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

[Girish Jha]

सारस्वता बान्धवा:,
विद्वांसः शोकसन्तप्ता: संस्मरन्ति च दीपकम्।वेदविद्या क्रन्दतीव गते प्राज्ञे
हि पञ्चताम्।।
दिव्यं धाम हरे: प्राप्यान्नित्यं विद्यापरायणः।
राधाकृष्णाङ्घ्रिकमले प्रार्थयेsहं मुहुर्मुहु:।।
Girish K. Jha
Professor of Sanskrit(Retd.)
Patna University.
Residence: Indirapuram(Near Delhi)




On Sun, 23 Apr, 2023, 1:41 pm Carmen Spiers via INDOLOGY, <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> My sincere condolences to Dipak Bhattacharya's family and friends. We only
> had email contact but he was very nice to a young scholar such as myself.
> My line of research simply wouldn't exist without his father's and his
> efforts. Incredible that he managed to publish the edition of the entire
> enormous Paippalādasaṁhitā in his lifetime!
> Carmen Spiers (Leiden)
>
> Am Sa., 22. Apr. 2023 um 20:19 Uhr schrieb Joanna Jurewicz <
> j.jurewicz at uw.edu.pl>:
>
>> 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 <
>> 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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