The Pandit
Subtitle: traditional scholarship in India
By: edited by Axel Michaels.
Contributors: Parameswara Aithal, K. (Kota), 1934-; Michaels, Axel.
Series: South Asian studies / South Asia Institute, New Delhi Branch, Heidelberg University ;; no. 38; South Asian studies ;; no. 38.
Publisher: Manohar; Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng; san
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Sanskritists -- India -- Congresses.; Vedic literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Vedic language -- Grammar -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Contributed articles presented at International colloquium.
Notes: Includes an article in Sanskrit (Sanskrit in roman).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Festchrift Parameswara Aithal"--P. facing t.p.
Table of contents: title: 1. Traditional Sanskrit learning in contemporary India / Alex Michaels; title: 2. Paṇḍita and Pandits in history; title: 3. The Pandits from a piṇḍa-brahmāṇḍa point of view / Ashok Aklujkar; title: 4. The Pandits as a legal adviser : rājguru, rājpurohita and dharmādhikārin / Axel Michaels; title: 5. The Pandit as public intellectual : the controversy over virodha or inconsistency in the astronomical sciences / Christopher Z. Minkowski; title: 6. Tāntrik Pandits in Varanasi : a brief survey / Bettina Bäumer; title: 7. Śaṃkarabhaṭṭa family chronicle : the Gādhivaṃśa-varṇana / James Benson; title: 8. Pandit and professor : transformations in the 19th century Maharashtra / Madhav M. Deshpande; title: 9. A Pandit among the modernists and a modernist among the Pandits / Monica Horstmann; title: 10. Traditional and modern Sanskrit scholarship : how do relate to each other? / Johannes Bronkhorst; title: 11. The Galitas in the Ṛgveda padapāṭha : on the origins of the saṃhitapāṭha and the padapāṭha / Harry Falk; title: 12. Saṃskritapāṇdulipīnāṃ saṃrakhyaṇe paṇḍitānāmabadānam / Gaya Caran Tripathi; title: 13. Some remarks on Nirukta 1.20 sākṣākṛtadharmāṇa ṛṣayo, etc.