42nd Annual

Sanskrit Traditions
Symposium

anu pratnāsa āyavaḥ padaṃ navīyo akramuḥ
"The ancient bards have walked in a newer step" — Ṛg Veda 9, 23, 2

Friday 22 May 2026 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Trinity College, Oxford

Featured Talks & Papers

The plan to capture Yudhiṣṭhira in the Droṇaparvan

Simon Brodbeck — Cardiff

Sexed Bodies and the Significance of Yonis in Premodern Yoga

Ruth Westoby — OCHS

Sri Aurobindo's Psychological-Spiritual Hermeneutic: A Systematic Response to the Problem of Ṛgvedic Intelligibility

Poojan Patel — Cambridge

The gajavṛṣabhanyāya: Comparison of the Analogy of the Elephant-Bull Illusion in the Mātṛkācakravivekavyākhyā and the Mahārthamañjarīparimala

Maximilian Hoth — LMU Munich

Epistemic Limitation and the Critique of Absolutism in Malliṣeṇa's Interpretation of Verse 21 of the Anyayogavyavaccheda

Aarti Gulgulia — Birmingham

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