Raffaele Torella has just informed me that his message below may not have reached the Indology list due to some technical problem, so I am forwarding it on his behalf.

Isabelle Ratié

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From: Raffaele Torella <raffaele.torella@uniroma1.it>
Date: 2017-07-18 19:15 GMT+02:00
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] André Padoux

Whenever I visited Paris I never missed to visit André at his home in rue Séguier, and once also at his country house along with my family. By saying André I implicitly also refer to his wonderful wife, Anne-Cécile (it is often true that very close to each great man there also is a great woman). The last years of André were deeply saddened by the tragic and absurd death of Anne-Cécile, yet he found the courage and energy to continue, some way ot other, his life as a man (or to be more precise, as a great gentleman) and a scholar. I bitterly miss the great man and scholar he was.

Raffaele Torella

2017-07-18 12:01 GMT+02:00 Jan E.M. Houben via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>:

"Those who have the privilege to know Padoux personally, have been impressed by his friendliness, his cultured style, his honesty and meticulous correctness, his high scientific standard, and his readiness to assist young Indologists, both French and non-French."
When in the early nineties I read these words in Teun Goudriaan's preface to Ritual and Speculation in Early Tantrism -- Studies in Honor of André Padoux, Albany: SUNY press, 1992, André Padoux was for me an admired but distant star.
Much later I had myself the privilege to experience directly the truth of this statement on André Padoux, and be in addition impressed by his evergreen sense of humour and his loyalty to his family, friends and close colleagues. His work will forever remain of monumental importance for Indology, Tantric Studies, Ritual Studies, Philosophy of Language, Mantraśāstra and for the humanities (sciences humaines) in general.
Condolences to his family and friends.
I hope someone will be so kind as to prepare, or point us to, an updated list of André Padoux' publications -- beyond the list that appeared in the 1992 SUNY volume.
Jan Houben

Jan E.M. HOUBEN
Directeur d’Études
Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite
Professor of South Asian History and Philology
École Pratique des Hautes Études
Sciences historiques et philologiques
54, rue Saint-Jacques
CS 20525 – 75005 Paris
johannes.houben@ephe.sorbonne.fr
https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben

www.ephe.fr

On 17 July 2017 at 13:10, Lyne Bansat-Boudon via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear members of the list,

It is my very sad duty to inform you that Prof. André Padoux passed away, yesterday, 16th of July, in his 98th year.

All of you know him as a great scholar, a pioneer in his field, and a perfect gentlemen.

Lyne Bansat-Boudon

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