Selected Writings by George Cardona
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- AUTHOR : George Cardona
- HB ISBN : 978-93-5572-630-8
- Year : 2023
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The essays in this volume represent research by George Cardona that centers on Indian thinking in the domain of grammar (vyākaraṇa). Pride of place is given to Pāṇini’s śabdānuśāsana and its core, the Aṣṭādhyāyī. These essays treat both Pāṇini’s theory and methodology and how these are related to the works of other Indian scholars in fields such as etymology (Yāska’s Nirukta), early padapāṭhas for Vedic saṁhitās (e.g. Śākalya), prātiśākhyas (e.g. Śaunaka’s R̥gvedapratiśākhya), śikṣā, ritual exegesis (mīmāṁsā), and logic (nyāya). Questions of relative chronology are also considered, as well as early Indian treatments of data that reflect historical linguistic developments. Emphasis is placed on philology: close attention to and appreciation of texts and their traditions before going on to a broader theoretical and historical context.
The Author
George Cardona is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, where he previously taught from 1960 to 2015. He has also been Visiting Professor at several other universities, both in the United States and in India. He was Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, in 1971–72 and the Collitz Professor at the summer institute of the Linguistic Society of America at the University of Illinois in 1978. He is former President of the American Oriental Society (1989) and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1973) and the American Philosophical Society (1997). In addition, he has been awarded several honorary degrees by Indian institutions: Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rasthriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha (Mahāmahopādhyāya, 2006), Rabindra Bharati University (DLitt, 2008), and Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (Vidyāvācaspati, 2012). He received the President of India Certificate of Honour, Sanskrit, in August 2012, was named Honorary Fellow of the Saṁvidyā Institute of Cultural Studies, Pune, in February of 2015, and was given the World Sanskrit Award by the Indian Council on Cultural Relations in November 2016, as well as the K. Kunjunni Raja Puraskāra in December 2020.
