2008
Discovering the Vedas. Origins, Mantras, Ritual, Insights. Penguin INDIA, first edition in March, second edition in October.
(Ed.) "The Generosity of Formal Languages. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Asian Contributions to the formation of modern science: Amsterdam: May 18-20, 2006. Journal of Indian Philosophy.
"Preface," in: Staal, ed. (see above)
"Artificial Languages between Innate Faculties" in: Staal, ed. (see above).
"RathakAro ManasA." Proceedings of the Fourth International Vedic Workshop. Austin, Texas 2007
"Deletion in Shahpura," The London Philatelist 117/1352.
Forthcoming
"Two Whiffs of Air", Journal of Hindu Studies 1.1
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/jhs/
"How Ancients Looked at the Cosmos", Rubin Museum of Art, New York.
“Formalizing Logic with Special Reference to Hetuvidya." Proceedings of the International Conference on HetuvidyA (Buddhist Logic), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. of China. June 14-16, 2006.
"From Linguistics to Mathematics." Chennai Mathematical Institute.
Collection Frits Staal. A Catalogue of recordings taken between 1957 and 1980 chiefly in South India and especially of mantras and other ritual recitations and chants among the Nambudiri
Brahmans of Kerala. Berkeley Language Center. University of California at Berkeley/Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, Gurgaon, Haryana. [will be available on www.mip.berkeley.edu/blc.la/index.html]
“Dharma and Cakra in Buddhism and the Vedas.” Proceedings of the Fourth Bi-Annual Conference on "Dharma and Abhidharma," 2006. Mumbai: K.J. Somaiya Centre for Buddhist Studies.
REVIEW:
Laurie L. Patton, Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice, History of Religions.
2007
“Secrets Behind Walls,” The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia.
“Nature, Culture and Language” in: Roddam Narasimha and Sangeetha Menon, eds., Nature and Culture, Bangalore: National Institute of Advanced Studies.
"Shahpura Postal Fiscal History," The London Philatelist 116/1351:376-89
"Preface" for Bad Boys of the Marquis de Sade. San Francisco: Photos by BIRON.
“Creativity and Generosity in Language,” Proceedings of the Workshop on "Asian Contributions to the formation of modern science II: The Generosity of Artificial Languages in an Asian Perspective" Amsterdam: May 18-20, 2006. Journal of Indian Philosophy. Generosity
“Secrets Behind Walls”, The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia.
“Nature, Culture and Language” in: Roddam Narasimha and Sangeetha Menon, eds., Nature and Culture, Bangalore: National Institute of Advanced Studies.
2006
“Artificial Languages across Sciences and Civilizations,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 34. 89-141.
(with Granoff, Phyllis and Michio Yano, eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on "Asian Contributions to the formation of modern science: the emergence of artificial languages," Leiden: Sept. 20-21, 2002. Preface. Journal of Indian Philosophy 34:1-3.
“The Sound Pattern of Sanskrit in Asia: An Unheralded Contribution by Indian Brahmans and Buddhist Monks,” Sanskrit Studies Centre Journal (
2005
(with T.P.Mahadevan), "The Turning Point in a Living Tradition. Somayagam 2003," Indische Kultur im Kontext: Rituale, Texte und Ideen aus Indien und der Welt. Festschrift Professor Klaus Mylius. Ed. Lars Gohler. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, pp. 365-389. [Published in 2003 in Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies 10: www.shore.net/~india/ejvs] Somayagam
What Euclid is to Europe, PANini is to India – Or Are They? Bangalore: National Institute of Advanced Studies.
“Kotah: Stamps and Postal History,” The London Philatelist 114: #1326, June, pp.160-79 and #1329, October, pp.288-89.
“Jind or Ambala?” The London Philatelist 114:1331, December, pp.375-76.
“Quine, Engels en Nederlands,” Vrij Nederland, Januari 15
2004
Drie Bergen en Zeven Rivieren. Essays, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff
"From prANmukham to sarvatomukham. A Thread through the Srauta Maze," in: Griffiths, Arlo and Jan E.M. Houben, eds., The Vedas: Texts, Language and Ritual. Proceedings of the 3rd International Vedic Workshop. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, pp.521-55
"Three Mountains and
“Part of the equation,” The Economist, #370/8357, January 10
“Hokjesgeest,” NRC-Handelsblad, December 11
2003
"The Indian Sciences" (Introduction) and "The Science of Language," Companion to Hinduism, ed. Flood, Gavin, London: Blackwell, pp.346-59
(with T.P.Mahadevan), "The Turning Point in a Living Tradition. Somayagam 2003," Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies 10: www.shore.net/~india/ejvs Somayagam
"Simultaneities in Vedic Ritual," Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4/2: pp.195-210
"Artificial Languages: Asian Backgrounds or Influences?" Newsletter of the International Institute of Asian Studies, 30, March
“The Future of Asian Studies,” Newsletter of the International Institute of Asian Studies, 32, November Future
2002
"Charles Malamoud et les chants de la forêt," Le Genre Humain (Paris: Seuil), Avril, pp.85-97
"General Introduction": History of Science: Indian Section, Italian National Encyclopaedia (Treccani), pp.611-38 "Panini" and "Ritual" (see 1994), Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion, Elsevier Science, Pergamom Press imprint
"Two Vedic Sciences and Newton's Lesson," Proceedings of the International Seminar and Colloquium on 1500 Years of Aryabhateeyam, Kochi: Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad, pp. 49-57
Netherlands Institute of Buddhist Studies. A Proposal.
"The First Three Issues of Poonch," The London Philatelist Vol.11, Nr 1293, March, pp.61-70
"Bamboo Spirit," OG.
2001
"There Is No Proof But ...: Addendum to EJVS 7-3 on Vedic Geometry & The History of Science" EJVS 7-5
in the Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies, available at: No Proof
"Noam Chomsky between the Human and Natural Sciences," Janus Head. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, Winter 2001: 25-66.
"Article One," Rationality in Asia, ed. J. Bronkhorst, Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques 55:59-95
"Squares and Oblongs in the Veda," Journal of Indian Philosophy 29:257-273
"How a Psychoactive Substance becomes a Ritual: The Case of Soma" Social Research 68/3:745-78 Soma
"The Indian Sciences" (Introduction) and "The Science of Language," Companion to Hinduism, ed. Flood, Gavin, London: Blackwell
"General Introduction": History of Science: Indian Section, Italian National Encyclopaedia (Treccani)
"Panini" and "Ritual" (see 1994), Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion, Elsevier Science, Pergamom Press imprint
2000
Vyakarana and Sulba in the Light of Newton's Lesson, HarAnandAlaharI. Volume in Honour of Professor Minoru Hara on his Seventieth Birthday. Eds. Ryutaro Tsuchida and Albrecht Wezler. Reinbek: Dr. Inge Wezler/Verlag fuer Orientalistische Fachpublikationen, 349-374.
"A Breakthrough in Vedic Studies": Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora, Vols. 2 and 3, The Book Review (New Delhi), Jan-Feb: 17-20. Revised and Illustrated in: Newsletter of the International Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden) 23 (October).
1999
Varen onder eigen vlag, Amsterdam: Vossiuspers AUP
"Greek and Vedic Geometry," Journal of Indian Philosophy 27:105-127
http://www.wkap.nl/oasis.htm/188364/
"Are their Logics of Orality and Scripture?" (American Academy of Religion; unpublished)
"Poonch. Notes on Design and Postal History," The London Philatelist 108:44-57
1998
"Beyond Relativism" in: Ariel, Y., Biderman, S. and Rotem, O. (ed.), Relativism and Beyond, Festschrift for Ben-Ami Scharfstein = Philosophy and Religion Comparative Yearbook IV, Leiden: E.J.Brill, pp.37-66
Reprints of "Panini tested by Fowler's automaton," "Formal Structures in Indian Logic" and a note on DEFAULT in: T.R.N. Rao and Subash Kak (eds.), Computing Science in Ancient India, Lafayette, Louisiana: Center for Advanced Computer Studies. pp.54-67
Letter: "Science and Theology," The New York Review of Books 45/18: November 19
1997
(with H.L. Beck and K.M. Schipper) Voorstel voor een Nationaal Centrum voor Islam Studies aan de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. Rapport van de Adviescommissie. 60 pp.
"There is No Religion There," in: Stone, Jon R. (ed.), The Craft of Religious Studies, MacMillan Press Ltd/St. Martin's Press Inc: London and New York, 52-75
See also: Meij, Dick van der (ed.), India and Beyond: Aspects of Literature, Meaning, Ritual and Thought. Essays in honour of Frits Staal, London: Kegan Paul & Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies. 696 pp.
1996
"Ritual and the Cosmos," in: Vatsyayan, Kapila (ed.), Concepts of Time:Ancient and Modern, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts: 227-247
"The Thai Royal Cremation and the Recursiveness of Ritual," Newsletter of the International Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden), 10 (Autumn 1996) 28-29.
"Sybren de Groot en de eenheid der wetenschap," De Gids 158,11/12: 982-988
"Al-Ma'arri en de verlichting in de Islam," Het woordenboek van "De duivelsverzen", Amsterdam: Contact:16-1
"Beer and Toy: A Shaving Encounter in Thailand," International Leatherman 6:34-9
1995
Mantras between Fire and Water. Reflections on a Balinese Rite, With an Appendix by Dick van der Meij. Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
"Changing One's Mind," The Journal of Indian Philosophy 23/1:53-55
"The Sanskrit of Science," The Journal of Indian Philosophy 23/1:73-127
"Concepts of Science in Europe and Asia" (revised and extended version of 1993 version), Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 20/1:7-19 (with Plate)
"Agni," Kalatattvakosa. A Lexicon of Fundamental Concepts of the Indian Arts, ed. Kapila Vatsyayan, New Delhi.
"Indian Theories of Meaning," in: Concise History of the Language Sciences: from the Sumerians to the Cognitivists, eds. E.F.K.Koerner and R.E.Asher, Oxford: Pergamon/Elsevier Science
"Mantras: Sounds Beyond Language," Religion
"Ritual Order," in: Essais sur le Rituel, III, eds. Anne-Marie Blondeau and Kristofer Schipper), Louvain - Paris: Peeters, pp.1-6
"Ten Geleide" ("By Way of Introduction"), Ergo Cogito, ed. Frans Geraedts and Leonard de Jong, 5:9-26
"Mysterious Absences in Duttia and Dungarpur," The London Philatelist 104/1222:29-30
1994
Articles on: Anubandha, Anuvrtti, Avyayibhava, Bahuvrihi, Bhartrhari, Dvandva, Guna and Vrddhi, Indian Theories of Meaning, Karaka, Karmadharaya, Katyayana, Lopa, Padapatha, Panini, Paribhasa, Patanjali, Pratisakhya, Samasa, Sandhi, Sutra, and Tatpurusa in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ed. R.E.Asher, Oxford: Pergamon/Elsevier Science
1993
Paperback Edition of Rules without Meaning (1989)
Concepts of Science in Europe and Asia, 32 pp., Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies
"Indian Bodies," Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice, eds. T.P.Kasulis, R.T.Ames and W.Dissanayake, Albany: SUNY Press, 59-102.
"From Meanings to Trees," Journal of Ritual Studies 7.11-32
"Tradition and Modernity," Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research 11: 83-88
"Toy: Playing with Fire," Drummer 158:7-12
1992
"Agni 1990. With an Appendix by H.F.Arnold," Ritual, State and History in South Asia. Essays in Honour of J.C.Heesterman, eds. A.W.van den Hoek, D.H.A.Kolff and M.S.Oort, Leiden (etc.): E.J.Brill 650-676.
"Sutra," Kalatattvakosa. A Lexicon of Fundamental Concepts of the Indian Arts, ed. Kapila Vatsyayan, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 303-314.
"Vedic Mana," Kalatattvakosa. A Lexicon of Fundamental Concepts of the Indian Arts, ed. Kapila Vatsyayan, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 355-367.
"Wat heeft de Europese filosofie de wereld te bieden?" ("What does European Philosophy have to offer to the world?") De Gids 155/1:4-21 (= "Wat heeft de Europese filosofie de wereld te bieden?" Vrij Nederland 23 November 1991: 50-53).
"Dilemmas of Early Duttia," The London Philatelist 101:275-283.
"Kotah. Stamps and Postal History," Gibbons Stamp Monthly 23/6:63-65.
1991
(with S. A. Bonebakker, E. Gene Smith and H. J. Verkuyl) Baby Krishna. Rapport van de Adviescommisie Kleine Letteren, 96 pp., The Hague (Report on Asian and Minor Languages for the Ministry of Education and Sciences, Government of the Netherlands)
"The Centre of Space: Construction and Discovery," Concepts of Space. Ancient and Modern, ed. Kapila Vatsyayan, New Delhi, 83-100.
(with Allan G.Grapard, Burton L.Mack and Ivan Strenski) "Symposium: Ritual As Such. Frits Staal's Rules without Meaning," Religion 21:205-234
"Voor Jacob Vredenbregt," Liber Amicorum Jacob Vredenbregt, Leiden: 127-128
"The Stamp of Tonk," The London Philatelist 100:209-221
"Moeder vindt beter dat ik geen Sanskriet doe," Drie Orientalisten: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936), Willem Caland (1859-1932), Robert Hans van Gulik (1910-1967)," in: Erflaters van de twintigste eeuw. Amsterdam: Querido, 111-147, 312-313
1990
Jouer avec le feu. Pratique et théorie du rituel védique, 115 pp., Paris: Institut de Civilisation Indienne
"The Lake of the Yaksa Chief," Indo-Tibetan Studies. Papers in honour and appreciation of Professor David L. Snellgrove's contribution to Indo-Tibetan Studies, ed. Tadeusz Skorupski, Tring, U.K.: Institute of Buddhist Studies, 275-292-1.
"Introduction," Sadao Hasegawa: Paintings and Drawings, London: GMP Publishers Ltd. pp.4-7
1989
Rules without Meaning. Ritual, Mantras and the Human Sciences, Toronto Studies in Religion Vol.4, xxi + 490 pp., New York etc.: Peter Lang (Toronto Studies in Religion. 4)
"The Independence of Rationality from Literacy," European Journal of Sociology 3O:301-310.
"Moeder vindt beter dat ik geen Sanskriet doe," ("Mother prefers that I don't do Sanskrit") De Gids 152/10:771-792; reprinted in: Erflaters van de twintigste eeuw, Amsterdam 1991:111-147.
"Anthropologists Against Death," Visual Anthropology.
1988
Universals: Essays in Indian Logic and Linguistics, x 267 pp., Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press
Een wijsgeer in het Oosten: Op reis door Java en Kalimantan, 119 pp., Amsterdam: Meulenhoff (includes "De godsdiensten van het oosten zijn niet oosters en ook geen godsdiensten," also published in NRC-Handelsblad, June 11).
"Vedic Mantras," Understanding Mantras, ed.H.P.Alper, New York: State University of New York Press, 48-95
"Is there Philosophy in Asia?" Interpreting Across Boundaries. New Essays in Comparative Philosophy, eds. G.J.Larson and E.Deutsch, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 203-229.
"Where was Lake Anodat?" Journal of the Faculty of Arts of the Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 2531:129-137
"Rituel et geometrie dans l'hindouisme," Le Grand Atlas des Religions, Paris: Encyclopaedia Universalis France S.A., 328.
Preface to the Second Edition of Exploring Mysticism, Berkeley, University of California Press
1987
"The ineffable nirguna brahman," The Sants: Studies in a Devotional Tradition of India, ed. K.Schomer and W.H.McLeod, Berkeley: University of California Press, 41-46
"Professor Schechner's Passion for Goats," The Journal of Asian Studies 46:105-108
"De toekomst van de wetenschap in Nederland: open brief aan Minister Deetman," Elsevier 29 augustus: 62-64
1986
Over zin en onzin in filosofie, religie en wetenschap, 413 pp., Amsterdam: Meulenhoff - Polak en van Gennep
"The Sound of Religion," Numen. International Journal of the History of Religions 33:33-64, 185-224
"The Fidelity of Oral Tradition and the Origins of Science," Mededelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeling Letterkunde, n.r. 49/8:251-288, Amsterdam (etc.) North-Holland
"In the Realm of the Buddha," with photographs by Adelaide de Menil, Natural History 95/7, July:34-45
1985
"Mantras and Bird Songs," Journal of the American Oriental Society 105:549-558
"Substitutions de paradigmes et religions d'Asie," Cahiers d'extrême Asie 1:21-57
"Language and Ritual," Mm. Kuppuswami Sastri Birth Centenary Commemoration Volume, Madras: G.S. Press, Part 2:51-62
Shinpishugi no tankyu, 316 + 21 pp., Hosei University Press (Japanese translation of "Exploring Mysticism")
1984
"The Search for Meaning: Mathematics, Music and Ritual," American Journal of Semiotics 2/4:1-57 = "Ritmo nel rito," Conoscenza Religiosa 2:197-247
"Ritual, Mantras and the Origin of Language," Amrtadhara. Professor R.N.Dandekar Felicitation Volume, Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 403-425
"Schat onderschat Schat," De Gids 147/7:503-508
"Over het Sanskriet als moeder der Germaanse taaltakken," De Gids 147/8:579-580
"Further Notes on Dungarpur," India Post 18/4:146-147
"Abracadabra voor Intellectuelen," De Brandende Kwestie, Amsterdam: Raamgracht, 2:151-177
1983-1984
"Indian Concepts of the Body," Somatics. Magazine Journal of the Bodily Arts and Sciences 4/3:31-41
1983
(with C.V.Somayajipad and M.Itti Ravi Nambudiri) AGNI. The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar, I-II, xxxviii + 716, xvii + 832 pp., 130 Color Plates, 160 Illustrations and Diagrams, 6 Maps, 2 Cassette Recordings, Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press
The Stamps of Jammu and Kashmir, xvii + 286 pp., 16 Plates, New York: The Collectors Club
"Moon Chants, Space Fillers and Flow of Milk," Surabhi: Sreekrishna Sarma Felicitation Volume, Tirupati: Prof. E.R. Sereekrishna Sarma Felicitation Committee, 17-30
"On the Indian Concept of the Body," Proceedings, II. Conferencia Latino-americana de Sanscritistas, Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Letter: "Self-Realization," The New York Review of Books 30/14 (September 23): 65-66
Reprint of "The Concept of paksa in Indian Logic" (1973) in: Comparative Philosophy: Selected Essays, ed. Charlene McDermott, Lanham: University Press of America, 180-192
1982
The Science of Ritual, viii + 101 pp., Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
"Ritual, Grammar and the Origins of Science in India," Journal of Indian Philosophy 10:11-43
"What is Happening in Classical Indology?" The Journal of Asian Studies 41:269-291
"The Himalayas and the Fall of Religion," The Silk Route and the Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist Art on the Trade-Routes of the Trans-Himalayan Region, ed. D.E.Klimburg-Salter, Berkeley: University of California Press, 38-51
"Indian Grammarians," Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, ed. T.A.Sebeok
"Indian Logicians," Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, ed. T.A.Sebeok
1981
"Vedic Religion in Kerala," The Adyar Library Bulletin 44-45:74-89
(with L.W.Lancaster) "1973 Survey of Manuscript Collections in Nepal," 1973 National Geographic Society Research Reports 14:385-395
1980
"Rites That Make No Sense," The Communication of Ideas: 10th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, eds. J.S.Yadava and V.Gautam, New Delhi, 3:145-154
"Wat het oosten ons kan leren," De Gids 143:89-95
"The Stamps of Dungarpur," The Collectors Club Philatelist 59:41-45, 100-107, 119-120, 281-286, 309
"A Note on the Stamps of Dungarpur," India's Stamp Journal 43:60-62
1979
"Oriental Ideas on the Origin of Language," Journal of the American Oriental Society 99:1-14
"Ritual Syntax," Sanskrit and Indian Studies: Essays in Honor of Daniel H.H.Ingalls, ed. M.Nagatomi, B.K.Matilal and J.M.Masson, Dordrecht: D.Reidel, 119-142 (Studies in Classical India. 2)
"The Meaninglessness of Ritual," Numen. International Journal of the History of Religions 26:2-22
"The Concept of Scripture in the Indian Tradition," Sikh Studies: Comparative Persepctives on a Changing Tradition, ed. M. Juergensmeyer and N.G.Barrier, Berkeley: Graduate Theological Union, 121-126 (Berkeley Religious Studies Series. 1)
"Sanskrtska Filozofija Jezika," Dijalog (Sarajevo) 1/2:83-115
(Serbo-Croatian translation of "Sanskrit Philosophy of Language")
Comment: "Altar of Fire," American Anthropologist 81:346-7
1978
Het wetenschappelijk onderzoek van de mystiek, 279 pp., Utrecht-Antwerpen: Het Spectrum (Dutch translation of "Exploring Mysticism")
"On and Around Yoga," Journal of Indian Philosophy 6:177-187
"The Ignorant Brahmin of the Agnicayana," Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 50:337-348
"Het woord als middel," De Gids 141:353-363
1977
Introduzione allo studio del misticismo orientale ed occidentale, 231 pp., Roma: Ubaldini (Italian translation of "Exploring Mysticism")
Manniskan och mystiken, 258 pp., Stockholm: Aldus (Swedish translation of "Exploring Mysticism")
"Rgveda 10.71 on the Origin of Language," Revelation in Indian Thought: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor T.R.V.Murti, Emeryville: Dharma Publishing, 3-14
1976
"Making Sense of the Buddhist Tetralemma," Philosophy East and West: Essays in Honour of Dr.T.M.P.Mahadevan, Bombay: Blackie and Son, 122-131
Reprint of "Sanskrit Philosophy of Language" (1969) in History of Linguistic Thought and Contemporary Linguistics, ed. H.Parrett, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 102-136
Film (with Robert Gardner): Altar of Fire, Carpenter Media Center: Harvard University
1975
Exploring Mysticism: A Methdological Essay, xix + 230 pp., 16 Plates, Berkeley: University of California Press. Also: Exploring Mysticism, 224 pp., Harmondsworth: Penguin Books
"The Concept of Metalanguage and its Indian Background," Journal of Indian Philosophy 3:315-354
1974
"The Origin and Development of Linguistics in India," Studies in the History of Linguistics: Traditions and Paradigms, ed. Dell Hymes, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 63-74
"Het wetenschappelijk onderzoek van de mystiek," De Gids 137,1/2:3-34, 108-132
(with Y.Bar-Hillel and H.Hiz) "Problems of Linguistic Semantics from the Standpoint of the Philosophy and the Methodology of Language: Contributions and Discussions," Semantics and Communication. Proceedings of the Third Colloquium of the Institute for Communications Research and Phonetics (University of Bonn), ed. Carl H.Heidrich, Amsterdam-London-New York: North-Holland Publishing Company
"Indo ronrigaku ni okeru Paksa no gainen ni tsuite", Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 22:1092-1082 (Japanese translation of "The Concept of paksa in Indian logic" 1973)
1973
A Reader on the Sanskrit Grammarians (Studies in Linguistics 1), xxiv + 557 pp., Cambridge Mass and London: The MIT Press
"Uncontained Rules of Meaning," Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Amsterdam - London - New York: North-Holland Publishing Company 845-862
"The Concept of paksa in Indian logic," Journal of Indian Philosophy 2:156-166
1972
"Theory and Practice in the University," Proceedings of the International Seminar on World Philosophy, Madras: The Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy
Reprint of "Sanskrit and Sanskritization" (1963) in: South and Southeast Asia: Enduring Scholarship, ed. J.A.Harrison, Tucson 213-217
1971
"What was Left of Pragmatics in Jerusalem," Language Science 14 (February):29-32
"Voorwoord," Gilbert Ryle, De eenheid van lichaam en geest, Amsterdam: Athenaeum - Polak en van Gennep 9-11
1970
"Performatives and Token-Reflexives," Linguistic Inquiry 3:373-381
"De academicus als nowhere-man," De Gids 133,7/8:96-159
"Cambodia: Sanskrit Inscriptions," The New York Review of Books 15/1 (July 2):15
1969
"Sanskrit Philosophy of Language," Current Trends in Linguistics 5:499-531. Reprinted 1976.
"Recent Insights in the Nature of Language," Meanjin Quarterly 119:487-494
(with Paul Kiparsky) "Syntactic and Semantic Relations in Panini," Foundations of Language 5:83-117
(ed.) "Formal Logic and Natural Languages: A Symposium," Foundations of Language 5:256-284
1968
(edited with B. van Rootselaar), Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, xiii + 554 pp., Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company
"The Twelve Ritual Chants of the Nambudiri Agnistoma," in: J.C. Heesterman, G.H. Schokker and V.I. Subramoniam (eds.), Pratidanam: Studies Presented to F.B.J.Kuiper on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, The Hague: Mouton 409-429. (Janua Linguarum, Series Major.34)
"And," Journal of Linguistics 4:79-81
"Acts of Communication," Common Factor (Oxford) 5:26-34
"Meaning, Regular and Irregular," Foundations of Language 4:182-184
"Logica," Wijsgerig Denken, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 102-125. Reprinted frequently.
"Het Hindoeisme," De verhouding tussen de levende godsdiensten, Nederlands Gesprek Centrum, Kampen (etc.): Kok (etc.), 8-12
"Een wijsgerige visie," De verhouding tussen de levende godsdiensten, Nederlands Gesprek Centrum, Kampen (etc.): Kok (etc.), 41-42
"The Intellectual as Prophet: An Interview with Noam Chomsky," Delta 11:5-23 = "In gesprek met Chomsky," De Gids 131,6/7:6-18
"De huidige Amerikaanse filosofie," De Gids 131,6/7:81-86
Record Album: (with John Levy) The Four Vedas, Asch Mankind, New York: Folkways
1967
Word Order in Sanskrit and Universal Grammar (Foundation of Language Supplementary Series 5), xi + 98 pp., Dordrecht: D. Reidel
"Some Semantic Relations between Sentoids," Foundations of Language 3:78-100
"Zinloze en zinvolle filosofie," De Gids 130,1/2:49-75
"Naschrift," De Gids 130,6/7:64-66
"Indian Logic," The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, New York-London: Macmillan, IV:520-523, 568-569
Review: Noam Chomsky (1965), Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, The Journal of Symbolic Logic 32:385-387
1966
"Analyticity," Foundations of Language 2:67-93
"Room at the Top in Sanskrit," Indo-Iranian Journal 9:165-198
"Panini Tested by Fowler's Automaton," Journal of the American Oriental Society 86:206-209
"Indian Semantics I," Journal of the American Oriental Society 86:304-311
"My Approach to Indian Philosophy," Indian Philosophical Journal 2:289-302
Film: "Vedic Ritual in South India: Domestic Ritual and Srauta Ritual," Stichting Film en Wetenschap, Utrecht
Reviews of: Noam Chomsky (1957) Syntactic Structures, (1957) "Logical Structures in Language," Noam Chomsky and George A. Miller (1958) "Finite State Languages," Noam Chomsky (1959), "On Certain Formal Properties of Grammars," "A Norte on Phrase Structure Grammars," (1961) "On the Notion 'Rule of Grammar'," The Journal of Symbolic Logic 31:245-251
1965
"Context-Sensitive Rules in Panini," Foundations of Language 1:63-72. Also published in: Studies in Indian Linguistics: M.B.Emeneau Felicitation Volume, Annamalainagar and Poona: Centres of Advanced Study in Linguistics, 332-339
"Reification, Quotation and Nominalization," Logic and Philosophy: Essays in Honour of I.M.Bochenski, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 151-187
"E.W.Beth," Dialectica 19:158-179
"In Memoriam E.W.Beth," Foundations of Language 1:81-82
"Generative Syntax and Semantics," Foundations of Language 1:133-154
"Euclid and Panini," Philosophy East and West 15:99-116
"On the Meaning and Validity of Theories of Rebirth," Indian Philosophical Annual 1:125-126
1964
"Reports on Vedic Rituals and Recitations," Year Book of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia 607-611
1963
Euclides en Panini. Twee methodische richtlijnen voor de filosofie, 43 pp., Amsterdam: Polak en van Gennep
"Sanskrit and Sanskritization," The Journal of Asian Studies 22:261-275. Reprinted 1972.
1962
"Contraposition in Indian Logic," Proceedings of the 1960 International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Stanford, 634-649
"A Method of Linguistic Description: The Order of Consonants according to Panini," Language 38:1-10
"Negation and the Law of Contradiction in Indian Thought," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 25:52-71
"Philosophy and Language," Essays in Philosophy presented to Dr. T.M.P.Mahadevan, Madras: Ganesh & Co, 10-25
1961
Nambudiri Veda Recitation (Disputationes Rheno-Trajectinae V), 102 pp., The Hague: Mouton & Co.
Advaita and Neoplatonism: A Critical Study in Comparative Philosophy (Madras University Philosophical Series 10), xii + 262 p., Madras: University of Madras
"The Theory of Definition in Indian Logic," Journal of the American Oriental Society 81:122-126
"Het indische denken en westerse vooroordelen," Wijsgerig perspectief op maatschappij en wetenschap 1, Amsterdam: Meulenhof, :18-32
1960
"Correlations between Language and Logic in Indian Thought," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 23:109-122
"Formal Structures in Indian Logic," Synthese 12:279-286
"Means of Formalization in Indian and Western Logic," Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Philosophy, Firenze, 10:221-227
"The Construction of Formal Definitions of Subject and Predicate," Transactions of the Philological Society 89-103
"Plotinus and St.Augustine: A Note on the Phenomenology of Sage and Saint," Proceedings of the Second Seminar and Conference, Union for the Study of the Great Religions, Madras: Ganesh & Co, 340-355
"Indian Philosophy at the International Congress of Philosophy," The Philosophical Quarterly 33:132-136
1959
"Uber die Idee der Toleranz im Hinduismus," Kairos. Zeitschrift fur Religionswissenschaft und Theologie 1:215-218
1958
"Notes on Some Brahmin Communities of South India," Arts and Letters. The Journal of the Royal India, Pakistan and Ceylon Society 32:1-7
1956
"An Introduction to the Existentialism of Martin Heidegger," Journal of the Madras University 28:9-35
1955
"Parmenides and Indian Thought," The Philosophical Quarterly 28:81-106
"Rationality in Indian and Western Thought," Mysindia June 19
"Het Indische Filosofencongres te Peradeniya," Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte en Psychologie 47:201-203
"Over het cyclische en het rechtlijnige tijdsbegrip," Amsterdams Tijdschrift voor Letterkunde 2:170-188. Also printed separately with "Bibliografische Aantekening," Amsterdam, pp.1-21
1954
"Mijn hart neemt velerlei gestalten aan: Aantekeningen naar aanleiding van enkele gedichten van J.H.Leopold: I. Mansur al-Halladj," Amsterdams Tijdschrift voor Letterkunde 1:30-38
"Mijn hart neemt velerlei gestalten aan: II. Ibn 'Arabi," Amsterdams Tijdschrift voor Letterkunde 1:73-81
(met Joh.B.W.Polak) "Mijn hart neemt velerlei gestalten aan: III. Kanttekeningen bij het gedicht Cheops van J.H.Leopold," Amsterdams Tijdschrift voor Letterkunde 1:120-128
1953
Review: P.V.Pistorius (1952), Plotinus and Neoplatonism, Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte en Psychologie 46:48-51