[INDOLOGY] Sad News

[Anya Golovkova]

Dr. Sharma will be dearly missed by many. My sincere condolences to his
family and everyone who knew him. Does anyone know how Mrs. Sharma is
faring?

Best wishes,
Anya

Anna A. Golovkova
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion
Bowdoin College

On Wednesday, December 19, 2018, Ganesan T via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> A very very sad news.
>
> Ganesan
> On Dec 19, 2018 1:52 AM, "Robert Goldman via INDOLOGY" <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>>
>> I have just been informed of the very sad new of the passing of Dr.
>> Ramkaran Sharma in New Delhi. Sharmaji had been ailing for some time and
>> had recently been hospitalized for pneumonia.
>>
>> Sharma was one of the great stalwarts of Sanskrit Studies both as a
>> scholar and an administrator.  He was, among many things,  the Vice
>> Chancellor of Darbhanga University, the Founding Director of the Rāṣṭrīya
>> Saṃskṛta  Saṃsthāna and the President of the International Association of
>> Sanskrit Studies. He taught widely in India and the West, including at
>>  Berkeley, Columbia University  and the University of Pennsylvania
>>
>> He took his doctorate under the guidance of the late Professor Murray
>> Barnson Emeneau at my home institution, the University of California at
>> Berkeley and was an inspiration and mentor to me and several generations of
>> Sanskrit scholars from around the world.  He was always available to advise
>> and help with knotty problems in a vast variety of Sanskrit texts and his
>> knowledge of *vyākaraṇa* and all manner of śāstraic fields was immense
>> and his sharing of it magnanimous.  He was  my  teacher, colleague an
>> friend for some fifty years  and was   always ready to advise us on
>> difficult passages in the *Rāmāyaṇa* commentaries.
>>
>> He  and his vast learning will be deeply missed by scholars around the
>> world.
>>
>>
>> Dr. R. P.  Goldman
>> Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor in South
>> and Southeast Asian Studies
>> Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies MC # 2540
>> The University of California at Berkeley
>> Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
>> Tel: 510-642-4089
>> Fax: 510-642-2409
>>
>>
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Anna A. (Anya) Golovkova
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion
Bowdoin College
Department of Religion
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7300 College Station
Brunswick, ME  04011
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