Tulsi Prajna 1975 07

SR No.: 524503
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mahavir Gelada
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1975
Total Pages: 116
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

Page 113

HUMBLE TRIBUTE
to the memory of Prof. Dr. A. N. Upadhye
( 1906-1975)
It pains me to pen an obit. of a lifelong friend. Born in a pious Jain family at Sadalga, an obscure village in Belgaum district (now in Karnataka), Prof. Upadhye worked his way up to become an interna. tionaly wellknown scholar of Jainology and Prakrits. Due to his brilliant academic career, he was picked up in Kolhapur State service as Lecturer in the Rajaram College in 1931, where he served as a Professor of Ardhamāgadhi till his retirement in 1962. His students respected him as a good Professor. His edition of Kundakunda's Pravacanasára, a
young Prakrit scholars, brought him a D. Litt. from the Bombay University. Pravacanasara was followed by Paramātmaprakösa, Varangu carita, Usaniruddha, Tiloyapannati, Brahakatha koša and so many other works. His learned Introductions to Sanskrit, Prakrit and Apabhramsa works that he edited, the rigorous canons of Prakrit textual criticism that he observed in constituting the text, will go down as a model for generations to come. I have seen how he struggled with the text of the Kuvalayamála for more than ten years. He became a General President of the All-India Oriental Conference at Aligarh. He represented India at various International Oriental Conferences. On this Independence Day, he was honoured as a National Sanskrit scholar, August when we met. he told me that soon he was going to retire
job as a Professor and Head of the Department of Jainology in the Mysore University and settle down permanently at Kolhapur. When I told him of a similar decision of mine, he was glad that both of us were to spend our old age at Kolhapur. He then proposed that I should undertake some Apabbramsa work for one of his serieşes that he was editing and I promised. He went back to Mysore to hand over his charge of Professorship.
... ...And on Thursday on 9th October a journalist came to me and broke the news of Upadhye's passing away. Dr. Upadhye was certainly a very great Prakrit scholar but he was definitely greater as a thorough gentleman and greater still as an intimate friend. May his soul rest in peace!
- Dr. G. V. Tagare
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