Juan R. Francisco
![]() | This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (January 2009) |
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.
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.
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)
References[]
- ^ Fernández, Doreen (1996). Palabas: essays on Philippine theater history. Ateneo de Manila University Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-971-550-188-0. Retrieved 31 December 2010.
Categories:
- Living people
- Linguists from the Philippines
- Filipino expatriates in India
- Filipino translators
- Filipino Indologists
- University of the Philippines faculty
- University of Madras alumni
- Asian translator stubs
- Asian academic biography stubs
- Filipino people stubs