Stanley Insler

Stanley Insler was born in New York City. Last year he celebrated his sixty-fifth birthday, and that occasion gave to his colleagues and students, the opportunity to honour his teaching and scholarship.

Contents

H. W. BODEWITZ, The Dark and Deep Underworld in the Veda 213

JOEL P. BRERETON, The Race of Mudgala and Mudgalani 224

GEORGE CARDONA, The Old Indo-Aryan Tense System 235

MADHAV DESHPANDE, Fluidity of Early Grammatical Categories in Sanskrit 244

HARRY FALK, How his srauta-fires Save the Life of an Ahitagni 248

ELLISON BANKS FINDLY, Borderline Beings: Plant Possibilities in Early Buddhism 252

EDWIN GEROW, Rasa and Katharsis: A Comparative Study, Aided by Several Films 264

HANS HEINRICH HOCK, The Yajñavalkya Cycle in the Brhad firanyaka Upanisad 278

STEPHANIE W. JAMISON, An Anagram in the Gathas: Yasna 51.4-5 287

JAY H. JASANOFF, The Vedic Imperatives yódhi ’fight’ and bodhi ’heed’ 290

JOSHUA T. KATZ, How the Mole and Mongoose Got their Names: Sanskrit akhú- and nakulá- 296

JARED S. KLEIN, Responsion in the Rigveda 311

ALEXANDER LUBOTSKY, The Indo-Iranian Word for ’shank, shin’ 318

H. CRAIG MELCHERT, Sanskrit sárdigrdi- 325

CHRISTOPHER MINKOWSKI, Nilakantha Caturdhara’s Mantrakasikhanda 329

PATRICK OLIVELLE, Abhaksya and abhojya: An Exploration in Dietary Language 345

MARIANNE S. OORT, Sura in the Paippalada Samhita of the Atharvaveda 355

ASKO PARPOLA, Panda?h and Sita: On the Historical Background of the Sanskrit Epics 361

LUDO ROCHER, Dasadasi 374

ROSANE ROCHER, Sanskrit for Civil Servants 1806-1818 381

HARTMUT SCHARFE, Kharosti and Brahmi 391

BERNFRIED SCHERATH, Vedisch ksad- 394

PRODS OKTOR SKJÆRVØ, Ahura Mazda andAirmaiti, Heaven and Earth, in the Old Avesta 399

GEORGE THOMPSON, Ádhrigu and drigu: On the Semantics of an Old Indo-Iranian Word 411

ELIZABETH TUCKER, When Old is Not Old… : RV jarádasti-, jaradvísam, and the Vulture Jaradgava 419

WILLIAM A. VANCE, Remarks on the Temporal Value of the Rig Vedic Terms in -pitvá- 428

CALVERT WATKINS, Pindar’s Rigveda 432

Contact Info

Office: 323 HGS
Phone: (203) 432-2455
Email: insler-stanley@yale.edu

Publications of Stanley Insler

1. The Gathas of Zarathustra. Text, Translation, Commentary. Teheran-Liège. 1975.

2. Translation of Rigvedic Hymns in Agni, ed. by Frits Staal. Berkeley, 1983.

3. Chapters “Human Behavior and Good Thinking” and “Zarathustra’s Vision” in An Introduction to the Gathas of Zarathustra. Pittsburgh, 1989-90.