[INDOLOGY] Sad News

[Bradley Clough]

I will always be grateful for the semester spent with Dr. Sharma when he
visited Columbia U, in the late 1980s as I recall. What I and other budding
Sanskritist grad students learned from him is hard to measure.

Brad Clough
The University of Montana

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 1:22 PM Robert Goldman via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
> I have just been informed of the very sad new of the passing of Dr.
> Ramkaran Sharma in New Delhi. Sharmaji had been ailing for some time and
> had recently been hospitalized for pneumonia.
>
> Sharma was one of the great stalwarts of Sanskrit Studies both as a
> scholar and an administrator.  He was, among many things,  the Vice
> Chancellor of Darbhanga University, the Founding Director of the Rāṣṭrīya
> Saṃskṛta  Saṃsthāna and the President of the International Association of
> Sanskrit Studies. He taught widely in India and the West, including at
>  Berkeley, Columbia University  and the University of Pennsylvania
>
> He took his doctorate under the guidance of the late Professor Murray
> Barnson Emeneau at my home institution, the University of California at
> Berkeley and was an inspiration and mentor to me and several generations of
> Sanskrit scholars from around the world.  He was always available to advise
> and help with knotty problems in a vast variety of Sanskrit texts and his
> knowledge of *vyākaraṇa* and all manner of śāstraic fields was immense
> and his sharing of it magnanimous.  He was  my  teacher, colleague an
> friend for some fifty years  and was   always ready to advise us on
> difficult passages in the *Rāmāyaṇa* commentaries.
>
> He  and his vast learning will be deeply missed by scholars around the
> world.
>
>
> Dr. R. P.  Goldman
> Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor in South
> and Southeast Asian Studies
> Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies MC # 2540
> The University of California at Berkeley
> Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
> Tel: 510-642-4089
> Fax: 510-642-2409
>
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