Dr. T. N. Dharmadhikari

[Ajit Gargeshwari]

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Dear Colleagues,

     Harry Spier brought to my attention the news that Dr. T.N. Dharmadhikari passed away this morning. I spoke to my sister in Pune and she confirmed this news.

     Dharmadhikari along with V.V. Bhide and S.D. Joshi was a college classmate of my father and so I have known them all as my uncles [kaka] since my childhood. My father used to call him Dharmaraj, and for a long time I thought that this was his name.

     Along with my father, Dharmadhikari came to see me off at the Cochin harbor as I was boarding my ship to go to New York in 1968.

     Dharmadhikari directed the Vaidika Samshodhan Mandal of Pune, and edited many Vedic texts including the Taittirīya Saṃhitā and the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā and he was among the few modern Indian scholars doing such critical work with Vedic texts. He did his Ph.D. degree under the guidance of the late Professor M. A. Mehendale.

     Later, while I was working on the text of Vedavicāra, I used to see him once a week to read this text and with his help a number of knotty readings and passages received a good interpretation.

     For the last several years, Dharmadhikari was not in good health, and his wife passed away a few years ago. With the passing of Dharmadhikari, almost an entire generation of eminent Sanskrit scholars of Pune has gone into history.

Madhav M. Deshpande

Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]

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[Nabanarayan Bandyopadhyay]

Very shocked to learn that Professor T.N. Dharmadhikari is no more. An irreperable  void is created by this sad demise in the field of Indological studies in general and Vedic studies in particular. Prof. Dharmadhikari was a loving personality and kind enough to visit our School of Vedic Studies, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, for delivering a seminar lecture. May this great soul attain the divine bliss and deep condolences are being expressed
to the bereaved members of the family.

Nabanarayan Bandyopadhyay

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[Gauri Mahulikar]

Hari Om!

Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune has organized a condolence meeting for Prof. Dharmadhikari today at 5.15 pm IST

warm regards

Prof. Gauri Mahulikar

Dean of Faculty, Chinmaya University

Veliyanad, Ernakulam, 682313

Former Prof & Head, Sanskrit Dept

Mumbai University

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[Vishal Agarwal]

May his Atma attain Sadgati. Om Shanti! I was eagerly awaiting his translation of the Maitrayani Samhita, but alas we will have to wait much longer.

Regards,

Vishal Agarwal

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