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An account of the Kātantra grammar in Kashmir
No full textThis paper is ultimately going to tell a story of the limitation of scholarly activities in Kashmir in the field of Sanskrit grammar— how a multifaceted Sanskrit linguistic tradition of Kashmir came to be limited to a particular school of grammar called the Kātantra, which was, in many respects, inferior to certain other grammatical traditions, the foremost of which is the Paninian grammar. There is no doubt that the Paninian school is the longest, most influential, elaborate, sophisticated and elegant Sanskrit grammar. Some of the most important authors from this school were from Kashmir where this grammar had been flourishing since no later than the seventh century. The Kātantra grammar began its journey most probably in South India sometime between the first and the fourth century and it came to Kashmir sometime around the tenth century. Throughout the medieval period when Sanskrit scholarship was declining in Kashmir, the Kātantra tradition kept its presence in the valley and in the twentieth century, just before when indigenous Sanskrit learning finally disappeared from Kashmir, the Kātantra grammar was almost exclusively taught in the traditional Sanskrit schools of Srinagar and the Paninian grammar was no longer in vogue. In this paper, I want to give an account of the development of the grammatical school of Kātantra in Kashmir which survived through the decline of Sanskrit scholarship and ultimately replaced the other grammars, most importantly the Paninian one, which had maintained an impressive presence in the valley.Presented on March 18, 2021, at the annual conference of History, Classics, and Religious Studies Graduate Students' Association, University of Alberta
সংস্কৃত সাহিত্য ও তার পাঠ-সমালোচনা
No full textA presentation on Sanskrit literature and its textual criticism in BengaliInvited talk at Gurudas College Library and Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Calcutta, West Bengal, India on May 17, 202
Various Traditional Enumerations and Classifications of Sanskrit Speech Sounds: A Comparative Analysis
No full textSanskrit speech sounds (varṇas) are enumerated and classified in traditional Sanskrit grammatical works which are divided into three different genres of texts i.e. the śikṣās, the prātiśākhyas and the vyākaraṇas. (I exclude the Tantric accounts on varṇas, the main orientation of which has nothing to do with a pure phonological study.) In general, the prātiśākhya and the śikṣā texts deal with different branches of Vedic schools in which dialectal variations of Vedic Sanskrit are often notable, whereas the vyākaraṇa texts, as we find them today, are mostly engaged in describing the standard form of language which is often referred to as ‘Classical Sanskrit’. The enumeration and classification of Sanskrit speech sounds differ remarkably not only in the śikṣā and the prātiśākhya texts but also in vyākaraṇa texts of different schools. In these texts, not only the number of the speech sounds but also their classification and representation are diverse. A survey of these grammatical works reveals that there are two major schemes of traditional enumerations and classifications of Sanskrit speech sounds. The early grammatical works follow either of these schemes. But in some later works of Sanskrit grammar, we find a gradual blend of them. This paper tries to document the methods of enumerating, classifying and representing the speech sounds in these Sanskrit grammatical works, compare these accounts with one another and find the reasons behind such variations in certain cases
সংস্কৃত ব্যাকরণ সাহিত্যের ইতিহাস
No full textA presentation on the history of Sanskrit grammar in Bengali.Invited talk at the Department of Sanskrit, Barasat Government College, West Bengal, India on September 12, 202
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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