Sumedhāḥ (Volume-II, Part-II) : Commemoration Volume

Sumedhāḥ (Volume-II, Part-II) is a Commemoration Volume edited by Arun Kumar Mondal, bringing together tributes and research papers in memory of senior scholars including Pandit Biswabandhu Bhattacharya, Dr. Biswanath Bhattacharya and Dr. Shivanarayana Ghoshal Sastri. The volume opens with personal homages and departmental tributes, followed by research articles covering a wide range of Indological subjects — the Vedic legacy in Rabindranath Tagore’s philosophy, rasa in Jayadeva’s Gītagovinda, Indian rituals and spiritual elevation, Nyaya-Vaiśeṣika views on dream consciousness, alaṁkāras in Jagannātha’s classification of poetry, the development of Sanskrit intervocalic aspirates in Māgadhī, Pāli Mahāvyākaraṇa, the worship of Vedic Viṣṇu in Assam, rhetoric and post-Mammaṭan poetics, human values in Vedic literature, Kālidāsa’s use of metre in the Meghasandeśa, auspicious trees in Vedic literature, the concept of dāna from the Vedas to the Purāṇas, the concept of Dharma in Ādi Śaṅkara, and the Śikṣā-vallī of the Taittirīya Upaniṣad, alongside Sanskrit-language research papers on pilgrimage, textual criticism, rasa theory, kāraka analysis, a survey of the Vedas, and ethical philosophy in the Devī Bhāgavata Purāṇa.