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Arknath Chaudhary is an Indian scholar of Sanskrit. He served Central Sanskrit University as Director and Shree Somnath Sanskrit University, Veraval, Gujarat as Vice-Chancellor.
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Arknath Chaudhary is an Indian scholar of Sanskrit. He served Central Sanskrit University as Director and Shree Somnath Sanskrit University, Veraval, Gujarat as Vice-Chancellor.
Chaudhary is a specialist in Sanskrit Vyakaran. [1]
He served three campuses of Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan as Principal.[ citation needed ]
Chaudhary comes from Rudrapur village in the Madhubani district of Bihar state in India. [2] He served several organizations in Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesha, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Maharasthra, Gujarat and Rajasthan.[ citation needed ]
Chaudhary spent a lengthy tenure with Rasthriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Jaipur where he joined as lecturer and was promoted to Professor and Principal. He was given charge of Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Mumbai and Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Lucknow later. He organized the biggest Sanskrit conference in association with the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India.[ citation needed ]
Chaudhary is an Acharya in Vyakararan and MA in Darshan Shashtra. He was university topper in Darshan Shashtra.
He has written over 21 books filling more than 8,000 pages, and published 35 research papers on the subjects of Vyakaran, Sahitya, Darshan, Tantra and Ved.
Some of the popular titles published by Dr. Chaudhary are:
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