Week 5, Friday 27 May
Time TBA

The Sanskrit Traditions Symposium is a forum for the discussion of the Sanskrit traditions of South Asia, and the texts and cultures that have risen out of them. It brings together established and rising academics for the focused examination of research pertaining to various aspects of South Asia’s rich Sanskrit religious and intellectual culture. It thereby seeks to sustain and build upon the long history of scholarship in this important area of study.

The Symposium will be held online this year. Click below to download the papers.

• The Development of the Terms Māyā, Īśvara and Saccidānanda in the Early Advaita Vedānta
  Ivan Andrijanić (University of Zagreb)

• With the Eye of a Scholar and the Insight of a Physician: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and the Carakasaṃhitā
  Cristina Pecchia (Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna)

• Śūdra’s Salvation Through Reading the Bhāgavatapurāṇa: A Debate Among Early Modern Vaiṣṇavas
  Radha Blinderman (Harvard University)

• Vedantic Comedy and Religious Nationalism in V. Raghavan’s Modern Sanskrit Drama, Vimukti
  Charles S. Preston (University of Chicago)

• Papers are pre-circulated so that participants can read them before the seminar to ensure the best possible use of discussion time. Papers are therefore not read out at the seminar itself. Each full paper will be allocated 40 minutes of discussion time. The paper will be briefly introduced by the person chairing the session, who will then raise questions to the paper-giver, before opening the discussion.
• Papers should be no longer than 20 pp, A4, including notes and references, and should be presented in a font size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. Line spacing should be no less than 1.5. (Papers will be reduced for photocopying).
• To facilitate discussion for those short of reading time, paper-givers should provide a one page abstract of the key argument of the paper, along with their paper. Please include your email address for further feedback.