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toured Europe in 1953-54 and besides attending International Conferences, pre- pared an inventory of 20,000 uncata- logued MSS. there and a survey of Sanskrit and Indological studies in Europe; toured U.S.S.R. in 1958 and visited Nepal twice for MSS. study. Member of the Government Sanskrit Commission; member of the Central Sanskrit Board and Indology Committee; Convener for Sanskrit, Sahitya Akademi; member, Sanskrit Advisory Board, Na- tional Book Trust; member, Executive Committee, Sangeet Natak Akademi; sometime Special Adviser for Sanskrit, All India Radio; adviser for many MSS. Libraries; member, New Sanskrit Dictionary Board and Purana Editorial Board; Secretary, Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute and Music Academy, Madras; edits the Journal of Oriental Research, the Journal of the Music Academy, Madras, the Samskrta Pratibhā of the Sahitya Akademi, the Samskrita Ranga Annual and the Madras University Sanskrit Series. Secretary, All India Oriental Conference 1951-59; twice its Section President and General President of its 21st Session (1961); awarded the 1953 Kane Gold Medal by Asiatic Society, Bombay, for distinguished research; conferred by Sri Kanchi Sankaracharya with the title Kavi-Kokila for his poetic writings and Sakala-Kalā-Kalāpa for his versatile attainments; appointed by Government as Chairman, Central Sanskrit Institute; received from President of India the distinction Padma Bhushan (1962). Author of over 30 works and 300 papers.

PROF. LOUIS RENOU, Paris: "I have known and appreciated since a long time the labours of this savant whom I consider the most gifted and the most brilliant of his generation. Carrying with a smiling ease the weight of an erudition, scarcely common, he knows to combine with a critical spirit the best traditional knowl- edge with the exigencies of research as practised in the West." -Foreword to author's Sanskrit and Allied Indological Studies in Europe "India's outstanding and most active classical Sanskritist ... " -p. xv, Preface, Harvard Oriental Series, XLII "The most brilliant Sanskrit scholar of India". -p. 361, Theatre in the East, New York

MM. DR. P. V. KANE, Bombay: " ... I must gratefully acknowledge that I owe a special debt to Dr. V. Raghavan who has always been most prompt in furnishing the information I wanted . .. I feel great admiration for his accurate scholarship, for his industry and profound learning." -Preface, IInd edn., History of Sanskrit Poetics

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