My guest this month is Amba Kulkarni from the Department of Sanskrit at the University of Hyderabad, who has also been associated with IIT Kanpur and the National Sanskrit University. Professor Kulkarni is best known for her work linking tradit

15. Robert Zydenbos | The Life of Sanskrit Traditions

Dec 1st, 2022 1h 44m

My guest this month is Robert Zydenbos, who is Professor of Modern Indology at the LMU Munich. (Full disclosure: we thus are colleagues!)His first point of contact with Indian languages and philosophies was through Collier's Encyclopaedia. It i

14. Saroja Bhate | Vyākaraṇa and Good Teachers

Nov 1st, 2022 1h 1m

My guest this month is Professor Saroja Bhate, former Professor of Sanskrit and Head of the Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages at Pune University, who has published prolifically on Vyākaraṇa.Her first contact with Sanskrit was through

13 Patrick McCartney | Sanskrit in the World

Oct 2nd, 2022 2h 39m

My guest this month is Patrick McCartney. His written work, on Sanskrit-speaking villages, Sanskrit in the Indian census, the popular use and the politics of Yoga (and many other topics), is very conveniently linked to here. His Yogascapes proj

12. Andrew Ollett | Beyond Sanskrit

Sep 1st, 2022 1h 8m

My guest this month is Mr Prakrit, Andrew Ollett, who teaches at the University of Chicago Perhaps his most well-known publication is the book 'Language of the Snakes', which you can download for free here.Among his teachers were Eleanor Dicke

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11. Wendy Doniger | Translating India

Jun 1st, 2022 1h 12m

My guest this month is Wendy Doniger. Read more about her and her many wonderful books here and here. She was educated at Radcliffe, the only part of Harvard then to admit women, and at Oxford. She has taught at SOAS, but has spent most of her

10. Arshia Sattar | Speaking Sanskrit and Flying

May 1st, 2022 1h 14m

My guest this month is the scholar, translator and author Arshia Sattar. You can find her books here and here, and some of her many articles in may places (such as with Open, the Times of India, Scroll, Mint, and Words Without Borders. Much

9. Ananya Vajpeyi | The Life of Sanskrit

Apr 2nd, 2022 2h 28m

My guest this month is Ananya Vajpeyi (read more about her and her main publications here). Her current academic home is the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi. As you will hear, I did not have a lot of work this time:

8. Anand Venkatkrishnan | Histories of Thoughts, Histories of Thinkers

Mar 1st, 2022 47m 50s

My guest this month is Anand Venkatkrishnan, Find some of his work here, here and here, and other interviews with him here and here.Among the teachers he mentions are Sarasvati Mohan, Paul Harrison and Linda HessIf you are interested in any of

7. Madhav Deshpande | Bridging Sanskrit Traditions

Feb 1st, 2022 1h 53m

My guest this week is Madhav Deshpande. Read more about him here and here. Take a look here for a list of many of his publications and here for his Sanskrit textbook, In talking about his early life, he mentions the stotras of Śaṅkara, and th

6. Mary Brockington: The Many Incarnations of Sītā

Jan 1st, 2022 35m 54s

My guest today is Mary Brockington. You can read more about her and her publications here. She read French at Oxford, and lists her teachers Reginald Perman and Mollie Gerard Davies among those who had a great influence on her. Her unique resea

5: John Brockington | Explorations in the World of Rāma

Dec 1st, 2021 59m 24s

My guest this week is Professor John Brockington, about whom you can read more here and here. This contains many of his publications as well as a complete publication list.The main focus of Professor Brockington’s research has been on the Rāmāy

4. Dominik Wujastyk | Manuscripts, Grammar, and Medicine

Nov 1st, 2021 1h 48m

In this episode, I speak with Professor Dominik Wujastyk, Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity at the University of Alberta at Edmonton. He is the Principal Investigator at the Suśruta Project. You can find some of his publicat

3. Michael Witzel | Lost Languages, Hidden Manuscripts and Comparative Myth

Oct 1st, 2021 1h 37m

Our third interview is with Professor Michael Witzel of Harvard University, one of the greatest Veda scholars of our time. You can find his Wikipedia page here, his Harvard page here, and many of his publications here.Given Michael Witzel's lon

2. Dagmar Wujastyk | Interactions of Yoga, Āyurveda and Alchemy

Sep 1st, 2021 52m 21s

For our second episode, we talk to Dagmar Wujastyk of the University of Alberta. Dagmar tells us about her experiences as a student, her truly international career, and especially also about her impressive AyurYog project. Funded by a prestigio

1. McComas Taylor | Purāṇas, Open Access and Wild Geese

Aug 1st, 2021 52m 55s

In this first episode we speak with McComas Taylor. Hailing from the Australian National University in Canberra, McComas is a pioneer of online Sanskrit teaching and ardent supporter of open-access publishing. He talks to Antonia about how he v

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The Sanskrit Studies Podcast Trailer

Jun 24th, 2021 1m 7s

In-depth explorations into the field of Sanskrit Studies. Featuring candid conversations and interviews with scholars of Sanskrit across the disciplines of Indology, Linguistics, Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, and more. Hosted by Dr. A

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