sad new: Frits Staal

[Michio Yano]

Dear Michael and All,

I cannot believe this sad news.  He invited me to his lecture
at the occasion of the Agnicayana last April.  Without his invitation
I should have hesitated to go to Panjal. 
I was one of his long time friends since I attended his lectures
in Kyoto University in  late 1960s. I visited him at his home
in Berkeley in 1986.
I wanted to visit him at his home in Thailand, but it is now too late! 


Michio Yano
Kyoto Sangyo University
Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8555 Japan


----- Original Message -----
> Dear All, 
> 
> I just received the sad news that my old friend, the famous Indologist 
Frits Staal, has passed away peacefully, today Sunday 2/19/12, at his 
home in Chiangmai, Thailand. 
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> His niece, Karin Staal, is visiting him from Holland and reported the 
sad news to us. He will be missed by many. Luckily, some of us saw him 
last at the great Atiratra Agnicayana at Panjal in Kerala, April 2011, 
which he first recorded in 1975 and published in 1983 ("Agni"). 
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> Michael
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> > Michael Witzel
> > witzel at fas.harvard.edu
> > <www.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm>
> > Wales Prof. of Sanskrit &
> > Director of Graduate Studies,
> > Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
> > 1 Bow Street,
> > Cambridge MA 02138, USA
> > 
> > phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, 496 8570, fax 617 - 496 8571;
> > my direct line:  617- 496 2990
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