WSC2018 Proceedings – The 17th World Sanskrit Conference

The Proceedings of the 17th World Sanskrit Conference are published online by the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, on behalf of the International Association for Sanskrit Studies, and through the auspices of the UBC Circle repository.

Papers have been selected and invited for publication by the Convenors of the 24 distinct Conference Sections. (See below for a full listing.) The Convenors determined the criteria for selection and/or peer review for their respective Sections. * Note: Papers and volumes that have been peer-reviewed have been noted accordingly.

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NOTE: If you had presented a paper at the 17th WSC that has been published elsewhere, please contact the WSC2018 Secretariat and we will include relevant bibliographical information and links within the Proceedings page, so that readers may access your publication.

विभागस्य नामधेयम् // Section Name	संयोजकाः – Convenors	शोधपत्राणि - Papers
1. वेदः // Veda	S. Bahulkar, J. Jurewicz	Published 3; Forthcoming: 2
2. भाषाशास्त्रम् // Linguistics	M. Deshpande, J. Houben	Published: 2
3. व्याकरणम् // Vyākaraṇa	M. Kulkarni, P. Scharf	Forthcoming: 6
4. रामायणं महाभारतं च // Epics	R. Goldman, J. Hegarty	Published: 3; Forthcoming: 1
5. पुराणानि // Purāṇas	R. Balkaran, M. Taylor.	Published: 5 (Peer-reviewed volume)
6. तंत्रविमर्शः // Tantra Studies	D. Acharya, M. Slouber, J. Törzsök	Forthcoming: 4
7. विध्यनुष्ठानविमर्शः // Ritual Studies	M. Geslani, L. Mills	Forthcoming: 1
8. काव्यमलङ्कारश्च // Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics	L. Bansat-Boudon, D. Cuneo, E. Ganser, C. Rajendran
9. वैज्ञानिकं वाङ्मयम् // Scientific Literature	B. Mak, Do. Wujastyk
10. बौद्धविद्या // Buddhist Studies	S. Baums, L. Deokar, M Deokar, J. Neelis
11 जैनविद्या // Jaina Studies	N. Balbir, E. de Clerq
12. वैष्णवमतं शैवमतं च // Vaiṣṇavism and Śaivism	D. Buchta, E. Fisher, A. Rao
13. धर्मविमर्शः // Religious Studies	C. Austin, T. Smith
14. दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् // Philosophy	K. Harimoto, L. McCrea
15. इतिहासः कलाः स्थापत्यमभिलेखशास्त्रं च // History, Art & Architecture, Epigraphy	A. Griffiths, A. Slaczka
16. संस्कृतं प्रदेशभाषाश्च // Sanskrit & Regional Languages, (& SE Asia)	A. Acri, W. Cox
17. संस्कृतशिक्षाशास्त्रम् // Sanskrit Pedagogy	S. Das	Forthcoming: 3
18. आधुनिकं संस्कृतसाहित्यम् // Modern Sanskrit Writings	H.D. Sharma, D. Patel	Forthcoming: 1
19. संस्कृतं विज्ञानतान्त्रिकी च // Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities	G. Huet, A. Kulkarni	Published: 14 (Pre-published volume, released July 2018)
20. हस्तलेखविज्ञानम् // Manuscriptology	N. Kulkarni, S. Rath
21. धर्मशास्त्रमर्थशास्त्रं च // Law and Society	D. Davis, T. Lubin
22. योगायुर्वेदौ // Yoga and Āyurveda	P. Maas, Da. Wujastyk	Forthcoming: 2
23. & 24. संस्कृतं पञ्जाबप्रदेशश्च / संस्कृतं पारसीवाङ्मयं च // Sanskrit and the Pañjāb / Sanskrit and Indo-Persian Culture	A. Sathaye, L. Obrock

Section 3. व्याकरणम् // Vyākaraṇa
Convenors: Malhar Kulkarni, Hideyo Ogawa, and Peter Scharf.

Published as a single, peer-reviewed, edited volume, Purāṇa Studies: The Proceedings of the Purāṇa Section of the 17th World Sanskrit Conference, edited by Raj Balkaran and McComas Taylor.

DOI: 10.14288/1.0379613
Published July 2019. PDF, 1.9mb, 101 pages. Peer reviewed.

Table of Contents:

Raj Balkaran and McComas Taylor. "Preface" (v-vi).
Les Morgan. "Structural Analysis of the Gaṇeśa Sahasranāma as Found in the Gaṇeśa Purāṇa" (1-26).
Mrunal S. Patki. "Tying of Maṇis in the Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇa" (27-36).
Madhavi Narsalay. "The ‘Sthala’ Analysis of the Karavīra Māhātmya" (37-46).
Sucharita Adluri. "Who Is the Viṣṇu of the Viṣṇu Purāṇa?" (47-78).
Christopher R Austin. "Kṛṣṇa’s Son Pradyumna as Kāma and Māyin in the ʻKārṣṇaʼ Purāṇas" (79-95).

Published and as a printed, peer-reviewed and edited volume by DK Publishers: Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities: Selected Papers Presented at the 17th World Sanskrit Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 9-13 July 2018, edited by Gérard Huet and Amba Kulkarni. New Delhi: DK Publishers, 2018. ISBN: 9789387212107.

From the preface:
This volume contains edited versions of papers accepted for presentation at the 17th World Sanskrit Conference in July 2018 in Vancouver, Canada. A special track of the conference was reserved for the topic “Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities,” with the intent to cover not only recent advances in each of the now mature fields of Sanskrit Computational Linguistics and Sanskrit Digital Libraries, but to encourage cooperative efforts between scholars of the two communities, and prepare the emergence of grammatically informed digital Sanskrit corpus. Due to its rather technical nature, the contributions were not judged on mere abstracts, but on submitted full papers reviewed by a Program Committee.

Table of Contents: (PDF, 78kb, 16 pages)

Samir Sohoni and Malhar A. Kulkarni. "A Functional Core for the Computational Aṣṭādhyāyī" (1-30).
Sarada Susarla, Tilak M. Rao and Sai Susarla. "PAIAS: Pāṇini Aṣṭādhyāyī Interpreter As a Service" (31-58).
Sanjeev Panchal and Amba Kulkarni. "Yogyatā As an Absence of Non-congruity" (59-82).
Amrith Krishna, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Anil Kumar Boga, and Pawan Goyal. "An ‘Ekalavya’ Approach to Learning Context Free Grammar Rules for Sanskrit Using Adaptor Grammar" (83-112).
Shreevatsa Rajagopalan. "A User-friendly Tool for Metrical Analysis of Sanskrit Verse" (113-142).
Devaraja Adiga, Rohit Saluja, Vaibhav Agrawal,Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Parag Chaudhuri, K. Ramasubramanian and Malhar Kulkarni. "Improving the Learnability of Classifiers for Sanskrit OCR Corrections" (143-162).
Nikhil Caturvedi and Rahul Garg. "A Tool for Transliteration of Bilingual Texts Involving Sanskrit" (163-180).
Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan. "Modeling the Phonology of Consonant Duplication and Allied Changes in the Recitation of Tamil Taittirīyaka-s" (181-216).
Brendan Gillon. "Word Complementation in Classical Sanskrit" (217-228).
Peter M. Scharf. "TEITagger: Raising the Standard for Digital Texts to Facilitate Interchange with Linguistic Software" (229-258).
Gérard Huet and Idir Lankri. "Preliminary Design of a Sanskrit Corpus Manager" (259-276).
Tanuja P. Ajotikar, Anuja P. Ajotikar, and Peter M. Scharf. "Enriching the digital edition of the Kāśikāvr̥tti by adding variants from the Nyāsa and Padamañjarī" (277-294).
Timothy Bellefleur. "From the Web to the Desktop: IIIF-Pack, A Document Format for Manuscripts Using Linked Data Standards" (295-310).
Jayashree Aanand Gajjam, Diptesh Kanojia and Malhar Kulkarni. "New Vistas to Study Bhartṛhari: Cognitive NLP" (311-).

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH WORLD SANSKRIT CONFERENCE

Overview

Section 1. वेदः // Veda

Section 2. भाषाशास्त्रम् // Linguistics

Section 4. रामायणं महाभारतं च // Epics

Section 5. पुराणानि // Purāṇas

Section 19. संस्कृतं विज्ञानतान्त्रिकी च // Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities