Contents: Preface. A Brief Biography Of Professor Ashok Narhar Aklujkar
Publications Of Professor Ashok Aklujkar Acharya, Diwakar. 1. The Patravidhi: A Lakuliœa Paœupata Manual on Purification and Use of the Initiate’s Vessel/Arjunwadkar, Krishna S. 2. God’s Place in the Six Orthodox Systems/Bahulkar, Shrikant S. and Deokar,Mahesh A. 3. Ideology and Language Identity: a Buddhist Perspective/Bronkhorst, Johannes. 4. Bhattoji Dikshita and the Revival of the Philosophy of Grammar/Candotti, Maria Piera. 5. The Role and Import of the Metalinguistic Chapters in the New Paninian Grammars/Cardona, George. 6. A Note on Vakyapadiya 1.45/46: atmabhedas tayoh kecid/Das, Rahul Peter. 7. On “Hindu” Bioethics/Deokar, Lata M.8. Some Observations on Buddhism and Lexicography/Deokar,Mahesh A. 9. Some Probable Sanskrit Sources of the Pali Grammarians with special reference to Aggavamsa/Deshpande,Madhav M. 10. Bhattoji Dikshita’s Perceptions of Intellectual History: Narrative of Fall and Recovery of the Grammatical Authority/Desmarais, Michele M. 11. Close Relations: Pandits, Pedagogy and Plasticity/Fujii, Takamichi. 12. Sentence Meaning as a Causal Process/Gerow, Edwin. 13. Bengali Vaishnava Aesthetics/Gillon, Brendan S. 14. Exocentric (bahuvrihi) Compounds in Classical Sanskrit/Granoff, Phyllis. 15. The Art of the Philosopher: Painting and Sculpture as Metaphor/Haag, Pascale. 16. I Wanna Be a Brahmin Too. Grammar, Tradition and Mythology as Means for Social Legitimisation among the Vaidyas in Bengal/Hirano, Katsunori. 17. Historical Significance of the Definition of Universal in the Vyomavati/Houben, Jan E. M.18. Grammar & Other Modes of the Mind. Kano, Kyo. 19. Blue Smoke: Perceptual Judgment in the Determination of Causal Nexus/Kataoka, Kei. 20. Is Killing Bad? Dispute on Animal Sacrifices between Buddhism and Mimamsa/Kawajiri, Yohei. 21. A Critical Edition of the Ishvarapratyabhijnavimarshinivyakhya on the mangala verse of the Ishvarapratyabhijnavimarshini/Ogawa, Hideyo. 22. Abstraction (apoddhara) Theory and a Sentence Meaning: A Study of the Vritti on VP 2.39/Olivelle, Patrick. 23. The Implicit Audience of Legal Texts in Ancient India/Pollock, Sheldon. 24. Rasa after Abhinava/Sarma, Sreeramula Rajeswara. 25. Avid Mathematician and the Spurned Wife: A Motif from the Dhammillahimdi/Sharma, Arvind. 26. A Textual Variant in the Aitareyopanishad and Its Overlooked Significance for the Position of Women in Hinduism/Sparham, Gareth. 27. Abhisamayalamkara 2.20: on the Difference Between stobha in the Samaveda and Prajnaparamita/Torella, Raffaele. 28. Observations on yogipratyaksha/Unebe, Toshiya. 29. Cognition and Language: A Discussion of Vakyapadiya 1.131 with Regard to Criticism from the Buddhists/Vergiani, Vincenzo. 30. Bhartrhari’s Views on Liminal Perception and Self-Awareness/Wada, Toshihiro. 31. Gangesha on the Meaning of Verbal Suffixes (2)/Watanabe, Chikafumi. 32. Madhyamakahrdayakarika III. 147–158/Yoshimizu, Kiyotaka. 33. Tradition and Reflection in Kumarila’s Last Stand against the Grammarians’ Theories of Verbal Denotation. Index.
Making any valuable and original contribution to the treasure troves of knowledge and world literature based on serious studies, deep thought, extensive research, intensive literary discourses and experience gained through continued exposure and involvement, is not everybody's forte. It is for such literary acumen, intrinsic scholastic qualities and other personal attributes that make Dr. Ashok Aklujkar stand out and be regarded as the world-renowned Sanskrit scholar of the modern times in whose honour and appreciation this volume has been compiled and published.
Several leading and gifted scholars from across the world have contributed a wide range of interesting research articles for this special volume that deal with major areas of Sanskrit and related studies such as philosophy, religion, linguistics, poetics, art and sociology. As a befitting tribute to the scholarly interests and attainments, reflected in the published works of Prof. Aklujkar, essays exploring the complexities in Sanskrit grammars and Indic linguistic philosophy take the centre stage in this volume. Good care has also been taken to devote sufficient space to the poetics and the inherent relation between Sanskrit and Pali -- the two other important areas Prof. Aklujkar has focussed on, from time to time.
In this compendium of assorted and absorbing articles authored by quite senior and well-known scholars of repute, appear alongside an equal number of articles from new generation, young scholars of merit, wherein they have attempted to offer the fruits of their original and critical research work.
The result: a panorama of interesting readings that introduce the reader to the unique diversity and richness of Indology from various vantage points.
