Sanskrit works discussed at Jerusalem University

The Press Trust of India ^ | 28 July, 2005 | The Press Trust of India

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JERUSALEM: Some forty scholars from all over the world recently took part in a summer programme on second millennium Sanskrit literature at Hebrew University here.

Eminent Indologist, Prof David Shulman, who was instrumental in organising the programme, pointed out that so far the Sanskrit works in the first millennium (those of Kalidasa et al) have been explored to a great extent by the modern-day Sanskrit scholars, but the later period literature hasn't got much attention.

"The second millennium A.D. Also witnessed intense creativity in Sanskrit throughout South Asia. Every major region produced its own distinctive corpus of Sanskrit literary works and that formed the basis of our discussions," said Shulman.

"I have been learning and teaching Sanskrit for fifty years but I did not know of several works that were discussed here", said Prof. Nagaraja Rao of the Mysore University.

Prof. Rao took up works of Sanskrit scholars of Mysore from the 18th and 19th century for his presentation at the programme.

"They are such a wonderful works that have not come to light. A lot of people were surprised to see that Sanskrit survived like this for so long", he said.

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Jerusalem University College, also known as the American Institute of Holy Land Studies, is an extension campus in Jerusalem for approximately 100 regionally or professionally accredited Christian universities, colleges and seminaries located throughout the world. JUC is also an independent graduate degree granting institution of higher education in Israel. Founded in 1957 as a graduate institution, the school now provides both graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to study the Christian Scriptures in the context of the land where the events occurred as well as the languages, social and political culture, religions and historical relationships of the Middle East.

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