My Journey Through Shaastra Studies | Dr. Satavadhani R Ganesh

Dr. Satavadhani R Ganesh is explaining his Journey Through Shaastra Studies Into Different Traditional Shaastras and Modern Disciplines in this talk

Satavadhani Dr. R Ganesh (b. 1962, Bengaluru) is one of India’s foremost Sanskrit Poets and Scholars. He writes and lectures extensively on various subjects pertaining to India and Indian Cultural Heritage. He is a master of the ancient art of Avdhanam, where he faces a group of eight (in Astavadhanam) or hundred (in Satavadhanam) questioners and in response to their many queries, composes extempore poems set to metre, solves poetic challenges, solves a magic square, keeps track of the count of a randomly rung bell, and so forth. Dr. Ganesh performs Avadhanam primarily in Kannada, Sanskrit, and Telugu. (He is credited with reviving the art in Kannada.) He has performed more than 1,200 Astavadhanams and five Satavadhanams thus far.

He is fluent in several languages including Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Greek, Latin and Italian. He is well versed in the Vedas, Vedangas, Upanisads, Dharma-sastra literature, various classical texts on the arts like the Natya-sastra, and literature in classical Sanskrit. Dr. Ganesh holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in Metallurgy as well as in Sanskrit. Hampi University awarded him a D.Litt. for his thesis, ‘Kannadadalli Avadhanakale’. Tumkur University awarded him an honorary doctorate (D.Litt.) He is recipient of several awards and recognitions including the Badarayana-Vyasa Puraskar from the President of India for his contribution to the Sanskrit language.

In the year 2022, the Central Sahitya Academy Award for the best Sanskrit Translation was conferred to him.

He was honoured with the Rajyotsava Award by the Karnataka Government in 1992, the highest recognition from the State. Recently he was honoured with the fellowship Shaastra Chudaamani from the Central Sanskrit University, Delhi.

Also he was honoured with the Kalidasa Award from the Kavikula Guru Kalidasa Sanskrit University, Nagpur, in the year 2020.
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