The Pandit

by Axel Michaels

The present volume contains the learned papers of the conference which cover a wide range of topics e.g. the pandit as a private scholar, university teacher, public intellectual or legal adviser; traditional ways of Sanskrit teaching and learning, especially the methods of memorization and transferof traditional knowledge; the relevance of traditional Sanskrit grammar for the learning of Sanskrit; the prestige of Sanskrit and the social standing of pandits; the special guru-shishya-relationship; the relationship between pandit and professor in academic systems; life histories of some well-known pandits such as Krishnashastri Chiplunkar, Hazari Prasad Dvivedi, Gopinath Kaviraj, V.S. Apte, and other, the role of Tantrik pandits.AXEL MICHAELS, studied Indology, Philosophy and Law in Munich, Hamburg and Varanasi. He was Director of the Nepal REsearch Centre (Kathmandu), Spalding Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College (Oxford), and Professor for the History of Religions at the the University of Berne. Since 1996 he is Professor of Classical Indology at the South Asia Institute, University of Heldelberg.