Anandshankar Bapubhai Dhruv (25 February 1869 – 7 April 1942) was a

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scholar, writer, educationist and editor from

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, India. His name is revered as '

Acharya In Indian religions and society, an ''acharya'' ( Sanskrit: आचार्य, IAST: ; Pali: ''ācariya'') is a preceptor and expert instructor in matters such as religion, or any other subject. An acharya is a highly learned person with a ...

' (a learned person) in Gujarat, and hence generally he is known as Acharya Anandshankar Dhruv.

Life

Dhruv was born in

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on 25 February 1869. His father was an officer of

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and worked as an agent of

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after retirement. He studied in English medium schools and learned Sanskrit at early age. While studying Master of Arts, he started teaching Sanskrit at Gujarat College in 1893. Later he taught at

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for some years. He was appointed a Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University in 1920. He performed the opening ceremony of The Modern School at Sicka Nagar, Bombay in 1936 established by Ramanbhai and Pushpaben Vakil. He was also a chairman of Inter University Board. He died on 7 April 1942.

Works

His pen-names were Mumukshu and ''Hind-hitchintak''. He headed several literary and linguistic organizations including

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and Philosophical Congress. Dhruv wrote many books of Indian philosophy and Sanskrit literature as well as western philosophy and culture. Further, he has written several noted essays on religion and philosophy discussing the true essence of Hindu faith. He translated '' Sri Bhasya'', a philosophic work by

Ramanuja Ramanuja (Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmanuja; 1017 CE – 1137 CE; ; ), also known as Ramanujacharya, was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and a social reformer. He is noted to be one of the most important exponents ...

, and wrote ''Hindu Dharma Ni Balpothi'' (a Primer of Hindu Religion) and ''Nitishikshan''. Dhruv edited for some time '' Sudarshan'', a magazine founded by Manilal Dwivedi, after Manila's death in 1898. And started his own monthly '' Vasant'' in 1902; which ran for some 36 years. Dhruv's articles published in ''Vasant'' were later edited and collected by Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak and Umashankar Joshi, in five volumes. Of these, '' Apano Dharma'' (Our Religion) comprises his articles on religion and philosophy; ''Kavya Tattva Vichar'' is a collection of his articles on the essentials of poetry; ''Sahitya Vichar'' contains articles on applied criticism and education; ''Digdarshan'' is a collection of his writings on historical subjects; and ''Vichar Madhuri'' includes articles on miscellaneous subjects. ''Anandshankar Dhruva : Lekhasanchay'', a collection of selected writings by Dhruv, compiled and edited by Dhiru Parikh, was published in 2002 by

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