D V Gundappa (Part 1)
Note: This is the transcript of a lecture delivered under the auspices of Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs and Prekshaa Pratishtana, as part of a lecture series titled Exemplars of Indian Wisdom from Karnataka.
Profiles
Saletore's Encyclopedic Treatment of Ancient Indian Polity
B.A. Saletore: The Pioneer of using Epigraphy in Indian History Writing
Prof. Sondekoppa Srikanta Sastri (Part 1)
An apt epithet for Prof. Srikanta Sastri would be satyānveṣī – ‘the seeker of truth,’ for all through his life, he worked against all odds to get to the truth, to declare it without hesitation, and uphold it despite trials and tribulations.
Srikanta Sastri – the Person
Soṇḍekoppa Srikanta Sastri was born on November 5th, 1904 at Nanjangud and was named no doubt after the presiding deity – Śrīkaṇṭheśvara. Both his parents hailed from illustrious families of Sanskrit and Telugu scholars, poets, and pundits.
A Partial List of Sri Saletore's Works
Moṭagānahaḻḻi Subrahmanya Shastry - Expertise in Gamaka and his Wealth of Friends
Expertise in Gamaka
B.A. Saletore: A Profile
Rāḻḻapalli Ananthakrishna Sarma (Part 9)
Tenderness of Mind
Sarma would never accept any opinion only on the ground that it was being followed from ancient times. This didn’t mean that he would oscillate on grounds of logic either. He always strove to establish the superiority of the emotional world. He emphasized emotional content over literal meaning.
Although most of the aspects that Sarma noticed, we would appear to notice too, we would realize its importance only after Sarma pointed them to us.