Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) invites you to a 7-day residential camp on ‘Samvada Suktas of Rigveda’ with Prof. Gauri Mahulikar, Academic Director, CIF.
About the Camp:
Saṁvāda Sūktas is a special feature
and genre of the Vedic hymns. This camp will discuss five unique hymns in a
dialogue style, where the dialogue is between the seer and the deity of the
hymn.
1st hymn: Seer Viśvāmitra has a
lively conversation with two flooding rivers and requests them to be fordable,
so that he can cross to the other end safely. This hymn is very poetic in nature.
2nd hymn: A dialogue between seer
Vāmadeva, Indra and Aditi, speaks about the unusual birth of the mighty Indra.
This is the first ever reference to a cesarean delivery in the history of
mankind.
3rd hymn: An interesting dialogue
between the mortal man – Purūravas, and the divine Urvaśī has been told and
retold as a story in the Śatapatha Brāhmana, Purāṇas and later by Kālidāsa in
his famous drama Vikramorvaśīyam.
4th hymn: A dialogue between Indra and his devotee and a
female seer Apālā gives a different perspective to feminine issues and
5th hymn: A dialogue between Saramā and Paṇis that throws
light on trading and bartering.
Facilitator:
Prof.
Gauri Mahulikar is the Academic Director at CIF.
Dr. Mahulikar was the Gurudev Tagore Chair of Comparative Literature
Professor and former head of department of Sanskrit at the Mumbai University.
She holds a Doctorate in Sanskrit on ‘Vedic Elements in Puranic Mantras and
Rituals’. An author, who has published 8 books and over 90 research articles in
English, Marathi, Hindi and Sanskrit, Dr. Mahulikar has mentored several
doctoral students; eighteen of who have successfully earned their doctorates.
She
was instrumental in launching courses in Manuscriptology, Bhakti Literature and
Mysticism in the Sanskrit Department and has coordinated a UGC funded project
on 'Digital Preservation of Palm Leaf Manuscripts' (2010-2015).
Dr.
Mahulikar was awarded the Maneckji Limji Gold Medal for her dissertation on
‘Ancient Greek Dramas and Bharata’s Natyasastra’ from Mumbai University. Some
of the many awards that Dr. Mahulikar has been awarded are the ‘Ramakrishna
Award’ by the Canadian Education Foundation, Ontario for the propagation of
Sanskrit (2003); Guru Gaurav Puraskar by Kalasadan, Mumbai (2011); Kavikulaguru
Kalidas Sanskrit Sadhana Puraskar by Maharashtra State Government (2013); Adi
Sankaracarya Puraskar awarded by H.H. Sri Jayendra Saraswati Mahaswamigal, the
Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham (2014); Savitribal Phule Puraskar by
Mumbai University (2015); and the Indira Behere Puraskar by Tilak Maharashtra
Vidyapeeth, Pune (2015). Recently she is awarded the prestigious Adi Shankara
Fellowship (2021-2023) by the Madhya Pradesh Government for her project, “Adi
Shankara: Life, Wisdom and Vision.”
Camp Details:
Dates: 16 to 21 January 2023
Camp Donation:
Non-AC Accommodation: ₹ 5,000 / US$ 150
AC Accommodation: ₹ 7,500 / US$ 200
Contact:
+91 92077 11136 | welcometocif@chinfo.org
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