Renowned French Indologist and Padma Shri Awardee, Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat, has passed away.
Obituary
On December 28, 2024, French-Indian Sanskrit Scholar and Padma Shri Awardee Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat passed away at the age of 88 in Paris, France. He was born on February 15, 1936, in France.
- Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat was honored with numerous awards, including the prestigious 'Padma Shri' award in 2024.
- Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat, a renowned scholar in Sanskrit and Indian studies, was a Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit, and his thesis, titled "Alamkara-shastra," focused on the 13th-century Sanskrit treatise on poetics.
- He worked in India from 1963 to 1967 as a member of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies) in Pondicherry and later became a Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2000, serving as its President in 2010.
Main Point :- (i) Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat made significant contributions to various fields of Indology, including Sanskrit language and grammar, philology, paleography, epigraphy, poetry and poetics, Tantra, and the Sanskrit literature of the Saiva Siddhanta school. He published over 23 books and more than 250 scholarly articles on these subjects.
(ii) In 2013, Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat was awarded the 'Mahamaho Padhyaya Honoris Causa' from Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University, New Delhi, and a Certificate of Honour for Sanskrit from the President of India in 2014. He also received the 'Padma Shri' award in 2024 for his contributions to Sanskrit studies.
(iii) In 2023, he was honored with the 'Shree Vanamali Samskruti Seva Award' from the Shree Vanamali Charitable Trust, Mysuru. Additionally, he was awarded prestigious French honors, including Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite, and Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques for his academic achievements.
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