Sarveswara Sharma Peri

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Sarveswara Sharma Peri (born May 15, 1926 in Pedanandipalli Agraharam , Andhra Pradesh , † March 16, 2000 in Marburg ) was an Indian Indologist and scribe.

Sharma Peri came from a family of Brahmins and Sanskrit scholars. After preparatory studies at Andhra University , he continued his studies in Benares . In 1964, at the request of the Indologist Wilhelm Rau , he came to Marburg as a lecturer for New Indian languages ( Hindi and Telugu ) at the Indian Institute (later: Department of Indology) at the Philipps University ; he worked there until his retirement in 1991. In 1970 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Indian Sanskrit grammarian Bhartrihari .

In his Indian works, he combined traditional Indian scholarship with modern philological methods. In addition to Sanskrit grammar, he dealt with Indian astrology and chiromancy (palmistry) and was an enthusiastic reciter of classical Indian texts. He also translated, for example, the Wenker sentences of the linguist Georg Wenker into Sanskrit.

In 1999 he published an autobiographical verse epic about his time in Germany. It is written in Sanskrit and contains 114 stanzas in the classical meter Mandakranta .

Fonts

  • The Kālasamuddeśa of Bhartṛhari's Vākyapdīya. (Together with Helārāja's commentary). Transl. from the Sanskrit for the first time. Delhi [u. a.]: Motilal Banarsidass, 1972 (Zugl .: Marburg, Univ. Diss., 1970).
  • Anthology of Kumārilabhaṭṭa's works. With pref. and introd. Delhi [u. a.]: Motilal Banarsidass, 1980.
  • Wilhelm Rau: Vākyapadīyaprameyasamgraha. An anonymous scholion for the 2nd Kānḍạ d. Vākyapadīya. Together with Peri Sarveswara Sharma after d. only known ms. ed. by Wilhelm Rau. Munich: Fink 1981. ISBN 3-7705-1864-0 .
  • Śataślokena paṇḍitah by learning hundred verses one becomes wise. One hundred subhasitas (epigrams) with English transl. Marburg: Univ., [1982].
  • Wilhelm Rau: The Vedic quotations in the Kāśikā-vṛtti. After preliminary work S. Sharma Peris zsgest. by Wilhelm Rau. Stuttgart: Steiner 1993. ISBN 3-515-06389-7 .
Metric autobiography
  • Madvṛttāntaḥ. katham atha ca me jarmanīdeśavāsaḥ. kavayitā Peryupanāmā Sarveśvaraśarmā. Marburg, 1999.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Brief history of the Department of Indology and Tibetology at the Philipps University of Marburg on the website of the seminar (by Dragomir Dimitrov; English) (accessed on July 17, 2012).
  2. ^ Translation of the "Wenker sentences" into Sanskrit by SS Peri .
personal data
SURNAME Peri, Sarveswara Sharma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian Indologist, lecturer at the University of Marburg
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Pedanandipalli Agraharam , Andhra Pradesh
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2000
Place of death Marburg