Dear Ven. Pandita,
Thanks for your response. I was able to confirm that the author of _The
Technical Terms and Techniques of the Pali and the Sanskrit Grammars_ is
indeed the same Prof. Mahesh A, Deokar, head of the Department of Pali at
the University of Pune. The introductory pages of this book were scanned
and sent to me and I would be glad to forward them to anyone on the list
wanting to have a look at this part of the book which contains details about
the contents and other introductory matter. The treatise is what Prof.
Deokar submitted for his Ph.D in Pali and only 550 copies were printed
unless it has since been reprinted. It discusses and compares 166 technical
terms as used in 3 Pali grammars and 3 Sanskrit grammars. I notice in the
Preface (pp. xxxi-xxxii) the mention of Ole Holten Pind's research work on
the Pali grammars.
Instead of wiriting "which is rather unusual" I should have written "which
is rather remarkable", I can relate well to the challenges for a blind or
visually impaired person. As many on the list will know, I'm both deaf and
visually-impaired (Usher syndrome).
Thanks for the recent upload of your two papers.
Best wishes,
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "bhikkhu" <ashinpan@...>
To: <palistudy@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 3:37 AM
Subject: [palistudy] About Prof. Deokar
>
> Dear Jim,
>
> Sorry for coming to notice your message of January only now.
>
> --- you wrote:
>>
>> Thank-you for letting us know about this new and interesting book. I
>> wonder if the author is the same Prof. Deokar that Bhikkhu Pandita met at
>> the University of Pune more than a year ago. He is head of the Pali
>> deparment there and also blind which is rather unusual.
>
> Yes, the same person. I met him in February this year when I visited Pune
> to attend a conference, but somehow this new book did not come into our
> conversation. So I come to know about his new book only now from the
> messages of Mr. Bedell and yourself.
>
> with metta,
>
> Ven. Pandita