Dr. Om Prakash Pandey (also sometimes spelled as Om Prakash Pande), is a poet who won the

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in 2008. He is a professor and head of the Sanskrit department at

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and has been visiting professor at

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in Paris, and has also been visiting faculty in universities at Utrecht in the Netherlands, Torino in Italy, and Germany. Based on his experiences in France, he wrote a Sanskrit work ''Rasapriya Paris Rajadhani'', published by

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. He is also affiliated to Maharishi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Vidya Prasthistan,

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, and was appointed by the government on a task force to document and preserve

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forms, under

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’s World (intangible) Heritage Preservation programme. They were inscribed on the

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in 2008. He has written a book on the Rudradhyaya of the Shankayana

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(branch) of the

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. In 2006 he was the victim of an assault by a student union leader demanding admission. He is from

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, and has been writing since 1977.

Works

* ''Vaidik Sahitya aur Samskriti ka swarup'' (in

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). Vishwa Prakashan (A unit of Wylie Eastern) 1994, New Delhi, * ''Rasapriya

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Rajadhani'' (in

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. * ''Rgvediya-Shankayana Rudradhyaya''.

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, 2009. Rudradhyaya
/ref> * ''Sarva-Veda-Rudradhyaya Sangraha''. 2006. . * ''Jivanaparvanatakam: Hariscandropakhyanadhrtammaulikam Samskrta-natakam'' (Sanskrit play on

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). Penman Publishers, 1998. Jivanaparvanatakam
/ref> * ''Vaishnav Aagam Ke Vaidik Aadhaar'' (in Hindi). 2005. Vaishnav Aagam Ke Vaidik Aadhaar
/ref> * ''Drashtavya Jagat Ka Yatharth'' (in Hindi). Prabhat Prakashan. .Drashtavya Jagat Ka Yatharth (vol. I)Review
/ref> * ''Atharvavediya Parishist Granthon Ka Parisheelan'' (with Smt. Dr. Anjul Dubey) Nag Publishers, 2005. .Atharvavediya Parishist Granthon Ka Parisheelan
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/ref> * ''Romance with Sanskrit - Sanskrit Subodha'', Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series (C.S.St. 128).Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series
/ref> * ''Rasapriyaa Vibhaavanam''. Nag Publishers, 2005. . * ''Sadukti-karṇāmṛtam: with Hindi commentary'', Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, 2005.
/ref> * ''Ambika Dutt Vyas (Modern Sanskrit writer)'', Makers of Indian Literature series, 1993. ;Articles * ''The other tradition of Sanskrit poetry: with special reference to the Saduktikarṇāmṛta'' in: Bulletin d'études indiennes 15, 1997, pp. 205–211
Vedic Poetry: Experience at Multiple Levels. In Conversation: Prof. T. N. Dharmadhikari, Prof. G. C. Tripathi, and Prof. Om Prakash Pandey with Sudha Gopalakrishnan
in the September 2006 Issue of Kriti-Rakshana, the bi-monthly publication of the

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References

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