Dvaita Centre, MAHE to release a book at Krishna Matha

Udupi: Manipal Universal Press (MUP) and Dvaita Philosophy Resource Centre (DPRC) are jointly organising the release of book titled “Karakārthaprabodhinī” authored by Dr Shivani V, Karnataka Samskrit University. This book will be released in the presence of Paryaya Svamijis senior HH Sri Vishveshatirtha Svamiji and junior HH Sri Vishvaprasannatirtha Svamiji of Paryaya Sri Pejavara Adhokshaja Matha, Udupi on 15 January 2018 at 3 pm at Kanaka Mantapa, Sri Krishna Matha, Udupi.

Dr H Vinod Bhat, Vice Chancellor, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) will be the Chief Guest. Vidvan Dr Gurumurti Acharya, Assistant Professor, SMSP Sanskrit College is scheduled to speak about the book.

This book is the sixth of Dvaita Philosophy Resource Centre since 2011 which is brought out by Manipal Universal Press. The book elucidates on Karaka – a syntactic-semantic relational factor that determines the role of words with relation to action in a sentence. This was written in Malayalam originally by Prof Dr Vasudevan Potti, which is rendered into Sanskrit by Dr Shivani V and contains an elaborate introduction by Prof Dr Shrinivasa Varakhedi.

About the book

Kārakārthaprabodhinī is an attempt to understand the Kāraka, a factor that determines the relation between verb and the constituent words of a sentence, enables the reader to understand the intent of the sentence and thus critical discourses too. The Sanskrit grammatical texts and discourses have elaborated on the subtleties of Kāraka. Due to its profundity, there was a need for a lucid writing for the scholars and students for easy comprehension, which can be a reference book. Dr Potti made this possible for the Malayalam readers. Dr Shivani presents it for the Sanskrit fraternity too, with an introduction by Dr Varakhedi.

About the author

Shivani V is presently an Associate Professor at the Karnataka Samskrit University (KSU), Bengaluru and the Editor of the Karnataka Samskrita Adhyayanam – Vidvat Patrika, a Research Journal of the KSU. She pursued her doctoral research on “A Computational Model for Linguistic Study of Sanskrit” followed by the Masters on the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Sanskrit Vyākaraṇa. Erstwhile, she served as a Deputy Director in the CIF Shodha Sansthan, Kerala and also as a guest faculty member at the Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, as well as at the Department of Śābdabodha and Language Technology, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapitha, Tirupati. She also has authored a book titled Key to Karaka and has several journal articles and conference proceedings to her credit. She has been leading several projects funded by the national agencies. She is guiding a couple of PhD scholars and developing innovation technology in Pali language, which is one of its kind.

Date and time: 15 January 2018, 3 pm

Venue: Kanaka Mantapa, Sri Krishna Matha, Udupi