Rahas Bihari Dwivedi (, born 2 January 1947) is a

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scholar and poet from

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. He was awarded the President's Ceritificate of Honour for Sanskrit in the year 2012. He was the formerly the Head of the Department of Sanskrit at Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur.

Life

Rahas Bihari was born in

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. He obtained an ''Acharya'' (

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) degree in Sanskrit literature and followed it by the ''Sahitya Ratna'' and

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degrees. He obtained his PhD degree from the Rani Durgavati University in 1977 with his thesis on critical study of Sanskrit epic poems composed in the 1960s. Later he joined the university as a Sanskrit professor and supervised 16 doctoral theses during his tenure. He also holds the post-doctoral ''Vidyavachaspati'' degree.

Major works

Rahas Bihari Dwivedi has authored several books and more than 50 papers in Sanskrit, Hindi and English. Some of them are– * A Critical Study of the Saṃskṛta Mahākāvyas composed in the 7th Decade (संस्कृत महाकाव्यों का समालोचनात्मक अध्ययन १९६१-१९७० तक) (1977) - PhD thesis at the Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur. In this thesis, he listed 156 epic poems in Sanskrit composed between 1947 and 1970. * Arvācīnasaṃskṛtamahākāvyānuśīlanam (अर्वाचीनसंस्कृतमहाकाव्यानुशीलनम्) (1981) - A Sanskrit treatise on modern Sanskrit epics in 134 pages. Published by Sagarika Samiti in Sagar. * Sāhityavimarśaḥ (साहित्यविमर्शः) (2002) - A collection of research articles on the Indian literature. Published by

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. , 9788172700959. * Svastisandeśaḥ (स्वस्तिसन्देशः) * Svaritasandeśaḥ (स्वरितसन्देशः) * Saṃskṛtavāṅmaye Vijñānam (संस्कृतवाङ्मये विज्ञानम्) * Tīrthabhāratam (तीर्थभारतम्) (2010) - Poem on Indian pilgrimage places

Awards and honours

* President's Certificate of Honour for Sanskrit (2012). * Valmiki Puraskar by Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Sansthan (2016).

References

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