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'''Shivram Dattatray Joshi''' (1926–2013)<ref name="mt20130731">{{cite news | title=संस्कृतविश्वावर मोठा आघात | language=Marathi |trans-title=Great loss to the world of Sanskrit | work=Maharashtra Times | url=http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/maharashtra/pune/-/articleshow/21495029.cms | date=31 July 2013 | accessdate=16 August 2013 }}</ref> also known as S. D. Joshi, was an Indian [[Sanskrit]] scholar and grammarian based in [[Pune]], [[Maharashtra]].<br />
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==Life==<br />
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===Personal life===<br />
Joshi was born in a family of Sanskrit scholars in [[Ratnagiri district|Ratnagiri]] in [[Konkan]], Maharashtra.<ref name="deshpande">{{cite book | title=Paninian Studies: S.D. Joshi Felicitation Volume | editor1-first=Madhav | editor1-last= Deshpande | editor2-first=Saroja | editor2-last=Bhate | isbn=9780891480648 | year=1999 | pages=vii-xii | chapter=Preface | first=Madhav | last=Deshpande | publisher=Center for South Asian Studies, The University of Michigan}}</ref> His father died when Joshi was a child.<ref name="deshpande"/> He married Kalavati Bhagavat, his college classmate, in 1958.<ref name="deshpande"/> Joshi had two children, a son named Anandavardhan (Nandan) and a daughter named Suvrata.<ref name="bu">{{cite web | title=Obituary: Shivaram Dattatray Joshi (1926–2013) | url=http://www.bu.edu/applied-linguistics/2013/07/31/all-obituary-shivaram-dattatray-joshi-1926-2013/ | accessdate=16 August 2013 | date=31 July 2013 | publisher=Boston University | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021185627/http://www.bu.edu/applied-linguistics/2013/07/31/all-obituary-shivaram-dattatray-joshi-1926-2013/ | archivedate=21 October 2013 }}</ref> Joshi died on 29 July 2013 at the age of 87.<ref name="mt20130731"/><br />
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===Education and career===<br />
Joshi's initial learning was from his uncle Maheshwar Shastri Joshi in Pune.<ref name="deshpande"/> He mastered Sanskrit grammar before the age of twenty, passing various examinations from [[Bengal]], [[Baroda State|Baroda]] and Pune.<ref name="deshpande"/> He began teaching at the Poona Sanskrit College and served as its principal from 1947 to 1955.<ref name="deshpande"/><br />
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Joshi was the teacher to [[Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr.|Daniel Ingalls]] in 1950s.<ref name="deshpande"/><ref name="bu"/> Ingalls was very impressed with Joshi and persuaded him to come to [[Harvard University]]. As Joshi had learned Sanskrit only in the traditional system, he had to first complete a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955, after which he applied for a fellowship at Harvard University.<ref name="deshpande"/> Joshi completed his PhD from Harvard University in 1960 in the field of Sanskrit lexical semantics, with Ingalls as his advisor.<ref name="bu"/><br />
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Joshi returned to India in 1960 and joined the Department of Sanskrit Dictionary at the [[Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute|Deccan College]], Pune.<ref name="deshpande"/> In 1964, he joined the Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit at the [[University of Poona]] as a Reader.<ref name="deshpande"/> In 1970, he was appointed the Head of Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit at the university. From 1974 to 1987 he was the Director of Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit.<ref name="deshpande"/> From 1987, he led the Deccan College Sanskrit Dictionary Project.<ref name="bu"/> Joshi was a visiting professor at Harvard University from 1971 to 1972, and at [[Nagoya University]] from 1976 to 1977.<ref name="deshpande"/><br />
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==Major works==<br />
*Commentary on [[Patanjali]]’s Mahābhāṣya planned in 11 volumes, with J.A.F. Roodbergen, but which was abandoned after 2 volumes.<ref name="bu"/><br />
*Commentary on [[Pāṇini]]’s grammar in 15 volumes, with J.A.F. Roodbergen.<ref name="bu"/><br />
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==Awards and recognition==<br />
Joshi was awarded the title of National Scholar (Rashtriya Pandit) by the [[President of India]] in 1991.<ref name="deshpande"/><br />
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Joshi is credited with attracting the attention of theoretical linguists to the Aṣṭādhyāyī.<ref name="bu"/> He is sometimes referred to as the new [[Pāṇini]].<ref name="mt20130731"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/Symposium/papers/joshi.pdf Background of the Aṣṭādhyāyī]: Keynote speech delivered at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120616080255/http://sanskrit.uohyd.ernet.in/Symposium/program.html Third International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium], 15–17 January 2009. ([http://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/Symposium/PHOTOS/keynote_speech.html Photos])<br />
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