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Vasudeva Sharan Agrawala

{{short description|Indian writer}}

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{{Infobox writer

| name = Vasudeva Sharan Agrawala

| birth_date = 7 August 1904{{sfn|Vatsyayan|1994|p=8}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1966|7|27|1904|8|7}}{{sfn|Vatsyayan|1994|p=8}}

| birth_place = Meerut district

| death_place = Varanasi

| language = Hindi, Sanskrit, Prakrit, English.{{sfn|Vatsyayan|1994|pp=8–10}}

| occupation = Cultural history, Sanskrit and Hindi literature, numismatics, museology, and art history.{{sfn|Vatsyayan|1994|pp=9–10}}

| awards = 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for the prose commentary Padmavat Sanjivani Vyakhya

| education = M. A. (Lucknow) 1929; Ph. D. (Lucknow) 1941; D. Litt. (Lucknow) 1946. (advisor for both Radha Kumud Mukherjee){{sfn|Vatsyayan|1994|p=8}}

| notable_works = *[https://archive.org/details/heritageofindian00agra/page/n5/mode/2up The Heritage of Indian Art], New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 1964.

  • [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.4695/page/n5/mode/2up India as known to Panini: A study of the cultural material in Ashtadhyayi], Lucknow: University of Lucknow, 1953
  • [https://archive.org/details/devimahatmyamglo0000unse/page/n1/mode/2up Devī-māhātmyam = The glorification of the great goddess], Varanasi: All India Kashiraj Trust, 1963.{{cite web|title=Agrawala, Vasudeva S.|publisher=OCLC WorldCat Identities|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50044420/|access-date= 21 August 2022}}

| years_active = 1933–1966

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Vasudeva Sharan Agrawala, also Vasudeva Saran Agrawala, (1904–1966), was an Indian scholar of cultural history, Sanskrit and Hindi literature, numismatics, museology, and art history.{{sfn|Vatsyayan|1994|pp=9–10}} He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in the Hindi language in 1956 for his prose commentary Padmavat Sanjivani Vyakhya.{{cite web |title=AKADEMI AWARDS (1955-2019) |url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp#HINDI |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |access-date=5 December 2020}} He was a professor in the Department of Art and Architecture at the Benares Hindu University.{{sfn|Vatsyayan|1994|pp=7–9}}

Biography

Agrawala was born on 7 August 1904, in a village in Meerut district, United Provinces. He completed high school in Lucknow, took classes in Intermediate (Arts) and B. A. at the Benares Hindu University (BHU), received an M.A. at Lucknow University in 1929; a PhD at Lucknow in 1941; and a D.Lit. at Lucknow in 1946.{{sfn|Vatsyayan|1994|pp=8–9}} His PhD and D.Lit. research was published by the University of Lucknow in 1953 under the title, India as known to Pāṇini, work on the application of Pāṇini's work to India's cultural history.{{sfn|Vatsyayan|1994|pp=8–10}}

He became the Curator of Mathura museum in 1931, two years after his M.A.; the Director of the U.P. State Museum in Lucknow in 1940; a Superintendent for Museums in the Archaeological Survey of India attached to the Central Asian Antiquities Museum in New Delhi in 1946. In 1951, he moved to BHU as a Professor and Head of the Department of Art and Architecture.{{sfn|Vatsyayan|1994|pp=7–8}}

Selected works

  • [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/480407556 Kalā aura saṃskr̥ti], Ilāhābāda : Sāhitya Bhavan Limiṭeḍ, 1952.
  • [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.4695/page/n5/mode/2up India as known to Panini: A study of the cultural material in Ashtadhyayi], Lucknow: University of Lucknow, 1953
  • Padmavat Sanjivani Vyakhya, 1955.{{cite book |last1=Agarwal |first1=Vasudev Sharan |title=Padmavaat (mool Evam Sanjeev Vyakhya) |date=September 2007 |publisher=Lokbharati Prakashan |isbn=978-81-8031-110-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGesQXpRLnwC |access-date=5 December 2020 |language=hi}}
  • [https://archive.org/details/devimahatmyamglo0000unse/page/n1/mode/2up Devī-māhātmyam = The glorification of the great goddess], Varanasi: All India Kashiraj Trust, 1963.
  • [https://archive.org/details/heritageofindian00agra/page/n5/mode/2up The Heritage of Indian Art], New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 1964.
  • [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.49558/page/n9/mode/2up Studies in Indian art], Varanasi: Vishwavidyalya Prakashan, 1965.
  • {{cite book|title=Wheel Flag of India Chakra-dhvaja: being a history and exposition of the meaning of the Dharma-chakra and the Sarnath Lion Capital|location=Varanasi|publisher=Prithivi Prakashan|url=https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.53134/page/n123/mode/1up|year=1964b|oclc=1129478258}}

Notes

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==References==

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Cited works

  • {{cite web |title=AKADEMI AWARDS (1955-2019) |url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp#HINDI |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |access-date=5 December 2020}}
  • {{cite book|last=Vatsyayan|first=Kapila|chapter=Ācārya Vāsudevajī|pages=7–11|title=Prof. Vasudeva Saran Agrawala: a bibliographic survey of his published works|publisher=Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts|year=1994|location=New Delhi|url=https://ignca.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/vasudeva_saran_agrawala.pdf}}

External links

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Category:1904 births

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Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi

Category:Indian writers

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