Puṣpikā 3 is the outcome of the third and fourth International Indology Graduate Research Symposiums held in Paris and Edinburgh in 2011 and 2012. This volume presents the results of recent research by early-career scholars into the texts, languages and literary, philosophical and religious traditions of South Asia. The articles offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on a wide array of subjects including classical and medieval philosophy, esoteric knowledge and practices in the Vedas, Kālidāsa's great poem Meghadūta ('The Cloud Messenger'), soteriology in a 17th century Jain text, identity, orality and the songs of the Bauls in 20th century Bengal, and Sanskrit pedagogy.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Is inference a cognitive or a linguistic process? A line of divergence between Jain and Buddhist classifications
• Chapter 2: Between Theism and Atheism: A journey through Viśistādvaita Vedānta and Mīmāṃsā
• Chapter 3: The pre-eminence of men in the vrātya-ideology
• Chapter 4: “Tear down my Sādhana- and Havirdhāna-huts, stow away my Soma-vessels!” – Jaiminīya Brāhmana 2,269ff.: A typical case of cursing in the Veda?
• Chapter 5: A New Reading Of The Meghadūta
• Chapter 6: Banārasīdās climbing the Jain Stages of Perfection
• Chapter 7: If people get to know me, I’ll become cow-dung: Bhaba Pagla and the songs of the Bauls of Bengal
• Chapter 8: Revisiting Sanskrit Teaching in the Light of Modern Language Pedagogy