Vasudeva Sharan Agrawala | |
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Born | 7 August 1904[1] Meerut district |
Died | 27 July 1966 Varanasi | (aged 61)[1]
Occupation | Cultural history, Sanskrit and Hindi literature, numismatics, museology, and art history.[2] |
Language | Hindi, Sanskrit, Prakrit, English.[3] |
Education | M. A. (Lucknow) 1929; Ph. D. (Lucknow) 1941; D. Litt. (Lucknow) 1946. (advisor for both Radha Kumud Mukherjee)[1] |
Years active | 1933–1966 |
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Notable awards | 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for the prose commentary Padmavat Sanjivani Vyakhya |
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.[2] He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in the Hindi language in 1956 for his prose commentary Padmavat Sanjivani Vyakhya.[5] He was a professor in the Department of Art and Architecture at the Benares Hindu University.[6]