Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 15:00
Cummins, Patrick T. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) Thursday, 08:30
Bai, Jinghao Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan) Thursday, 16:30
Cuneo, Daniele Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Thursday, 10:30
Bailey, Greg La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) Tuesday, 09:00
Dalal, Neil University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Wednesday, 11:30
Balachandra, Ramaiya Independent Scholar, USA Friday, 08:30
Das, Abhishek University of Calcutta (Kolkata, WB, India) Tuesday, 15:00
Balakailasanathasarma, University of Jaffna (Jaffna, Sri Lanka) Tuesday, 11:00
Maheshwarakurukkal
Das, Brindaban Bihari Sri Sri Dhananjoy Das Kathiababa Charitable Trust Friday, 11:00
(Vrindavan, UP, India)
Balarama Murty, Vempaty Life Fellow, IEEE (USA) Wednesday, 17:00
Das, Nilanjan New York University Shanghai (Shanghai, China) Tuesday, 15:30
Balcerowicz, Piotr University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) Tuesday, 09:30
Das, Sadananda Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany) Tuesday, 14:00
Balkaran, Raj University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 11:00
Das Gupta, Mau University of Calcutta (Kolkata, WB, India) Thursday, 17:00
Balogh, Dániel British Museum (London, England) Thursday, 16:30
Davis, Donald University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) Monday, 14:30
Bang, Jung-Lan University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) Friday, 11:30
De Clercq, Eva Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 17:00
Barois, Christèle University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria) Wednesday, 14:00
Dejenne, Nicolas Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Thursday, 15:00
Barua, Dipen University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) Wednesday, 15:30
De Jonckheere, Heleen Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 09:30
Baums, Stefan Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Thursday, 11:00
den Boer, Lucas Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) Monday, 15:00
Bausch, Lauren M. Dharma Realm Buddhist University (Ukiah, CA, USA) Tuesday, 08:30
Deo, Savita Chintaman Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Thursday, 14:30
Bellefleur, Timothy University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Thursday, 17:00
Deodhar, Chinmayi H. Nalanda Nritya Kala Mahavidyalaya, University of Mumbai Thursday, 16:30
Ben-Dor, Sharon University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland) Tuesday, 14:00 (Mumbai, MH, India)
Benedetti, Giacomo Ex., University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy) Monday, 15:00 Deokar, Lata Mahesh Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 11:30
Bhadreshdas Swami BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 10:30 Deokar, Mahesh A. Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune, MH, India) Wednesday, 09:00
Bharadwaj, Arjun Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Bangalore, KA, India) Friday, 08:30 Deroukaki, Vassiliki Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece) Thursday, 17:00
Bhatt, Kalpesh University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Wednesday, 12:00 Deshpande, Madhav University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) Monday, 15:30
Bhattacharya, Reeta Kolkata Nivedita Shakti (Kolkata, WB, India) Wednesday, 11:00 De Simini, Florinda University of Naples “L'Orientale” (Naples, Italy) Wednesday, 11:00
Bhattacharyya, Udita University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 11:30 Desnitskaya, Evgeniya Saint Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg, Russia) Tuesday, 14:00
Bhide, Prasad R. K. J. Somaiya College of Arts & Commerce (Mumbai, MH, Tuesday, 10:30 Dezső, Csaba Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) Thursday, 09:30
India)
Dharmarajan, Pambungal Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (Kalady, KL, Thursday, 12:00
Bhowmik, Anasuya The Asiatic Society (Kolkata, WB, India) Thursday, 17:30 Kunjunny India)
Bidnur, Jahnavi Indic Academy (Pune, MH, India) Monday, 15:00 Dharurkar, Chinmay Vijay Central University of Kerala (Kasaragod, KL, India) Tuesday, 11:30
Bignami, Cristina University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) Friday, 11:30 DiSimone, Charles BDRC, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Monday, 14:00
(Cambridge, MA, USA)
Bilimoria, Purushottama University of California, Davis (Davis, CA, USA) Thursday, 15:00
Dornier-Viavant, Anaïs Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Wednesday, 11:00
Birch, Jason SOAS University of London (London, England) Wednesday, 15:00
Dorsey, Donna MacEwan University (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Thursday, 09:30
Bisschop, Peter Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands) Wednesday, 09:30
Dreyer, Ronnie Independent Scholar, USA Monday, 15:00
Biswas, Ashis Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya (WB, India) Wednesday, 09:30
Dundas, Paul University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland) Tuesday, 16:30
Biswas, Mukta Gauhati University (Guwahati, AS, India) Friday, 11:30
Duquette, Jonathan University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Thursday, 09:00
Biswas, Piyali The University of Burdwan (Bardhaman, WB, India) Wednesday, 09:00
Dwivedi, Prabha Shankar IIT Tirupati (Tirupati, AP, India) Friday, 11:30

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pinault, Georges-Jean EPHE (Paris, France) Monday, 15:30


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ramjatton, Kirthee Devi Mahatma Gandhi Institute (Moka, Mauritius) Tuesday, 10:30 Shukla, Balram University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 09:30
Ranganathan, Shyam York University (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 14:30 Shukla, Kalindi S. V. Arts College (Ahmedabad, GJ, India) Wednesday, 09:30

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

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

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

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

Rathva, Devsinh Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University (Patan, GJ, Tuesday, 08:30 Singleton, Mark SOAS University of London (London, England) Wednesday, 15:30
Bhalabhai India)
Slatoff, Zoë Lancaster University (Lancaster, England) Thursday, 09:30
Rathva, Rumaliben S. R. Bhabhor Arts College (Singvad, GJ, India) Tuesday, 11:00
Smith, Caley Charles McGill University (Montréal, Canada) Tuesday, 08:00
Ratié, Isabelle Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Paris, France) Tuesday, 17:30
Smith, Travis L. Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea) Friday, 11:30
Raval, Ankit Jitendrakumar Shree Somnath Sanskrit University (Veraval, GJ, India) Wednesday, 16:30
Söhnen-Thieme, Renate SOAS University of London (London, England) Wednesday, 11:00
Ravuri, Gayatri Murali Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Monday, 15:30
Krishna Sohoni, Samir Janardan IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Thursday, 08:00
Reich, James Pace University (New York, NY, USA) Friday, 10:30 Sojková, Barbora University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Thursday, 14:00
Rimal, Madhusudan University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Wednesday, 09:30 Somveer University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Thursday, 08:30
Rohlman, Elizabeth University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada) Thursday, 12:00 Soni, Jayandra IASS, University of Marburg (Innsbruck, Austria) Monday, 14:30
Rostalska, Agnieszka Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) Tuesday, 11:30 Soni, Luitgard Formerly, University of Marburg (Innsbruck, Austria) Tuesday, 14:00
Rotaru, Julieta Adina Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden) Wednesday, 08:30 Špicová, Zuzana Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) Tuesday, 11:00
Rothstein-Dowden, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Monday, 14:30 Spiers, Carmen EPHE (Paris, France) Wednesday, 15:30
Zachary
Stainton, Hamsa McGill University (Montréal, Canada) Monday, 15:30
Rumde, Pratik Gajanan University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany) Tuesday, 14:30
Stosic, Mirela University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) Thursday, 11:30
Ruzsa, Ferenc Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) Thursday, 14:30
Sudo, Ryushin Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) Tuesday, 10:30
Sabu, Smitha Government Sanskrit College (Thiruvananthapuram, KL, Wednesday, 14:30
India)
Sugavanam, Padma University of Silicon Andhra (Milpitas, CA, USA) Tuesday, 15:30
Sabu, Susmi University of Kerala (Sasthamcotta, KL, India) Tuesday, 17:00
Sugiki, Tsunehiko Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan) Wednesday, 15:00
Saccone, Serena Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Thursday, 08:30
Sumant, Shilpa Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Deccan College Wednesday, 08:00
PGRI (Pune, MH, India)
Sadhu, Debasree Bamanpukur Humayun Kabir Mahavidyalaya (Bamanpukur, Wednesday, 08:30
WB, India)
Sundareswaran, N. K. University of Calicut (Thenjipalam, KL, India) Thursday, 15:00
Sahu, Deepak Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 16:30
Susarla, Sai Rama Krishna MIT-ADT University (Pune, MH, India) Thursday, 08:30
Saito, Akane EFEO Pondicherry (Pondicherry, TN, India) Monday, 15:30
Szántó, Péter Dániel University of Oxford (Oxford, England) Wednesday, 14:30
Sakaki, Kazuyo Hokkaido Musashi Women's Junior College (Sapporo, Thursday, 17:30
Japan) Takezaki, Ryutaro University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Tuesday, 11:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wielinska-Soltwedel,
Malgorzata
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany) Wednesday, 10:30
Keynotes, Chairs, Moderators, etc.
Wiese, Harald Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany) Thursday, 08:30 Name Affiliation & Location Session (Day & Time)
Williams, Michael Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) Thursday, 17:00
Acri, Andrea EPHE (Paris, France) S16.3 (Thursday, 10:30)
Witkowski, Nicholas University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) Tuesday, 14:00
Akepiyapornchai, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) SP7 (Thursday, 08:00)
Wojtczak, Lidia SOAS University of London (London, England) Friday, 11:00 Manasicha
Wujastyk, Dagmar University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Thursday, 15:00 Aklujkar, Ashok University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Monday, 09:45
Canada) Monday, 12:00
Wujastyk, Dominik University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Thursday, 15:30 S3.8 (Thursday, 08:00)
Wulff Alonso, Fernando University of Málaga (Malaga, Spain) Tuesday, 08:30
Aklujkar, Vidyullekha University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, S4.5 (Wednesday, 08:00)
Yadav, Usha Kiran SMM Government Girls PG College (Bhilwara, RJ, India) Friday, 11:00 Canada)

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

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

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

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

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

Bailey, Greg La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) S4.3 (Tuesday, 14:00)

INDEX of SECONDARY AUTHORS Balcerowicz, Piotr University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) S14.14 (Friday, 08:00)

Name Affiliation & Location Day & Time Balkaran, Raj University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) S5.5 (Thursday, 16:30)

Balogh, Daniel British Museum (London, England) SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00)


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

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

Kosaras, Bela Harvard Medical School (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 Ben-Dor, Sharon University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland) S3.4 (Wednesday, 08:00)
Kulkarni, Amba University of Hyderabad (Hyderabad, AP, India) Wednesday, 16:30 Bhadreshdas Swami BAPS Swaminarayan Research Institute (Delhi, Monday, 12:00
India) Tuesday, 10:30
Kulkarni, Malhar IIT Bombay (Mumbai, MH, India) Monday, 14:30 Tuesday, 16:30
Tuesday, 15:30
Wednesday, 09:00, Bhawuk, Dharam University of Hawai'i (Manoa, HI, USA) Tuesday, 16:30
15:00
Thursday, 09:30 Bilimoria, Purushottama University of California, Davis (Davis, CA, USA) S14.13 (Thursday, 16:30)

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

Lankri, Idir Université Paris Diderot (Paris, France) Thursday, 16:30 Brick, David Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) S21.3 (Tuesday, 14:00)
Leurmsai, Samniang Silpakorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) Wednesday, 11:30 Bronner, Yigal The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00)
Israel)
Majumder, Bodhisattwa Walmart Labs (Mountain View, CA, USA) Wednesday, 17:00
Prasad
Buchta, David Brown University (Providence, RI, USA) SP4.1 (Wednesday, 14:00)
Mann, Hardeep South Asia Center (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 SP4.2 (Wednesday, 16:30)
S12.2 (Friday, 10:30)
Mishra, Hariram Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 10:30
Cardona, George University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, Monday, 09:45
Misra, Bijoy M. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) Tuesday, 14:00 USA) Monday, 12:00
Tuesday, 16:30
S3.6 (Wednesday, 14:00)
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Name Affiliation & Location Session (Day & Time) Name Affiliation & Location Session (Day & Time)

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

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

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

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

Das, Sadananda Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany) S17.1 (Monday, 14:00) Kawamura, Yūto University of Oxford (Oxford, England) S3.3 (Tuesday, 14:00)
Tuesday, 16:30
Kawasaki, Yutaka University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) S11.5 (Tuesday, 16:30)
Das Gupta, Mau University of Calcutta (Kolkata, WB, India) S1.10 (Friday, 08:00)
Keßler-Persaud, Anne Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany) S7.1 (Thursday, 10:30)
Davis, Donald University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) S21.2 (Tuesday, 08:00) Khaira, Sandy (Surinder) Naad Foundation (Surrey, BC, Canada) Tuesday, 20:00

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

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

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

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

Gerety, Finnian M. M. Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA) SP12 (Tuesday, 14:00) Mishra, Manoj Kumar Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Delhi, India) Friday, 08:00
Friday, 10:30
Gluckman, Martin Sanskrit Research Institute (Auroville, TN, India) SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30)
Mucciarelli, Elena The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00)
Goldman, Robert P. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, S4.1 (Tuesday, 08:00) Israel) SP17.2 (Thursday, 16:30)
CA, USA)
Mulye, Sudnya Sudnya Dance Academy (Richmond, BC, Tuesday, 20:00
Goldman, Sally J. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, S4.4 (Tuesday, 16:30) Canada)
Sutherland CA, USA)
Neelis, Jason Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, ON, S10.5 (Thursday, 10:30)
Goswami, Chinmay Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (Surat, S7.2 (Thursday, 14:00) Canada)
GJ, India)
Nemec, John University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA, USA) SP9.1 (Tuesday, 14:00)
Govinda, Jai Mandala Arts and Culture (Vancouver, BC, Wednesday, 19:30
Canada) Nepathya Nepathya Centre for Excellence in Kudiyattam Monday, 20:00
(Muzhikkulam, KL, India) SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00)
Griffiths, Arlo EFEO Paris (Paris, France) S15.3 (Friday, 08:00)
Nowakowska, Monika University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) S14.3 (Tuesday, 10:30)
Ham, Hyoung Seok Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) SP14 (Friday, 08:00)
Nyaupane, Kashinath Nepal Sanskrit University (Beljhundi, Nepal) S14.15 (Friday, 10:30)
Hargreaves, Jacqueline Independent Scholar, UK (London, England) SP20 (Wednesday, 16:30) O'Brien-Kop, Karen SOAS University of London (London, England) S22.2 (Wednesday, 10:30)

Harimoto, Kengo Mahidol University (Salaya, Thailand) S14.10 (Thursday, 08:00) SP3 Oberlin, Heike University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) Monday, 19:00
(Friday, 10:30) SP17.1 (Thursday, 14:00)
SP17.2 (Thursday, 16:30)
Hegarty, James Cardiff University (Cardiff, Wales) S4.2 (Tuesday, 10:30)
Obrock, Luther University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada) S8.4 (Tuesday, 14:00)
Hock, Hans Henrich University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign S1.2 (Tuesday, 10:30) S24.1 (Thursday, 16:30)
(Champaign, IL, USA)
Olivelle, Patrick University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) S21.4 (Tuesday, 16:30)
Houben, Jan E. M. EPHE (Paris, France) S2.1 (Monday, 14:00)
S2.3 (Tuesday, 10:30) Panchal, Sanjeev University of Hyderabad (Hyderabad, AP, India) SP19.1 (Wednesday, 10:30)
SP15 (Tuesday, 08:00)
Pandey, Bhartendu University of Delhi (Delhi, India) S8.5 (Tuesday, 16:30)
Huet, Gérard Centre de recherche Inria de Paris (Paris, France) S19.1 (Wednesday, 16:30) Panwar, Kaushal University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Tuesday, 20:00
SP19.2 (Wednesday, 14:00)
SP18 (Thursday, 10:30) Pataskar, Bhagyalata Vaidika Samshodhana Mandala (Pune, MH, S1.11 (Friday, 10:30)
Hunter, Thomas University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, S2.4 (Tuesday, 14:00) India)
Canada) Patel, Deven University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, Monday, 12:00
Isaacson, Harunaga University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany) SP3 (Friday, 10:30) USA) Tuesday, 10:30
S18.3 (Tuesday, 14:00)
Iwasaki, Yoichi Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan) S14.5 (Tuesday, 16:30) Tuesday, 16:30
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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, Monday, 08:30
Canada) Wednesday, 19:30

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

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


(Bamanpukur, WB, India)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sharma, Arvind McGill University (Montréal, Canada) Monday, 09:45


S14.9 (Wednesday, 16:30)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Harnsukworapanich Thailand)

Taylor, McComas Australian National University (Canberra, S18.4 (Tuesday, 16:30)


Australia) S5.4 (Thursday, 14:00)

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

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

Tripathi, Dipti University of Delhi (Delhi, India) Monday, 09:45


S3.1 (Tuesday, 08:00)

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


India)

Vajpeyi, Ananya Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Tuesday, 20:00
(Delhi, India)

van Brussel, Noor Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) S5.3 (Thursday, 10:30)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Whitney Cox (University of Chicago) University) Samuel Wright (Nalanda University)
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Saturday,
Sessions Monday, July 9 Tuesday, July 10 Wednesday, July 11 Thursday, July 12 Friday, July 13 July 14

Inauguration [Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions]


[Regular Paper Sessions]
(8.00-10.00AM)

Guest of Honour: Shri [Regular Paper Sessions] Special Panel:


Special Panel: Special Panel: The Yuktidīpikā Forging a
Morning 1

Prakash Javadekar, Hon. Special Panel:


Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts, History & Education of Women Place for Sāṅkhya
Minister, HRD, Govt. of India Mīmāṃsā Beyond the Yāgaśālā
Part 2 in Vedic Literature
[8.15-9.30] Special Panel: Special Panel:
Special Panel: शास्त्रचर्चासदस्
Literary Commentaries, Part 1 (Legal Debate)
Plenary Speakers vāg evedaṃ sarvam Viṣṇu- & Śivadharma, Part 1
Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. /
George Cardona, Dipti Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum

Conference Excursions (Various Times)


Tripathi, Arvind Sharma Allard Forum
[9.45-11.55] [Regular Paper Sessions]
(10.30-12.30PM)

Akṣara Puruṣottama [Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] Special Panel:
Darśanic Scholarly Session:
Morning 2

Darśana: Introduction & Special Panel: Special Panel: Binding Liberation


Launch अक्षरपुरुषोत्तम-दर्शनम् | Vedānta’s Polyglot Lives Sanskrit Corpus Management
Keynote Lecture: Special Panel: Special Panel: कविसमवायः
with Bhadreshdas Swami (Poets’ Forum)
Alexis Sanderson Viṣṇu- & Śivadharma, Part 2 Literary Commentaries, Part 2
[12.00-12.30] Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. /
Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum
Chan Centre, UBC Allard Forum

[Regular Paper Sessions]


(14.00-16.00PM)

[Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions]


Special Panel: Special Panel: Special Panel:
Afternoon 1

Special Panel:
After the Critical Edition
The Vedas Out Loud
Ādikāvyāni Research on the Gārgīyajyotiṣa IASS General
Special Panel:
Special Panel:
Special Panel:
Introducing Bhāgavata Purāṇa
Special Panel:
Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Living Sanskrit
Assembly
Sanskrit Buddhist
Śaiva Philosophy, Part 1 Commentaries, Part 1 Theatre, Part 1 Wood Theatre, UBC
Manuscripts, Part 1
Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum
Buchanan Bldg.

[Regular Paper Sessions] [Regular Paper Sessions]


(16.30-18.00PM)

Special Panel: Special Panel:


Inaugural Banquet [Regular Paper Sessions]
Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati Key Debates in later
Afternoon 2

Hosted by Special Panel:


Śaiva Philosophy, Part 2 Special Panel: Viśiṣṭādvaita & Madhva
Hon. Shri Prakash Introducing Bhāgavata Purāṇa Thought
Javadekar, MHRD, Special Session:
Commentaries, Part 2 Special Panel:
Republic of India अक्षरपुरुषोत्तम-दर्शन-विद्वद्गोष्ठी Keynote French Lecture: Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Living Sanskrit
[17.00-18.30] Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Lyne Bansat-Boudon Theatre, Part 2
Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum Buchanan Bldg. / Allard Forum

Cultural Event:

Featured ISF Event: Hariprasad


Gala Performance by Śivo’ham: Śiva through

Chaurasia at the Orpheum


Nepathya: Classical Indian Music & Dance Public Lectures:
Living Legends: Cultural Event: Vikram Chandra: The Poetry
(18.00-23.00PM)

presented by Naad Foundation All-Conference


A Rare Performance Dakṣiṇāpatha -
& Sudnya Dance Academy of Amazement
of Kutiyattam Sanskrit The Classical Music and Banquet
Evening

[20.00-21.30] [18.30-19.30]
Dance Theatre Dance of South India,
Introductory lecture,
Wood Theatre, UBC
with Padma Sugavanam &
James Mallinson: [18.00-21.00]
Public Forum: Caste & Gender Yoga: To Mortify or Cultivate
Heike Oberlin in Sanskrit Studies, featuring Mandala Arts Academy
the Body? Great Hall at the
[19.20-19.40] Kaushal Panwar & Ananya [19.30-22.00] Nest, UBC
[20.00-21.30]
“Bālivadham” Vajpeyi, with Mandakranta Bose Wood Theatre, UBC
Wood Theatre, UBC
[20.00-23.00] [20.00-22.00]
Chan Centre, UBC Barnett Recital Hall, UBC

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