Indic Academy had previously announced a Conference on Puranasi&Indic Knowledge Systems, inviting papers from scholars and authors. We are now pleased to release the Schedule for the Conference which is being held online from March 26-27, 2021.
Online Conference on
Puranas and Indic Knowledge Systems
on the 26th and 27th March, 2021
Inaugural Session:
Welcome Address – by Sri Hari Kiran Vadlamani – 9.00AM to 09.15AM
Address on Conference – by Dr.Nagaraj Paturi – 09.15AM to 09.30AM
Keynote address by Sri Bibek Debroy – 09.30AM to 10.00AM (Recorded)
Session 1
Purana Studies, Methodological Issues – 10.00AM to 11.00AM
| 1 | Purana Prathipaaditha Tattvaavdhyanartha Puranonke Praamanyaki Sameeksha | Maitri Goswami |
| 2 | The self-framing of Agni Purana: a guide to civilization | Papia Mitra |
| 3 | A New Chronological Framework for Paurāṇika History | Amritanshu Pandey |
Session 2
Time, Time Scales, Cosmology etc. – 11.00AM to 1.20PM
| 4 | Red Giant Sun in the Puranas | Ganesh Swaminathan |
| 5 | Understanding Yuga: ‘Yuga & Yuganta in Puranas: Astronomy, psychology, physiology, and evolutionary framework | Jeevan Rao GS &
Nilesh Nilkanth Oak |
| 6 | Time Scale and Yuga System in Purāṇas | Prof. R. Parthasarathy Prof Emeritus, KSRI |
| 7 | The Principles of Srishti in the Bhagavata Purana and their Modern Applications | Shivakumar GV |
| 8 | Ādhibhautika, Ādhidaivika and Ādhyātmika Insights from the Puranas and the Itihasas | Abhishek Kumar Panda |
| 9. | नारदपरुाणपररप्रक्ष्ये ज्यौरिषम | Muralisham H |
| 10 | Cosmos in Puranas | Siddharth Chhabra |
Lunch: 1.20PM-2.00PM
Session 3
Yoga , Saankhya , Schools of Vedanta etc. – 2.00PM to 3.40PM
| 11 | Indebtedness of Yoga to Purāṇas | Jayaraman M |
| 12 | Allusions of Tattvasamasasutra in Puranic Literature (Saankhya) | Ramachandrasekhar Padmanabhan |
| 13 | Bhāgavata Purāṇa as a major text of Kevala-Advaita Vedānta | Subramanian Chidambaran |
| 14 | S’aiva Religio-Philosophy as portrayed in a few upapurāṇa-s | Ganesan T |
| 15 | The Medicinal Efficacy of 36 Padakas (drugs) in Agnipurāna; An Explanation from Ayurveda | Panuganti Siva |
Session 4
Dharma, Raja Dharma, Life Skills, Values etc. – 3.40PM to 5.20PM
| 16 | The Dharma of Rishi Markandeya | Harshvardhan Bhalla |
| 17 | Reflections on Rajadharma—Political Thought in the Puranas | Manjula Tekal |
| 18 | Lessons on Life Skills from the Life of Damayanti | Vijendra Kumar |
| 19 | Understanding Bhavishya purana in modern context | Deepak Dixit |
| 20 | The Bhagavad-Gita and its Relevance to the Psychology of Human Resource Development | Balakrishnan Muniapan |
| 21 | Value Education based on Indic Knowledge Systems: Analysis of the Ramayana – Content in the Tamilnadu State Board School Education Text Books | Br. Ezhivannan |
Day 2
Session 5
Geology, Climatology, Environment etc. – 9.00AM to 11.00AM
| 22 | History of India through Geomorphology in Puranas | Sai Papineni |
| 23 | Geomorphology In Purāṇas | Lavanya Pravin |
| 24 | Purāṇas on the Parvatas of the World | Dr. K. Vidyuta |
| 25 | Revisiting Agastya-Vindhyā Lore with a New Evidence from Parāśaratantra | Rupa Bhaty |
| 26 | Climatology in Purāṇas | Preethi Maheshkrishnan |
| 27 | The Multidimensional Attributes of Water: Perspectives from Purāṇa-s | Disha Panchal |
Session 6
Aesthetics, Iconography, Poetry, Curriculum Design – 11.00 to 12.20PM
| 28 | Rīti in Agnipurāṇa | Muralidharan Poondichinnappa |
| 29 | An Interdisciplinary Curriculum based on the Pancha Lakshana of the Puranas | Saksham Agarwal |
| 30 | The Significance and Import of the gītams in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa | Dr.V.Yamuna Devi |
| 31 | Sthapatya in Agni Purana | Sushant Bharti |
| Dr.Nagaraj Paturi
Director Indic Academy |
Hari Kiran Vadlamani
Founder Indic Academy |
