Kala Nath Shastry

Kala Nath Shastry
Born	Template:15th July 1936 Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Residence	Jaipur India
Nationality	India
Fields	Sanskrit Lingustics Hindi Indian Culture
Institutions	Department of Languages Maharaja College Rajasthan Hindi Granth Academy Directorate of Sanskrit Education Department of College Education Sikar Govt. College Presently - Chairperson Modern Sanskrit Chair, JRR Sanskrit University, Jaipur Kotputli Govt. College
Alma mater	Maharaja Sanskrit College, Jaipur
Known for	Sanskrit Literature Hindi Linguitics
Notable awards	Rashtrapati Award (1998) Sahitya Akademi Award (2004)

Kala Nath Shastry is a Sanskrit scholar from Jaipur, Rajasthan.

He has continued the tradition of introducing modern genres and modes of expression in Sanskrit for which his father, Bhatt Mathura Nath Shastry is known in the history of Sanskrit literature.^{[citation needed]}

He has written more than a dozen books and edited an equal number in Sanskrit, Hindi and English.

He has contributed more than a thousand articles in Hindi and Sanskrit to Indian periodicals.

He is known as a fiction writer of modern Sanskrit literature and also for introducing a modern idiom in creative Sanskrit writing through his novels, short stories and personal essays.

He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his masterly and authoritative knowledge of, and invaluable contribution to, Hindi and Sanskrit languages.

The President of India, K. R. Narayanan gave him an award in 1998 for his lifetime contribution to Sanskrit Language.

Works

• Works of Panditaraj Jagannath's Poetry 1987 134pp 22 cm ISBN : 81-85263-38-8
• Aakhyanvallari (Awarded by Sahitya Akademi in 2004)
• Sanskrit Ke Gaurav Shikhar (Series-10) Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
• Adhunik Kala Ka Sanskrit Gadya Sahitya (Series-17) Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan

References

• Sahitya Akademi award winners
• Water in Indological Symbology
• Publications of Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
• A Critique on Raina's book on Durga

External links

• Kala Nath Shastry

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Name	Shastry,Kala Nath
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Date of birth	July 15, 1936
Place of birth	Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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