Jagannath Pathak

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Jagannath Pathak is a Sanskrit scholar and poet. In 1981 his poetry collection Kapishayani won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit. [1] He also won the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize (for Sanskrit) in 2004, for translating Mirza Ghalib's Diwan-E-Ghalib Urdu poetry into Sanskrit as Ghaliba Kavyam. [2]

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References

  1. Harsha (1 August 2004). Priyadarsika. Global Vision Publishing House. ISBN   9788182200081.
  2. Sahitya Akademi official website Archived 20 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine , old version

3. https://jagannathpathak.info/ for more information about Dr. Jagannath Pathak..