Indic Thought Model-1

Contact hours: 20

• Introduction to Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika system of Indian philosophy
• World view of the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika system of thought
• Vātsyāyana’s model of inquiry into truth
• Language and reality
• Linguistic modelling of the universe
• Physical world and psychological world
• Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika epistemology
• Cognition and knowledge
• Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika model of communication

Contact hours: 5

• The Sāṅkhya model of creation of the universe
• Creation of the physical world (bhūta-sarga)
• Creation of the psychological world (pratyaya-sarga)
• Model of acquiring knowledge
• Model of understanding consciousness

Contact hours: 20

• Introduction
• Classification of Vedic sentences
• Further classification
• Invocation: Problems and solutions
• Principles to decide nomenclature of rites
• Negative injunction: Problems and solutions
• Narrative sentences: Problems and solutions
• Definition of sentence
• Principles of text-interpretation