Devarshi Kala Nath Shastry was an Indian Sanskrit scholar honoured by the President of India in 1998.
Photos 1
Awards 1
Writers from India 6
About this person
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.
Country
IndiaCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1936 to 2025 · aged 88
Written about in
6 languages
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.