BHAGWAN MAHAVIRA FELLOWSHIP TO LEARN PRAKRIT IN INDIA
ISJS is pleased to announce the 2nd Bhagwan Mahavira Fellowship to learn Prakrit for nine months in India will begin form September 01, 2021 at Pune, India. Following three candidates are enrolled for this program:
The fellowship provides full boarding, lodging, monthly stipend (for personal expenses), tuition, course material and travel within India in connection with the program. The selected scholars will only bear their own airfare to and from India, the passport, insurance, and visa fee, etc.
The program will begin from September 01, 2021 at Pune, India and end on May 31, 2022. During this tenure participants will learn Prakrit at ISJS Pune, Shantineketan (WB) and Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Prof. Ashok Kumar Singh, Prof. Jagat Ram Bhattacharya and Prof. Dinanath Sharma will teach them at these places respectively.
- Mr. Anthony James Ruda from USA
Graduated from Columbia University in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, with a focus on Mathematical Physics. Later he became acquainted with Prof. Kanti Mardia, the renowned statistician and Jain scholar and his mentor for Jain studies. He is co-writing a paper with him on “Some Aspects of Jain Logic and Statistical Thinking”, which he presented at the virtual International Symposium on Jainism & Mathematics. Following the fellowship, he may pursue formal study in a post-graduate program centered on Jainism, perhaps at the University of Edinburgh under Paul Dundas. - Mrs. Trisha Jha from India
Post-graduated from Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Currently enrolled in Masters of Philosophy (MPhil) Program in Ancient History under the supervision of Prof. R. Mahalakshmi, to be submitted in July 2021. Title of her MPhil thesis is ‘Prognostication as Knowledge: A Contextual Analysis of the Jain Angavijja (c. 1st Century BCE – 6th Century CE)’. This fellowship would be tremendously beneficial for her present research and future commitment to the study of historical factors through Jain Prakrit literature. - Ms. Pragya Jain from ISJS, India
Research Associate at International School for Jain Studies, Pune, India. She has completed double masters in English Literature (2006), and Jainology and Comparative Studies (2019). She also holds a research degree (MPhil) with the specialization in Aestheticism. She also possesses a five-year certificate course “Siddhant Visharad” in Jainism from Pandit Todarmal Smarak Mukt Vidyapith, Jaipur. In past ten years, she has established herself as an academician and a journalist. She has worked as a lecturer of Communication Skills, Journalism, Creative Writing, and other mass media subjects at various colleges in Mumbai. Currently, she is also a research scholar pursuing her PhD from the department of Jainology and Prakrit at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. This Prakrit study program will aid as a pivotal assistance in her doctoral research.
The fellowship provides full boarding, lodging, monthly stipend (for personal expenses), tuition, course material and travel within India in connection with the program. The selected scholars will only bear their own airfare to and from India, the passport, insurance, and visa fee, etc.
The program will begin from September 01, 2021 at Pune, India and end on May 31, 2022. During this tenure participants will learn Prakrit at ISJS Pune, Shantineketan (WB) and Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Prof. Ashok Kumar Singh, Prof. Jagat Ram Bhattacharya and Prof. Dinanath Sharma will teach them at these places respectively.
