Mahamahopadhyaya

Mahamahopadhyaya (Hindi: महामहोपाध्याय) is an honorific title given to prestigious scholars by the Government of India, and prior to 1947 by the British Raj.

Some of the notable recipients are:

• Jayamant Mishra (1925–2010), Sanskrit scholar
• Vedam Venkataraya Sastry (1853–1929), Sanskrit and Telugu poet, critic and dramatist
• Ram Avatar Sharma (1877–1929), Sanskrit scholar
• Datto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979), historian, writer, and orator
• Bishweshwar Nath Reu (1890–1966), historian, epigraphist, numismatist and Sanskritist
• Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi (1893–1985), Sanskrit scholar, in 1941
• Jagannath Mishra (Puri, Odisha), Sanskrit scholar
• U Ve Swaminatha Iyer (1855–1942), Tamil scholar
• Pandithamani Kathiresan Chettiar, (1881-1953), Tamil and Sanskrit scholar, translator
• Gopinath Kaviraj (1887 – 1976) in 1934, Sanskrit scholar, philosopher, Padma Vibhushan (1964) ^[1]
• Acharya Gangaram Shastri (Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and only one in history from the state to be conferred the honour), (1923 - 2014), Sanskrit and Hindi scholar

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