Pilaka ganapathi sastri biography
Pilaka ganapathi sastri biography
Pilaka ganapathi sastri biography in urdu.
T. Ganapati Sastri
Indian scholar
MahamahopadhyayaT. Gaṇapati Śāstrī (–) was a Sanskrit scholar who was editor of the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series, and discovered the plays of Bhasa.
He was also the principal of the Sanskrit college for some time, around [2] His father name is Ramasubba Iyer. He was born at Taruvai in Tirunelveli District in A.D[3]
While touring Kerala searching for Sanskrit manuscripts, he came across a palm-leaf codex in Malayalam in a village near Trivandrum.
Pilaka ganapathi sastri biography in hindi
Although they carried no name, he deduced based on internal evidence that they were by the same author, and concluded that they were the lost plays of Bhasa. This produced a sensation in the scholarly world,[2] and Ganapati Sastri's work was widely applauded.[4] This has been considered "the most important event in the twentieth century Sanskrit literary scholarship".[5]
He was involved in bringing to light several other Sanskrit works as well.
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