Indologist working on Sanskrit morphology and on the tantric imagination of the dream state.
[placeholder] — I am a graduate student in Indology at the University of Oxford, reading for an MPhil in Classical Indian Religion. My work sits at the intersection of Sanskrit philology, tantric studies, and the history of ritual practice in premodern South Asia.
My dissertation, The Industry of Miracles: A Typology of Tantric Dream Operations, argues that dreams in Śaiva-Śākta tantric texts are not primarily interpreted as signs to be decoded but operated upon as a distinct field of ritual technology. It proposes a fourfold typology of dream operations — Revelation, Empowerment, Dream Magic, and Consciousness Transformation — organised not by tradition or mantra grammar but by the result a given operation is meant to produce. The full project lives under Svapna.
Alongside the dissertation I maintain Sanskrit, a slow, growing conspectus of Sanskrit paradigms, written as editorial articles rather than grammar-book tables. Each entry is one declensional or conjugational class, anchored in primary sources (Whitney, MacDonell, Pāṇini) and pitched at the reader who wants the why behind the form, not just the form itself.
[placeholder] — Oxford, London, [where else]. Reading, writing, occasionally presenting. I work in English and Russian and read Sanskrit in both IAST and Devanāgarī.