Yajanveer Dahiya

Dr. Yajanveer Dahiya is an eminent Sanskrit scholar and an Indologist. He was born in 1949 at village Rohna in Sonipat, Haryana.

Education

Yajanveer Dahiya did his Ph.D. in 1977 from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He got his Litterarum Doctor (Doctor of Letters) in 1989 from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (formerly, Garhwal University), Uttarakhand.

Career

Yajanveer Dahiya is the former Chair and Director of the Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana.

He has also been the former Head of the Department of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit, and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana.

He is a keen participant at All India Oriental Conferences, Linguistic Conferences, and worldwide Sanskrit Conferences, etc.

Works

Research papers

Yajanveer Dahiya has published more than fifty research papers in leading journals.

Books

The Language of the Atharva-veda (1979)
Pāṇini as a linguist: Ideas and Patterns (1995)
Treatment of phonology in Dayananda (2000)
संस्कृतभाषादर्शनम् (English: Philosophy of Sanskrit Language) (2001)
A Critical Appreciation of Austerity in Ancient Indian Literature (2003)
Hinduism and Buddhism in Perspective (2008)

Review of works

Review of "The Language of the Atharva-veda" by G. B. Palsule

Notability and citation of Dahiya's works

Yajanveer Dahiya's works have been cited by numerous scholars in their books. Some of them are listed below:

Dahiya's book "Pāṇini as a linguist: Ideas and Patterns" has been cited as reference by Dr. George Cardona in his book "Recent Research in Pāṇinian Studies".^[1]

George Cardona is an American linguist, Indologist, Sanskritist, and scholar of Pāṇini. Cardona is presently Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dahiya has been cited as reference by the Dr. Chettiarthodi Rajendran (Professor, Department of Sanskrit, University of Calicut) in the book "Aspects of Pāṇinian semantics".^[2]

Dahiya's work on Atharva Veda has been cited as reference by Prafulla Kumar Misra in his book "New Dimensions in the Atharvaveda: Prof. K.C. Acharya Commemoration Volume".^[3]

Dahiya finds mention in "Commonwealth Universities Yearbook 2002: A Directory to the Universities of the Commonwealth and the Handbook of Their Association".^[4]

References

↑ Cardona, George (1999). Recent Research in Pāṇinian Studies. Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 8120816374, 9788120816374.
↑ Rajendran, Chettiarthodi (2002). Aspects of Pāṇinian semantics. Sahitya Akademi. ISBN 812601413X, 9788126014132. Quote: "Panini's linguistic categories correspond, as argued by Dr. Yajanveer Dahiya, to the underlying conceptual relations as per as it could be possible."
↑ Misra, Prafulla Kumar (2003). New Dimensions in the Atharvaveda: Prof. K.C. Acharya Commemoration Volume. Pratibha Prakashan. ISBN 8177020250, 9788177020250.
↑ Commonwealth Universities Yearbook 2002: A Directory to the Universities of the Commonwealth and the Handbook of Their Association (revised edition). Association of Commonwealth Universities. ISBN 085143181X, 9780851431819.

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[1] Cardona, George (1999). Recent Research in Pāṇinian Studies. Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 8120816374, 9788120816374.

[2] Rajendran, Chettiarthodi (2002). Aspects of Pāṇinian semantics. Sahitya Akademi. ISBN 812601413X, 9788126014132. Quote: "Panini's linguistic categories correspond, as argued by Dr. Yajanveer Dahiya, to the underlying conceptual relations as per as it could be possible."

[3] Misra, Prafulla Kumar (2003). New Dimensions in the Atharvaveda: Prof. K.C. Acharya Commemoration Volume. Pratibha Prakashan. ISBN 8177020250, 9788177020250.

[4] Commonwealth Universities Yearbook 2002: A Directory to the Universities of the Commonwealth and the Handbook of Their Association (revised edition). Association of Commonwealth Universities. ISBN 085143181X, 9780851431819.

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