Mahadevshastri Joshi


Mahadevshastri Joshi was an Indian Marathi writer.

Early life

Joshi was born on January 12, 1906, in the town of Ambede in Goa. He received the epithets shastri and pandit following his education in a Sanskrit pathshala in Sangli.
In his student days, Joshi also frequented the public library in Sangli, and widely read the works of modern Marathi writers of his time like Narayan Sitaram Phadke and Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar. Especially, Khandekar's short stories and novels highly influenced him then to want to be a writer like Khandekar.

Literary works

Encyclopedia

  • Bharatiya Sanskruti Kosh . These ten volume contain information of indian history, geography, various ethnic and lingual group, festivals of these groups and other cultural aspects of their life.

Cultural informative works

  • Marathi Saraswat
  • Purush Suktam
  • Teerthaswarup Maharashtra
  • Maharashtrache Kanthamani
  • Marathi Lekhak
  • Mulyawan Goshti
  • Maharashtrachi Dharatirthe
  • Sanskrutichya Pranganat
  • Tirtha Kshetranchya Goshti
  • Dnyaneshwari Praweshika
  • Shri Nawanath Kathasar
  • Kanasat Pikali Motye
  • Bhimachi Madhukari
  • Bharatiya Murtikala
  • Sanskrutichi Pratike
  • Minakshi Kanya
  • Navanit Bharat
  • Gajati Daiwate
  • Daso Digambar
  • Kala Bhandari
  • Mani Mekhala
  • Ugra Pandya
  • Nakshatralok
  • Satya Dharma
  • Nilamadhav
  • Pushpadanta
  • Dindir Wan
  • Satwadhir
  • Tyagaraj
  • Bahubali

Autobiography

  • Aamacha Wanaprastha
  • AtmapuraaN

Collections of short stories

  • Dushyant Shakuntala
  • Khadakatale Pajhar
  • Kalpit Ani Satya
  • Katha Sugandha
  • Pangala Arun
  • Sati Sukanya
  • Manju Mangal
  • Kalpa Wruksha
  • Kiriti Arjun
  • Babhruwahan
  • Dhumdhumar
  • Kanyadan
  • Mohanwel
  • Niladhwaj
  • Gunakeshi
  • Ghararighi
  • Bhawabal
  • Putrawati
  • Pratima
  • Wirani
  • Lage Bandhe

Children's literature (बालवाङ्मय)

  • १०० गोष्टी आख्यायिका
  • प्राचीन सुरस माला
  • जनपदकथामाला
  • रक्मानंद मोहिनी
  • कथाकल्पकता
  • प्रलय घंघाळ
  • वत्सलाहरण
  • कुंडलाहरण
  • गुरूदक्षिणा
  • चंद्रवदना

Travelogues

Priya Bharat

Awards

Pune University awarded an honorary D. Lit. degree to Joshi for his Bharatiya Sanskruti Kosh, which comprised 10 volumes of 800 pages each.

Legacy

Thirteen Marathi movies, including "कन्यादान”, "धर्मकन्या”, "वैशाख वणवा”, "मानिनी”, and जिव्हाळा were based on Joshi's short stories.