Vagish Shastri

Vagish Shastri (also known as B P T Vagish Shastri) is an international Sanskrit grammarian, eminent linguist, Tantric and yogi. He was born at a village of Khurai, Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh in 1934. His primary education was in Khurai, followed by his education in Vrindavan and Banares. He started his teaching career as a lecturer of Sanskrit at Tikmani Sanskrit College, Varanasi in 1959 and soon he became the Director and Professor of the Research Institute at Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi in the year 1970.¹ He served this prestigious academic post for about three decades. He received his Master degree Vyākaraņa Āchārya (1959); Ph.D. Vidyāvāridhi in Grammar and Historical Linguistics (1964) and D.Litt. Vāchaspati (1969) from Sampurnanand Sanskrit University.

Contribution

Dr. Vagish Shastri started to write essays at the age of 19. His more than 200 essays and Research papers published in different journals nationally and internationally. He was Secretary President of one section in fifth world Sanskrit conference. Being chief editor of many series such as Sarasvati Bhavana Granthamala he edited more than 300 manuscripts which took form of books. He also had been chief editor of famous Sanskrit journal Sarasvati Susama. He has written books on different subjects which includes grammatical and philological research work, drama, story, poetry, satire, historical research work and metaphysical writings.

Honors and awards

Books authored

Whitney's principal target in accusing Panini and Paniniyas of unreliability was the Dhatupatha. He set forth his views that of nearly 2000 roots of Dhatupatha published by Westergaard and Bohtlingk more than half of these are not attested in literature. The most ambitious work in the direction in the direction noted is Pāniniya Dhātupātha Samikşhā(1965) wherein the author gives an alphabetically arranged catalogue of roots found in different Dhatupathas together with attestation - verbal and nominal forms - in Sanskrit, Pali, Apabhramsa and other Prakrits. BPT Vagish Shastri professed aim is to refute Whitney's Claim.²³⁴

The radio drama Krişakānām Nāgpāshah is a symbolic play with the tone and tenor of patriotism which aims at common harmony, pride in one's own nation, and sacrifice for one's motherland which is highly relevant. This is a creative work from the vibrant pen of BPT Vagish Shastri.⁵

Grammatical and philological research work

Creative writing in Sanskrit, Hindi and English

Historical research work

This book describes an etymological identification of the mystries 'pulindas' mentioned in later Vedic, Epic, pauranika and inscriptional literature.

Metaphysical writing

New Sanskrit grammar

Dr. B P T Vagish Shastri has published three books on his invented Sanskrit Grammar “Vagyoga Technique”.

Dictionary

Research papers

Supervision

Being Director, Research Institute, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University he has guided students for Ph.D. And D.Litt degree in different subjects.

Vagyoga: natural law and mnemonic technique

Dr. Vagish Shastri has invented a unique technique of teaching Sanskrit grammar called 'Vagyoga'¹¹. This is a mnemonic method to enter in the soul of words, it is based upon natural law, which does not requires learning by heart any sutras.¹²This is a mathematical way of learning Sanskrit Grammar.¹³Many scholars from all over the world learned Sanskrit in very short time and they made translation of Sanskrit texts in their own language.¹⁴

Taught Pronunciation to Madonna

Pop singer Madonna sang Yoga Taravali; Dr. Vagish Shastri found mistakes in her singing.¹⁵¹⁶ Madonna came in touch of Dr. Shastri through BBC radio and learned pronunciation. ¹⁷

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References

^ Danielle Tramard, A Le royaume de la connaissance, Beneras ville sainte retour aux sources dela tradition sanscrite, Le Monde, 28 Oct, 1995, Paris
^ George Cardona, PANINI, A survey of Research, Mouton & Co. B.V. Publisher, 1976
^ Sanskrit Pratibha, Sahitya Academy, New Delhi, Vol. 8, No.2, 1970, pp. 106.
^ R.N. Dandekar, Vedic Bibliography, Vol. III, Govt. Oriental Series No.10, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, 1973.
^ S. Ranganath, Studies in Rigveda and modern Sanskrit literature,Eastern Book Linkers, Delhi.
^ Lajja Shukla, Arvachin Sanskrit Sahitya mein Vagish Shastri, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, 2002, Indore University, Indore
^ George Cardona, Recent research in Paninian Studies, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1999.
^ Sanskrit Vangmay ka Brihad Itihas, Vol. II (Eds) Baldev Upadhayay, O.P. Pandey, U.P. Sanskrit Academy, Lucknow, 1997
^ Vastoshpati Shastri, John Hall, Susane Trubel, Vagyoga : Kundalini Meditation, Yogic Voice Consciousness Institute, Varanasi, 2003.
^ Sanskrit Vangmay ka Brihad Itihas (Vyakarna), Vol VII (Ed) Baldev Upadhyay, Jagannath Pathak, U.P. Sanskrit Academy, Lucknow, 2000.
^ Sanskrit without tears, Life positive, Vol. 4, No.3, June, 1993, p.17
^ Fr. Sadanand D'souza, Miraculous vagyoga mnemonic method of learning Sanskrit based on Para Vidya, Mystic India, Occult foundation, Vol. 2, No.3, March 1996, p.125-127
^ Cinzia Periccini, Dandin Inieu Principi, Paideia Editrice, 1986
^ Freedom Tobias Cole, Science of light, An Introduction of Vedic Astrology, Print Media Books, CA, USA, ISBN 0-9788447-8-5
^ Madonna's Mantra, Editorial, 16 Oct, 1998, The Times of India
^ Madonna song was not musical to the Pundit's ears, Statesman, New Delhi, 11 May 1998
^ Madonna's Ray of light : Pandit suggest a touch up, Indian Express, 10 May 1998.

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