The Discover India Podcast by Professor Pankaj Jain: Bhārat Darśan

The Discover India Podcast by Professor Pankaj Jain: Bhārat Darśan

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  • In Defense of Sanskrit: The Many Voices and Visions of a Literature by Prof Shonaleeka Kaul

    28th India Series webinar by Dr. Shonaleeka Kaul, Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, presents "In Defence of Sanskrit: The Many Voices and Visions of a Literature" for the India Centre, FLAME University.

    Prof. Kaul will challenge misconceptions that associate Sanskrit with narrow obscurantism, highlighting its vast and varied literary repertoire encompassing virtually all knowledge systems and a multiplicity of voices and visions. She will interrogate modern scholarship's tendency to label Sanskrit as elitist and rarefied, moving towards a greater appreciation of its reach and relevance in early India.
    Don’t miss this opportunity to delve into the richness of Sanskrit literature and its significant impact on India's cultural heritage.
    Join this channel to get access to the perks:
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgyYA6fXrfCcTQsvEyCLTbg/join
    Professor Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.

    1 hr 10 min
  • Chapter 8: Akṣara Brahma Yoga: Philological & Philosophical Analysis of the Bhagavad Gita

    Verse 28 - From this episode:

    अव्यक्ताद्‍ व्यक्तय: सर्वा: प्रभवन्त्यहरागमे ।
    रात्र्यागमे प्रलीयन्ते तत्रैवाव्यक्तसंज्ञके ॥
    Tune in every Sunday for a new episode of the philological and philosophical analysis of the Bhagavad Gita!
    Texts referenced in the series:
    1. Gītā Rahasya by Lokmanya Tilak
    2. Gītā Discourses by Osho
    3. Gītā Discourses by Rev. Athavale Dadaji
    4. Gītā interpretation by Mahatma Gandhi
    5. Gītā commentary by Adi Shankaracharya
    6. Sargeant Winthrop and Christopher Key Chapple. The Bhagavad Gītā. State University of New York Press 2009.
    7. Goldman Robert P and Sally J Sutherland. Devavāṇīpraveśikā : An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language. 3rd ed. Center for South Asia Studies University of California: 1999.
    Press, 2009.
    8. The Bhagavad Gītā - Selected Shlokas set to Music (2-CD Set), sung by Ravindra Sathe and team, music by Vanraj Bhatia, album by Music Today, 2009.
    Gita app based on Sri Aurobindo’s commentary:
    Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.org.bhagavadgita&hl=en_US&gl=US&pli=1
    iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/bhagavad-gita-sri-aurobindo/id1143882659

    38 min
  • Sarva Pitru Amavasya सर्वपितृ अमावस्या

    Sarva Pitru Amavasya सर्वपितृ अमावस्या
    More details in my Hindi article published today in Rajasthan Patrika:
    https://epaper.patrika.com/article/JaipurCity?OrgId=2109890e6a7&eid=20&imageview=0&device=desktop&fbclid=IwY2xjawFqUbtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHWdp2HNw6sphyYlffad6kjsbJYX9f1TM1j-XE3ACp1jLXcVHEfF6D_XTPQ_aem_QDRun0HaXjlqA5fDV56Gyw
    .. #ashortaday #explore #shortvideo

    1 min
  • Historiography of the Śulba Sūtras by Dr. Bhaskar Kamble

    It was in 1979 that Abraham Seidenberg published the second of his groundbreaking articles evaluating the role of the Śulba Sūtras in the history of mathematics and the dismissive treatment accorded to them by mainstream history. Since then, no systematic attempt has been made to trace how the consensus has been shaped regarding the role of the Śulba Sūtras after they were first introduced to the Western world in 1875 by Georg Thibaut. This talk addresses this shortcoming by examining the writings of the key figures of the day, such as Moritz Cantor and Otto Neugebauer, whose works have been influential in relegating the Śulba Sūtras to a little more than a footnote in the history of mathematics.

    Bhaskar Kamble is an author, theoretical physicist, and data scientist. He obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics in 2010 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. After that, he worked as a researcher for several years at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and at the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics in Pohang, South Korea, specializing in the fields of unconventional superconductivity, quantum phase transitions, and many-particle physics. Currently, he works as a data scientist in Berlin in energy analytics. He has a deep interest in the history of mathematics in the Hindu civilization and philosophy. He is the author of the best-selling book The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and Why This History Was Erased (2022).

    57 min

About The Discover India Podcast by Professor Pankaj Jain: Bhārat Darśan

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Bhārat Darśan: The Discover India Podcast is about Indian Culture, Indian classical music, Sustainability, Hindu/Buddhist/Jain Studies, Film Studies, and Diaspora Studies. Episodes also include presentations at various conferences and webinars. Dr. Pankaj Jain is the Director of The India Centre and the Head of the Department of Humanities and Language at FLAME University.

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