Contents: I. Life and achievements: 1. An interview by late K.P. Narayanan/M.P. Chronicle. II. Research papers: 1. Treatment of Rasa-dosas in the Kavyanusasana (Ka. sa.) of Acarya Hemachandra (H.C)/Tapasvi Nandi. 2. Parakkumkuttu -- a drama in flight/N.P. Unni. 3. Ramayana tradition after Valmiki in India and abroad/Rajendra Mishra. 4. Sanskrit drama -- origin and development/K.G. Paulose. 5. The Samavrtta type of meters of the Chandomanjari and the Vrttamanjari/Dipak Kumar Sharma. 6. Line of demarcation between Kavisiksa and Kavya-doctrines/R.S. Betai. 7. Vaishnava temple forms of the Chilas Rock- carvings/Chandra Chaturvedi. 8. Deciding about "classical language and literature"/Bansidhar Bhatt. 9. Some observation on cataloguing and catalogues of Indian manuscripts/M.K. Prajapati. 10. Samskara - a study from Samkhya-Yoga point of view/Deepti Dutta. 11. Some observations on the tense system of the Sanskrit Grammar/Apurba Chandra Barthakuria. 12. On certain mathematical contents of Prakrit texts and their role in historical linguistics and paleography/R.K. Trivedi and L.C. Jain. 13. Weakness of inference (anumana)/Nandita Bandyopadhyay. 14. Identity of Somakulin Monarch svabhavatunga/A.M. Shastri. 15. Ferro-Chalcolithic culture of Eastern India/Pranab K. Chattopadhyay. 16. Three dimensional potential of mandalas/Prabhakar Apte and U.S. Moorti. 17. Act and retribution in the Rgveda and the Atharvaveda/S.A. Dange. 18. Gayatri Chandasamaham/Govindlal S. Shah. 19. Atharvavedic magic and tantric magic/G. Mohapatra. 20. Brahman : Satyam, Jnanam, Anantam or Anandam?/Vijay Pandya. 21. Vedic sacrifices in the Bhagavata Purana/Ashok Kumar Goswami. 22. Bhagvad Gita and the secular social order/R.V. Pandya. 23. The nature of Pratibimba in Advaita-Dipika/Satya Deva Misra. 24. Philosophy of Sraddha according to Sraddha Kamayani/S.G. Kantawala. 25. Buddhism transformed : religious practice and institutional mixed games in Cambodia/San Sarin. 26. The meaning and pursuit of happiness: Indian and western perspectives/Wilhelm Halbfass. 27. The Chhindaka Nagas of Chakrakuta (Bastar) : a political study/R.K. Sharma. 28. The Embassy of Kalidasa--a reappraisal/Brahmanand Deshpande. 29. A study of evolution of Ayurveda (Medical science) during the Buddhist period/Vijay Lakshmi Pandeya.