Vol.1. Vyakarana and Sabdabodha Vol.2. Historical Linguistics, Vedic, Etc., This is the first of two volumes of studies in honor of Professor George Cardona, the preeminent authority on Paninian grammar and the linguistic traditions of India as well as one of the worlds leading scholars of Indo-European. In his 45 years of teaching at the University of Pennsylvania until his official retirement in 2005, and in his continued teaching and lecturing since then, Professor Cardona has influenced two generations of students, many of whom have become leading experts in linguistics and Indology in their own right, as well as other colleagues. Nineteen of these learned scholars have contributed eighteen studies to this volume. These studies cover topics in Paninian grammar, other Indian linguistic traditions, issues in Sanskrit morphology and syntax, and theories of verbal cognition. Twenty-one additional learned scholars have contributed twenty papers to volume two on topics ranging from historical language change to philosophy and poetics. This first volume includes a paper with ground-breaking research on variants in the text of Panini's Astadhyayi, several papers that illuminate principles of derivation (prakriya) in Panini's derivational system, papers that examine the correspondence between Panini's description of Vedic and what is known from modern philological analysis of extant Vedic texts, papers that examine issues in compound formation, papers that examine Panini's terminology including one paper that casts light on the persistent issue of the interpretation of terms for optional rules in the Astadhyayi by examining the question of degrees of optionality in Pali grammatical commentaries, papers that compare the evaluation of syntactic structures by several Indian linguistic schools, and a paper considering what constitutes an Indian linguistic school. The volume also includes four papers that deal with verbal cognition (sabdabodha) in Vyakarana, Mimamsa, Nyaya, and Alankarasastra. Most contributions are written in English, but the last is written in Sanskrit. The volume begins with a brief overview of Professor Cardona's career in the preface and ends with a complete bibliography of his nearly 250 publications in the appendix. The volume is equipped with a detailed table of contents, an index of passages cited in Vedic and classical texts, and an index of authors. The book is produced with the highest quality binding and linen-wrapped hard cover with a beautiful dust jacket. This is the second of two volumes of studies in honor of Professor George Cardona, one of the worlds leading scholars of Indo-European and the preeminent authority on Paninian grammar and the linguistic traditions of India. Professor Cardona's contributions have been admired by colleagues worldwide as well as in his own department. In his 45 years of teaching at the University of Pennsylvania until his official retirement in 2005, and in his continued teaching and lecturing since then, Professor Cardona has influenced two generations of students, many of whom have become leading experts in linguistics and Indology in their own right. Twenty-one of these learned scholars have contributed twenty studies to this volume. These studies cover topics ranging from archaeology and historical phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics to philosophy, poetics, and critical editing. Eighteen papers by nineteen additional learned scholars comprise volume one on topics in Paninian grammar, other Indian linguistic traditions, issues in Sanskrit morphology and syntax, and theories of verbal cognition. This second volume includes several papers that deal with issues critical to the understanding of the evolution of Sanskrit and Indian culture. One such critical issue concerns the origin of Sanskrit, the location of its predecessors, and the migration of Indo-Aryan into the Indian sub-continent. Several papers deal with topics concerning Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Vedic, Middle Indic and Modern Indic historical linguistics. Several others cast light on crucial issues in the interpretation of Vedic texts. A couple of pivotal papers restore confidence in the traditional interpretation of Vedic texts denigrated by the misapplication of modern philological techniques: one of these restores greater reliability to the Anukramani as a source of the identification of the authorship of Rgvedic hymns on the basis of their distinctive linguistic features; the other revalidates the traditionally understood sense of the mahavakya “tat tvam asi.” Other papers deal with epic and classical Sanskrit and Homeric Greek poetics; Mimamsa and Nyaya philosophy; and issues in the critical editing of Buddhist Sanskrit works. The volume is equipped with a detailed table of contents, an index of passages cited in Vedic and classical texts, and an index of authors. The book is produced with the highest quality binding and linen-wrapped hard cover with a beautiful dust jacket.