Bhārat has always associated great importance with Knowledge. We have always been a knowledge centred civilization. We have the world’s largest body of knowledge/intellectual texts, despite all the destruction and burning of libraries by invaders. Our body of intellectual texts, in our intellectual tradition, which comes in 4 languages i.e. Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit and old Tamil, is larger than the intellectual texts in all the world’s languages combined.
Speaker:
About The Speaker:
Currently, Prof Kapoor is
Member – PM’s 75th year Amrut Mahotsav Committee
Member Exec Council – NMML (Now PMML)
Member, High Level Committee, IKS, Ministry of Education
And Chairman – Editorial Committee, Indian Historical Records Committee, National Archives
Formerly Prof Kapoor was:
Chairman – IIAS
Pro VC – JNU
Chairman, MHRD, Language Expert Committee
Professor of English in JNU and where he also established the Centre for Sanskrit Studies
He is the Editor in Chief of the unique 11 volume set of The Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
And also of the Sahitya Akademi Sponsored and yet to be published – Encyclopaedia of Indian Poetics which is also a UNESCO project.
Sub-Topics:
00:00 Introduction
1:20 Bhārat has no religious texts but all are Knowledge texts
3:30 We have an idol worshipping culture, not a book worshipping culture
3:48 Idol is not a structure/statue but symbolises an idea
8:08 Complex mechanisms of incorruptible oral transmission of Vedas
10:40 Indic culture gives freedom to interpret and differ from other interpretations.
15:55 India’s Intellectual tradition is a linked, continuous and cumulative list of texts and thinkers.
17:55 Pānīnī’s Ashtadhyayi is an algorithmic grammar/vyākaran which is highly empirical and scientific treatise
21:00 What has been the mechanism by which the RgVeda been maintained as it is since thousands of years orally?
27:27 Preservation and maintainence of our texts required auxilliary sciences which are known as Vedāngas
28:19 Pānini in his Ashtadhyayi mentions 10 Grammarians before him indicating that there has been a long intellectual tradition before him
34:23 Tīkā/Commentary intellectual system/tradition
35:56 Vidyās division has been done for teaching purpose else Knowledge is indivisible
35:55 Buddhist and Jain adaptations of Pānīnī’s Ashtadhyayi
38:10 Katyāyān’s analysis of Panini’s Ashtadhyayi
40:26 Re-ordered Vyakaran/Grammar tradition
42:30 Philosophy of Grammar and Language tradition
43:20 Poetics and Philosophy intellectual traditions
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