[vedic-culture] List of Scholars At LA WAVES conferance

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CONFERENCE

PROGRAM

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Friday: August 7, 1998

 

REGISTRATION BEGINS IN THE AFTERNOON OF AUGUST 7, 1998

(Registration fee includes lunches and entry to Cultural program & Banquet.)

 

SESSION 1 ---- 2:00 - 3:25 ---- INAUGURATION

 

Chairman: Professor Bhu Dev Sharma (Xavier Uni., New Orleans, LA) Recorder:

Dr. Shyam N. Shukla

2:00 - 2:02 Vedic Invocation:

2:02 - 2:07 Dr. Bhu Dev Sharma (President, WAVES) - About WAVES, Conference &

Introduction of Professor Lal:

2:07 - 2:47 Professor B. B. Lal (Former Director Gen. Archaeological Survey of

India): -

Inaugural Address: Myth of Aryan Invasion: Some reflections on the

Authorship

of the Indus Civilization

2:47 - 2:57 Mr. Richard Alcorn (Councilor, LA City Adm. Council) - US-India

Relations &

Welcome to the Delegates

2:57 - 3:25 Professor Jagdish N. Srivastava (Colorado State Uni., Fort Collins,

CO) -

Impact of Vedic Culture on World Spiritual Growth

TEA BREAK ---- 3:25 - 3:45

 

SESSION 2 ---- 3:45 - 4:25 Address by the Chief Guest

 

Chair: Professor B. B. Lal Recorder: Mr. Srinivas Sista

3:45 - 4:25 Prof. K. L. Seshagiri Rao (Dept of Religion, Uni. of South Carolina,

Columbia),The Chief Guest: - Hinduism and the Emerging World Culture

SESSION 3 ---- 4:30 - 6:10

Chair: Professor K. L. Seshagiri Rao Recorder: Mr. Satya D. Gupta

4:30 - 4:50 Dr. Shashi Tiwari (Maitraye College, Delhi Uni.): Vedic Foundations

of Socialism:

Rgveda and Atharvaveda

4:50 - 5:10 Prof V. V. Prakasa Rao (Chair, Dept. of Sociology, Jackson State

Uni., MS) & Dr.

Nandini Rao: The Role of Guru in Ancient India

5:10 - 5:30 Mr. Rayalu Vishwanadha (Vedic Scholar, Los Angeles, CA): Impersonal

Veda

5:30 - 5:50 Dr. Jatindra Saha (Uni. of Plymouth, UK) - A Cosmological

Perspective of the

Invocation of Isopanishad

5:50 - 6:10 Dr. Navratnam S. Rajaram (Prof. Of Math., Banglore) Presented by

David Frawley:

Beyond Decipherement: Message of the Indus Seals

DINNER 6:10 - 7:00

 

SESSION 4 ---- PUBLIC LECTURE & CULTURAL PROGRAM 7:00 - 8:45

 

7:00 - 7:45 Chair: Dr. G. V. Chelvapila, MD (Philanthropist & Scholar, Los

Angeles)

Shri Jagdish C. Sharma (Consul General, Consulate General of

India, Chicago): -

Hindu Temples of Vietnam

7:45 - 8:45 Indian, Japanese, and Thai Classical Dances & Music.

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday: August 8, 1998

 

SESSION 5 ---- 8:00 - 9:40

 

Chair: Dr. Jatindra Saha (Uni. of Plymouth, U.K.) Recorder: Mr. Satya D.

Gupta

8:00 - 8:25 Dr. Jyotpaul Chaudhuri (Ari. St. U, Tempe)- Ancient Roots of

Contemporary Indian

Political Culture

8:25 - 8:50 Padmashri Laxmi Narayan Dubey (Professor Emeriyus, Sagar, MP,

India): Indian

Culture Through Hindi

8:50 - 9:15 Hary Hicks (Director, FCP) & Prof. Robert N. Anderson (San Jose

State Uni.) -

Migrations Relating to Ancient India & Vedic Aryans: A New Scientific Analysis

9:15 - 9:40 Prof. R. L. Kashyap (Purdue. Uni., IN): Mathematics in India of the

Vedic Age

 

SESSION 6: ---- 9:45 - 10:25 --- Keynote Address

 

Chairman: Professor R. C. Pandey (Banaras Hindu Uni., Varanasi, India) Recorder:

Dr. Kuldip C. Gupta

 

9:45 - 10:25 Professor McKim Marriott (Department of Anthropology, Uni. of

Chicago) Keynote Address:: Constructing Social Sciences from Hindu Learned

Traditions - An Anthropologist's Formulations

BREAK ---- 10:25 - 10:40

 

SESSION 7---- 10:40 - 11:30

 

Chair: Dr. J. N. Sharma (Exec. Director, Delhi Research Inst. For Modernized

Promotion of Ayurveda);

Recorder Mr. Satya D. Gupta

10::40 - 11:05 Dr. Akhilesh Sharma (Indraprastha Ayurvedic Clinic, Delhi) - AIDS

& Ayurveda

11:05 - 11:30 Dr. G. B. Deglurkar (Pune, India) - Ultimate in the Iconography:

Bimb-Brahma

SESSION 8 A---- 11:35 - 1:15

Chair: Professor R. L. Kashyap Recorder Mr. Shankerpersad S. Bhatt

11:35 - 11:55 Prof. B. N. Narhari Achar (Dept. of Physics, Uni. of Memphis,

TN): Measurement of

Time using a Water Clock: The Third mantra of the Kalasukta of Athervaveda

11:55 - 12:15 Dr. Raja R. Roy (Dept. of Metall. & Material Sci, Uni. of Toronto,

Canada): Vedic Cosmology

12:15 - 12:35 Dr. Shyam N. Shukla (Project Manager, LLNL, Uni. of Cali.,

Fremont): Science &

Technology in Mahabharat Period

12:35 - 12:55 Dr. Narayan Joshi (Dept. of Civil Engg., Prairie View A&M Uni,

TX): Swadeshi Science

12:55 - 1:15 Professor T. R. N. Rao (Professor of Computer Science, USL,

Lafayette, LA): Computer

Science in Ancient India

SESSION 8 B---- 11:35 - 1:15

Chair: Professor S. R. Bhatt Coordinator/Recorder - Shri Rayalu Vishwanadha

11:35 - 11:55 Prof. Y. S. Shastri (Dept. of Theology, Loyola Marymont Uni., Los

Angeles): Vedic Ecology With

Special Reference to Bhumi Sukta of Atharvaveda

11:55 - 12:15 Dr. Prem C. Shridhar (Dept. of Philosophy): Veda: An Introduction

to Divine knowledge

12:15 - 12:35 R. Narayan Swami (Software Engineer, LA)- Taittiriya Upanishat

12:35 - 12:55 Prof. Anoop Chandola (Uni. Of Arizona, Tuscon): Vedic

Meaninglessness to

Meanigfulness: Vedicization of the Puja Rituals

12:55 - 1:15 Dr. Kuldip C. Gupta (Uni. of Colorado, Boulder, CO) - The Vedic

Texts

SESSION 8 C---- 11:35 - 1:15

Chair: Dr. Akhilesh Sharma Recorder: Mr. Srinivas Sista

11:35 - 11:55 Dr. Amita Sharma (House Physician, FL, USA) & Pankaj Triguni

(Pharmacist,

Delhi) - Amalgamation of Ayurveda with Modern Medicine

11:55 - 12:15 Dr. Tapasvi Janak Shahi ( Pitampura, Delhi) - Healing Through

Mantra Therapy Dr.

12:15 - 12:35 Dr. Rajesh Sharma, Dr. S. P. Arya & Rajpal Singh (Ayurvedic

Scholars and

practitioners) - Relevance of Panch Karma: Treatment in Degenerative Diseases

12:35 - 12:55 Vaidya Deepak Triguni (Ayurvedic Practitioner) - Treating

Hemorrhoids and

Jaundice Through Ayurveda

12:55 - 1:15 Dr. Pankaj Triguni (Pharmacist) - Herbal Remedies for Diabetes

Mellitus, ..

Ulcers and Carbuncles

LUNCH ---- 1:15 - 2:00

 

SESSION 9 ---- 2:00 - 2:40 --- Keynote Address

Chair: Dr. Shashi Tiwari Recorder: Mr. Robert Arnett

2:00 - 2:40 Keynote Address: Professor S. S. Rama Rao Pappu (Dept. of

Philosophy, Miami Uni.,

Oxford, OH) - Hinduism, Secularism & the Secular State

 

SESSION 10 ---- 2:45 - 4:25

Chair: Professor McKim Marriott Recorder: Mr. Satya D. Gupta

2:45 - 3:10 Dr. Yosef T. Modeira (Uni. of West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad):

Some

Ethnological & Philological Perspectives on Ancient Dravidians, Autocthons,

Aboriginals, Tribals, Adivasis and Vedic Aryans

3:10 - 3:35 Dr. S. Klayanaraman (Author, scholar) - Rigveda And Sarasvati-Sindhu

Civilization

3:35 - 4:00 Dr. Edwin Bryant (Dept. of Religion, Harvard Uni.) - The Indo-Aryan

Invasion Debate:

The Politics of a Discourse

4:00 - 4:25 Keonraad Elst (Catholic Uni., Leuven, Belgium) - An Update on

Invasionist Reaction to

Aryan Non-Invasion Theory

Break ---- 4:25 - 4:40

 

SESSION 11 A---- 4:40 - 5:55

Chair: Professor R. R. Pandey (BHU, Varanasi, India) Recorder: Mr. Robert

Arnett

4:40 - 5:05 Prof. S. R. Bhatt (Dept. of Philosophy, Delhi Uni.) -

Environmentalism and the Vedic

System of Education

5:05 - 5:30 Dr. T. D. Murlidharan (Ananthacharya Indological Res. Institute,

Bombay Uni) - The Mudras as Seen in Pancaratra

5:30 - 5:55 Dr. Savita Gaur (Dept. of Comp. Lit., South Gujrat Uni., Surat) -

Dignity of Man as

Depicted in Mahabharat

SESSION 11 B---- 4:40 - 5:55

Chair: Professor J. Chaudhuri Recorder: Dr. Kuldip C. Gupta

4:40 - 5:05 Prof. M. Rajagopalan (Dept. of Math, Tennessee State Uni.) & Prof.

B. N. Narhari Achar

(Dept of Physics, Uni. of Memhis) -Linear Equation with Integral

Coefficients: Aryabhata's

Kuttaka Method

5:05 - 5:30 Dr. T. R. Raghunath (Sylmar, CA 91342): The Role of Vedic Astrology

in Indian Culture

5:30 - 5:55 Mrs. Kamlesh Kapur (New York) - Vedic Solutions to Nonalignment

Between the Inner and Outer Reality

 

SESSION 12 ---- PUBLIC LECTURE & BANQUET 7:00 - 9:30

 

AT - Delhi Palace Restaurant, 22323 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, CA (phone:

818-992-0913)

7:00 - 7:30 Drinks & Snacks

7:30 - 8:30 Chair: Mr. Naveen Doshi (Philanthropist) - Indian Studies in US

Universities:

Creating Funded Chairs

David Frawley (Director, American Institute of Vedic Studies): - Vedic Heritage

of Both India and Europe

8:30 Dinner is Served

 

 

 

 

Sunday: August 9, 1998

 

SESSION 13 ---- 8:00 - 10:05

Chair: Keonraad Elst (Catholic Uni., Leuven, Belgium) Recorder: Dr. Shyam N.

Shukla

8:00 - 8:25 Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria (Deakin Uni., Melborne, Australia)

- Hindu Perception

of Muslims in India

8:25 - 8:50 Professor Rewati Raman Pandey (Head of the Dept. of Philosophy &

Religion,

Banaras Hindu Uni.) - The Concept of Isvara in Indian Philosophy: A Critical

Study

8:50 - 9:15 Prof. M. M. Shankhdher (Dept. of Pol. Sci., Delhi Uni.) -

Consciousness in Vedas and

Modern Knowledge

9:15 - 9:40 Dr. Shashi Prabha Sharma (Daulat Ram College, Delhi Uni.) -

Meditation in the Indian

Tradition

9:40 - 10:05 Frank Morales (Uni. of Wisconsin, Madison) - Vishnu-Shakti: An

Ontological Study

of the Transcendent Feminine Powers of Vaishnava Tradition

Break ---- 10:05 - 10:25

 

SESSION 14 ---- 10:25 - 12:05

Chair: Professor M. M. Shankhdher Recorder: Mr. Shankerprasad Bhatt

10:25 - 10:50 Prof. Ram Chandra Pandey (Head of the Dept. of Jyotish, BHU,

Varanasi) -

Relevance of Jyotish in Modern Life

10:50 - 11:15 Dr. J. N. Sharma (Exec. Director, Delhi Research Inst. For

Modernized Promotion of

Ayurveda) - Overview of Ayurveda vis-a-vis Modern Western Medicine with Special

Reference to Cardiovascular Disorders

11:15 - 11:40 Dr. R. C. Panda (Head of the Dept. of Vyakarana, BHU, Varanasi) -

Bhartrihari's

Concept of Pratibha

11:40 - 12:05 Dr. K. Suryanarayana & Dr. D. K. Lobiyal (School of Comp. & System

Sci., JNU,

New Delhi) - An Online Database for Ancient Indian Science

 

SESSION 15 A---- 12:05 - 1:15

Chair: Professor S. S. Rama Rao Pappu Recorder: Dr. K. C. Gupta

12:05 - 12.25 Ms. Sandhya Chakraborti (Export, PA) - Arjuna's Vishad Yoga - A

Psychiatric Case Study

12:25 - 12:50 Mr. Shankerprasad S. Bhatt (Journalist, Chicago, IL) - New

Perspectives of Bhagwat Gita

12:50 - 1:15 Mrs. Sudharani Shrivastava (Lawyer, Jabalpur, India) - Status of

Woman: Historical

Perspectives on Vedic, Ancient and Modern Civilization

SESSION 15 B---- 12:05 - 1:15

Chair: Professor Purushottama Bilimoria Recorder: Mr. Shanerprasad Bhatt

12:05 - 12:25 Dr. Shyam N. Shukla (Vedic Scholar, Fremont, CA) - Vedanta

Philosophy in

Adhyatma Ramayan

12:25 - 12:50 Dr. Narayan Joshi (Prairie View A&M Uni., TX) - New Historical

Dates for Buddha,

Chandragupta & Ashoka

12:50 - 1:15 Mr. Satya D. Gupta and Dr. Damodar S. Airan (Coral Springs, FL) -

Hindu Polity

As Presented in Ramayan

SESSION 15 C---- 12:05 - 1:15

Chair: Professor T. R. N. Rao

12:05 - 12:25 Mr. Roop Chand 'Deepak' (President, Arya Samaj, Lucknow) - Indian

View of Sci. and

Religion

12:25 - 12:50 Dr. Deen B. Chandora (Atlanta, GA) - Misinterpretations of Vedic

Hymns

12:50 - 1:15 Kailsh N. Tiwari (Sanskritist, Itawa, India): - The Medical

Treatment Systems in

Atharvedic Age

LUNCH ---- 1:15 - 2:00

 

SESSION 16---- 2:00 - 2:45

Panel: "The Indus Sarasvati Culture: Vedic or non-Vedic?" Recorder: Mr.

Shankerprasad Bhatt

David Frawley (Moderator) (Director, American Institute of Vedic Studies)

Dr. Edwin Bryant, Mr. Keonraad Elst

Dr. Kalyanaraman, Ms. Sandhya Chakraborty, Prof. B. B. Lal

 

SESSION 17---- 2:45 - 3:30 ---- Closing

Chair: Dr. Bhu Dev Sharma (Xavier Uni., New Orleans, LA)

Recorder: Professor R. L. Kashyap (General Secretary, WAVES)

Remarks from: Chairmen / Recoders of different sessions; Resolutions, etc., if

any.

Thanks: Mr. Rayalu Vishwanadha, Mr. Jaidev Rao, Dr. Deen Bandhu Chandora

 

 

 

 

 

Note 1: Please leave your complete address, phone/fax numbers, e-mail, etc. with

the Registration desk or the General Secretary, Professor R. L. Kashyap.

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year; $500.00 for life. Members get free copies of WAVES' research quarterly

'Journal of Studies on Ancient India'. Please contact General Secretary

Professor R. L. Kashyap or the Treasurer Dr. Deen Bandhu Chandora.

 

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