# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kala-nath-shastry
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:30:53.582Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kala-nath-shastry"
name: "Kala Nath Shastry"
slug: "kala-nath-shastry"
description: "Devarshi Kala Nath Shastry was an Indian Sanskrit scholar honoured by the President of India in 1998. He was an Indologist and a prolific writer in Sanskrit, Hindi and English, and a well-known linguist, who contributed to the campaign of evolving technical terminology in Indian languages and ensuring a respectable status for Hindi, the official language of his state and the Indian union. Shastry died on 25 February 2025, at the age of 88."
tagline: "Renowned Linguist and Sanskrit/ English Scholar"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-07-15"
deathDate: "2025-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           5.070518666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "کلاناتھ شاستری"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump