Pune: Dr. Madhukar Anant Mehendale Endowment Seminar to be organized in Deccan College

Yerwada, 11th February 2022: Dr. M.A. Mehendale, a renowned scholar of Sanskrit and Linguistics was Professor in the Department

of Linguistics at the Deccan College and also served the Sanskrit Dictionary Project as the Joint General Editor. He was also the Joint Director of the Deccan College.

Through a generous endowment made by the family of Late Prof. Mehendale, the Deccan College conducts a one day international seminar to mark the birth anniversary of Dr. Mehendale on 14th February every year on themes selected from research areas of Dr. Mehendale’s interest. With a view to

encourage research attitudes among young scholars, the Institute presents cash prizes to the first three best papers presented in the Seminar. This is the second year of this activity.

This year the Seminar will be organized on Monday, February 14, 2022. Research papers related to the themes language and textual criticism of Vedic texts, Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇa literature, Historical Linguistics, language contact and inscriptions will be presented by the young as well as established scholars from India and abroad.

This year the Seminar will be conducted online through Google Meet. The link is as follows:

Google Meet Link:  https://meet.google.com/qem-ptba-jyi

Time: 10 a.m. onwards