The Sanskrit Studies Podcast
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. Antonia Ruppel.
Episodes
17 episodes
16. Amba Kulkarni | Sanskrit and Computers
My guest this month is Amba Kulkarni from the Department of Sanskrit at the University of Hyderabad, who has also been associated with
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15. Robert Zydenbos | The Life of Sanskrit Traditions
My guest this month is Robert Zydenbos, who is Professor of Modern Indology at the LMU...
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1:44:15
14. Saroja Bhate | Vyākaraṇa and Good Teachers
My guest this month is Professor Saroja Bhate, former Professor of Sanskrit and Head of the Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages at Pu...
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1:01:54
13 Patrick McCartney | Sanskrit in the World
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
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2:39:41
12. Andrew Ollett | Beyond Sanskrit
My guest this month is Mr Prakrit, Andrew Ollett, who teaches at the University of Chicago Perhaps his mos...
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1:08:00
11. Wendy Doniger | Translating India
My guest this month is Wendy Doniger. Read more about her and her many wonderful books here and here. She was educate...
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1:12:07
10. Arshia Sattar | Speaking Sanskrit and Flying
My guest this month is the scholar, translator and author Arshia Sattar. You can find her books here and
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1:14:13
9. Ananya Vajpeyi | The Life of Sanskrit
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 Socie...
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2:28:31
8. Anand Venkatkrishnan | Histories of Thoughts, Histories of Thinkers
My guest this month is Anand Venkatkrishnan, Find some of his work here
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7. Madhav Deshpande | Bridging Sanskrit Traditions
My guest this week is Madhav Deshpande. Read more about him here and here. Take a look
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1:53:15
6. Mary Brockington: The Many Incarnations of Sītā
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 thos...
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5: John Brockington | Explorations in the World of Rāma
My guest this week is Professor John Brockington, about whom you can read more here and here.
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4. Dominik Wujastyk | Manuscripts, Grammar, and Medicine
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 Inves...
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1:48:15
3. Michael Witzel | Lost Languages, Hidden Manuscripts and Comparative Myth
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
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1:37:56
2. Dagmar Wujastyk | Interactions of Yoga, Āyurveda and Alchemy
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...
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1. McComas Taylor | Purāṇas, Open Access and Wild Geese
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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