Krushnashastri Chiplunkar (Devanagari: कृष्णशास्त्री चिपळूणकर) (1824-1878) was a social activist and a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.
For some years, he served as a principal of the Teachers' Training College in Pune.
Chiplunkar was a scholar especially in Sanskrit Nyaya (न्याय) (Logic), Dharma (धर्म) (Religion, Law, and Ethics), and Artha (अर्थ) (Economics).
Learning English was not common among Indian scholars of his time, yet he started learning it at age 25, and mastered it along with Sanskrit and Marathi and mastered it extremely well.
He was a leading Pune personality of his time and personal life was highly flavoured.
(Hari Krushna Damle and Krushnashastri's son Vishnushastri Chiplunkar completed the above last book in 1890 after Krushnashastri's death.)