Prem Pahlajrai प्रेम पहलाजराय University of Washington Asian Languages and Literature Gowen 231 prem@u.washington.edu 206-543-4096 Mailing Address:   University of Washington,   Box 353521,   Seattle WA 98195-3521   USA. Lecturer - First Year Hindi — Hindi311, Hindi312, Hindi313                 Second Year Hindi — Hindi321, Hindi322, Hindi323                 Asian 498B (The Bhagavad Gītā, Spring 2013)                 Asian 498B (Intro to Indian Philosophical Literature, Spr 2014) Office Hours: T 8:00-9:00, WTh 11:30-12:00 and by appointment (Winter 2014)

Interests:

• Indian philosophy with an emphasis on soteriology
• Advaita Vedānta
• Swāmī Niścaladāsa's Vr̥ttiprabhākara, a 19^th century Hindi text on Advaita epistemology

• 1st Year Hindi home page
• 2nd Year Hindi home page
• Resources for Learning Hindi
  
• Spring 2013 - Asian 498B: The Bhagavad Gītā 
• Spring 2014 - Asian 498A: Intro to Indian Philosophical Literature 
• The Alan W. Entwistle Indian Hindi Poster Collection (part of the Resources for learning Hindi page)
• The Alan Entwistle Indian Gods & Goddesses Image Collection (part of the Eastern Religions RELIG 202 course page)
• Unicode HTML Version of Monier-Williams Sanskrit English Dictionary
  
• Sanskrit Paradigms
• Works
• Niścaldās and his Vṛttiprabhākar: Advaita Vedānta in the Vernacular - Dissertation, 2013
  
• The Authorship of the Pañcadaśī and the Textual Context of its Tr̥ptidīpa-prakaraṇa - MA Thesis, 2005
• Doxographies - Why six darśanas? Which six?
  
• Different Varieties of Vedānta
  
• Vidyāraṇya's Pañcadaśī Chapter 7


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[Last Updated: Feb 01, 2014]