Author Biography
George Cardona is Prof. (emeritus) of Linguistics at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several works on Sanskrit grammar (vyakarana), principally in the Paninian tradition, on the history of Indo-Aryan languages, and Gujarati. Madhav Deshpande, trained at the Univ of Pune and the Univ. of Pennsylvania, is Prof. of Sanskrit and Linguistics at the Univ. of Michigan, USA. His research interests include Paninian linguistics, socio-linguistics of Sanskrit and Prakrit, and history of Indian philosophy and religions.