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Satya Vrat Shastri (29 September 1930 – 14 November 2021) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar, writer, grammarian and poet. He wrote three Mahakavyas, three Khandakavyas, one Prabandhakavyas and one Patrakavya and five works in critical writing in Sanskrit. His important works are Ramakirtimahakavyam, Brahattaram Bharatam, Sribodhisattvacharitam, Vaidika Vyakarana, Sarmanyadesah Sutram Vibhati, and "Discovery of Sanskrit Treasures" in seven volumes.[1]

Satya Vrat Shastri
Shastri in 2013
Born(1930-09-29)29 September 1930
Died14 November 2021(2021-11-14) (aged 91)
OccupationScholar, academic, poet, literary critic
NationalityIndian
Alma materPunjab University, Banaras Hindu University
GenreSanskrit
Notable awards1968: Sahitya Akademi Award
2006: Jnanpith Award
Website
satyavrat-shastri.net

He was an honorary professor at the Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies (now known as the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies (SSIS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was the Head of the Department of Sanskrit and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Delhi, where he was the Pandit Manmohan Nath Dar Professor of Sanskrit (1970–1995).

During his career he won many national and international awards, including, the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit, given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, in 1968 for his poetry work, Srigurugovindasimhacharitam,[2] then in 2006, he became the first recipient of the Jnanpith award in Sanskrit language (conferred in 2009 by Thailand's Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn).[3][4]


Education


Shastri received his early education under his father, Shri Charu Deva Shastri, a renowned scholar. Thereafter, he moved to Varanasi, where he studied under Shukdev Jha and Siddheshwar Varma.

He received his B.A. Hons. and MA in Sanskrit from the Punjab University, and his PhD from the Banaras Hindu University.[5]


Career


He joined the University of Delhi soon after, where for the next forty years of his teaching career, he held important positions as the Head of the Department of Sanskrit, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Satya Vrat Shastri was also the Vice-Chancellor of Shri Jagannath Sanskrit University, Puri, Orissa, and a visiting professor at the Chulalongkorn and Silpakorn Universities in Bangkok, as well as the Northeast Buddhist University, Nongkhai, Thailand, the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, the Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He was a Visiting Professor of Sanskrit and in his class, among other students there was also Thailand's Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn who studied a minor paper on Sanskrit and received her M.A. in Oriental Epigraphy in 1979 at Silpakorn University [1977–1979].[6][7][8]

Satya Vrat Shastri wrote many important poetic works in Sanskrit, the most important being his rendition from Royal Thai into Sanskrit, of the Thai version of the Ramayana, viz., Sri-rama-kirti-maha-kavyam, and with a foreword by the Princess of Thailand. Later research projects were the Sanskrit inscriptions and Hindu temples in Thailand, Kalidasa Studies, a critical edition of the Yogavasishtha, the Sanskritic vocabulary of South East Asia, and the Rama story in South East Asia.

In 2009, he became the only Sanskrit poet to win the (2006) Jnanpith award, for his contributions to the enrichment of the language, and conferred by his former disciple, Princess of Thailand, Maha Chakri Sirindhon.[4][9][10]


Honors and awards



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Academic writings



Literary writings



References


  1. 41st and 42nd Jnanpith Awards, Official Press release Archived 15 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Sanskrit Awards Archived 31 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine Sahitya Akademi Award Official listing.
  3. "Sanskrit poet gets Jnanpith award". The Times of India. 20 August 2009. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  4. "Sanskrit's first Jnanpith winner is a 'poet by instinct'". The Indian Express. 14 January 2009.
  5. Brown, Richard (1998). Journey with a Savant. ISBN 0-684-82125-7.
  6. "Recent News". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 20 November 2005. Archived from the original on 5 September 2006. Retrieved 28 January 2007.
  7. The Nation Newspaper (6 August 1998). Professor to a Princess. The Nation (Thailand).
  8. "Professor Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri was appointed as Visiting Professor of Indian Studies in Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok". Archived from the original on 9 April 2004. Retrieved 12 February 2007.
  9. "Sanskrit poet conferred Jnanpith award". Press Trust of India. 20 August 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  10. "Jnanpith Award presented". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 20 August 2009. Archived from the original on 14 February 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  11. "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.



На других языках

- [en] Satya Vrat Shastri

[ru] Шастри, Сатьяврат

Сатьяврат Шастри или Сатья Врат Шастри (род. 29 сентября 1930 (1930-09-29)) — индийский санскритолог и поэт. Получил широкую известность благодаря тому, что получил высшую индийскую национальную литературную премию «Джнянпитх» 2006 года, став первым в истории лауреатом премии за творчество на санскрите.[2][3][4]


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