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highlights the geographical, social and cultural facts as reflected in his work. 'An Earlier Reference to śālāturiya (Panini)” is an incisive essay by M. A. Dhaky where he conclusively proves that George Cardona, one of the front ranking authorities on Pāṇini and Panini and Pāṇinian literature was right in assigning 500 BCE as the probable date for this great grammarian. Anna Radicchi discusses the authorship of the various parts of the Käsikäyrtti by Jayāditya and Vamana respectively in her article Vivaksā in Kāśikāvrtti : Jayāditya and Vāmana". Sanskrit is the only language that has a large number of finite and nonperiphrastic desideratives (sannantas).
V. P. Bhatta studies the ‘Meaning of the Accusative in Desiderative" using clear examples, ''Semantic Randomness and the Comparative Method” by Henry M. Hoenigswald is highly scholarly treatise on double articulation and narrow phonological and wide-ranging morphemic structure. Ludo Rocher's essay "The Aurasa Son" studies the different kinds of sons recognized by ancient rsis. Sāra, A-sära, Sam-sāra, Sam-sära" by Minoru Hara is one of the most readable essays in this volume. The word sāra seems to vary in accordance with the nature of contexts in which it occurs with the prefixes a and sam. Anandavardhana was a great poet of both Sanskrit and Prakrit and had first-hand knowledge of the poetic process. His research work Dhvanyāloka is the topic of the essay by C. Panduranga Bhatta entitled 'Ānadavardhana"s Contribution to Research Methodology”. The relation between man and Nature has always been a part of Indian tradition and 'Ecological Awareness in Indian Tradition (specially as reflected in Sanskrit Literature)" is a very readable essay by Leela Arjunwadkar. She examines the relation between man and Nature, and her conclusions are : The ancient Indian attitude as reflected in Sanskrit literature has never been anthropocentric and relation between man and Nature has always been that of love, harmony and peaceful interdependence.
Vyasa"s Leftovers : Food imagery in Indian Literature" is a well-written article by Vidyut Aklujkar where the most valuable theoretical and conceptual contributions of South Asia to the study of food are discussed. She presents the treatment of left-over food in life and literature. She covers topics such as purity and pollution, clannish acceptance and rejection, Bhakti or worship and its ritual practices. In her discussion on 'originality and plagiarism", however, she leaves
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