| Kala Nath Shastry | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jaipur, Rajasthan, India |
| Residence | Jaipur India |
| Nationality | India |
| Fields | Sanskrit Lingustics Hindi Indian Culture |
| Institutions |
Department of Languages |
| Alma mater | Maharaja Sanskrit College, Jaipur |
| Known for | Sanskrit Literature Hindi Linguitics |
| Notable awards | Rashtrapati Award (1998) Sahitya Akademi Award (2004) |
Kala Nath Shastry is a Sanskrit scholar from Jaipur, Rajasthan.
He has continued the tradition of introducing modern genres and modes of expression in Sanskrit for which his father, Bhatt Mathura Nath Shastry is known in the history of Sanskrit literature.
He has written more than a dozen books and edited an equal number in Sanskrit, Hindi and English.
He has contributed more than a thousand articles in Hindi and Sanskrit to Indian periodicals.
He is known as a fiction writer of modern Sanskrit literature and also for introducing a modern idiom in creative Sanskrit writing through his novels, short stories and personal essays.
He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his masterly and authoritative knowledge of, and invaluable contribution to, Hindi and Sanskrit languages.
The President of India, K. R. Narayanan gave him an award in 1998 for his lifetime contribution to Sanskrit Language.