Puṣpikā Volume 4 contains the proceedings of the seventh International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Leiden 2015). The fourteen papers included here cover a rich variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of South Asia such as grammar, poetry and philosophy, examined from a plurality of disciplinary perspectives, with a particular emphasis on philology, history and sociology.

The first four articles of focus on the Sanskrit language, from the strictly linguistic and historical perspective to the wider political issue of its uses and abuses. The second section deals with issues in poetry, aesthetics and performative arts, ranging from classical Sanskrit mahākāvyas to contemporary Kathak dance. The third section is focused on the philosophical traditions of South Asia (and beyond), with an eye to both a strictly historical approach and a more argumentative and evaluative one. Finally material culture and its relations to both the historical and the ideological are the themes treated in the last section of the volume.

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• Peter C. Bisschop: 150 Years of Sanskrit Studies in the Netherlands: The Karṇapurāṇa
• Dániel Balogh: The Abominable Yati: Or, An Intriguing Relic of the Prehistory of Sanskrit Verse
• Małgorzata Sulich-Cowley: What do Sanskrit Adpositions Really Do and What Do They Mean? The Analysis of Prati
• Martina Palladino: Welcome with Open Arms: Iranian Loanwords in the Purāṇic Lexicon
• Patrick McCartney: Speaking of the Little Traditions Agency and Imposition in ‘Sanskrit-Speaking’ Villages in North India
• Judith Unterdörfler: Nature and Character Emotions in the Śrīgovindavilāsamahākāvya, Sarga 1
• Lidia Szczepanik-Wojtczak: How to Teach Sanskrit Grammar: The Case of the Perfect System in the Bhaṭṭikāvya
• Prakash Venkatesan: Vaṇṇam: Tracing an Ancient Tamil Music Tradition
• Katarzyna Skiba: Kathak as a Śāstrīya Nṛtya: The Rediscovery of the Nāṭyaśāstra and the Invention of Classicism in Indian Dance
• Jooyoung Lim: Charting the Sāṃkhya Commentarial Literature: A Study of the Lists of Types of Supernatural Power (aiśvarya)
• Lucas den Boer: Guṇaratna’s Refutation of the Cārvāka Perspective on the Soul: An Argumentative Analysis of Tarkarahasyadīpikā 49.98–134
• J. M. A. Eijsermans: The Benign Overlord and the Restorer of Dharma: Two Cases of Viṣṇu as Political Expression in Ancient Khmer Inscriptions and Images
• Elizabeth A. Cecil: Power and Piety in ‘Emplaced Polities’: Temple Patronage and Donative Practice Under the North Konkan Śilāhāras (Ninth to Twelfth Century CE)