Indian epistemic terms

Harsha Dehejia harshadehejia at HOTMAIL.COM
Wed Oct 11 21:08:58 UTC 2006


Friends:

An important concept that is overlooked by epistemologists is that of 
DRISHTI or visual knowledge.

While PASHYATI is a verb there is no verb like DRASHYATI. This is  the 
beginning of an inquiry into visual knowledge.

I am trying to develop this concept further.

Regareds.

Harsha
Harsha V. Dehejia
Professor of Indian Studies, College of Humanities
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON. Canada.





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