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Recorded talks from the Kriti-SAMHiTA lecture series and other public videos
1:19:24
Kriti-SAMHiTA Lecture Series
Òscar Pujol on why Sanskrit lexicography needs updating, and what the new Sanskrit-Catalan and Sanskrit-Spanish dictionaries contribute.
Òscar Pujol — Director, Instituto Cervantes
26 Apr 2023
1:10:08
Kriti-SAMHiTA Lecture Series
Rishi Rajpopat on decoding a 2,500-year-old rule in Panini's Sanskrit grammar that had puzzled scholars for centuries.
Rishi Rajpopat — University of St Andrews, Scotland
31 Jan 2023
58:20
Kriti-SAMHiTA Lecture Series
Heike Oberlin and Shiju Alex introduce two open-access Malayalam digital archives and how they came to work together.
Heike Oberlin & Shiju Alex — Tübingen University / Indic Digital Archive Foundation
25 Nov 2022
1:15:15
Kriti-SAMHiTA Lecture Series
Shashibala surveys how Sanskrit inscriptions and manuscripts across Asia document two millennia of cultural exchange.
Shashibala — Dean, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's K.M. Munshi Centre for Indology
04 Nov 2022
56:20
Kriti-SAMHiTA Lecture Series
Saroja Bhate compares three critical editions of a Sanskrit grammar commentary that survives in only a single, incomplete manuscript.
Saroja Bhate — former Professor of Sanskrit, Savitribai Phule Pune University
22 Sep 2022
1:16:50
Kriti-SAMHiTA Lecture Series
István Perczel on surveying and digitising the Syrian Christian manuscript archives of Kerala — and what survived a 1599 order to burn them.
István Perczel — Professor, Dept. of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Vienna
09 Aug 2022
1:18:35
Kriti-SAMHiTA Lecture Series
A tour through South Asia's history of games, from chess and chaupar to backgammon, and what they reveal about ritual and everyday life.
Jacob Schmidt-Madsen — Acting Director, Centre for the Study of Indian Science, University of Copenhagen
24 Jun 2022
1:11:00
Kriti-SAMHiTA Lecture Series
Martin Gluckman surveys a decade of the Sanskrit Research Institute's digital tools for Sanskrit and the Khoe-Sān languages of southern Africa.
Martin Gluckman — Founder, Sanskrit Research Institute (SRI), Auroville
26 May 2022
1:26:05
Kriti-SAMHiTA Lecture Series
Dominik Wujastyk on what a 1,000-year-old copy of the Compendium of Suśruta reveals about the history of Indian science, and the four core challenges...
Dominik Wujastyk — Saroj and Prem Singhmar Chair of Classical Indian Polity and Society, University of Alberta, Canada
28 Apr 2022