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Kala Nath Shastry

Renowned Linguist and Sanskrit/ English Scholar

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born: 1936
died: 2025
age at death: 88
known for: linguist, poet, philologist

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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.

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