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Ambale Ramakrishna Krishnashastry (1890–1968) was an Indian writer, researcher and translator in the Kannada language. Krishnashastry has remained popular four decades after his death through his work Vachana Bharata, and his narration of the Hindu epic Mahabharata in the Kannada.

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A. R. Krishnashastry
Born	Ambale Ramakrishna Krishnashastry (1890-02-12)12 February 1890 Ambale, Kingdom of Mysore
Died	1 February 1968(1968-02-01) (aged 77) Bangalore, Mysore State, India
Occupation	Writer professor journalist
Nationality	India
Genre	Fiction, Mythology
Literary movement	Navodaya
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A. R. Krishnashastry

Early life

Krishnashastry was born on 12 February 1890, in Ambale, Kingdom of Mysore (in present-day Karnataka, India), into a Smarta Hoysala Karnataka Brahmin family.^{[citation needed]} His parents were Ramakrishna Shastry, grammarian and principal of Sanskrit school in Mysore and Shankaramma, a home maker. Krishnashastry lost his mother to plague when he was ten. Due to poverty, he was compelled to study Kannada and Sanskrit for his Bachelor of Arts degree (1914) though he wanted to pursue a career as a scientist. His career started as a clerk in the Attara Kacheri (secretariat) in Mysore. He worked as a tutor and a researcher at Oriental Library (later renamed the Oriental Research Institute) at Mysore before enrolling for his Master of Arts degree at the Madras University. He later served as a professor in Kannada and researcher at the Mysore University until his retirement. Krishnashastry married at the age of sixteen to Venkatalakshamma who was only ten at that time.^{[citation needed]}

Krishnashastry was called as Kannada Senani by writer and folklorist H. M. Nayak). He was the first to start a Karnataka association at the Central College, Bangalore. Later, similar associations spread throughout Karnataka.^{[citation needed]}

Some of Krishnashastry notable disciples include Kuvempu, T. N. Srikantaiah, M. V. Seetharamiah, S. Srikanta Sastri and G. P. Rajarathnam.^{[citation needed]}

Literary works

Prof KrishnaShastry was a polyglot. Apart from his mother tongue Kannada, he could speak fluently in Sanskrit and English.^{[citation needed]} He was also proficient in Pali, Bengali (self taught), Hindi, and German. He had a good working knowledge of English and German and this helped him to work and translate some of the great works from those languages to Kannada. Krishnashastry brought out many of nuances of great Sanskrit plays of Kālidāsa, Bhavabhuti and Bhasa during his translations to Kannada. Krishnashastry's biography of Bankim Chandra Chattarjee, a noted Bengali novelist earned him a Central Sahitya Academy award.[1] Krishnashastri wrote numerous other short stories and novels including Vachana bharata, Nirmalabharati and Kathaamruta. Vachanabharata and Nirmalabharati are an abridged versions of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. Kathaamruta is a collection of stories from Kathasaritsagara, huge anthology of hundreds of fables, parables and other stories in Sanskrit. Kathaamruta has a well written introduction to Indian and western cultural traditions. In 1918, Krishnashastry started Prabuddha Karnataka, a Kannada language newspaper and worked as its editor.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honors

• Sahitya Academy award
• D. Lit of Mysore University

Writings

Novels

• Vachana bharata
• Nirmalabharati

Biographies

• Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa charitre
• Bannkim Chandra

Short story collections

• Shreepatiya Kategalu
• Kathaamrutha - Kannada translation of Kathasaritsagara

Plays

• Samskruta Nataka
• Harischandrakavya Sangraha

Other

• Alankara ( kannada handbook on Alankara shastra - 1927, Mysore university) - Alaṅkāra-śāstra
• Bhasa Kavi ( A critique on Sanskrit playwright Bhasa - Central college Karnataka Sangha - 1922)
• Sarvajnana Kavi
• Bhashanagalu Mattu Lekhanagalu ( Speeches and Writings )
• Nagamahashaya (Author: Sarat Chandra Chakravarty) translated from Bengali to Kannada - 1937

See also

• Kannada
• Kannada literature

References

External links

• A. R. Krishnashastry - A Biography
• Complete works of Prof. A R Krishnasastri
• Prof. Krishnashastry on Kamat's potpourri
• A.R.KrishnaShastry, Kathaamrita (1952) (Kannada: ಕಥಾಮೃತ), Geetha Book House, K.R. Circle, Mysore 570 001, India
• A.R. Krishna Shastri - A monograph in Kannada by T.V. Venkatachala Sastry, Sahitya Akademi, Year 2000, ISBN 978-81-260-0721-9
• Alaṅkāra-śāstra

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