About Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry
Lived 1898 – 1989 (aged 90). Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry was a writer, known for Vedas.
Uppuluri Ganapathi Sastry (1888–1989) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar, writer and spiritual teacher, known for his scholarship in Vedas. He was the author of Veda Sara Ratnavali, a text on Vedas.
Ganapathi Sastry was born on 16 December 1888 at Kakinada in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Veda Sara Ratnavali, a two-part text on Vedas, was written for the Endowments Department of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, in 1985. Sastry died on 17 July 1989.
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Vedic scholar and the author of Veda Sara Ratnavali
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Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry was born on 16 December 1898 in Kakinada.
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Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry died on 17 July 1989 in Andhra Pradesh.
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Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry was a writer.
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Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry was known for Vedas.
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