Jaroslav Vacek

Membership and positions in international organizations and societies

• European Association of South Asian Studies, Leiden

  Member of editorial boards

• International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, Trivandrum
• India PILC Journal of Dravidic Studies, Pondicherry, India

  Awards

• 1997 – Golden Medal of Charles University – Rector of Charles University
• 2006 – Memorial Medal of Charles University – Rector of Charles University
• 2012 – Indian Presidential Award – Kural Peedam Award for His contribution to the Classical Language of Tamil

  Personal life

Selected writingshttp://svi.ff.cuni.cz/v/vacek.htm Charles University, Faculty of Arts

• Vacek, J., Dravidian and Altaic ‘Water – Viscosity – Cold’. An Etymological and Typological Model. Charles University, Karolinum Press, Prague 2002, 359 pp.; ; ISSN 0587-1255
• Lubsangdorji, J., Vacek, J., Colloquial Mongolian. An introductory intensive course. Vol. 1. Triton, Prague 2004, XI + 424 pp.; ; Vol. 2. Triton, Prague 2004, VII + 62 pp.;
• Vacek, J., Dravidian and Altaic – In Search of a New Paradigm. Archív Orientální, Vol. 72, 2004, pp. 384–453; ISSN 0044-8699; reprint: International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, Vol. XXXV, No.1, January 2006, pp. 29–96. Reg. No. 22651/72
• Vacek J., Oberfalzerova : MONGOLICA PRAGENSIA ‘02, Ethnolinguistics and Sociolinguistics in Synchrony and Diachrony. 2002 Triton
• Vacek J., Oberfalzerova A. : MONGOLICA PRAGENSIA ‘03, Ethnolinguistics and Sociolinguistics in Synchrony and Diachrony. Triton 2003
• Vacek J., Oberfalzerova A. : MONGOLICA PRAGENSIA ‘04, Ethnolinguistics and Sociolinguistics in Synchrony and Diachrony. Triton 2004
• Vacek J., Oberfalzerova A. : MONGOLICA PRAGENSIA ‘05, Ethnolinguistics and Sociolinguistics in Synchrony and Diachrony. Triton 2005
• Vacek J., Oberfalzerova A. : MONGOLICA PRAGENSIA ‘06, Ethnolinguistics and Sociolinguistics in Synchrony and Diachrony. Triton 2006
• Vacek J., Oberfalzerova A. : MONGOLICA PRAGENSIA ‘07 sive Folia linguarum Orientis selecta 200 Triton ISSN 1802-7989
• Vacek J.: A Neytal Feature to Be Found in the Meghadúta?
• Vacek J. : Types of formulaic expressions in Cangam – A preliminary survey of their structural patterns
• Vacek, Nature as Symbolic Code in Old Tamil Love Poetry.
• Vacek J.: Old Tamil literary formulae connected with mullai
• Vacek J.: Old Tamil literary formulae connected with mullai in
• Vacek J.:“Parrot” in Old Tamil Sangam literature – formulas and images
• Vacek J.: The dog in Sangam literature – as a part of the description of nature
• Vacek J.: The pig in Sangam literature – images and textual properties ISSN 1802-7997
• Vacek J.: The rat in Sangam literature – as a part of the description of nature ISSN 1802-7997
• Vacek J. *Pandanus ’05, Nature in Literature, Myth and Ritual. Charles University, Faculty of Arts; Signeta, Praha 2005, 294 pp.; previous volumes ’98, 2000, ’01, ’02, ’03, ’04, ’05
• Vacek, J., Subramanian, S. V., A Tamil Reader, Introducing Sangam Literature. International Institute of Tamil Studies, Madras 1989, Vol.1, LIV+134 pp.; Vol.2, 130 pp.
• Zbavitel, D., Vacek, J., Průvodce dějinami staroindické literatury . Arca JiMfa, Třebíč 1996, 537 pp. ;

  Translated books by Jaroslav Vacek

• Čilaγun-u bičig, A Mongolian Prophetic Text. Edited, translated and commented upon by J. Lubsangdorji and J. Vacek. Studia Orientalia Pragensia XX. Charles University, Prague 1997, 87 pp.;
• Vásanti, . From Tamil translated by Jaroslav Vacek. Triton, Praha 2000, 199 pp.;
• Bhagavadgíta . Votobia, Praha 2000, 243 pp. ;