This excellent volume of great substance represent the sum total of the contributions presented at the three day National Seminar on ‘Indian Theories of Hermeneutics’ organized by the Department of Sanskrit Sahitya, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady In January 1999 and as such it is the second grand conference with an international significance and participation of scholars.
The deliberations of the conference centred round most significance and rather neglected field of interpretations of Sanskrit texts whether it be Vedic literature, Scientific literature, Technical literature or pure literature. The scholars of international reputation have commentarial aspects of the facts of Indian literature. In the said Indian Conference.
This papers dealt in the conference include Vedic exegesis, Tantric literature, philosophy, literature criticism, Darsanas, Theatre studies, linguistics, Social Sciences, Ecology, lexicography, Vastu Vidya. Ayurveda, Indian Astronomy, Ancient Indian Jurisprudence etc.