This collection of essays honours the memory of the late Pandit N.R. Bhatt, who contributed to pioneering research into the history of Śaivism in the French institutions of research in Pondicherry, notably through his editions of Sanskrit works of the Śaivasiddhānta and through his work of gathering the largest collection of Śaiva manuscripts worldwide, recognised as a Memory of the World collection by UNESCO in 2005. After a preface about N.R. Bhatt’s life and a bibliography of his œuvre, sixteen contributions by colleagues and disciples cover aspects of the history of tantrism, of Śaiva ritual and doctrine. Two more articles deal with iconography and one last contribution publishes an eighteenth-century account of the siege of Pondicherry in 1778. About the Author A member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, as well as of several scholarly societies, including the Société Asiatique, and professor emeritus at the École pratique des hautes études, Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat has published in several areas of Indology, including Pāṇinian grammar, the history of Śaivism, and Sanskrit belles-lettres. His latest book, the result of a decades-long collaboration with his wife Vasundhara Filliozat, is about the magnificent city of Vijayanagara (Hampi). After studies in Oxford and Hamburg, Dominic Goodall was head of the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO from 2002 to 2011. He has published critical editions of Śaiva works and of classical Sanskrit poetry. During four years in Paris, he gave lectures on Indian and Cambodian Sanskrit literature at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), before returning to Pondicherry in 2015. In 2016, he was elected foreign corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Peter Pasedach studied Classical Indology at Mainz and Hamburg, where he received his doctorate in 2018. He has taught in Hamburg, Göttingen and Leiden. Currently, he works on Mahākāvyas of 9th-century Kashmir and their commentaries. Another area of interest to him is yoga studies.