How to Prepare synopsis in sanskrit language according to Research Methodology

[Keshab Luitel]

Respected Sholars, 

It is my humble submission to you all that I am going to start my Research on Visistadvaita Vedanta from Department of Sanskrit, Assam University, Assam , In this connection I have to submit a synopsis to university and I decide that my Ph.d work will do in Sanskrit language, So,  in the synopsis how to prepare (the method of research,the review of literature, statement of the problem,problem analysis, data interpretation, hypothesis and so on) in sanskrit language. I have not found any books about this area,  So my request to you all any infornation about this matter please inform me kindly.Thanks

 

With Regards

KESHAB LUITEL

Assistant Professor,

Department of Sanskrit, 

 Gurucharan College,Silchar,Assam,7888004

[Ashok Aklujkar]

Dear Shri Luitel,

I do not mean to be unkind to you, but I must say that I am surprised by your request. Do you mean to say that you became an assistant professor in a department of Sanskrit without being exposed to such concepts as “the method of research, the review of literature, statement of the problem, problem analysis, data interpretation, hypothesis” — in short, without ever being required to write down a plan and/or without even once going through the exploration of a library (through catalogue cards or an electronic catalogue)? If such is the reality, then Sanskrit studies in India are in much more serious trouble than I thought. (Here I have in mind also the other inquiries similar to yours that appeared on the BVP forum.)

If I have misunderstood you and if you have already done some work on the Ph.D. project, why not first ask your Ph.D. guide if you are on the right track and get your plan critiqued by him/her and then ask the members of this forum to suggest additional sources?

A Ph.D. program is supposed to be a test of whether you can work independently in a reasonably broad but well-defined area of research. If the members of this forum help you in all the respects you have indicated, where will the test of your independence occur? Unless this test occurs, how will the next (and more important) test, namely that a Ph.D. degree should be awarded only if the resulting thesis/dissertation makes an *original* contribution to a specific field of knowledge be met?

Have you gone through the bibliography volumes of Prof. Karl H. Potter’s _Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies_? Have you looked at books that have “Viśiṣṭādvaita” in their titles? Have you considered the possibility that “Research on Visistadvaita Vedanta” may be too broad a way of specifying your dissertation topic? 

If the library of your department or university is poor in the area you have chosen for your research, have you explored the Internet, googling with key words?

Since I have too many other commitments to meet, I will not write another response to your post of inquiry. However, I do hope that you will do the necessary leg work and finger work yourself and, at the end of your Ph.D. project emerge as a confident scholar capable of bringing something new to the study of Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta.

a.a.

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[Siddharth Wakankar]

Excellent and most practical advice.

Research is a two-way process,by a Teacher and a Student. This is the importance of the Dvivachana in Sanskrit. Both have their own contribution to make to succeed in this academic endeavour.

Best luck.

Siddharth Y Wakankar

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[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste

Good topic for Visistadvaita research is found in Vedanta Desika's Tattwa Mukta Kalapa. You can download from here -

https://archive.org/details/Tattvamuktakalapa1900Skt

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-Venkatesh

[G S S Murthy]

Prof.Aklujkar has hit the nail on its head. The problem has to be looked at with seriousness by Senior Academicians, guiding the growth of Sanskrit studies in India.

Regards,

Murthy

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and also my Sanskrit blog :

http://simplesanskrit.blogspot.com/

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[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 4:19 PM, G S S Murthy <murt...@gmail.com> wrote:

Prof.Aklujkar has hit the nail on its head. The problem has to be looked at with seriousness by Senior Academicians, guiding the growth of Sanskrit studies in India.

Regards,

Murthy

I heard for PHD the candidate must send his research to foreign university professor and get the approval. It is not sufficient if his guide approves. Then there will be a good evaluation and the candidate will have to do good research to please the foreign professor.

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Regards

 

-Venkatesh

[के. श्रीपतिः - Sripathy]

Sir

A book in Sanskrit on research methodology was published by rastriya samskrita vidyapeetam tirupathi.

Regards

Sripathy

[Venkatakrishna Sastry]

Namaste

1. How to undertake ' Research in  Vishista-Advaita' in an advanced and specialized area which is a conglomerate of  several  disciplines and  dimensions   covering :

  - (1a)    ' Spiritual Practices ( = Yoga-Sadhanaa) + Comprehensive formulation of 'Logic - Philosophy' (=  Tarka - Jijnyaasaa) '   

    (1b)  Get such a proposal to be guided by a competent Professor at University ( India or Abroad) ?   Would a Professor  at  any modern  (Secular ) Sanskrit   University  be considered equivalent  by any semblance to be  and belong to, empowered  and intended to groom a ' Tattva - Abhyaasi - Shaastrajna' ?

       'Upaadhyaaya-- Shikshaka - Samshodhaka'  are different class from ' Tattva - Darshana - Saadhakas.

       ' Shaastraabhyasa for Tattva -darshana' (A Personal life style and value commitment =  Shaastra - Yoga )  is different from ' Shaastra -Grantha - paatha - anuvaada chintana - mudrana ' ( A scholarly academic exercise for ' Panditya and jeevikaa vrutti / Vidyaa - Shaastra - Vaanijya vrutti - Udyoga) .

         Universities outside of India distinguish these aspects  by use of the term ' Practicing Professor - Professional of Religion' .

       ' University' is different in its structure, goals and constraints from  a 'Gurukul'.

       ' Gurukuls may answer the expectation of ' Tattva -jijnyaasaa -Samshodhana / Abhyaasa' in ' Vedanta -  Vishista - Advaita Darshana Shaastra', but they can  not award a ' Doctoral degree' covered under UGC norms. 

    There is a lot more to think on what Professor Aklujkar  and GSS Murthy have noted. And Venkatesha murthy's observation reading   <  'I heard for PHD the candidate must send his research to foreign university professor and get the approval. It is not sufficient if his guide approves. Then there will be a good evaluation and the candidate will have to do good research to please the foreign professor.  '>  . A <Foreign Professor> is  identified by the  ' Mindset to approach and appreciate Veda- Shaastra - Achaarya - Sampradaya >   and  not by birth, name, occupation, post held, place of living and such other non-consequential tags. In Indian context,  this would be akin to asking a ' Naastika -Chaarvaka to guide a 'Vedanta - Tattva  jijnyasu'.

   India - of - Pre independence (  colonial period) submissively allowed ' Foreign Professors' to  ' Re-Orient and Train the Traditional Scholars  and set a three hundred years precedence' in aligning the ' Shaastra - Dharma -Sampradaya to ' Religion- Philosophy- Theology- Anthropology' frame .

   This precedence  triggered the  standards of ' Traditional Schools and   mindset of  scholars of Tradition'  to get their research approach  to  meet the standards set for  'philosophy -studies  aligned to Biblical language scholarship'  and '  invite the  approval of research studies, as the  pleasure of  foreign professor' . This  was continued  through the University procedures  for ' grooming a Scholar of the Oriental  disciplines' commissioned   as per directive approved from  the Colonial government. This frame work  forged around 18th and 19th centuries has created its ' sampradaya' of   faithfully following of these footprints of research methodology -pedagogy  to please  the foreign professor  ( 'Foreign Acharya -Pada- Paada -grahana - paddhati' )  for ' Ph.D- padavee- pradaanam' as  ' Svarga- apavarga -siddhi = Purushartha - Moksha'.  The technicalities and sophistry of administrative procedures are niceties of language ; but they have not changed the ' inner essence, the soul'.

   One may prefer to read the detailing provided in the 'Prolegomena' of Critical Edition : Mahabharata'   on how the process of ' Mahabharata Critical Edition related research progressed' and ' Teams  that contributed to this mammoth output'  and later lectures of Chief Editor  of Mahabharata Critical Edition Project.  This may  help    to understand the depth of the problem in this area. And the current debate on ' Revisiting Critical Edition of Mahabharata'. And how to address ' Research  in Vishista Advaita and write thesis in Samskruth language'.

Regards

BVK Sastry

 

Regards

 

Dr. B V Venkatakrishna Sastry
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