Yes... very sad. He will remain with us - in our memories, in his texts... ---
Prof. dr hab. Joanna Jurewicz Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia Studies Wydział Orientalistyczny / Faculty of Oriental Studies Uniwersytet Warszawski /University of Warsaw ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 00-927 Warszawa , Poland Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages College of Human Sciences UNISA Pretoria, RSA Member of Academia Europaea https://uw.academia.edu/JoannaJurewicz sob., 22 kwi 2023 o 14:25 Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> napisał(a): > This is very sad news indeed. Dipak Bhattacharya and his father Durgamohan > Bhattacharya were pioneers in the discovery and editing of the Paippalāda > Atharvaveda from Orissa. I met him several times at conferences, and he was > very generous in answering my questions regarding the > Atharvavedic tradition during my own editing of the Śaunakīya > Caturādhyāyikā and the Vikr̥tis of the Śaunakīya Atharvaveda. He also made > important contributions to Pāṇinian studies. His passing is a major loss to > Vedic studies. ॐ शान्ति: शान्ति: शान्ति: । > > Madhav M. Deshpande > Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics > University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA > Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies > Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India > > [Residence: Campbell, California, USA] > > > On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 4:07 AM Arlo Griffiths via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Prof. Dipak Bhattacharya >> >> Prof. Dipak Bhattacharya, a renowned scholar of Sanskrit and Vedic >> Studies, passed away yesterday (April 21, 2023), at his daughter’s >> residence in Mumbai, due to prolonged illness and old age. He was >> eighty-two. He is survived by two daughters, son-in-laws and a >> granddaughter. >> >> Prof. Bhattacharya worked at the Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan >> and devoted his life to teaching and research in the field of Sanskrit and >> Vedic Studies. He was known for his research in Vedic Studies, >> particularly, the first critical edition of the Paippalāda Saṃhitā of the >> Atharvaveda. He continued the work left incomplete by his father, Prof. >> Durgamohan Bhattacharya, who is credited with discovering the tradition of >> the Atharvaveda in Odisha. He collected several manuscripts of that Veda >> written in Oriya script, worked meticulously throughout his life and >> brought out a good critical edition of the entire Saṃhitā, consisting of >> twenty Kāṇḍas. The edition was published in four volumes by the Asiatic >> Society, Kolkata (1997-2016). This work evinces the mastery of Vedic and >> classical Sanskrit language, proficiency in textual criticism, colossal >> industry and insight on the part of that scholar. Despite the difference of >> opinion, the community of Vedic scholars will always remain indebted to >> Prof. Bhattacharya for his monumental work. Eminent Vedic philologists >> such as Prof. Michael Witzel (retired Professor of Sanskrit, Harvard >> University) and Prof. Georges Pinault (Paris) have expressed their feelings >> similarly. >> >> I had good personal relations with Prof. Bhattacharya. He participated in >> a national seminar on Vedic Śākhās I had organized in 2001 at the Tilak >> Maharashtra Vidyapeeth (TMV) in honour of Prof. C. G. Kashikar. He also >> participated in the Fifth International Vedic Workshop held in Bucharest in >> 2011. He worked as an external examiner and attended the Viva Voce >> examination of Dr. Shilpa Sumant for her Ph. D. from TMV. He always treated >> me like his younger brother. His sad demise is an unrepairable loss for the >> field of Vedic Studies and a personal loss for me. >> >> My deep condolences to his family, students, friends and colleagues. >> >> Shrikant Bahulkar >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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