Dear Dr. Chakrabarti, 

I am very sad to be informed about the premature passing away of Prof. Chlodwig Werba, author of numerous articles in the domain of Vedic (including on "prakritic wordforms in the Rgvedasamhita) 

and Indo-european studies and especially of "Werba's Verba Indoiranica, Part I". 

He used to sanskritize his name as Śruta-vega and write brief sentences in Sanskrit -- for instance the dedication in the copy of his Verba Indoiranica which he sent me in 1997/98 -- long before courses in spoken and functional Sanskrit became fashionable. 

Is there anywhere a list of his publications available online? 

Condolences to his family, colleagues, friends and students.

Jan Houben  

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on p. ix of his Verba Indoiranica Chlodwig Werba quotes (I intentionally use the present tense here)

a stanza in the Kathāmukha of the Pañcatantra

anantapāraṁ kila śabdaśāstraṁ

   svalpaṁ tathāyur bahavaś ca vighnāḥ /

sāraṁ tato grāhyam apāsya phalgu

   haṁsair yathā kṣīram ivāmbumadhyāt //

For this he gives a liberal and metrical translation into English: 

Since verbal science has no final end ; 

   since life is short, and obstacles impend, 

let central facts be picked and firmly fixed, 

   as swans extract the milk with water mixed !

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On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 08:29, Dr. Debabrata Chakrabarti via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

I am sorry to inform the learned circle that my friend Prof. Dr. Chlodwig Werba of the South Asian Institute of Indoloy & Tibetan Studies in Vienna has died a premature death on 25 January 2019. We miss not only an outstanding scholar of Indology, but a man of intense feeling and a heart full of humour. May he attain Sadgati.  

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Jan E.M. Houben

Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology

Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite

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