'Acharya' Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (हजारी प्रसाद द्विवेदी) (August 19, 1907May 19, 1979) was a Hindi

Hindi

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 novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar. He penned numerous novels, collections of essays, historical research on medieval religious movements of India especially Kabir

Kabir

Kabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement...

 and Natha Yoga, and historical outlines of Hindi literature

Hindi literature

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Besides Hindi, he was master of many languages including Sanskrit

Sanskrit

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, Bengali

Bengali language

Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

, Punjabi

Punjabi language

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, Gujarati

Gujarati language

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 as well as Pali

Páli

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, Prakrit

Prakrit

Prakrit is the name for a group of Middle Indic, Indo-Aryan languages, derived from Old Indic dialects. The word itself has a flexible definition, being defined sometimes as, "original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual", or "vernacular", in contrast to the literary and religious...

, and Apabhramsa.

Steeped in traditional knowledge of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit, and modern Indian languages, Dr.