Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the publication of the Felicitation Volume for Eivind Kahrs in the series Studia Indologica Uiversitatis Halensis:

Alastair Gornall (ed.)

Jñānapraśaṃsā: In Praise of Knowledge: Essays in Honour of E. G. Kahrs

This edited volume brings together fifteen essays on classical Sanskrit, Pali, and Tamil literature from South and Southeast Asia in honour of Eivind Georg Kahrs, who was Reader in Sanskrit at the University of Cambridge from 1989 to 2017. E. G. Kahrs’s contributions to the scholarship on Southern Asia’s traditional language sciences, particularly vyākaraṇa ‘grammar’ and nirukta ‘semantic analysis’, brought new attention to these fields within the cultural and intellectual history of the region and redefined their study. The essays in this volume reflect E. G. Kahrs’s main research and teaching interests, especially traditional Southern Asian grammar and lexicography, Sanskrit and Pali literature, Buddhist philosophy, and the history of Orientalist and colonial philology. The volume is also prefaced with a concise overview of E. G. Kahrs’s academic career and a bibliography of his work to date.

Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis | Volume 22
1st edition
hardback edition, 376 pages, 15 images
ISBN 978-3-86977-254-7

Link to series::
https://uvhw.de/studia-indologica.html


Contents

1. Alastair Gornall: E. G. Kahrs: A Bibliography

2. Nalini Balbir and Javier Schnake: Uses of monosyllables in the Vidaddhamukhamaṇḍana

3. Saroja Bhate: Pāṇini and Pāṇinīyas on Anubandhas

4. Johannes Bronkhorst: Does Pāṇinian grammar have (a) history?

5. Jean-Luc Chevillard: On the transmission of Tamil poetical vocabularies, with a special focus on the Tivākaram and the Cūṭāmaṇi Nikaṇṭu

6. Lata Mahesh Deokar: The Origin and Development of the Subanta Genre: Some Reflections With Special Reference to the Cāndra Grammatical School

7. Paul Dundas: Sectarian Confrontation as Theatrical Division: Observations on Yaśaścandra’s Mudritakumudacandraprakaraṇa and the Jain Debate at Aṇahillapaṭṭana

8. Rupert Gethin: What Upasīva asked and how the Buddha answered: On the Upasīvamāṇavapucchā (Suttanipāta vv. 1069–1076) and its commentaries

9. Malhar Kulkarni: A note on the emendation of the text of the Mahābhāṣya Dīpikā in light of a quotation found in the Sūktiratnākara

10. Antoine Panaïoti: A Mādhyamika Error Theory of Causation

11. Wendy J. Phillips Rodríguez: From Ancient India to Medieval Spain. Unexpected reincarnations of karaṭakadamanakanāmānau dvau sṛgālau mantriputrāu

12. William: Pruitt: The Letters from R. C. Childers to T. W. Rhys Davids: Edited with Notes

13. Aleix Ruiz-Falqués: The Pali Version of Caṅgadāsa’s Sambandhopadeśa: A Preliminary Study of Yasa’s Kaccāyanasāra and Its Major Commentaries

14. John D. Smith: ‘This is not!’ — a Mahābhārata Idiom

15. Paolo Visigalli: On the expression ‘pañcavidhaṃ niruktaṃ/niruttiṃ’

 

With best wishes,

Petra Kieffer-Pülz