Robert Philip Goldman

Dr. Robert Goldman is the William and Catherine Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the General Editor and a principal translator of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Translation Project, a consortial project to provide a scholarly translation and annotation of the monumental Sanskrit epic poem’s critical edition as prepared by scholars of the Oriental Institute of Baroda. The seven-volume work has been published serially from 1986 by the Princeton University Press, The Clay Sanskrit Library and Messrs. Motilal Banarsidass,  New Delhi. The seventh and final volume, the Uttarakāṇḍa appeared in 2017.  He is also the author of Gods, Priests and Warriors: the Bhṛgus of the Mahābhārata and dozens of scholarly articles, reviews and encyclopedia entries. He is also the co-author with Sally J. Sutherland Goldman of the Devavāṇīpraveśikā: An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language. He has been the recipient of a number of awards and honors including a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and the title of Vidyāvāridhi (Ocean of Learning) awarded by the Mandākinī Saṃskṛta Pariṣad, New Delhi. He was the recipient of the Certificate of Honour for Sanskrit (International) awarded by His Excellency the President of India in 2013 and the World Sanskrit Award granted by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in 2017.