This is indeed very sad.  This was not unexpected however. He was not keeping good health and had been hosptalised.recently.The end came at 7am.  A man of impeccable character he was loved by all. I remember our journey together to the AIOC at Guwahati in 1964-65 and his participation in other cnference including two at the Visva Bharati. We shall intensely miss him
DB

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Peter Flugel <pf8@soas.ac.uk> wrote:
It is with great sadness to report that Dr Satya Ranjan Banerjee, formerly Professor at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Calcutta, has passed away. He was one of the foremost scholars of Prakrit and Jainology of his generation and has taught numerous students from all over the world in India and abroad. 

Amongst the inluential of his countless publications are: A Skeleton Grammar of Prakrit attributed to Jiva Gosvami (1963), (ed.) The Prākṛta-Prakāśa of Vararuci, Text Edited for the First Time with a New Commentary entitled Prākṛta-pāda-ṭīkā by Nārāyaṇa Viydāvinoda (1975), The eastern school of Prakrit Grammarians : a linguistic study (1977), A bibliography of Prakrit language (1977), Prākṛtādhyāya: The Prākr̥ta book of the Samkṣiptasāra (1982), Indo-European Tense and Aspect in Greek and Sanskrit (1983), A Handbook of Sanskrit Philology (1987), (ed.) Essays on Indo-European Linguistics: Proceedings of the Seminar on Indo-European Linguistics held on 1-2 February 1986 (1990), Jainism in different states of India (2001), Prolegomena to Prakritica et Jainica (2005), (ed.) Narrative Tale in Jain Literature (2008).

He will be dearly missed by all of us.

--
Dr Peter Flügel
Chair, Centre of Jaina Studies
Department of Religions and Philosophies
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG

Tel.: (+44-20) 7898 4776
E-mail: pf8@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies

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