Kamlashankar Pranshankar Trivedi (11 October 1857 – 1925) was a

Gujarati language Gujarati (; gu, ગુજરાતી, Gujarātī, translit-std=ISO, label=Gujarati script, ) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. Gujarati is descended from Old Gu ...

editor and

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ian.

Life

Kamlashankar was born on 11 October 1857 at

Surat Surat is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The word Surat literally means ''face'' in Gujarati and Hindi. Located on the banks of the river Tapti near its confluence with the Arabian Sea, it used to be a large seaport. It is now ...

. He completed his primary and secondary education in Surat. He passed matriculation in 1874. He completed Bachelor of Arts in economy and history from Alphenston College in 1878. Due to poor financial condition, he joined as an extra teacher in Mission School, Surat. Later he taught in primary and secondary level at

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, Surat,

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and

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. He served as a principal of Premchand Raichand Training College in Ahmedabad in 1902 and edited ''Gujarat Shalapatra''. He served as an examiner of Sanskrit in

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and Panjab University. He retired in 1914. He presided over the seventh session of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 1924. He died in 1925.

Works

He was educated in economy and history while he taught Sanskrit. He published several works on grammar and translated several Sanskrit works. His editing is influenced by Sanskrit. He wrote ''England no Tunko Itihas'' (1887), ''Gods of India'' (1913), ''Shiksahnshastrana Mooltatvo'' (1913), ''Shankar Jayanti Vyakhyanmala'' (1913), ''Gujarati Bhashanu Vyakaran'' (1914-16), ''Karakmimansa'' (1915), ''Madhyam Vyakaran'' (1917) and the forty chapters Gujarati grammar, ''Brihad Vyakaran'' (1919). He wrote the short history of India titled ''Hindustan no Sankshipta Itihas'' (1920). His works ''Kavyasahitya Mimansa'' (1930) and ''Anubhavvinod'' (1933) were published posthumously. He translated

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's ''Duty'' into Gujarati. He edited several textbooks; ''Sanskrit'' Book 1-2 (1896), ''Sanskritshikshika'' (The Sanskrit Teacher, 1911), ''Sahityamanjari'' (1915), ''Gujarati/Trivedi Vanchanmala'' (1921). He edited '' Bhaṭṭikāvya'' (1898), Jagannath's ''Rekha Ganit'' (1901-1902), Vidyadhar's ''Ekavali'' (1908), Vishwanath's ''Prataprudryashobhushan'' (1909), Lakshmidhara's ''Shadbhashachandrika'' (1918), Ramchandra's ''Prakriyakaumudi'', Varruchi's ''Prakrit Prakash'', Kond Bhatt's ''Vyakaranbhushan''.

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