# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/natesa-sastri
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:26:31.751Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/natesa-sastri"
name: "Natesa Sastri"
slug: "natesa-sastri"
description: "S. M. Natesa Sastri (1859–1906) was a polyglot, scholar in eighteen languages and authored many books in Tamil, Sanskrit and English. His scholarliness over Tamil and Sanskrit languages got him the title \"Pandit\"."
tagline: "Tamil writer and folklorist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Natesa_Sastry_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1859"
deathDate: "1906-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.11
  momentum:             0.9677419354838709
  historical:           2.870950666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  58
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natesa_Sastri"
    title: "Natesa Sastri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B6_%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF"
    title: "നടേശ ശാസ്ത്രി"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%9A_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF"
    title: "நடேச சாஸ்திரி"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16210815"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump