Volume V of the Mahasubhasita-Samgraha is being issued under the most painful circumstances. Dr. Ludwik Sternbach, the author of the Volume, passed away suddenly on March 25, 1981, when the printing of the Volume was yet to commence. May be that he was not in the best of health, but he seemed to have a premonition of what was to come. For, he wrote in his letter from Turin, dated 28. 12. 1980, addressed to Dr. K. V. Sarma, who was to vet and edit the Volume: "The last wish of mine is that Vol. V of the Mahasubhasita-Samgraha appears for the V World Sanskrit Conference in Varanasi and that you work on it with full speed. I beg you to do it." He added in the same letter, "I do hope that I shall be able to return to Paris, but I doubt that I shall survive the operation to be undertaken, probably some time in the second half of January. So, reply to me as soon as possible." He said further, "I have also made arrangements that my fortune (with the exception of other bequeaths to my family and friends which I have made) be given, after my death, to the "Dr. L. Sternbach Foundation" to be administered by the Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute in Hoshiarpur for the continuation of the Mahasubhasita-Samgraha," being the fulfilment of a pious promise which he had made to the Institute, as early as in 1973, while persuading the Institute to accept his Mahasubhasita-Samgraha, for publication.
Send as free online greeting card
Email a Friend
Visual Search
Manage Wishlist