Keshavram Kashiram Shastri

Keshavram Kashiram Bambhaniya (Gujarati (ISO 15919): Keśavarāma Kāśīrāma Śāstrī), also known as K. K. Shastri, was a scholar of Gujarat, India. Biography Shastri completed his school up to matriculation (conclusion of secondary education) and then was taught Sanskrit grammar, poetry, and Vedānta by his father, Kāśīrāma Karaśanajī Śāstrī (Bāṁbhaṇiyā). He then spent 1923 as a teacher in Caṁdavāṇā, a village near Mangrol, Gujarat, following which he served as a part-time teacher in his father's Sanskrit school. He then spent 11 years as an assistant teacher in Coronation High School in Mangrol.

Achievements

In 1952 he was awarded the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak (Ranjitram Gold Medal) by the Gujarat Sahitya Sabha for his lifetime research on Gujarati literature and grammar. In 1976 he was awarded the Padma Shri by the President of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed for his studies in grammar and linguistics.

Death He died September 9, 2006, in Ahmedabad at the age of 101.

Books Shastri's prominent publications are as under,

(collaborative)