Rahas Bihari Dwivedi
Rahas Bihari Dwivedi is a Sanskrit scholar and poet from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. 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 Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. He obtained an Acharya degree in Sanskrit literature and followed it by the Sahitya Ratna and MLitt 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 - PhD thesis at the Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur. In this thesis, he listed 156 epic poems in Sanskrit composed between 1947 and 1970.
- Arvācīnasaṃskṛtamahākāvyānuśīlanam - A Sanskrit treatise on modern Sanskrit epics in 134 pages. Published by Sagarika Samiti in Sagar.
- Sāhityavimarśaḥ - A collection of research articles on the Indian literature. Published by Sampurnanand Sanskrit University., 9788172700959.
- Svastisandeśaḥ
- Svaritasandeśaḥ
- Saṃskṛtavāṅmaye Vijñānam
- Tīrthabhāratam - Poem on Indian pilgrimage places
Awards and honours
- President's Certificate of Honour for Sanskrit.
- Valmiki Puraskar by Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Sansthan.