Sambodhi 1983 Vol 12

SR No.: 520762
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1983
Total Pages: 326
Language: English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India
File Size: 11 MB

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Review
વધુમાં વધુ શાસ્ત્રીય છે, વિદ્વત્તાપૂર્ણ છે. ગુજરાતી વાડમયમાં અનુવાદ પર અતિ જજ સાહિત્ય મળી આવે છે તેમાં આ વિભાગ તેની પિતાની રીતે આવકાર પાત્ર બને તે છે.
વિદ્યાર્થીઓને દૃષ્ટિ સમક્ષ રાખ' લખાએલું આ પુસ્તક વિષયમાં રસ ધરાવતા સામાન્ય વાચકને પણ વાચવું ગમે તેવું જણાય છે.
આના પરથી એક અપેક્ષા આપણા મનમાં બંધાશે કે આ વિષયને હજી વધુ વ્યાપક અભ્યાસ કરીને લેખક પ્રસ્તુત વિષય પર પ્રમાણમાં વધુ વ્યાપક અને સર્વગ્રાહી, વિસ્તૃત, શાસ્ત્રીય ગ્રંથ રચે અને ગુજરાતી વાડમયને સમૃદ્ધ કરે. આ પુસ્તક દ્વારા આવી કતિની રચનાની પિતાની ક્ષમતા લેખકે સિદ્ધ કરી જ છે.
રમેશ બેટાઈ
OBITUARY
Late Dr. Prataprai M. Modi
It is with a deep sense and experience of sorrow and grief that I take note of the demise of Dr. P. M. Modi at Baroda less than a month back on 17th July 1986 at the age of 88.
As a prominent professor of 50 years' standing, i. e., some 15 years even after her retired from active service as a Professor of Sanskrit, Dr. Modi will be remembered with veneration, warmth, love and regard, as a very able and untiring, teacher. He was ever anxious to impart his learning on pupils and it was his nature not to worry about time when he taught. He therefore naturally won the veneration of his pupils who looked upon him almost as a Rşi. Hundreds and thousands of students remember him as an Ajātasatru, as an ideal teacher besides being a profound scholar.
Dr. Modi started as a college teacher and retired as college Principal ( Samaldas College, Bhavnagar. ) But he was first and last a Professor. He therefore continued to guide Ph. D. students and to teach at post-graduate classes at M. S. University, Baroda, for several years after retirement, So many Ph. D. students including iyself are a testimony to his abilities as a researcher and guide. For his Ph. D. students he was far more than just a guide and he put in so much of labour for his students, labour that no Ph. D. student can expect.
His profound contribution in form of very valuable books and research papers is mainly in the realm of Vedanta of Sankara and the Bhagavadgita though he has worked with authority on Ramanuja and Vallabha also.