Nick was a wonderful friend. I met him in Pune as a PhD student in 2001. He wondered up to me at the Bhandarkar and, with his characteristic high-pitched hum, said ‘Mmmmm, is that Soren Sorensen’s Index of Names to the Mahabharata?’ A friendship commenced then and there (how could it not?).

Nick was an inspiration to me as both a person and as an intellectual; he was unworried by the fashions of the day, inclusive in his interests, and could walk up a mountain like a sprightly goat after good pasture.

I will miss him.

James

On 24 Mar 2020, at 14:11, Olivelle, J P via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

So sorry to hear of Nick’s passing. Came to know him well when I was a visiting fellow at Wolfson many years ago. 

Patrick

On Mar 24, 2020, at 3:35 AM, Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear List,

Nicholas (Nick) Allen passed away on last Saturday.

https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/content/1138-dr-nicholas-allen

https://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-nick-allen

A Florilège of his comparative works was issued at the end of the last year: Arjuna-Odysseus: Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek Epic, London: Routledge, 2019.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of figures.
List of tables.
Acknowledgements.
List of abbreviations.
Signs.
Introduction
1. A starting point
2. Five relationships
3. Homer’s simile
4. Hero and horse
5. Yoga
6. Crocodiles and nymphs
7. Monkey and dog
8. Durgā and Athena
9. Draupadī and Penelope
10. Bhīsm a and Sarpedon
11. Hesiod’s Succession Myth
12. Five elements
13. Rings and rotations
14. Achilles’ shield
15. Dumézil and Dumont
16. Yudhis hira and Agamemnon
17. Kauravas and suitors
18. Hanging over abyss
19. Gods descend to battlefield 20. Heroes and supercategories
21. Cyavana and Prometheus 22. Telemachy 23. Dro a and Chryses
24. Aśvatthāman and the Wooden Horse. Bibliography.
Index. 

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Christophe Vielle
Louvain-la-Neuve

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