Linguistic Traditions of Kashmir : Essays in Memory of Pandit Dinanath Yaksha
Contents: Foreword/Kapila Vatsyayan. Preface/Ashok Aklujkar. Acknowledgements/Mrinal Kaul. Key to transliteration. Life sketch of Pandit Dinanatha Yaksha/Mrinal Kaul. Introduction/Mrinal Kaul. 1. Mukulabhatta and Vyanjana/M.M. Agrawal. 2. Patanjali\'s Mahabhasya as a key to happy Kashmir/Ashok Aklujkar. 3. Gonardiya, Gonika-putra, Patanjali and Gonandiya/Ashok Aklujkar. 4. Patanjali: a Kashmirian/Ashok Aklujkar. 5. The three grammatical persons and Trika/Bettina Baumer. 6. The treatment of the present tense in the Kasmirasabdamrta of Isvara Kaul: a Paninian Grammar of Kashmiri/Estella Del Bon and Vincenzo Vergiani. 7. A note on Kashmir and orthodox Paninian grammar/Johannes Bronkhorst. 8. Udbhata, a grammarian and a carvaka/Johannes Bronkhorst. 9. Theoretical precedents of the Katantra/George Cardona. 10. Ksirakhyata Catuspadi: notes on Ksirasvamin\'s comments on the four basic grammatical categories/M.G. Dhadphale. 11. Three Kashmirian texts on Sanskrit syntax: Kudaka\'s Samanvayadis, Devasarman\'s Samanvayapradipa and Samanvavyapradipasanketa/Oliver Hahn. 12. Jayanta\'s interpretation of Panini 1.4.42/V.N. Jha. 13. On Nagesabhatta\'s misunderstanding of Kaiyata, the Kashmirian commentator on Patanjali\'s Mahabhasya/S.D. Joshi. 14. The Sarada manuscripts of the Kasikavrtti, Part II/Malhar Kulkarni. 15. Uvata, the Kashmirian Pratisakhya commentator/Nirmala Kulkarni. 16. The mythico-ritual syntax of omnipotence: on Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta\'s use of Kriya-karaka theory to explain Siva\'s action/David Peter Lawrence. 17. Some peculiar vocables in the Paippalada-samhita/Hukam Chand Patyal. 18. The first among the learned: Kashmiri poeticians on grammarians/C. Rajendran. 19. From an adversary to the main ally: the place of Bhartrhari in the Kashmirian Saiva Advaita/Raffaele Torella. 20. Helaraja\'s defence of the Padavadhika method of grammatical explanation/Vincenzo Vergiani. 21. The impact of Candra Vyakarana on the Kasika/P. Visalakshy. Appendices: Select manuscript lists and select authors-and-works lists: 1. University of Kashmir collection. 2. Bhandarkar oriental research institute collection. 3. Sri Ranbir Sanskrit Research Institute Collection. 4. National Museum Collection. 5. Kashmirian authors showing significant engagement with language in approximate chronological order. General index.
"The present volume mainly consists of original research papers. It is not a collection or anthology in which specialists of the different aspects of Kashmirian use or study of language were invited to write essays surveying the aspects best known to them or to produce state-of-the-art reports about the scholarly study of the aspects. An effort, however, has been made in the introduction to provide the general background that a reader may need in order to situate the papers in the proper intellectual and historical context. The introduction further outlines the themes that could and should be particularly explored to lead us to a fuller and sharper understanding of Kashmir\'s analytical engagement with language. The appendices toward the end of the volume then complement the introduction by presenting objective and practical information about the manuscripts etc. of works in Sanskrit.
The volume could connect the results of the work done in the past with the work to be done in the future by adding to knowledge in the present because of the articles it attracted from veteran as well as upcoming researchers. The reader will find here discussions bearing upon texts, as well as discussions bearing upon the authors of texts; discussions devoted to elucidating single passages, as well as discussions exploring instances of intertextuality; and discussions exclusively addressing individual grammars, as well as discussions engaging in the relation of one grammatical school with another." (jacket)
