Ram Avatar Sharma

Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma (1877–1929)[1][2] was an Indian Sanskrit scholar and academic, apart from being an indologist and historian. A professor of Sanskrit in University of Patna in pre-independence years.[3] He was also a renowned Indologist.[4] Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India and a favourite student of Pandit Sharma, was instrumental in getting his works published after his death. His son, Professor Pandit Nalin Vilochan Sharma was also a professor of Hindi Literature in University of Patna and started the Nai Kavita; New Poetry movement in Hindi literature.[3]

  1. ^ Gaeffke, Peter (1978). Hindi Literature in the Twentieth Century. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 19. ISBN 3447016140.
  2. ^ Sharma, Ram Avatar (1994). Paramarthadarsana by Mahamahopadhyaya Ramavtar Sharma with auto-commentary and appendices (Editor: Janardan Shastri Pandeya; Introduction by Govind Chandra Pande). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 400. OCLC 31242141.
  3. ^ a b Choudhary, Valmiki (1984). Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Correspondence and Select Documents: 1934–1937. Allied Publishers. pp. 368 (at page 133). ISBN 978-81-7023-002-1.
  4. ^ Lal, Mohan (1992). Encyclopedia of Indian Literature. Sahitya Akademi. p. 820. ISBN 978-81-260-1221-3.