[INDOLOGY] Professor Ramanath Sharma 1939–2026

[Robert P. GOLDMAN]

Dear Colleagues,

I am very sorry to have to report to you the passing this morning of Professor Ramanath Sharma, generally known to his friends and colleagues as simply Rama, surrounded by his family in Atlanta Georgia after a long  illness.  Rama was born in Chhata in Ballia District in 1939 as the eldest son of Pandit Raghunath Sharma, the author of the commentary Ambākartrī  on Bhartṛhari’s Vākyapadīya. 

Rama did his M.A in Hindi Literature at Allahabad in 1959 and another in Linguistics at Agra in 1962.  He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Rochester in 1971 where taught Hindi language and Literature until 1975.  We served together there when I was professor of Sanskrit  and we became close friends and colleagues. He then became Professor of Hindi and, later on, of Sanskrit at the University at Hawaii at Manoa where he chaired the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures.

Rama’s passion was vyākaraṇa and he will be best remembered for his monumental  six volume  translation and annotation of the Aṣṭādhyāyī which was published by Munshiram Manoharlal  Privvate Ltd. between 1987 and 2003.

Rama is survived by his daughters Manimala and Neelam, both of Atlanta, and his son Alok of San Francisco and will be fondly remembered by his colleagues and generations of students.

na khalu sa uparato yasya vallabho janaḥ smarati |

Dr. R.P. Goldman
William and Catherine Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit Emeritus
and
Professor in the Graduate School
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
The University of California at Berkeley





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