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Besides several articles on the Uttaradhyayana Sutra, Prof. Alsdorf has published in German language a number of books and extensive papers, the main titles being: Apabramsa Studies (1937); The Indian Subcontinent: Bharat, Pakistan, Ceylon (1955); Contributions to the History of vegetariaism and Cow Worship in India (1961); Aśoka's Separate Edicts of Dhauli and Jaugada (1962). Between 1951 and Prof. Alsdorf completed and edited in two volumes unpublished papers left by Heinrich Lueders under the title "Varuna." On the occasion of his 70th birthday, a comprehensive volume containing his articles, lectures and other contributions was brought out with the assistance of the Glasenapp Foundation in Germany. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Critical Päli Dictionary, a stupendous project in which Indian and Western scholars are participating. In his last years his scholarly work was concentrated on the earliest commentaries of the Jain Agamas.
Prof. Alsdorf was an active member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature of Mayence as well as of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. He has visited India about twelve times after World war II and has been the leading German delegate to a number of Sanskrit Conferences and to the meetings of the International Congress of Orientalists,
