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Bimal Krishna Matilal
Indian philosopher
Vaman Shivram Apte
Indian lexicographer and professor
Gouri Dharmapal
Indian poet and Sanskrit scholar
Neelakantha Chaturdhara
Sanskrit scholar
Jaygopal Tarkalankar
Bengali writer
Veturi Prabhakara Sastri
Indian writer (1888-1950)
Rewa Prasad Dwivedi
Sanskrit poet (1935–2021)
Attoor Krishna Pisharody
Sanskrit scholar, teacher and writer
Rama Varma XV
maharaja of Cochin
Lakshman Shastri Joshi
Indian writer
K. C. Kesava Pillai
Indian writer
V. Balakrishnan
Indian writer (1932–2004)
Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran
Malayalam-language poet and translator
R. Shamasastry
Sanskrit scholar
Vishwanathan Venkatachalam
Indian linguist (1925–2002)
K. Damodaran
Indian politician and writer.
Amarnath Jha
Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University
Radhakanta Deb
Indian scholar
Kabisurjya Baladeba Ratha
Odia poet & Odissi musician
P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri
Indian Sanskrit scholar (1890–1978)
Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi
Indian writer and scholar (1893–1985)
S. K. Ramachandra Rao
Indian scholar
Bettina Bäumer
Austrian-Indian scholar
Śākaṭāyana
Shakatayana (; 814–760 BCE) was a Sanskrit grammarian, linguist, and Vedic scholar. He is known for his theory that all nouns are derived from a verbal root which contrasted to grammarian Pāṇini. He also posited that prepositions only have a meaning when attached to nouns or other words. His theories are presented in his work, Śākaṭāyana-śabdānuśāsana, which is not found in its entirety but referenced by other scholars such as Yāska and Pāṇini.
Satish Chandra Vidyabhusan
Bengali scholar
Puṣpā Dīkṣita
Indian Sanskrit scholar
Ram Karan Sharma
Indian poet (1927–2018)
N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya
Indian scholar (1928-2017)
Bidhu Shekhar Bhattacharya
Bengali scholars (1878-1959)
Medhātithi
Medhātithi is one of the oldest and most famous commentators on the , more commonly known as the Laws of Manu. The text is a part of the Hindu Dharmaśāstra tradition, which attempts to record the laws of dharma.
R. Ramachandran
Indian poet
Kasibhatta Brahmaiah Sastry
Indian writer
Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya
Indian archaeologist, museologist, art historian and professor of Sanskrit (1919-2016)
Ramyatna Shukla
Indian scholar and linguist (1932−2022)