________________ R -UR Outstanding and Brilliant Academician I feel great pleasure in writing a brief note on our social and academic interactions with Prof. Sudershan Lal Jain, a superannuated Professor of Sanskrit of Banaras Hindu University. We are known to each other since 1976 ever since we were accommodated in the same apartment on the university campus. As far as I know Professor S. L. Jain is an outstanding and brilliant academician in his subjects and produced about four dozen Ph.D. students apart from publishing several research papers/articles in reputed journals/magazines. After talking to his students I came to know he is a wonderful teacher and delivers his well prepared lectures. The simplicity and purity of Prof. Jain's life, the devotion with which he has served the university will be remembered by his colleagues including his students. It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to pen-down a few words about our social and academic interactions while living on the university campus for more than thirty years. As far as our family relations are concerned I found them extremely friendly and beneficial. I take this opportunity to congratulate his wife Mrs. Manorama Jain who has been highly sincere and hard working housewife. I admire her helpful attitude with all the family members residing in the same apartments. I wish him and his family a peaceful, healthy and happy life for the years to come. Prof. D.N. Tiwari Ex. Professor, Department of Botany, B.H.U. Varansi Anicable in nature and Hardwork I am very much delighted to know the scholarship of Prof. Jain. He had a very long service in the former Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. that too, in the Dept. of Sanskrit. Varanasi haves got very long academic history regarding the Sanskrit langauge and literature. He had a very long band of students who were blessad with his sholarship, by which, he attained the most respectful position in academic area. He is wost pious, amicable in naure his hard work and studiouoness must have brought him like glttering star among the scholars of BHU. He must have followed the principle or a saying in sanskrit litrature in his yonnlr days. "विद्यातुराणां न सुखम् न निद्रा"
