Guest guest Posted December 20, 2009 Report Share Posted December 20, 2009 Born on 29th September 1930, Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri had his early education under his father, a renowned scholar Shri Charu Deva Shastri and Pandit Shuk Deo Jha at Varanasi.He received record marks in B.A. Hons. in Sanskrit and First Class First in M.A. in Sanskrit from the Punjab University, and won University medals. After doing his Ph.D at the Banaras Hindu University he joined the University of Delhi, where during the forty years of his teaching career he has held important positions as the Head of the Department of Sanskrit and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He was also Vice-Chancellor of Shri Jagannath Sanskrit University, Puri, Orissa. He has the distinction of having been Visiting Professor in six Universities on three Continents, Chulalongkorn and Silpakorn Universities in Bangkok and Northeast Buddhist University, Nongkhai, Thailand, the University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany, the Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium and University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He has attended and chai!red a number of national and international conferences and seminars and delivered more than a hundred lectures in Universities in Europe, North America, Southeast Asia and the Far East.Both a creative and a critical writer, Dr.Satya Vrat Shastri had to his credit in creative writing in Sanskrit three Mahakavyas of about a thousand stanzas each, each one of which has become a subject for research for the Ph.D. degree in some Indian University or the other, three Khandakavyas, one Prabandhakavyas and one Patrakavya and five works in critical writing including the pioneering one, The Ramayana - A Linguistic Study and also one hundred and ten research articles. He is the founding editor of two research journals, the Indological Studies and the Srijagannathajyotih. Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri comes of a family , the only one in the whole of India, where both, the father and the son, are the recipients of the President of India Certificate of Honour, the Shiromani Sanskrit Sahityakar Award from the Govt. of Punjab and the Visista Samskrta, Sahitya Puraskara from the Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Academy. The persevering efforts of Dr.Satya Vrat Shastri in enriching Sanskrit literature with his creative and critical works have paid him rich dividends. He is the recipient of thirty eight national and international awards, and is one of the most widely known of the Sanskritists outside of India. Young Prof Shastri Prof. Shastri presenting his new book to H.E. Indian PM, Srimati Indira Gandhi Young Prof. Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri speaks with the President of India as his proud father, Pandit Charu Deva Shastri, looks on Her Royal Highness Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Princess of Thailand receiving Sanskrit lessons from Prof. Satya Vrat Shastri Bangkok, Thailand from Oct.7, 1977 to Nov. 2, 1979 . Was teacher of Her Royal Highness Mahachakri Sirindhorn, the Princess of Thailand. (18) Receiving the President of India Certificate of Honour from H.E.Shri Zail Singh, President of India in 1985 (32nd) Royal Decoration: "Most Admirable Order of the Direk Gunabhorn" from His Majesty the King of Thailand in 1997. (35th Award) Padma Shri from the President, Govt of India, 1999. HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand is Guest-of-Honor at the Jnanpith Award Ceremony- 19th August, 2009, New Delhi India.India Be PROUD!!! Richard Shaw Brown, PGMusician, Designer, Gemologist & Authorwww.richardshawbrown.com Get your preferred Email name! Now you can @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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