Acharya Vishva Bandhu was an Indian

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scholar, writer, educationist and the principal of ''Dayanand Brahma Mahavidyalaya'', an institution under the management of D. A. V. College Trust and Management Society. He was best known for his contributions in fostering ''Vishveshvaranand Vishwa Bandhu Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies'', an Indological institution founded by two sanyasins, Vishveshvaranand and Nityanand, in 1903. He served as the director of the institution and also contributed to the establishment of ''Lal Chand Research Library'' of DAV College, Chandigarh. He was the editor of ''Vedic Texto-Linguistic Studies'' and ''

A Vedic Word Concordance ''A Vedic Word Concordance'' ( Sanskrit: ') is a multi-volume concordance of the corpus of Vedic Sanskrit texts. It has been under preparation from 1930 and was published in 1935–1965 under the guidance of Viśvabandhu Śāstrī (1897–1973) ...

'', two treatises dealing with the textual and linguistic aspects of the

Vedas upright=1.2, The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the '' Atharvaveda''. The Vedas (, , ) are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute th ...

. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the

Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service ...

, in 1968, for his contributions to Indian education.

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Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education Year of death uncertain Indian Vedic scholars 20th-century Indian educational theorists Place of birth missing 1897 births {{India-academic-bio-stub

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