Indian Religions Podcast
Date: 18. August 2025

Learning Ancient Languages

Sanskritist and seasoned teacher Dr. Antonia Ruppel shares her views on the merits and pitfalls of academic enterprise, the brave new world of self-employed scholarship and the teaching of ancient languages.

Similar Posts

See All
31. July 2025Ancient History
Invisible Fire

Invisible Fire

Invisible Fire (ELIPSA, 2021) by Joanna Jurewicz explores early Hindu philosophy through the Manusmṛti, Bhagavadgītā, and Mokṣadharma, showing that reality is a single cognitive field manifesting through subject-object perception. Drawing from Vedic roots …

26. June 2025General History
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered

The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered

Today the number of native speakers of Indo-European languages across the world is approximated to be over 2.6 billion—about 45 percent of the Earth’s population. Yet the idea that an ancient, prehistoric population in one time and place gave rise to a wide …

09. June 2025Literary Studies
डान् क्विक्षोटः Don Quixote

डान् क्विक्षोटः Don Quixote

The present book contains a facsimile edition of a unique modern Kashmiri translation of five chapters from Cervantes’s famous Don Quijote. In this book the Kashmiri translation and the corresponding parts of Jarvis’s English version are presented on facing …