XVIII World Sanskrit Conference on Internet

[Bijoy Misra]

Friends,

Good morning.

Last week I did attend the XVIII World Sanskrit Conference

that was conducted on the internet operated from Canberra,

Australia,. The Conference had been postponed from 2021

because of the pandemic.  Professor Dipti Tripathi of Delhi

University is the new Chair of International Association of

Sanskrit Studies, the organization that sponsors the Conference.

My session was on Thursday afternoon, US time, under

Linguistics.  What we have now found and are convinced that

the language grammar has its origin in the brain and we gradually

discover the nuances.  Panini was successful in analyzing the Vedas

and discovered a good number of clues.  What we do not know is

how the acoustic वर्ण forms from the neural processes.  I am

developing a mathematical model with the assistance of a few

friends.  I spoke to our BVP scholar Professor Korada on the

model the previous week to brief him and receive his blessings.

I will post the video of my presentation when it is made public.

I am attaching the presentation if anyone is interested.  The

process is a bit dense.

The Conference was populated by a large number of young

researchers engaged in Sanskrit studies around the world.

I found most of them sincere and committed, but I felt that the

depth in the language was thin.  Sanskrit is a sound-oriented

oral language.  Full open throat recitation must be practiced to

observe how the sound is produced.  Unlike other languages

it is not what you hear, but what you create.  Prof Ashok Aklujkar

did notice it twenty years ago when he created a fund to invite

Vedic scholars to Harvard.  This did not happen.  With the

technology, possibly such training can be done through the

internet. 

There were some modern-oriented gender sessions which I

could not attend.  Mapping Valmiki to the modern society is

a frivolous effort, but some can create political undertones.

Some in the west or in India,who are not strongly grounded

in the language do get involved in the cultural commentary.

Others in BVP might comment if they witnessed the sessions.

Best regards,

Bijoy Misra, US

[BVK Sastry (G-S-Pop)]

 

Namaste

Congratulation’s for sharing the new perspectives.  I watched the live interaction and presentation.

 

My presentation was messed up due to the ‘Technical reasons at the end of the conference portal !  The tech team could not resolve the login – camera access though I was in the session. Hopefully the presentation shared by me earlier will find its presence at the conference proceedings.

 

Regards

BVK Sastry

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[Bijoy Misra]

Dear Dr BVK,

Thank you for being there.  Your blessings helped.

I was trying to squeeze complex scientific ideas in

ten minutes.  Possibly the attendees had reviewed

the slides before.

The next part is to create the logic for the neural

grammar and the neural syntax.  We would need

researchers who are strongly grounded in recitation

and may examine the creation of sound quantitatively.

We will discuss.

Best regards,

Bijoy Misra 

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[Bijoy Misra]

Among others in BVP Prof N.K.Sundareswaran also attended.

He may comment when he has time.

Best regards,

BM