Professor S.D. Joshi passed away.

[Madhav M. Deshpande]

Dear BVP Members,

Yesterday morning I received the news of the sad demise of Professor S.D. Joshi.    I saw Professor S.D. Joshi briefly during my visit to Pune in June.  He was very week and could barely sit in the chair and talk.  He said to me: "I never thought you would see me in this condition."  It was indeed difficult for me to see him in that condition, and now to hear the news of his passing away.   He was a close friend and a college classmate of my father, and I saw him since my early childhood as a favorite uncle "Kaka".  During the two years he was my teacher at the University of Pune, he had his class of three students come to his home every day for an in depth session.  The class was made up of me, Jayashree Gune and Pandit Athalekar.  His home became our second home.  There was unlimited generosity in his heart.  धिगस्तु तां निष्करुणामनित्यताम् - is what I recall from the Aśokāvadāna.  He had a brilliant life and we must celebrate his contributions. He was perhaps the greatest living Vaiyākaraṇa since the time of Nāgeśabhaṭṭa.

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

[Madhav M. Deshpande]

I have attached a brief biography of Professor S.D. Joshi that I wrote as the preface to S.D. Joshi Felicitation Volume that I edited with Prof. Saroja Bhate.

Madhav Deshpande

[Veeranarayana Pandurangi]

thanks sir.
it is very touching.
i would like to know about pandit joshi's bibliography in sanskrita and english.

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[Prof. Piyushkant Dixit]

Really this news is shocking. I hope we will learn to serve Shastras following his way.

MAJ

Prof. Piyushkant Dixit

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[Nabanarayan Bandyopadhyay]

Dear Prof. Deshpande,

The sad demise of Professor S.D. Joshi is an irreparable loss to the Sanskrit world. We fondly remember his contribution to the establishment of the School of Vedic Studies at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, in 1986, when he was an expert member of the UGC Visiting Committee formed for the purpose. We are thankful to you for sending a brief biography of him. It will help us more if his bibliography is also mailed.  We pray--may his great soul rest in peace!

Nabanarayan Bandyopadhyay

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[Rajendran C]

Prof.Deshpande, thanks a lot for sharing your experiences.What made Professor Joshi a unique person  was the  manner in which he combined the best of Western and Indian scholarship, without belittling either, which has become a fashion nowadays. He always wanted to revamp Indological research in India so that it could  retain the high standards it had set in the past.I remember  how once he called upon youngsters to be true researchers by doing original research.He deplored the tendency to rehash everything already said and writing research papers and theses without bothering to review the work already done.If we could revive the glorious Poona tradition of  erudition and hard work, that would be a befitting tribute to Prof.Joshi's memory.

 

Dr.C.Rajendran www.crajendran.org
28/1097,Rajadhani,  T.P.Kumaran Nair Road,
Chevayur, Calicut Kerala 673 017 Phone: 0495-2354 624

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