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Korada Mahadeva Sastri
Korada Mahadeva Sastri (29 December 1921- 11 October 2016) was an Indian linguist. His classic work ''Historical Grammar of Telugu'' was the first systematic study on the development of Telugu Language. It provides a survey of the historical development of the Telugu Language from the earliest times. This work helped decipher some Indus Valley seals. He was a founder member of the Dravidian Linguistics Association of India. He was awarded the 2011 C.P.Brown award and Sri Kalapurna award for his lifetime achievements. Mahadeva Sastri hails from a family of renowned scholars: he was the son of Korada Ramakrishnaiya, the first Telugu scholar to work systematically on Comparative Dravidian Linguistics, the great-grandson of Korada Ramachandra Sastri, author of the first original Telugu play iarchive:manjaree-madhukareeyamu-korada-ramachandra-sastri_202105/page/n29/mode/2up, Manjari Madhukariyamu'''. His academic lineage is equally impressive: he was a student of world renowned ling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korada Ramachandra Sastri
Korada Ramachandra Sastri (12 October 1815 – 11 August 1900) was an Indian poet and playwright in Sanskrit and Telugu. He was the first known original Telugu playwright. His ''Manjarimadhukariam'' is the first Telugu drama with an original concept. His Sanskrit lyric poem ''Ghanavrttam'' is a sequel to Kalidasa's '' Meghaduta''. Ramachandra Sastri authored more than thirty works in Sanskrit and Telugu but only a few books are extant. His books give us an appreciation of the advanced poetic and linguistic aspects of his literary works. Sanskrit books Telugu books Sanskrit to Telugu translations References 1815 births 1900 deaths Telugu-language dramatists and playwrights Sanskrit dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights Place of birth missing External links * * {{playwright-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korada Ramakrishnaiya
Korada Ramakrishnaiya (2 October 1891 - 28 March 1962) was a Dravidian Philologist and litterateur. He was the first Telugu scholar to publish research works on Comparative Dravidian Linguistics (CDL). He published the first Literary Criticism based on modern methods 'Andhra Bharata Kavita Vimarshanamu'. Ramakrishnaiya authored works of fundamental importance and extended the borders of Research in Telugu Literary Criticism, History of Telugu language, Philological interpretation of Telugu grammar, Cognate Dravidian vocabulary, Comparative Dravidian grammar, and Comparative Dravidian prosody. Books Telugu literary criticism History of Telugu language Philological interpretation of Telugu grammar Cognate Dravidian vocabulary Comparative Dravidian grammar Comparative Dravidian prosody Critical editions and translations See also * Dravidian studies * Dravidian University * Elamo-Dravidian * Proto-Dravidian References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramakrishnaiah, Kor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korada Subrahmanyam
Korada Subrahmanyam (born 1954) is a Sanskrit grammarian and scholar from India associated with IIT Hyderabad as an adjunct Professor. Previously he was a Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Hyderabad working in the CALTS department. Prof.Korada was born into a family of Vedic scholars hailing from the Godavari delta region, known as Konaseema. His areas of specialization include Paninian Grammar, Philosophy of Language, Translation, Vedas, Vedangas and Upanishads.The Professor is also well versed in Mahābhāṣya, Vākyapadīya, Laghumañjūṣā, ślokavārtikam and Tantravārtikam. In fact, he studied Astadasavidyasthanams, ie Vedas, Vedangas, Darsanas, Upavedas, and Puranas (Lectures are available on Youtube and Essays are available on ancient indianwisdom.com of Jijyasa Foundation, USA. Education and career Prof.Subrahmanyam was introduced to Sanskrit by his father Korada Subbavadhani(1913–1985), a ghanapāṭhī and Sanskrit scholar himself. He memorized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suniti Kumar Chatterji
Bhashacharya Acharya Suniti Kumar Chatterjee (26 November 1890 – 29 May 1977) was an Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur. He was a recipient of the second-highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Vibhushan. Life Childhood Chatterji was born on 26 November 1890 at Shibpur in Howrah. He was the son of Haridas Chattopadhyay, an affluent Rarhi Kulin Brahmin. According to the family history, their ancestors were originally residents of a village named chatuti in the Rarh region of present-day West Bengal. During the Turkic invasion of Bengal in the thirteenth century, the Chatterji family left their ancestral village in West Bengal and took shelter in East Bengal. Later Professor Chatterji's great grandfather Sri Bhairab Chatterji, migrated to a village in the district of Hooghly from his ancestral village home in the district of Faridpur in East Bengal, now in Bangladesh. Bhairab Chatterji, like many other Kulin Brahmins of the day, subsisted mainly on polygamy. Bhairab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sukumar Sen (linguist)
Sukumar Sen (16 January 1900 – 3 March 1992) was an Indian linguist and historian of the Bengali literature, who was also well versed in Pāli, Prakrit and Sanskrit. Life Sen was born in 1900 to Harendra Nath Sen, a lawyer and Nabanalini Devi. His hometown was Gotan, near Shyamsundar in the Purba Bardhaman district. Sen was educated at the Burdwan Municipal High School, Burdwan, 1917. He obtained an F.A. in 1919 from Burdwan Raj College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He received a divisional scholarship and earned first class honours in Sanskrit from the Government Sanskrit College in 1921. He studied Comparative Philology in Kolkata, scoring the highest marks in 1923. Linguists Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Irach Jehangir Sorabji Taraporewala were his teachers. He received a Premchand Roychand Scholarship and a PhD degree. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (; 5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975), natively Radhakrishnayya, was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He served as the 2nd President of India from 1962 to 1967. He also 1st Vice President of India from 1952 to 1962. He was the 2nd Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1952. He was also the 4th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1939 to 1948 and the 2nd Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University from 1931 to 1936. One of the most distinguished twentieth-century scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, Radhakrishnan held the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta from 1921 to 1932 and Spalding Chair of Eastern Religion and Ethics at University of Oxford from 1936 to 1952. Radhakrishnan's philosophy was grounded in Advaita Vedanta, reinterpreting this tradition for a contemporary understanding. He defended Hinduism against what he called "uninformed Western criticism", c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti-colonial nationalist politics in the twentieth-century in ways that neither indigenous nor westernized Indian nationalists could." and political ethicist Quote: "Gandhi staked his reputation as an original political thinker on this specific issue. Hitherto, violence had been used in the name of political rights, such as in street riots, regicide, or armed revolutions. Gandhi believes there is a better way of securing political rights, that of nonviolence, and that this new way marks an advance in political ethics." who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific ''Mahātmā'' (Sanskrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 Births
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2016 Deaths
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