Narayan Manilal Kansara (L. D. Institute of Indology)

updated: 9/14/95 (by mail)

Dr. Narayan Manilal Kansara, Ph.D.
Director (Retired), Maharshi Academy of Vedic Sciences, Ahmedabad
Honorary Professor, L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad
Honorary Pandit, Gitartha Ganga, Ahmedabad
Fellow, Dharam Hinduja International Centre of Indic Research, Delhi

mailing address:
17/176 Vidyanagar
Near Himmatlal Park
Polytechnic
Ahmedabad - 380015  INDIA

phone: 91-79-674-0587
fax:   91-79-674-0546 (c/o Smt. Hasmita Modh)
email: scerc.darshan@acxess.net.in
       (c/o Dr. J. B. Shah)

description of work:

Doctoral Dissertation on Dhanapala's Tilakamanjari: A Critical Study.

Sanskrit: Vedic literature, Vyakarana, Samkhya-yoga, Vedanta, Gadyakatha, 
Jainism, Meditation (saktipata), Tantra, Indian classical and Sugam 
music, singing Bhajans set in classical Ragas and popular melodies, 
classical works, epics, poems, poetics.

Prakrit: Jain canonical literature, Prakrit grammar, classical works, 
stories, poems, epics.

Can speak, write and read Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, English. Can read 
and explain Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, English, Prakrit. Can decipher 
handwritten manuscripts of Old Sanskrit and Prakrit works.

Edited critically: Tilakamanjari-katha-sara of Pallipala Dhanapala 
(Sanskrit); Tilakamanjari-kathaddhara of Padmasagara; Tilakamanjari-katha 
of Dhanapala (11 cent. AD); Sarasvatikanthabharana Vyakaranan of 
Bhojadeva Paramara of Dhara (Ch. VIII Vedic); Lilavatisara of Jinaratna 
(jointly edited with Dr. H. C. Bhayani); Bharatiya Sahityavicara Manjusa, 
Vols. I-II.

Author: Vaidika Ganita Vidya (Guj.), Vaidika Bhugarbha Jata Vidya (Guj.), 
Vaidika Khagola Vidya (Guj.), Antyesthi Samskara (Guj.), Vaidika Krsi 
Vidya (Guj.), Agriculture and animal husbandry in the Vedas, Samskrta 
Sarala Prabodha (Guj.), Paniniya Laghu Candrika (Guj.).

Editor of Research Journals: Sambodhi, Samamnaya.


[Dhanapala]
[Bhojadeva]
[Abhinavagupta]
[Panini]
[Varahamihira]
[Bharadvaja]
[Padmasagara]
[Sanskrit poetics / poetry]
[Rgveda / Rg Veda / Rigveda / Rig Veda / Rg-Veda / Rig-Veda]