Kala Nath Shastry Scientist
Devarshi Kala Nath Shastry, (b. 15 July 1936 at Jaipur, Rajasthan, India) is a Sanskrit scholar honoured by the President of India (1998). He is an Indologist and a prolific writer of Sanskrit, Hindi and English, and a well-known linguist, who has contributed to the campaign of evolving technical terminology in Indian languages and ensuring a respectable status to Hindi, the official language of his state and the Indian union.
