From ‘Panchatantra’ to ‘Puranas’: Rethinking power in Sanskrit texts

Sanskrit professor McComas Taylor discusses language, lineage, and what led him to translate the ‘Viṣṇu Purāṇa’.

McComas Taylor is a professor of Sanskrit at the Australian National University (ANU) with a long history of teaching, research, and translation. He was in Kathmandu last month for the 19th World Sanskrit Conference, a global gathering of scholars studying the Sanskrit language and literature.