[INDOLOGY] Fwd: Prof. Dipak Bhattacharya's Sad Demise

[Joanna Jurewicz]

Yes... very sad. He will remain with us - in our memories, in his texts...

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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 <
indology at list.indology.info> 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 <
> indology at list.indology.info> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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