David Reigle was interested in Gotō’s paper on RV 10,72, read at the 14th World Sanskrit Conference in Kyoto in 2009. Per-Johan Norelius, too, was earlier seeking for a copy of this paper.
As it apparently was not printed — none of the Proceedings of the Conference contains it —, I made a scan of the six pages of the handout, which cover the entire talk. The attached .tiff file
contains all the 6 pages in one document. I could not convert it into a pdf file, but at least in my MacBook Air it opens.

With best wishes, Asko


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Gotō T 2009 on RV 10,72.tiff
dropbox.com


On 7. Aug 2025, at 11.36, Michael Witzel <ejmwitzel@gmail.com> wrote:

Like Harry and Asko, I received the news of the passing, on July 19, of my old friend Toshifumi from his wife Junko a  few days ago. I was aware of his two year struggle with cancer but the end came as a great shock: in spite of many procedures in various research institutions, the spread of his disease could not be stopped. Even then, he persevered tireless in his work, until the very end, such as with a Japanese translation of his important update of  Old Indo-Aryan morphology and its Indo-Iranian background.

We both can look back to many decades of friendship and collaboration, in Europe and 
Japan, last during our concurrent stay at the Buddhist Postgraduate College in Tokyo and at the Veda conference organized by Eijiro Doyama at Osaka in the spring of 2023.

As outlined by Harry and Asko, his contributions do not only cover Vedic, Avestan, Indo-Iranian and Indo-European linguistics and philology but also many aspects of the religious developments of these  periods, -- often with surprising new insights that had escaped us for long (Videgha, Yajñavalkya, Varuṇa etc.).

We will remember him and his oeuvre as long as we live and I am sure that many on this list will agree. I hope that his friends and colleagues will set up and contribute to a Gedenkschrift soon.

Michael Witzel

(residence: Zushi, Japan)


On Aug 6, 2025, at 19:04, Asko Parpola via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

 Old Indo-Aryan morphology and its Indo-Iranian background