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`Commentary on languages will help to understand Indian culture'

By Our Staff Reporter

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Delegates at an international conference on study of commentaries in Pondicherry on Tuesday.

PONDICHERRY, FEB. 22. The Director of the French Institute of Pondicherry, Jean Pierre Muller, today said the study of commentaries of Indian languages was necessary to understand the subtleties of Indian culture.

Addressing delegates from different institutions at a four-day international conference on ``forms and uses of the commentaries of Indian languages'' which began here, Mr. Muller said that the publications on Indology by the French Institute of Pondicherry (the institute will celebrate its golden jubilee here on February 26) during the last five decades were proof of the relevance and utility of the study of the commentaries. He said that the work would continue in future.

The conference would have an exclusive session on the contributions of Tamil literature and culture in India.

The institute sponsored the conference in collaboration with the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient (French School of Far Eastern countries) in Pondicherry, the Paris University, France, and the Rashtriya Sanskrit Samasthan New Delhi.

C. Caillat of the Academy of Inscriptions, Institute de France in Paris, recalled the contributions made by the founder Director of the French Institute here, Jean Filliozat, and his commitment to sustain the sway of the Indian heritage and its grammatical traditions. She recalled the interest evinced by French and Indian Indologists.

Jean Filliozat was convinced of the necessity to be directly in touch with the erudite scholars of India who were committed to keeping alive the immense heritage of India.

R.K. Sharma, president of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies, New Delhi, said that a greater analysis and investigation of the commentaries of Indian languages was necessary.

N. Blabir, a scholar from the University of Paris (III) in France, presided over the inaugural session.

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