The world of Śrīvaiṣṇavism has lost a really remarkable person of the saṃpradāya, brilliant, deeply curious, very learned and yet open to thinking in critical ways about the tradition, always helpful and with a wonderful sense of humour. I knew him very well in his Melkote days and cherished his many sterling qualities. It is a very sad day indeed.

Srilata Raman,

Associate Professor of Hinduism,

University of Toronto.

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Dear Indology list,

I was sorry to learn today of the sad demise of Pr. Laksmi Thathachar, former Director of the Academy of Sanskrit Research in Melkote.

As an early investigator of computerized śabdabodha, he was a founding father of Sanskrit computational linguistics.

Gérard Huet