Syllabus: Research Methodology

• What is research? (Homework: read a well-written research paper in Sanskrit.) 

• How to choose a research topic. 

• Survey printed and digital catalogues and bibliographies. (Homework: locate works relevant to a given topic)

• Bibliography: The elements of a bibliographic citation: how to read one, and how to write one; introduction to the Chicago manual of style. (Homework: write bibliographic entries of a book, journal article, article in a collection in English and Sanskrit.)

• Introduction to research and bibliographic sources 

  • for Vedic 

  • for grammar(vya ̄karana)andnirukta

  • for historical linguistics

  • for philosophy (dars ́ana)

  • for poetics (ka ̄vya), drama and dance (na ̄tyas ́a ̄stra), music (ganita) ..

  • for metrics(chandas),literarycriticism(alan ̇ka ̄ras ́a ̄stra) . . . for astronomy and astrology (jyotisa)

  • for epigraphy and manuscriptology

  • forepics(itiha ̄saandpura ̄na)

  • for dharmas ́a ̄straandarthas ́a ̄stra Abstract writing
    
    

• Paper writing
  
  

• Review