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Dictionary Project for nine months On the 10th of August, 1984, he left Pune and retired to his native place
Again in 1987, he was requested by the charitable institution named Sanmatı Tirtha, to take up the Project of the Dictionary of Prakrits and since then he has been working at the Bhandarkar Onental Research Institute, Pune Upto March, 1995, two fascicules of the dictionary containing the "A"-reference to the Jain Literature have been published
As a College Teacher, Prof A.M Ghatage taught Sanskrit, Prakrit and Linguistics to the undergraduate and post-graduate classes since 1936 through 1978, and 22 research students got their PhD degree, between 1961 and 1978, under his guidance as a Guide He taught Modern Linguistics at the Summer Schools and Winter Seminars of the Language Project and Department of Linguistics for short penods he was Visiting Professor at the Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (UP)
Prof Ghatage had attended two archaeological excavations, one at Harappa and the other at Brahmagırı He delivered the Wilson Philological Lectures in 196162 at the Bombay University, and in 1968 on Applied Linguistics at the Shivaji University, Kolhapur Between 1945-46 he attended two excavations of Archaeology one at Harappa and the other at Brhmagin
He has published 20 books, edited three Seminar Reports, and about 75 research articles and papers in various oriental journals As the Director of the Languages Project, he organized five Summer Schools, and three Winter Seminars in India He was selected as the General President of the All India Oriental Conference for the Ahmedabad Session in 1985 He presided over the First National Prakrit Conference at Banglore in December, 1990 He was given an award for his work on the Prakrit Dictionary, and another award called Prakrta Jñanbhārati Puraskāra at Hydrabad in 1993, and Hemacandrācārya Award at Delhi in 1998 Since 1993, he is a Life-Member of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, and since 1993 of the Lingustics Society of India He was elected as the Honorary Secretary of the Bhandarkar Onental Research Institute, Pune, for a penod of three years, and again for the second term up to 1999 He has received the prestigious and rare Certificate of Merit for Sanskrit and Prakrit, awarded by the President of India Even at this advanced age of 86, he is alert and actively worlang on the further fascicules of the Prakrit dictionary
