Balram Shukla

Balram Shukla (; born 19 January 1982) He is a self-taught scholar of Sanskrit and Indian literature. He has authored eight books.

Life Shukla hails from Sohrauna Raja village in Maharajganj, Uttar Pradesh. His father is a retired school teacher. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Gorakhpur and Master of Arts degrees in Sanskrit and Persian from University of Delhi.

Recognition Shukla is recognized as one of the foremost young scholars of Sanskrit today. Literary critics have immensely praised the book for being a pioneering work in Hindi and as a model for translation. From a review in The Hindu : "The book is a model of how translations of poetic works should be presented so that the readers may become familiar not only with the beauty of the poetry but also the richness of the literary traditions of that language, history of translations, meaning of words and basic principles of its grammar."

Shukla's Persian odes have recently been collected in a volume called "Haft Shaair az Fardaa" which contain sample-poems of 7 non-Iranian young Persian poets.

Awards and honours Shukla has been conferred many honours. Shukla has three Sanskrit poetry collections to his credit. One amongst them is "Parivaahah" which has been published by Sahitya Akademi Delhi This book also have been awarded with "Kalidasa Samman" by Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Sansthan in 2018. 2021: Conferred with the “Mahakavi Kalidasa Sanskrit-Vrati National Award ” by Kavikulguru Kalidasa Sanskrit University, Ramtek, Nagapur (Maharashtra). 2022: Conferred with the “Mahakavi Kalidasa Sanskrit-Vrati National Award” by Kavikulguru Kalidasa Sanskrit University, Ramtek, Nagapur (Maharashtra).

Views Shukla believes that Sanskrit and Persian have around 350 similar words, owing to their common origin.

Shukla, Balram [Trans.](2021) Nihshabd-Noopur (Collection and Hindi Translation of Rumi's 100 Ghazals, First paperback edition, Second Edition - December 2021). New Delhi: Rajkamal Paperbacks. Shukla, Balram [ed.] (2021) Paśyantī (A Collection of poems of 75 contemporary Sanskrit poets), Prayagraj: Raka Prakashan. Shukla, Balram (2020, 1398hq) Zāfrān-o-Sandal (A Collection of Persian Ghazals), Tehran: Mo,assase-e-farhangi-e-shāerān-e-Pārsīzabān Shukla, Balram (Ed.)(2019) Śatāvadhāniracanāsaṃcayanam (Edited 7 beautiful compositions of modern Sanskrit poet Śatāvadhānī Dr. R. Ganesh with elaborate introduction and 600 notes to the same). New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi. Shukla, Balram (Trans.)(2018) Nihshabd-Noopur (Collection and Hindi Translation of Rumi's 100 Ghazals). New Delhi : MGAHV Wardha and Rajkamal. Shukla, Balram (2017) ‘Kavitāputrikājātiḥ’, (an original Sanskrit poetry collection) New Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit sansthan, Shukla, Balram (2016). Parivahah , a collection of Sanskrit poems. . Published by Sahitya Akademi Shukla, Balram and Paramanand Jha (2015). Laghusandesham , a collection of short Sanskrit poems. . Shukla, Balram (2014). Hindi translation of Dawazdeh Band of Muhtasham Kashani. Rampur, India: Rampur Raza Library. . Shukla, Balram (2013). Bharatiya evam pashchattya vakyartha siddhanta , a Hindi research work on Indian and Western theories of sentential meaning. New Delhi, India: Pratibha Prakashan. . Shukla, Balram (2011). Isq-o-Atesh , a collection of Persian poems. Tehran, Iran: Midhat Publication. . Shukla, Balram (2009). Adhunik Sanskrit Sahitya Sanchayan , a Hindi research work on modern Sanskrit poetry in India. Delhi: Vidyanidhi Publication. .

Example poetry Shukla's symmetrical (in the same metre) translation into Sanskrit of the opening couplets of Rumi's Masnavi, along with the 1898 English translation by Edward Henry Whinfield: Original Persian بشنو از نی چون حکایت می‌کند از جدایی‌ها شکایت می‌کند کز نیستان تا مرا بُبْریدهاند در نفیرم مرد و زن نالیده‌اند سینه خواهم شرحه‌شرحه از فراق تا بگویم شرح درد اشتیاق هر کسی کو دور ماند از اصل خویش باز جوید روزگار وصل خویش Sanskrit translation श्रूयतां वंशीगलाद्वंशीकथा कथ्यमाना विप्रयोगाणां व्यथा। वंशिकारण्याद्यतो मां लूनवान् सर्वलोकः कण्ठतो मे दूनवान्। तद्वियोगैश्छिन्नभिन्नं मन्मनः स्याद्यथोद्वेगं ब्रवीत्वेतज्जनः। येन केनापि स्वमूलाद्भ्रश्यते तेन भूयो योगमार्गोऽन्विष्यते।

A Sanskrit verse by Shukla: