Dr. Prashasya Mitra Shastri is a Sanskrit

Sanskrit

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 poet and author who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 2009 for his Anabheepsitam, a collection of short stories. He also won the Kalidas Puraskar awarded by the Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

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 government's Kalidas Sanskrit Akademi. The award includes a letter of commendation and a cash prize of Rs 51000. He won the award for his contributions to Sanskrit literature and the two story collections and a collection of poetry he published in the year 2007–08. He has also won awards from the Sahitya Academies of Delhi

Delhi

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, Rajasthan

Rajasthan

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 and Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

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. He was the organiser for a three-day Rishi Balidaan Samaaroh in memory of Dayanand Saraswati in Ajmer

Ajmer

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 in 2009. He is especially known for his light verse and stories featuring satire and irony.

He has been in the Sanskrit Department at the Feroze Gandhi College, Raebareli

Raebareli

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 since 1973, where he is currently a Reader

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Books

• Narmada. Allahabad, 1997. With a foreword by Satya Vrat Shastri
  Satya Vrat Shastri
  Satya Vrat Shastri is a highly decorated Sanskrit scholar, writer, grammarian and poet from India. He has written three Mahakavyas, three Khandakavyas, one Prabandhakavyas and one Patrakavya and five works in critical writing in Sanskrit...
  
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• Anabheepsitam: a selection of modern Sanskrit stories. Akshayavata Prakashan, Allahabad, 2007. 128 pages.
• Vyangyaarthakaumudi, 2010. Reviewed in Vakovakyam Sanskrit Research Journal, Vol. 4 Issue 5 (Oct 2010 – Mar 2011).
• Anāghrātaṃ Puṣpam