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Rohana Seneviratne

0000-0002-4087-0524

Professor of Sanskrit, University of Peradeniya (Language, communication and culture; Philosophy and religious studies; Information and computing sciences; History, heritage and archaeology; Education; Creative arts and writing; Human society)

Sri Lanka

I am a Sri Lankan linguist with a serious passion for Sanskrit and Indology. Trained at Peradeniya (SL), Liverpool (UK), and Oxford (UK), I write in Sinhala, English, and Sanskrit on a wide array of topics ranging from Sanskrit grammar and Indo-European philology to Indian philosophy and aesthetics. While at Oxford, I won the 2012 Saraswati Sanskrit Prize for my Sanskrit poetry titled "Surabhāratīvaraṇārthamahārṇavabinduḥ" accompanied by a self-commentary on the theme "why we must learn Sanskrit today". [The Saraswati Sanskrit Prize is a biannual award instituted in 2008 by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in India together with the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia, the University of Heidelberg in Germany]. Since August 2022, I am Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Before occupying the Sanskrit Chair, I was a full professor in Sanskrit there since September 2019.

Publications

  • Lesser-known and Flippant Poetry as against the Mainstream Literary Tradition in Sanskrit
  • Piyadasa Nisshanka: The Brightest Beacon of Inspiration for Translating Sanskrit Classics into Sinhala
  • May the chief prelate Ven. Vimala shine for good: A Eulogy in Sanskrit
  • Elegance of Poetical Hymns of the Ṛgveda
  • The Sanskrit short poem that received the Saraswati Sanskrit Prize 2012: Surabhāratīvaraṇārthamahārṇavabinduḥ
  • Kaliviḍambana alias Mockery of the Kali Age by Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita
  • Lion? Nah, you are a dog: Negative and destructive criticism among early modern Sanskrit intelligentsia
  • A brief examination of the Sanskrit dramatic theories and conventions as depicted in the plays of Bhāsa
  • Validity of the Rasavada in Making an Aesthetic Judgment: A Critique
  • The contemporary face of the Sanskrit punditry
  • A Few Insights into Novel Trends in Sanskrit Studies
  • An inquiry into the Hiraṇyagarbha sūkta of the Ṛgveda
  • The Dream Episode in the Svapnavāsavadatta of Bhāsa: A Critical Analysis
  • Apropos the Buddha's Omniscience as elaborated in the Early Buddhist Texts of Theravada Tradition: A Brief Critique
  • Contesting Word Meaning: Insights into Bhartṛhari's Arguments in the Vākyapadīya
  • Three-eyed against Five-arrowed: Surveying Sanskrit Literary Conventions
  • Unity of Sentential Meaning: Bhartṛhari's Approach to the Indivisibility Thesis
  • Bhartṛhari and Wittgenstein on Grammar: A Few Observations
  • Seeing is believing thence Knowing: Some linguistic insights into the interrelation between knowledge and visual perception
  • Surabhāratīvaraṇārtha-mahārṇavabinduḥ svopajñayā rohaṇottejanīsamākhyayā laghuvyākhyayā samullasitaḥ
  • Editorial
  • A Sinhala rendering of the Durgā (Mahiṣāsuramardini) Stotram by Śrī Śaṅkarācārya
  • A Precious Jewel among Sanskrit Literati: Prof. Ratna Handurukande
  • Prof. Meegaskumbura's delight and expertise in oriental languages and studies
  • Report of the Jury - H.A.I. Goonetileke Prize 2019-2020
  • Speaking in Gods’ Tongue: The Grammar of Sanskrit Scholarship Today
  • Divine, Panacean & emancipative water in Vedic religion
  • The revival of Sphoṭa in early modern Benares: Śeṣakṛṣṇa's Sphoṭattvanirūpaṇa
  • A review on the "Samakalina Sahitya Vicara Lekhana" by Kulathilaka Kumarasinghe
  • The Grammar of Sanskrit Scholarship Today
  • Divine, Panacean, and Emancipative Water in Vedic religion
  • Language Expertise for the Study of Oriental Philosophies
  • Research Methodology in the Humanities
  • Sanskrit Dhvani Theory and Contemporary Literary Criticism
  • Necessity of Accessing Ancient Oriental Knowledge in the face of Modern Social Challenges
  • Academic writing for advanced students on Indological studies
  • Research Methodology for Humanities
  • Humanities Research: Today and Tomorrow
  • Why should we study Sanskrit
  • Development strategies, pitfalls, and solutions in introducing the Sanskrit language as a discipline back to school education in Sri Lanka
  • Official Website of iPURSE 2021 - University of Peradeniya
  • Official Website of ICHSS 2018 - University of Peradeniya
  • User Manual on Accessing Google G Suite accounts
  • Authors' Manual: EasyChair CMS for ICHSS 2018
  • Reviewers' Manual: EasyChair CMS for ICHSS 2018
  • Undergraduate Prospectus - 2020 Entry
  • Grammar is Our Saviour: A Normative Guide to Emancipation as Expounded in the Vākyapadīya
  • Mouthing the Heart: Language Stratification in Indian Philosophy
  • Hack thy Śepa - Crush thy Muṣka: Emasculation of Supernatural Sex Criminals in the Atharvaveda
  • Eloquent Silence Revalorized: Some Comparative Insights into Sanskrit and Japanese Parlance
  • The Sanskrit Mahākāvya Literature after Kālidāsa - A Critical Appraisal
  • Varuṇa, the Guardian of Morality in the Ṛgveda
  • Mahābhārata and Mahā Bhārata: The Epic and the Land It Belongs to
  • A Sinhala translation of “Reasoning and Argument in Īṣvarakṛṣṇa’s Theory of Knowledge” by Prof. S. G. M. Weerasinghe
  • Some Theoretical Contradictions in the Classical Sanskrit Literature
  • Insights into a Few Phonetic Laws in Sanskrit Linguistics
  • Samavāya-sambandha alias Organic Unity: An Aesthetic Outlook
  • The Role of Prose-Poetry in Classical Sanskrit Literature
  • Russian Formalists' Aesthetic Criteria
  • Sāyana on Golden Embryo
  • The indivisibility thesis (Akhandapaksavada) as expounded in Bhartrhari's philosophy of grammar
  • The sphoṭa doctrine as in the Indian Philosophy of Grammar
  • The Indivisibility Thesis (akhaṇḍapakṣavāda) as expounded in Bhartṛhari’s Philosophy of Grammar
  • Hack thy Śepha - Crush thy Muṣka: Threats from the Atharvaveda
  • Apropos nāntarīyaka or Unavoidable Semantic Concomitant: A Brief Inquiry in the light of the Vākyapadīya
  • Bhartṛhari on the Meaning of Silence
  • Patañjali vs. Bhartṛhari on the Power of Dhvani in Manifesting Sphoṭa
  • Meaning of Silence: A Philosophical Inquiry into Syntactic Ellipsis
  • The Sanskrit Diminutive Suffix ‘-ka’: A Philological and Philosophical Reading
  • Literary Conventions in the Classical Sanskrit Literature
  • Meaning Acquisition or Athodgrahana according to Nyāya Philosophers
  • Challenges in and Solutions for Conjugating Sanskrit Verbs
  • Meaning of Silence: A Philosophical Inquiry into Syntactic Ellipsis
  • Philosophizing Pronominal Paradigmatic Permutations: A Brief Reading of Anaphoric Referencing in Sanskrit Syntax
  • Literary Conventions in the Classical Sanskrit Literature
  • The Sanskrit Diminutive Suffix ‘-ka’: A Philological and Philosophical Reading
  • Meaning Acquisition or Arthodgrahaṇa according to Nyāya Philosophers
  • Hack thy Śepha - Crush thy Muṣka: Threats from the Atharvaveda
  • Bhartṛhari’s Philosophy of Grammar and his Construal of the Sentential Meaning
  • Official Website of Department of Classical Languages - University of Peradeniya
  • Official Website of ICSSH 2011 - University of Peradeniya
  • Surabhāratīvaraṇārthamahārṇavabinduḥ svopajñayā rohaṇottejanīsamākhyayā laghuvyākhyayā samullasitaḥ
  • Precision in Academic Writing in the Humanities

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