Biswanath Bhattacharya

A Fresh Reference to Bhartṛmitras View on Lakshana

By Biswanath Bhattacharya

The subject of this article is the well-known view of Bhartṛmitra regarding the fivefold relationship that lakṣaṇā bears to vācyārtha, a perspective upheld as authoritative by many early and medieval…

Aśvaghoṣa’s Kāvyas: An Ālaṅkārikā Appraisal

By Biswanath Bhattacharya

“Aśvaghoṣa’s Kāvyas: An Ālaṅkārikā Appraisal” offers a literary critique of the works of Aśvaghoṣa, one of the earliest Sanskrit poets and dramatists. Aśvaghoṣa lived around the 1st–2nd centuries AD…

On an Anonymous Hemistich Cited in Vāmana’s Kavyālankāra-sūtra-vṛtti

By Biswanath Bhattacharya

Biswanath Bhattacharya’s brief note investigates an anonymous Sanskrit half‑verse (hemistich) quoted in Vāmana’s Kavyālankāra‑sūtra‑vṛtti as an illustration of the poet’s definition of the sarvanāman…

Scientific Background of the Buddhist Tantras

By Biswanath Bhattacharya

Bhattacharyya’s essay argues that the Buddhist Tantras, often dismissed as esoteric or irrational, have a scientific and psychological rationale. He traces the historical emergence of Tantric…

What a Deity Represents

By Biswanath Bhattacharya