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9:00 AM - 7:15 PM (UTC+5.5)
SPEAKERS
Senior Director & Dean IKS Studies, INDICA
Scholar IKS Courses, Siddhanta Knowledge Foundation
Director, INDICA Moksha
Principal, Vedavedantapathashala, Palur, Trichy, Tamil Nadu
Asst. Professor (Guest), Gurugram University, Gurugram
Salakshana Ghanapathi, Vidwan in Shiksha Shastram (Vedangam) and Vedabhashyam & Sanskrit Literature and Sastra Prakarana Granthas
Mahamahopadhyaya, Bramhanya Sarvabhouma, Sanga Swadhyaya Bhaskara, Advaita Vedanta Vidya Praveena, Presidential Award Winner
Independent Researcher, Associated with Pūrṇapramati - A Center for Integrated Learning, Bengaluru
Founder Vice-President, THE HISTORY ENTHUSIASTS Association, Independent Researcher, Cultural Historian and Archaeologist, Iconographist
Salakshana Ghanapathi, Vidwan in Dharma Shastram and Vedabhashyam & Sanskrit Literature & Sastra Prakarana Granthas
Director at Sri Vyasatirtha Samshodhana Pratishthanam
Assistant Professor
Professor of Vedanta, Karnataka Samskrit University, Bengaluru
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter, Institute of South Asian Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
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INDICA is organizing a symposium on the topic “Shaastric Response to Contemporary Criticisms,” which will present a few examples of how Shaastra scholars of the past and present would respond to contemporary criticisms, distortions, and misinterpretations of Hindu texts, traditions, and worldviews.
Speakers at the event will include an octogenarian Saanga Svaadhyaaya Bhaaskara Salakshana Ghanappathi who is a PhD-holding traditional Shaastra scholar, as well as young Shaastra scholars mastering multiple Shaastras, ambidextrous Vaidika Purohitas with a command over contemporary social science paradigms, and contemporary scholars with a grasp of the Shaastric perspective. This unprecedented, first-of-its-kind event will feature presentations by these scholars addressing contemporary attacks on various aspects of Hinduism, including Hindu political and legal thought, Hindu marriage mantras and rituals, reformationist interpretations of Vedic texts, gender-oriented critiques of Dharma Shaastra texts, attempts to disconnect Dharma Shaastra texts from the temple tradition— the core of Hinduism— and attacks on the Sanskrit language, its literature, and achievements in aesthetic sciences, as well as challenges to the integrity of key Sanskrit texts such as the Ramayana.
इण्डिका इत्यस्मत्संस्था “समकालीनदूषणानां शास्त्रीयप्रतिस्पंदनम्” इति विषये संगोष्ठीम् आयोजयति, यस्मिन् हिन्दुग्रन्थानां, परम्पराणां, विश्वदृष्टीनां च समकालीनदूषणानां, विकृतिनां, दुर्व्याख्यानां च प्रति अतीतानां वर्तमानानाञ्च शास्त्रविद्वांसः कथं प्रतिक्रियां दास्यन्ति इति कतिपयानि उदाहरणानि प्रस्तुतानि भविष्यन्ति।
अस्मिन् आयोजने अशीत्यधिकवर्षीयसाङ्गस्वाध्यायभास्करसलक्षणघनपाठी यः पीएचडी-धारकः पारम्परिकाःशास्त्रविद्वान् , बहुविधशास्त्रेषु निपुणतां प्राप्तवन्तः युवाः शास्त्रविद्वांसः, समकालीनसामाजिकविज्ञानप्रतिमानानाम् विषयेषु साधिकारिकतायुतवैदिकपुरोहिताः, शास्त्रीय- दृष्टिकोणयुतसमकालीनविद्वांसः प्रभृतयः वक्तारः भवंति। । अस्मिन् अभूतपूर्वे आयोजने एतेषां विद्वांसस्य हिन्दुधर्मस्य विभिन्नपक्षेषु समकालीनप्रहारं अधिकृत्य प्रस्तुतिः भविष्यति। हैन्दवराजनैतिकचिंतनम् न्यायिकचिंतनम् च , हिन्दूविवाहमन्त्राः संस्काराः, वैदिकग्रन्थानां सुधारवादी व्याख्याः, धर्मशास्त्राणां प्रति लिंगविषयकदूषणाः आलयपरंपरां धर्मशास्त्रपरंपरायाः विच्छेदनयत्नाः तथा संस्कृतभाषायाः, तस्याः साहित्यस्य, सौन्दर्यविज्ञानस्य च उपलब्धीनां उपरि आक्रमणानि, तथैव रामायणादिमुख्यसंस्कृतग्रन्थानां अखण्डताविषयकदूषणानि इत्यादि विषयानामुद्दिश्य प्रस्तुतयः भविष्यन्ति।
**SCHEDULE**
Time | Name Of The Speaker | Title |
9.00-9.15 | Dr. Nagaraj Paturi Dean IKS & Senior Director, INDICA |
Why Contemporary? Why Shaastric? |
9.15-10.00 | Dr. Srinivas Jammalamadaka Scholar IKS Courses, Siddhanta Knowledge Foundation |
Exploring Political Thought: A Critique Through MM Rajeshwar Dravid Shastri Ji’s Works |
10.00-10.45 | Dr Ravi Prakash Chaubey Asst. Professor (Guest), Gurugram University, Gurugram |
A Shaastric Counter To The Ideas Of Death Of Sanskrit |
10.45-11.30 | Ra. Nilakantha Shastri, Purvamimamsamritanidhih, Dharmashastranadishnaha, Dharmaprachararatnam Principal, Vedavedantapathashala, Palur, Trichy, Tamil Nadu |
Interfaith Dialogue: Shastric Insights For Addressing Criticism Of Religious Intolerance |
11.30-12.15 | Shri Nithin Sridhar Director, INDICA Moksha |
Manusmriti & Sexual And Reproductive Health Rights: A Reappraisal |
12.15-1.00 | Shri Kapilavayi Raivatha Ghanapathi Salakshana Ghanapathi, Vidwan in Shiksha Shastram (Vedangam) and Vedabhashyam & Sanskrit Literature and Sastra Prakarana Granthas |
Uttara Ramayana Being Criticized As Interpolation (Telugu) |
1.00-1.45 | Dr. Vishnubhatla Subramhanya Salakshana Ghanapathi Mahamahopadhyaya, Bramhanya Sarvabhouma, Sanga Swadhyaya Bhaskara, Advaita Vedanta Vidya Praveena, Presidential Award Winner |
Misinterpretation Of Marriage Mantras (Sanskrit) |
1.45-2.30 | Sri Guntupalli Venkata Pranava Kumar Vasishta Independent Researcher, Associated with Pūrṇapramati – A Center for Integrated Learning, Bengaluru |
Creating Space For Tāttvika Svatantra-tā: Outlining Responses To Śāstra-viruddha Vyavahāra |
2.30-3.15 | Nidhi Katti Founder Vice-President, THE HISTORY ENTHUSIASTS Association, Independent Researcher, Cultural Historian and Archaeologist, Iconographist |
Response To Western Feminist Philosophy Through Stree Dharma With Special Reference To Dvaita Vedanta Shaastra |
3.15-4.00 | V. R. Subramanya Ghanapathi Salakshana Ghanapathi, Vidwan in Dharma Shastram and Vedabhashyam & Sanskrit Literature & Sastra Prakarana Granthas |
Dayananda Veda Bhashya Khandana |
4.00-4.45 | Dr.Shrinidhi S Pyati Director at Sri Vyasatirtha Samshodhana Pratishthanam |
Critiquing The American Indologists’ Subversion Of Good And Evil In Bharatiya Kavyas |
4.45-5.30 | Dr Sharda Narayanan Assistant Professor |
American Indology’s Views On Sanskrit Literature |
5.30-6.15 | Acharya Veeranarayana Pandurangi Professor of Vedanta, Karnataka Samskrit University, Bengaluru |
Examining Patrick Olivelle’s Claims On Dharmashastras Opposing Temple Traditions |
6.15-7.00 | Shri Sahishnu Bhattacharyya Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institute of South Asian Studies, University of Vienna, Austria |
Kanyadana: Controversy And Contestation |
7.00-7.15 | Dr. Nagaraj Paturi Dean IKS & Senior Director, INDICA |
Closing Remarks & Vote Of Thanks |