Ramanath Sharma | |
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| Born | (1939-03-01)1 March 1939 (age 86) |
| Notable work | The Astadhyayi of Panini |
Main interests | PāṇiniSanskrit grammar |
Rama Nath Sharma (also written asRamanath Sharma) was born in 1939 atChhata,Ballia,India[1][2] in a family of traditionalSanskrit scholars. He studied Sanskrit from his fatherPadmashri Paṇḍita Raghunath Sharma, the author of the famous commentary Ambākartrī on the Vākyapadīyam ofBhartṛhari. Dr. Sharma is the author of 6 volumes containing a comprehensive translation and analysis of the fundamental work on the grammar of ancient Sanskrit, theAṣṭādhyāyī ofPāṇini.[3]
He completed his early education, as well as the Undergraduate education, at Varanasi, with B.A. (1957) fromBanaras Hindu University; M. A. (1959, Hindi Literature,University of Allahabad); and M.A. (1962, General Linguistics, K.M. Institute,Agra University). He received his Ph.D. (1971, General Linguistics) from theUniversity of Rochester, Rochester, New York.
He taught Hindi Literature, and General Linguistics, at theUniversity of Allahabad (1962–66). He joined the faculty of theUniversity of Rochester, Rochester, New York, as an assistant professor of linguistics (1971–76). He moved on to theUniversity of Hawaii at Mānoa (1976), Honolulu, Hawaii (U.S.A.), as assistant professor of Sanskrit.
He was also Director of South Asian Studies Program (1978–83), and Member Trustee of theAmerican Institute of Indian Studies.[4] He served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages during the years 1997–2000.
He retired as Professor of Sanskrit in 2012, is currently an Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Hawaii.[5] He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, with his wife, and regularly (September–December) visits Varanasi (India) where he has a vacation home. He travelled every summer to the family farm house at Chhata to study the Vyākaraṇa-mahābhāṣya of Patañjali. He studied the Kāśikāvṛtti of Vāmana-Jayāditya from Paṇḍit Rāmaprasāda Tripāthī, at Varanasi.
Professor Sharma is internationally known for his lectures on, and studies in, theAṣṭādhyāyī ofPāṇini, and Sanskrit Intellectual Tradition. He travelled to all major institutions of higher learning in India, including theI.I.T. Kanpur, lecturing on Pāṇini as aFulbright scholar (2005).
He has presented papers, chaired sessions, and delivered key-note addresses, at many National-International Conferences. He presented a special Panel on Reinterpreting Pāṇini at theWorld Sanskrit Conference, New Delhi (2012). He made a special presentation on, "Rule-interaction, Blocking and Derivation in Pāṇini[6]", at the International Seminar on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, JNU (Dec, 2010 ), New Delhi. He presented a key-note address at the World Vedic Conference (2007: Vrindavan), on "Dharma, Karma and Yoga", the three Perspectives to Way of Life, and also two Guest Lectures at the Seminar on Indian Intellectual Tradition, at the Sāhitya Academy, New Delhi (2013).
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