Devadattīyam: Johannes Bronkhorst Felicitation Volume (Welten Süd- 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, Dharmasastra and Arthasastra, Epics and Pura?as. 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......Page 9 Acknowledgements xi......Page 13 Foreword xiii......Page 15 JAN E. M. HOUBEN: Johannes Bronkhorst and Indian Studies 1......Page 17 GRAMMAR......Page 25 MARIA PIERA CANDOTTI: Naming-Procedure and Substitution in Early Sanskrit Grammarian 11......Page 27 GEORGE CARDONA: Pāṇini and Padakāras 39......Page 55 ABHIJIT GHOSH: Yāska’s Treatment of Verb vis-à-vis Noun: Will the Verbal Noun Please Stand up? 63......Page 79 JAN E. M. HOUBEN: On the bahiraṅga-Rule in Pāṇinian Grammar: Nāgeśa and Nārāyaṇa 79......Page 95 EIVIND KAHRS: Bhartrhari and the Tradition: karmapravacanīya 107......Page 123 MALHAR KULKARNI, ANUJA AJOTIKAR & TANUJA AJOTIKAR: Derivation of the Declension of yuṣmad and asmad in Cāndra Vyākaraṇa 123......Page 139 THOMAS OBERLIES: Cāndriana Inedita (Studien zum Cāndravyākaraṇa V) 143......Page 159 HIDEYO OGAWA: Patañjali’s View of a Sentence Meaning and Its Acceptance by Bhartrhari 159......Page 175 PHILOSOPHY......Page 205 ASHOK AKLUJKAR: Authorship of the Saṅkarṣa-kāṇḊa 191......Page 207 ELI FRANCO: Once Again on the Desires of the Buddha 229......Page 245 VASHISHTA NARAYAN JHA: Ontology of Relations. The Approach of Navya Nyāya 247......Page 263 KLAUS KARTTUNEN: Wise Men and Ascetics. Indian Philosophy and Philosophers in Classical Antiquity 259......Page 275 RAFFAELE TORELLA: Studies in Utpaladeva’s Īśvarapratyabhijñā-vivrti. Part V: Self-Awareness and Yogic Perception 275......Page 291 TOSHIHIRO WADA: Śaśadhara on Invariable Concomitance (vyāpti) (1) 301......Page 317 VEDIC STUDIES......Page 337 JOEL P. BRERETON: On the Particle hí in the Rgveda 323......Page 339 MADHAV M. DESHPANDE: Vedas and Their Śākhās: Contested Relationships 341......Page 357 ASKO PARPOLA: The Anupadasūtra of Sāmaveda and Jaimini: Prolegomena to a Forthcoming Edition and Translation 363......Page 379 PETER M. SCHARF: Vedic Accent: Underlying versus Surface 405......Page 421 BUDDHISM AND JAINISM......Page 443 VINCENT ELTSCHINGER: Debate, Salvation and Apologetics. On the Institutionalization of Dialectics in the Buddhist Monastic Environment 429......Page 445 HARRY FALK: Small-Scale Buddhism 491......Page 507 PHYLLIS GRANOFF: On Reading the Lives of the Jinas. Questions and Answers of Medieval Monks 519......Page 535 HELMUT KRASSER: Bhāviveka, Dharmakīrti and Kumārila 535......Page 551 GREGORY SCHOPEN: The Buddhist Nun as an Urban Landlord and a ‘Legal Person’ in Early India 595......Page 611 DHARMAŚĀSTRA AND ARTHAŚĀSTRA......Page 627 CHARLES MALAMOUD: Imagination, croyance et gouvernement des hommes. Note sur l’Arthaśāstra 613......Page 629 PATRICK OLIVELLE: Kaṇṭakaśodhana. Courts of Criminal Justice in Ancient India 629......Page 645 KIYOTAKA YOSHIMIZU: Kumārila and Medhātithi on the Authority of Codified Sources of dharma 643......Page 659 EPICS AND PURĀṆAS......Page 699 GREGORY BAILEY: Sthavirabuddhayaḥ in the MārkaṇḊeyasamāsyaparvan of the Mahābhārata. Problems in Locating Critiques of Buddhism in the Mahābhārata 685......Page 701 JOHN BROCKINGTON: The Rāmāyaṇa in the Purāṇas 703......Page 719 MARY BROCKINGTON: Nala, Yudhiṣṭhira, and Rāma. Fitting the Narrative Pattern 731......Page 747 DANIELLE FELLER: Two Tales of Vanishing Wives. Sītā’s Trials Reconsidered in the Light of the Story of Saraṇyū 755......Page 771 JAMES L. FITZGERALD: Philosophy’s ‘Wheel of Fire’ (alātacakra) and Its Epic Background 773......Page 789 OTHER TOPICS......Page 825 IRAWATI KULKARNI & MALHAR KULKARNI: A Note on Manuscripts in the S. P. Pandit Collection 811......Page 827 THE EDITORS: Johannes Bronkhorst: An Ongoing Bibliography 825......Page 841 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 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.