Juan R. Francisco

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)

References

1. 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.
2. "Indian influences in the Philippines, with special reference to language and literature by Juan R. Francisco". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 9 December 2022.