Kala Nath Shastry

Kala Nath Shastry
Born15 July 1936
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materMaharaja Sanskrit College, Jaipur; Maharaja's College, Jaipur
Known forSanskrit Literature
Hindi Linguistics
AwardsRashtrapati Award (1998)
Sahitya Akademi Award (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsSanskrit Linguistics, Hindi Indian Culture
InstitutionsDepartment of Languages

Maharaja College
Rajasthan Hindi Granth Academy
Directorate of Sanskrit Education
Department of College Education
Sikar Govt. College
Kotputli Govt. College

Presently – Chairperson, Modern Sanskrit Chair, JRR Sanskrit University, Jaipur

Devarshi Kala Nath Shastry was born on 15 July 1936. He is a Sanskrit scholar and was honoured by the President of India in 1988. He is an Indologist and a prolific writer in Sanskrit, Hindi and English, and a well-known linguist, who has contributed to the campaign of evolving technical terminology in Indian languages and ensuring a respectable status for Hindi, the official language of his state and the Indian union.[1]

  1. ^ [1] Inventory of Sanskrit Scholars, Ed. Radha Vallabh Tripathi, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi, 2012, ISBN 978-93-86111-85-2