The aim of the series of the Swiss Asia Society is to publish highquality, In der Reihe der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft werden repräsentative, qualitativ hochstehende Forschungsarbeiten zu den Kulturen und Gesellschaften representative work issuing from academic research on all aspects of South and Inner Asia. Süd- und Zentralasiens in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart publiziert. Die Reihe nimmt Studien zu It comprises, and accepts, studies on historical and present-day South and Inner Asian cultures and verschiedenen Bereichen wie Geschichte, Literatur, Philosophie, Politik und Kunst sowie Übersetzungen societies covering the fields of history, literature, thought, politics and art as well as translations and und Interpretationen von Quellentexten auf. interpretations of important primary sources.

François Voegeli has a PhD in Sanskrit Philology from the University of Lausanne. His main research interests are Vedic ritual, Vedic philology, and the archaeology of South Asia. Vincent Eltschinger is a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and currently focuses on the religious background and apologetic dimensions of late Indian Buddhist philosophy. Danielle Feller teaches Indian religions at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and her main field of research concerns the Sanskrit epics and k?vya literature. Maria Piera Candotti is Lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of Lausanne. Her interest mainly concerns the metalinguistic theories developped in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vy?karana). Bogdan Diaconescu is an Indologist and scholar of religion who specialises in Sanskrit knowledge-systems and Indian religions, studied in their various historical and cultural interactions, Sanskrit and Pali linguistics, and the expansion of Indian thought in Asia. Malhar Kulkarni is a Vaiyakarana by training and currently teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.

Contents: Jan E. M. Houben: Johannes Bronkhorst and Indian Studies – Maria Piera Candotti: Naming-Procedure and Substitution in Early Sanskrit Grammarians – George Cardona: P??ini and Padak?ras – Abhijit Ghosh: Y?ska’s Treatment of Verb vis-à-vis Noun: Will the Verbal Noun Please Stand up? – Jan E. M. Houben: On the bahira?ga-Rule in P??inian Grammar: N?ge?a and N?r?ya?a – Eivind Kahrs: Bharthari and the Tradition: karmapravacan?ya – Malhar Kulkarni/Anuja Ajotikar/Tanuja Ajotikar: Derivation of the Declension of yu?mad and asmad in C?ndra Vy?kara?a – Thomas Oberlies: C?ndriana Inedita (Studien zum C?ndravy?kara?a V) – Hideyo Ogawa: Patañjali’s View of a Sentence Meaning and Its Acceptance by Bharthari – Ashok Aklujkar: Authorship of the Sa?kar?a-k???a – Eli Franco: Once Again on the Desires of the Buddha – Vashishta Narayan Jha: Ontology of Relations. The Approach of Navya Ny?ya – Klaus Karttunen: Wise Men and Ascetics. Indian Philosophy and Philosophers in Classical Antiquity – Raffaele Torella: Studies in Utpaladeva’s ??varapratyabhijñ?-vivti. Part V: Self-Awareness and Yogic Perception– Toshihiro Wada: ?a?adhara on Invariable Concomitance (vy?pti) (1) – Joel P. Brereton: On the Particle hí in the ?gveda – Madhav M. Deshpande: Vedas and Their ??kh?s: Contested Relationships – Asko Parpola: The Anupadas?tra of S?maveda and Jaimini: Prolegomena to a Forthcoming Edition and Translation – Peter M. Scharf: Vedic Accent: Underlying Versus Surface – Vincent Eltschinger: Debate, Salvation and Apologetics. On the Institutionalization of Dialectics in the Buddhist Monastic Environment – Harry Falk: Small-Scale Buddhism – Phyllis Granoff: On Reading the Lives of the Jinas. Questions and Answers of Medieval Monks – Helmut Krasser: Bh?viveka, Dharmak?rti and Kum?rila – Gregory Schopen: The Buddhist Nun as an Urban Landlord and a ‘Legal Person’ in Early India – Charles Malamoud : Imagination, croyance et gouvernement des hommes. Note sur l’Artha??stra – Patrick Olivelle: Ka??aka?odhana. Courts of Criminal Justice in Ancient India – Kiyotaka Yoshimizu: Kum?rila and Medh?tithi on the Authority of Codified Sources of dharma – Gregory Bailey: Sthavirabuddhaya? in the M?rka??eyasam?syaparvan of the Mah?bh?rata. Problems in Locating Critiques of Buddhism in the Mah?bh?rata – John Brockington: The R?m?ya?a in the Pur??as – Mary Brockington: Nala, Yudhi??hira, and R?ma. Fitting the Narrative Pattern – Danielle Feller: Two Tales of Vanishing Wives. S?t?’s Trials Reconsidered in the Light of the Story of Sara?y? – James L. Fitzgerald: Philosophy’s ‘Wheel of Fire’ (al?tacakra) and Its Epic Background – Irawati Kulkarni/Malhar Kulkarni: A Note on Manuscripts in the S. P. Pandit Collection. Inhaltsverzeichnis