Sampadananda Mishra ( or, ସମ୍ପଦାନନ୍ଦ ମିଶ୍ର, born 17 November 1971) is a

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scholar from

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, specializing in grammar. Mishra was awarded the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Award for Sanskrit in 2012 by the

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. He was conferred with Sahitya Akademi Bala Puraskar 2018 for his book ''Shanaih Shanaih''.

Education and career

Grandson of a Sanskrit

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, Mishra received a post-graduate degree in Sanskrit from

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. He received an MPhil in Sanskrit Grammar from under V. Kutumba Sastry of

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and completed his doctorate from

on Sanskrit and the evolution of human speech. From September 1995 to March 2021, Mishra served as the director of Sri Aurobindo Foundation for Indian Culture (SAFIC), Puducherry. Currently, Mishra works as Dean - Culture and Director of the Centre for Human Sciences at

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, Haryana.

Books

Some of his books are: * Sampadananda Mishra. ''Sanskrit and the Evolution of Human Speech''. Sri Aurobindo Institute of Research in Social Sciences, 2006. . 171 pp. * Sampadananda Mishra. ''Stotravali: A Book of Hymns and Prayers in Sanskrit''. Sri Aurobindo Institute of Research in Social Sciences, 2006. . 316 pp. * Sampadananda Mishra (ed.). ''The Century of Life of Sri Aurobindo with original verses of Bhartrihari''. Sri Aurobindo Institute of Research in Social Sciences, 2005. . 128 pp. * Sampadananda Mishra. ''Sri Aurobindo and Sanskrit''. Sri Aurobindo Institute of Research in Social Sciences, 2001. . 118 pp. * Sampadananda Mishra and Vijay Poddar. ''The wonder that is Sanskrit''. Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd, 2001. . 210 pp. * Sampadananda Mishra. ''Hasyamanjari: A book of humorous stories in Sanskrit''. Sri Aurobindo Institute of Research in Social Sciences, 2001. . 42 pp. * Sampadananda Mishra. ''Chandovallari: A handbook of Sanskrit prosody''. Sri Aurobindo Institute of Research in Social Sciences, 1999. . 147 pp. * Sampadananda Mishra. Shanaih Shaniah - A book of Rhyming Songs in Sanskrit, AuroPublications, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry. . 56pp

Unique initiatives

Divyavani Sanskrit Radio

In August 2013 Mishra launched the first ever 24/7 Sanskrit Radio called
Divyavani Sanskrit Radio
.

Samskrita Balasahitya Parishad

In 2014 Mishra founde
Samskrita Balasahitya Parishad
for creating, evaluating and propagating qualitative children's literature in Sanskrit.

Vande Mataram Library

The library plans to publish several volumes of religious and non-religious Sanskrit texts with translations. Mishra floated the idea of an indigenous effort in translating Sanskrit texts, a few days after Hindu Nationalists lodged a petition against the

Murty Classical Library of India The Murty Classical Library of India began publishing classics of Indian literature in January 2015. The books, which are in dual-language format with the original language and English facing, are published by Harvard University Press. The Columbia ...

(MCLI); it was argued that the MCLI works were of a high quality but lacked in cultural understandings. Thus, he co-founded th
Vande Mataram Library Trust
an open-source project to translate almost all important scriptures available in Sanskrit.

References

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