This article is about the Filipino indologist. For Dominican professional baseball player, see
Juan Francisco.
Juan R. Francisco is a Filipino Indologist[1] who discovered the Maranao version of the Ramayana, that is native to the Philippines. He then translated it into English. He is also a professor at the University of the Philippines in Manila. For several years he served as the Executive Director of the Philippine-American Educational Foundation (PAEF), administering the Fulbright Program in the Philippines.[citation needed]
Education
He has a Ph.D. in Sanskrit from the University of Madras, and he studied under Indologist Raghavan from Chennai. Francisco himself taught another Filipino Indologist, Josephine Acosta Pasricha.[2]
Works
- Indian Influences in the Philippines (1964)
- Maharadia Lawana (1969)
- Sanskrit in Philippine Language and Literature (1973)
- From Ayodhya to Pulu Agamaniog: Rama's Journey to the Philippines (1994)
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