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| birth_name = Ambale Ramakrishna Krishnashastry<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1890|2|12|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Amble, Chamarajanagar|Amble]], [[Kingdom of Mysore]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1968|2|1|1890|2|12|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Bangalore]], [[Mysore State]], India<br />
| occupation = {{hlist|Writer|professor|journalist}}<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| genre = Fiction, Mythology<br />
| movement = [[Kannada literature#Navodaya (New birth)|Navodaya]]<br />
| website = [https://www.srikanta-sastri.org/a-r-krishna-sastry A. R. Krishnashastry]<br />
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'''Ambale Ramakrishna Krishnashastry''' (1890–1968) was an Indian writer, [[researcher]] and [[Translation|translator]] in the [[Kannada language]]. Krishnashastry has remained popular four decades after his death through his work ''Vachana Bharata'', and his narration of the [[Hindu]] epic [[Mahabharata]] in the Kannada.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Krishnashastry was born on 12 February 1890, in [[Ambale, Chamarajanagar|Ambale]], [[Kingdom of Mysore]] (in present-day [[Karnataka]], India), into a [[Smarta]] Hoysala Karnataka Brahmin family.{{Citation needed|date= March 2022}} His parents were Ramakrishna Shastry, grammarian and principal of Sanskrit school in [[Mysore]] and Shankaramma, a homemaker; she died of disease when he was ten. Due to poverty, he was compelled to study [[Kannada language|Kannada]] and [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]] for his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree (1914) though he wanted to pursue a career as a [[scientist]]. His career started as a clerk in the ''[[Attara Kacheri]]'' (secretariat) in Mysore. He worked as a [[tutor]] and a [[researcher]] at Oriental Library (later renamed the Oriental Research Institute) at [[Mysore]] before enrolling for his [[Master of Arts]] degree at the [[University of Madras|Madras University]]. He later served as a professor in Kannada and researcher at the [[Mysore University]] until his retirement. Krishnashastry married at the age of sixteen to Venkatalakshamma who was only ten at that time.{{Citation needed|date= March 2022}}<br />
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Krishnashastry was called as Kannada Senani by writer and folklorist [[H. M. Nayak]]). He was the first to start a Karnataka association at the [[Central College, Bangalore]]. Later, similar associations spread throughout Karnataka.{{Citation needed|date= March 2022}}<br />
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Some of Krishnashastry's notable disciples include [[Kuvempu]], [[T. N. Srikantaiah]], [[M. V. Seetharamiah]], [[S. Srikanta Sastri]] and [[G. P. Rajarathnam]].{{Citation needed|date= March 2022}}<br />
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==Literary works==<br />
Prof KrishnaShastry was a polyglot. Apart from his mother tongue Kannada, he could speak fluently in [[Sanskrit]] and English.{{Citation needed|date= March 2022}} He was also proficient in [[Pali]], Bengali (self taught), Hindi, and German. He had a good working knowledge of [[English language|English]] and [[German language|German]] and this helped him to work and translate some of the great works from those languages to [[Kannada language|Kannada]]. Krishnashastry brought out many of nuances of great [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]] plays of [[Kālidāsa]], [[Bhavabhuti]] and [[Bhasa]] during his translations to Kannada. Krishnashastry's biography of [[Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay|Bankim Chandra Chattarjee]], a noted [[Bengali language|Bengali]] [[novelist]] earned him a Central [[Sahitya Academy|Sahitya Academy award]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Sahitya Akademi Awards |newspaper=The Indian Express |page=10 |date=1 April 1962}}</ref> Krishnashastri wrote numerous other [[short stories]] and novels including ''Vachana bharata'', ''Nirmalabharati'' and ''Kathaamruta''. ''Vachanabharata'' and ''Nirmalabharati'' are an abridged versions of the Hindu epic [[Mahabharata]]. ''Kathaamruta'' is a collection of stories from [[Kathasaritsagara]], huge anthology of hundreds of fables, parables and other stories in [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]]. ''Kathaamruta'' has a well written introduction to [[Culture of India|Indian]] and [[Western culture|western]] cultural traditions. In 1918, Krishnashastry started ''Prabuddha Karnataka'', a Kannada language newspaper and worked as its [[editing|editor]].{{Citation needed|date= March 2022}}<br />
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==Awards and honors==<br />
* [[Sahitya Academy|Sahitya Academy award]]<br />
* D. Lit of [[Mysore University]]<br />
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==Writings==<br />
===Novels===<br />
* ''Vachana bharata''<br />
* ''Nirmalabharati''<br />
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===Biographies===<br />
* ''Sri [[Ramakrishna Paramahamsa]] charitre''<br />
* ''[[Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay|Bannkim Chandra]]''<br />
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===Short story collections===<br />
* ''Shreepatiya Kategalu''<br />
* ''Kathaamrutha - Kannada translation of [[Kathasaritsagara]]''<br />
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===Plays===<br />
* ''Samskruta Nataka''<br />
* ''Harischandrakavya Sangraha''<br />
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===Other===<br />
* ''Alankara ( kannada handbook on Alankara shastra - 1927, Mysore university)''<br />
* ''Bhasa Kavi ( A critique on Sanskrit playwright [[Bhasa]] - Central college Karnataka Sangha - 1922)''<br />
* ''Sarvajnana Kavi''<br />
* ''Bhashanagalu Mattu Lekhanagalu ( Speeches and Writings )''<br />
* ''Nagamahashaya (Author: [[Sarat Chandra Chakravarty]]) translated from Bengali to Kannada - 1937''<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Kannada language|Kannada]]<br />
* [[Kannada literature]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.srikanta-sastri.org/post/a-r-krishnashastry A. R. Krishnashastry - A Biography]<br />
* [https://ark.sirinudi.org Complete works of Prof. A R Krishnasastri]<br />
*[https://www.kamat.com/jyotsna/blog/a_r_krishnasastry.htm Prof. Krishnashastry on Kamat's potpourri]<br />
* A.R.KrishnaShastry, Kathaamrita (1952) (Kannada: ಕಥಾಮೃತ), Geetha Book House, K.R. Circle, Mysore 570 001, India<br />
* A.R. Krishna Shastri - A monograph in Kannada by T.V. Venkatachala Sastry, Sahitya Akademi, Year 2000, {{ISBN|978-81-260-0721-9}}<br />
* [https://www.hindupedia.com/en/Ala%E1%B9%85k%C4%81ra-%C5%9B%C4%81stra Alaṅkāra-śāstra]<br />
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