Dubrovnik International Conference On The Sanskrit Epics and Puranas
As many as 29 leading Sanskrit scholars from all over the world attended the Third Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas (DICSEP3) at Dubrovnik from 2 to 7 September 2002 under the auspices of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Earlier, DICSEP 1 & DICSEP 2 were held in August 1997 and August 1999. The next conference is scheduled for 5-10 September, 2005.The Fifth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas is scheduled from 11 to 16 August 2008. The common theme of the year 2008 will be "Exchanges between the Sankrit epic and Purànic traditions and non-Brahmanical texts and traditions". It will include comparative studies on Brahmanism / Hinduism and Buddhism or Jainism, studies on intertextual relationships between these traditions and their texts, and will offer yet another, less investigated framework for understanding the Sanskrit epics and Purànas and their impact on the whole of the Indian culture: literatures, religions and textual traditions. So far the Proceedings of the first 3 conferences have been published in English by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the 1st conference proceedings alone being brought out in India by Munshiram Manoharlal. It is curious that not a single scholar from India has attended any of these conferences.
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