Indian Religions Podcast
Peter Scharf

Peter
Scharf

Ramopakhyana: The Story of Rama in the Mahabharata

Consisting of about 25,000 verses in Valmiki's Rāmāyaṇa, the story of Rāma was summarized in 704 verses in eighteen chapters in the Rāmopākhyāna, which comprises chapters 258--275 of the Aranyaka Parvan of the great epic Mahābhārata. Peter Scharf's  Ramopakhyana - the Story of Rama in the Mahabharata (2 volumes; The Sanskrit Library, 2023) is …

Guest: Peter ScharfDate: 4/11/2024
Sabdanugamah

Sabdanugamah (Sanskrit Library, 2021) is the first of two volumes of studies in honor of Professor George Cardona, the preeminent authority on Paninian grammar and the linguistic traditions of India as well as one of the worlds leading scholars of Indo-European linguistics. These studies cover topics in Paninian grammar, other Indian linguistic …

Guest: Peter ScharfDate: 5/26/2022