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	==Honors==		==Honors==
	Dandekar received many honors and awards, including the [[Padmabhushan]] title in 1962 from the President of India,<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \| title=Padma Awards \| publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India \| date=2015 \| access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref> and a [[List of Sahitya Akademi fellows\|Sahitya Akademi Fellowship]] in 2000.		Dandekar received many honors and awards, including the [[Padmabhushan]] title in 1962 from the President of India,<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web \| url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \| title=Padma Awards \| publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India \| date=2015 \| access-date=21 July 2015 \| archive-date=15 October 2015 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \| url-status=dead }}</ref> and a [[List of Sahitya Akademi fellows\|Sahitya Akademi Fellowship]] in 2000.

	==References==		==References==

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{{infobox person
|name =Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar
|birth_date =17 March 1909
|birth_place =Satara
|death_date ={{death date and age|2001|12|11|1909|3|17}}
|occupation=vedic scholar, indologist
}}
'''Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar''' (1909–2001) was an [[Indologist]] and [[Vedas|Vedic]] scholar from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]. He was born in [[Satara (city)|Satara]] on 17 March 1909 and died in Pune on 11 December 2001.

==Education==

Dandekar earned an M.A. in [[Sanskrit]] in 1931, and an M.A. in Ancient Indian Culture in 1933, both from [[Bombay University]] (renamed some years ago as Mumbai University). He joined [[Fergusson College]] in [[Pune]] in 1933 as a professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Indian Culture. In 1936, he went to [[Germany]] for further studies and received his doctoral degree from [[Heidelberg University]] in 1938 for his thesis ''Der Vedish Mensh''.

==Career==
Upon his return from Germany, Dandekar continued to teach at Fergusson College. In 1950, he was appointed Professor of Sanskrit and Head of the Department of [[Sanskrit]] and [[Prakrit]] Languages at the [[Savitribai Phule Pune University|University of Poona]] (now called Savitribai Phule Pune University, and before that the University of Pune). He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts during 1959-1965. In 1964, he became the Director of the Center of Advanced Study in Sanskrit at the University of Poona, and served in that capacity until 1974.

In 1939, Dandekar had become the Honorary Secretary of the renowned [[Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute]] (BORI), and he continued to function in that capacity till 1994, effectively running the Institute for fifty-five years. From 1994 until his death in 2001, he served as the vice-president of the Institute.

Dandekar was closely associated with numerous Indian and international organizations related to [[Indology]], and he served and shaped these organizations in various manners. They included the All India Oriental Conference, the International Congress of Orientalists, the World Sanskrit Conference, the Sanskrit Commission of the Government of India, and the Deccan College. He served as an adviser on Indology at [[UNESCO]].

Along with a large number of other publications, Dandekar published a monumental six-volume ''Vedic Suchi'' (Vedic bibliography) in 1946.

==Honors==
Dandekar received many honors and awards, including the [[Padmabhushan]] title in 1962 from the President of India,<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref> and a [[List of Sahitya Akademi fellows|Sahitya Akademi Fellowship]] in 2000.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs0802/ejvs0802obituary.pdf | title=Professor R.N. Dandekar | publisher=EJVS | date=2001 | access-date=18 September 2015 | author=Madhav M Despande | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220153631/http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs0802/ejvs0802obituary.pdf | archive-date=20 February 2012 | df=dmy-all }}

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