Deviprasad Mishra joined the IFP in September 1999, where he has been cataloguing the IFP’s collection of predominantly Śaiva manuscripts, recognised as a “Memory of the World” collection by UNESCO in 2005. He took his doctorate in 2004 and published his doctoral work in 2011, namely a critical edition of the previously unpublished commentaries of Madhusūdana and Vaidyanātha on the Sūryaśataka, a century of Sanskrit stanzas in praise of the sun by the poet Mayūra. In 2015, he was honoured by the Government of India with the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for his contribution as a young scholar to Sanskrit studies.
Dominic Goodall is a professor (directeur d’études) at the EFEO, co-editor with Dr. Marion Rastelli of the Viennese dictionary of tantric terminology, the Tāntrikābhidhānakośa, and a contributor to the Hamburg Encyclopaedia of Manuscript Cultures in Asia and Africa (EMCAA).
S. Sambandhaśivācārya worked at the French Institute of Pondicherry in the project of critically editing Śaiva literature from 1969 until his death in 2019. Coming from a family of Śaiva priests well-versed in the domain of temple rituals, and with a long experience in reading various ancient scripts, he made innumerable significant contributions, particularly in the preparation of the first critical editions of ground-breaking theological works such as Rāmakaṇṭha’s commentaries on the Mataṅgapārameśvara, Sārdhatriśatikālottara, and āgamas such as the Rauravottara, Ajita, Sūkṣmāgama and Dīptāgama.