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Reappraisal of the Different Branches of Sanskritic Wisdom

Reappraisal of the Different Branches of Sanskritic Wisdom

$36.00
Author:Edited by Chandan Bhattacharyya
ISBN 13:9789381795750
Binding:Hardbound
Language:English and Sanskrit
Year:2016
Subject:Philosophy and Religion/Vedas and Puranas

About the Book

I am very much happy to know that the book entitled: Reappraisal of Different Branches of Sanskrit Wisdom edited by our affectionate Dr. Chandan Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sanskrit, University of Gour Banga, Malda; W.B. is going to be released. The book consists of a few scholarly papers (presented in a seminal organized by the department) by different renowned scholars devoted to different aspects of Sanskrit wisdom. It is very difficult to measure the wisdom of Sanskrit wisdom in a volume because it is just like an ocean. It is a pious Endeavour of the colleagues of the Sanskrit Department of GBU under the able guidance of the Head of the Department of Sanskrit and Honorable Vice-Chancellor Professor Gopal Chandra Mishra to provide a glimpse of such wisdom in a small canvas, though it is nothing but collecting stones sitting on the shore of the ocean of knowledge. It is admitted by the Indians that it takes twelve years to be trained in grammar. It is essential to know grammar for successful usages 01 language through which one can distinguish a perfect well- formed word from a corrupt word called apasabda. The marks of Indian wisdom are found in diverse areas like literature, rhetoric’s, philosophy, Vedic literature, vedangas, aesthetics, physical science, chemical science, medical science, surgery, smrtisastras etc. Considering the infinite range of Indian wisdom and the impossibility to go through all within the limited span life wise men think it appropriate to have the glimpses of all It reminds me a mantra of the Kenopanisad that an individual who does not claim to be knower, knows really. On the other hand, an individual who knows really does not claim to be a real knower. The impression of having absence of knowledge is possessed by a person who really knows while a knower who does not know at all bears an impression that he knows all Though the mantra is mentioned in the context of the knowledge of Brahman yet such statement can be extended to realm of infinite range of Indian wisdom and attitude of the knowledge claim.