Study of some linguistic considerations in Sanskrit grammar and Hindu philosophy.

This book offers a study of Bhartrhari's Vakyapadiya in an altogether modern (the post-Fregean) perspective on the philosophy of language. Bhartrhari's analysis of language is presented methodically and in contemporary philosophical idiom.

The volume presents a panorama of the theories of language, covering both ancient and modern theories. It deals with the origin and development of ancient theories of language with their clear and unambiguous definitions, rules and norms that offer impeccable solutions to all problems at systematic and logical explanations of language theories, the work examines ancient grammar including connection of uyakaranam with philosophy and sphota It also takes up the origin and development of Western linguistic theories emphasizing on the inability of modern linguistic science to agree on basic definitions, as of the meaning of a word, and concepts of discourse, text, macro sentence, with there being an attempt to constantly revise theories. It analyses the chief concepts studied by ancient Indian and other linguists pertaining to discourse, particularly the importance of inference in the Nyaya system of Indian philosophy and the Nyaya logical discourse. The volume will provide students and scholars of philosophy a fundamental work on linguistic theories.

Theories of meaning according to various schools of Indic philosophy.

This text is an account of the arguments of Indian philosophers, and literary critics about the origins and nature of language, the theories of meaning and the related problem of universals, and the profundity of sense in a literary composition.

Study of Bhartr̥hari's Vākyapadīya.