 The common theme of the year 2008 will be "Exchanges between the Sanskrit epic and Purànic traditions and non-Brahmanical texts and traditions".It will include comparative studies on Brahmanism / Hinduism and Buddhism or Jainism, studies on intertextual relationships between these traditions and their texts, and will offer yet another, less investigated framework for understanding the Sanskrit epics and Purànas and their impact on the whole of the Indian culture