[INDOLOGY] Ashok Aklujkar passed away

[Nataliya Yanchevskaya]

I was so sorry to learn of Ashok Aklujkar’s passing.

I had the privilege of studying with him during his year as a visiting
professor at Harvard. I took his courses in Advanced Sanskrit and
philosophy, and was a member of his small seminar on Bhartṛhari’s
*Vākyapadīya*, which was a truly unforgettable experience.

Ashok was a brilliant scholar, an unmatched expert on Bhartṛhari’s
philosophy of language and one of the finest connoisseurs of Sanskrit
grammar in our field. He was also a kind, intellectually generous, and
remarkable person. May he rest in peace.

Nataliya

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Nataliya Yanchevskaya
Lecturer in Sanskrit & South Asian Studies,
Princeton University

On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 10:31 PM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> I just now read a message from Shrikant Bahulkar that Ashok Aklujkar
> passed away today. I knew from Vidyut Aklujkar that Ashok had a hip
> replacement surgery and he was in hospital taking somewhat longer time to
> recover. But I did not expect to hear this sad news. I also received a
> message from Vidyut just a minute ago. I knew Ashok from my highschool days
> in Pune. He was four-five years ahead of me. Later we became very close
> friends for a lifetime. A very big loss to the field of Sanskrit studies.
> May he rest in peace.
>
> 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]
>
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