Indian Sanskrit scholars

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Panini (, ) was a Sanskrit grammarian, logician, philologist, and revered scholar of Ancient India during the mid-1st millennium BCE, dated variously by most scholars between the 6th–5th and 4th centuries BCE.

Bhartṛhari (Devanagari: ; Bhartrihari; fl. c. 5th century CE), was an Indian-Hindu linguistic philosopher and poet, known for his contributions to the fields of linguistics, grammar, and philosophy. He is believed to have been born in the 5th century in Ujjain, Malwa, India. He decided to live a monastic life and find a higher meaning but was unable to detach from worldly life. He lived as a yogi in Ujjain until his death.

Philosopher, academic, writer, translator, entrepreneur, social reformer and philanthropist (1820-1891)

Hindu philosopher and scholar

Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya (born Giridhar Mishra on 14 January 1950) is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, educator, Sanskrit scholar, polyglot, poet, author, textual commentator, philosopher, composer, singer, playwright and Katha artist based in Chitrakoot, India. He is one of four incumbent Jagadguru Ramanandacharyas, and has held this title since 1988.

Indian scholar and author (1893 – 1963)

Indian writer 3 c. BCE

Acharya Pingala (; c. 3rd2nd century BCE) was an ancient Indian poet and mathematician, and the author of the '' (), also called the Pingala Sutras'' (), the earliest known treatise on Sanskrit prosody.

Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar (1880–1972)

Indian mathematician (*1907 - †1966)

Gaudīya Vaisnava Hindu guru and instructor (1874–1937)

Yāska (7th–5th century BCE) was an ancient Indian grammarian and Vedic linguist. Preceding Pāṇini (7th–4th century BCE), he is traditionally identified as the author of Nirukta, the discipline of "etymology" (explanation of words) within the Sanskrit grammatical tradition, and the Nighantu, the oldest proto-thesaurus in India. Nirukta is one of the six Vedāṅgas (limbs of the Veda) in Hinduism. Yaska is widely regarded as the precursive founder of the discipline of what would become etymology in both the East and the West.

Indian poet (1878-1958)

Kātyāyana (कात्यायन) also spelled as Katyayana ( century BCE) was a Sanskrit grammarian, mathematician and Vedic priest who lived in ancient India.

Jnanpith Award recipient in Sanskrit. Indian academic

Sayana (IAST: Sāyaṇa; also called Sāyaṇācārya; died 1387) was a 14th-century Sanskrit Mimamsa scholar from the Vijayanagara Empire of peninsular India, near modern day Bellary, Karnataka. An influential commentator on the Vedas, he flourished under King Bukka Raya I and his successor Harihara II. More than a hundred works are attributed to him, among which are commentaries on nearly all parts of the Vedas. He also wrote on a number of subjects like medicine, morality, music and grammar.

Indian Hindu philosopher

Hindu philosopher (1887–1976)

Indian writer (1924-2006)

Indian actor (1899–1990)

Indian mathematician (1918-2000)

Jesuit missionary (1909–1982)

Indian scholar and writer

Bengali scholar and author (1853-1931)

Amoghavarsha Nrupatunga (–878), also known as Amoghavarsha I, was the Rashtrakuta emperor from 814 until his death in 878. He is considered by many historians to be the greatest emperor of the Rashtrakuta dynasty. His reign of 64 years is one of the longest precisely dated monarchical reigns on record. Many Kannada and Sanskrit scholars prospered during his rule, including the great Indian Jain mathematician Mahaviracharya who wrote the Ganita-sara-samgraha, Shakatayan and Srivijaya (a Jain Kannada language theorist), as well as Jain Monks like Acharya Jinasena and Acharya Virasena, Acharya Gu

Indian writer (1873–1924)

Prabhakara (IAST: Prabhākara) active c. 6th century was an Indian philosopher-grammarian in the Mīmāṃsā tradition of Kerala.

Halāyudha (Sanskrit: हलायुध) wrote the '''''''''', a commentary on Pingala's Chandaḥśāstra, was an Indian Mathematician and poet who lived and worked in the 10th century. The Chandaḥśāstra by the Indian lyricist Piṅgala (3rd or 2nd century BC) somewhat cryptically describes a method of arranging two types of syllables to form metres of various lengths and counting them; as interpreted and elaborated by Halāyudha his "method of pyramidal expansion" (meru-prastāra) for counting metres is equivalent to Pascal's triangle.

16th-century Indian philosopher

Indian poet (1877–1949)

Indian scholar in Sanskrit and mathematics and translator

Indian academic and poet (1916–1989)

Indian writer (1926-2012)

Carnatic musician

Indian philosopher

Sanskrit scholar

Jain Scholar and Philosopher from India

Sanskrit writer

Indian filmmaker (1917–2003)

Indian writer

Indian poet (1863–1918)

Sanskrit scholar, Indologist and philanthropist (1898–1982)

Indian scholar (1860–1926)

Indian scholar

writer

Sanskrit scholar

Renowned Linguist and Sanskrit/ English Scholar

Indian writer

musicologist

Indian academic

Durvinita () is seen as the most successful ruler of the Western Ganga dynasty. He is remembered for his military prowess, literary achievements, and strong patronage of Jainism. He was a son of the preceding king Avinita.

Indian Sanskrit scholar

Indian writer, scholar

Indian Hindu Sannyasi and writer (1888-1965)

Sanskrit scholar and composer of the popular Venkateswara Suprabhatam

Indian writer (1909-1994)

Indian academic

Sanskrit poet of 20th century