Devadattīyam: Johannes Bronkhorst Felicitation Volume(5 Welten Sued- und Zentralasiens / Worlds of South and Inner Asia / Mondes de l'Asie du Sud et de l'Asie centrale)

Johannes Bronkhorst, professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, from 1987 to 2011, undoubtedly belongs to the most talented and significant indologists of the last three decades. His abundant work testifies to an unparalleled range of interests from early Buddhism to grammar, mathematics to asceticism, philosophy to archaeology, and is characterized by the determination to challenge preconceived ideas, clichés and traditional (mis)constructs. The present felicitation volume includes thirty-two essays by some of the finest scholars in the field of indology, which reflect Johannes Bronkhorst’s main scholarly contributions: Grammar, Philosophy, Vedic Studies, Buddhism and Jainism, Dharmaśāstra and Arthaśāstra, Epics and Purāṇas. It presents an almost complete spectrum of the intellectual and spiritual pursuits and speculations in Ancient India, and will be of inestimable value to the specialists of all fields of Indology. The volume also includes a presentation of Johannes Bronkhorst’s academic career and contribution to Indian Studies by Jan E.M. Houben, and an ongoing bibliography of his work.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Jan E. M. Houben: Johannes Bronkhorst and Indian Studies – Maria Piera Candotti: Naming-Procedure and Substitution in Early Sanskrit Grammarians – George Cardona: Pāṇini and Padakāras – Abhijit Ghosh: Yāska’s Treatment of Verb vis-à-vis Noun: Will the Verbal Noun Please Stand up? – Jan E. M. Houben: On the bahiraṅga-Rule in Pāṇinian Grammar: Nāgeśa and Nārāyaṇa – Eivind Kahrs: Bharthari and the Tradition: karmapravacanīya – Malhar Kulkarni/Anuja Ajotikar/Tanuja Ajotikar: Derivation of the Declension of yuṣmad and asmad in Cāndra Vyākaraṇa – Thomas Oberlies: Cāndriana Inedita (Studien zum Cāndravyākaraṇa V) – Hideyo Ogawa: Patañjali’s View of a Sentence Meaning and Its Acceptance by Bharthari – Ashok Aklujkar: Authorship of the Saṅkarṣa-kāṇḍa – Eli Franco: Once Again on the Desires of the Buddha – Vashishta Narayan Jha: Ontology of Relations. The Approach of Navya Nyāya – Klaus Karttunen: Wise Men and Ascetics. Indian Philosophy and Philosophers in Classical Antiquity – Raffaele Torella: Studies in Utpaladeva’s Īśvarapratyabhijñā-vivti. Part V: Self-Awareness and Yogic Perception– Toshihiro Wada: Śaśadhara on Invariable Concomitance (vyāpti) (1) – Joel P. Brereton: On the Particle hí in the Ṛgveda – Madhav M. Deshpande: Vedas and Their Śākhās: Contested Relationships – Asko Parpola: The Anupadasūtra of Sāmaveda and Jaimini: Prolegomena to a Forthcoming Edition and Translation – Peter M. Scharf: Vedic Accent: Underlying Versus Surface – Vincent Eltschinger: Debate, Salvation and Apologetics. On the Institutionalization of Dialectics in the Buddhist Monastic Environment – Harry Falk: Small-Scale Buddhism – Phyllis Granoff: On Reading the Lives of the Jinas. Questions and Answers of Medieval Monks – Helmut Krasser: Bhāviveka, Dharmakīrti and Kumārila – Gregory Schopen: The Buddhist Nun as an Urban Landlord and a ‘Legal Person’ in Early India – Charles Malamoud : Imagination, croyance et gouvernement des hommes. Note sur l’Arthaśāstra – Patrick Olivelle: Kaṇṭakaśodhana. Courts of Criminal Justice in Ancient India – Kiyotaka Yoshimizu: Kumārila and Medhātithi on the Authority of Codified Sources of dharma – Gregory Bailey: Sthavirabuddhayaḥ in the Mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyaparvan of the Mahābhārata. Problems in Locating Critiques of Buddhism in the Mahābhārata – John Brockington: The Rāmāyaṇa in the Purāṇas – Mary Brockington: Nala, Yudhiṣṭhira, and Rāma. Fitting the Narrative Pattern – Danielle Feller: Two Tales of Vanishing Wives. Sītā’s Trials Reconsidered in the Light of the Story of Saraṇyū – James L. Fitzgerald: Philosophy’s ‘Wheel of Fire’ (alātacakra) and Its Epic Background – Irawati Kulkarni/Malhar Kulkarni: A Note on Manuscripts in the S. P. Pandit Collection.

About the Author :
François Voegeli has a PhD in Sanskrit Philology from the University of Lausanne. His main research interests are Vedic ritual, Vedic philology, and the archaeology of South Asia. Vincent Eltschinger is a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and currently focuses on the religious background and apologetic dimensions of late Indian Buddhist philosophy. Danielle Feller teaches Indian religions at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and her main field of research concerns the Sanskrit epics and kāvya literature. Maria Piera Candotti is Lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of Lausanne. Her interest mainly concerns the metalinguistic theories developped in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākarana). Bogdan Diaconescu is an Indologist and scholar of religion who specialises in Sanskrit knowledge-systems and Indian religions, studied in their various historical and cultural interactions, Sanskrit and Pali linguistics, and the expansion of Indian thought in Asia. Malhar Kulkarni is a Vaiyakarana by training and currently teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.