Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra

Indian Sanskrit author and poet

Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra (born 1943) is a Sanskrit author, poet, lyricist, playwright and a former Vice-Chancellor of the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi.^[1]^[2]

He is the recipient of India's highly prestigious award Padma Shri 2020 for his work in the field of literature and education.^[3]^[4]

Personal life

He was born in Dronipur in Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh, to Pandit Durgaprasad Mishra and Abhiraji Devi. His Dīkṣā Guru is Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, whose epic poem Gītarāmāyaṇam was released by him on 14 January 2011.^[1]

Career

He has served as the head of department of Sanskrit in Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Indonesia, the oldest university of Indonesia.^{[citation needed]}

Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra is the winner of Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit for the year 1988.^[5] He is popularly known as Triveṇī Kavi.^[2] He has composed many books in Sanskrit, Hindi, English and Bhojpuri.^{[citation needed]}

After retirement, he settled in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.^{[citation needed]}

Works

His works include:^[2]

Ikshugandha
Aranyani
Abhiraja-Yasobhushanam
Dhara-Mandaviyam
Janaki-Jivanam
Madhuparni
Samskrit Sahitya Mein Anyokti
Sapta-Dhara
Poetry and Poetics
Abhiraja-Sahasrakam
Natya-Panchagavyam
Natya-Panchamritam
Vag-Vadhuti
Mridvika
Srutimbhara
Bali-Dvipe Bharatiya Samskritih
Vimsa-Satabdi-Samskrita-Kavyamritam (ed.)
Sejarah Kesusatraan Sanskerta (History of Sanskrit in Bahasa Indonesia)
Suvarna-Dvipiya Rama-Katha
Samskrita-Satakam

Awards and honours

Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 1988 for his collection of short stories Ikshugandha.^[5]
Certificate of Honour from the President of India in 2002.^[6]
Valmiki Samman^[2]
Vachaspati Samman^[2]
Vishva Bharati Samman by Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Sansthan^[7]
Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 2013.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b Sharma, Sushil (February 2011). "Gītarāmāyaṇapraśastiḥ" [Praise of Gītarāmāyaṇam]. Śrītulasīpīṭha Saurabha (in Hindi). 14 (9). Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India: Shri Tulsi Peeth Seva Nyas: 14.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Meher, Dr. Harekrishna (7 May 2008), Concept of Gīti and Mātrigītikāñjali Kāvya/Prof. Abhiraja Rajendra Mishra
^ "Padma Awards 2020 Announced". pib.gov.in.
^ The Hindu Net Desk (26 January 2020). "Full list of 2020 Padma awardees". The Hindu.
^ ^a ^b Kartik Chandra Dutt; Sahitya Akademi (1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. Sahitya Akademi. p. 754. ISBN 978-81-260-0873-5. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
^ "Sanskrit, Arabic scholars honoured". The Hindu. 7 February 2002. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011.
^ Ganu, Veena; Gadge, Sharada; Karandikar, Renuka, eds. (July 23, 2016). "संस्कृतभवितव्यम्" [The future of Sanskrit] (in Sanskrit). Vol. 66, no. 16. Nagpur: Dr. Chandragupta Warnekar. p. 1. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
^ "Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 2013- News Letter" (PDF). Sahitya-akademi.gov.in. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2022.

Recipients of Padma Shri in Literature & Education

1950s

K. Shankar Pillai (1954)
Krishna Kanta Handique (1955)
Surya Kumar Bhuyan (1956)
Sukhdev Pande (1956)
Nalini Bala Devi (1957)
S. R. Ranganathan (1957)
Ram Chandra Varma (1958)
Magan Lal Tribhuvandas Vyas (1958)
K. S. Chandrasekharan (1958)

1960s

B. S. Kesavan (1960)
Artaballabha Mohanty (1960)
N. D. Sundaravadivelu (1961)
Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (1961)
Vishnukant Jha (1961)
Jinvijay (1961)
Evengeline Lazarus (1961)

1970s

Ananda Chandra Barua (1970)
Sulabha Panandikar (1971)

1980s

Krishan Dutta Bharadwaj (1981)
Abid Ali Khan (1981)
Ram Punjwani (1981)
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1982)
R. V. Pandit (1982)
Sher Singh Sher (1982)
Gaura Pant Shivani (1982)
Ahalya Chari (1983)
Amitabha Chaudhuri (1983)
Saliha Abid Hussain (1983)
Komal Kothari (1983)
Hundraj Lial Ram Dukhayal Manik (1983)
Raghuvir Sharan Mitra (1983)
Attar Singh (1983)
Mayangnokcha Ao (1984)
Kshem Suman Chandra (1984)
Lakshmi Kumari Chundawat (1984)
Shanta Gandhi (1984)
Sadhu Singh Hamdard (1984)
Qurratulain Hyder (1984)
Ganpatrao Jadhav (1984)
Syed Abdul Malik (1984)
John Arthur King Martyn (1984)
Sooranad Kunjan Pillai (1984)
Syed Hasan Askari (1985)
Jamesh Dokhuma (1985)
Kaka Hathrasi (1985)
Bharat Mishra (1985)
Harishankar Parsai (1985)
Ashangbam Minaketan Singh (1985)
Anil Agarwal (1986)
Binod Kanungo (1986)
Chitra Naik (1986)
Abdur Rahman (1986)
Nuchhungi Renthlei (1986)
Raghunath Sharma (1986)
Abdul Sattar (1987)
Nazir Ahmed (1987)
Vanaja Iyengar (1987)
Khawlkungi (1987)
Badri Narayan (1987)
Debi Prasanna Pattanayak (1987)
Sant Singh Sekhon (1987)
N. Khelchandra Singh (1987)
Madaram Brahma (1988)
Nissim Ezekiel (1988)
K. M. George (1988)
Mario Miranda (1988)
Vidya Niwas Mishra (1988)
Ali Jawad Zaidi (1988)
Kalim Aajiz (1989)
Barsane Lal Chaturvedi (1989)
Anita Desai (1989)
Moti Lal Saqi (1989)
Rongbong Terang (1989)
V. Venkatachalam (1989)

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra (2020)
Binapani Mohanty (2020)
Damayanti Beshra (2020)
H. M. Desai (2020)
Lil Bahadur Chettri (2020)
Meenakshi Jain (2020)
N. Chandrasekharan Nair (2020)
Narayan Joshi Karayal (2020)
Prithwindra Mukherjee (2020)
Robert Thurman (2020)
S. P. Kothari (2020)
Shahabuddin Rathod (2020)
Sudharma (2020)
Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam (2020)
Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi (2020)
Yogesh Praveen (2020)
Benichandra Jamatia (2020)
Carlos G. Vallés (2021)
Dadudan Gadhvi (2021)
Imran Shah (2021)
Mangal Singh Hazowary (2021)
Mridula Sinha (2021)
Namdeo Kamble (2021)
Rangasami L. Kashyap (2021)
Srikant Datar (2021)
Solomon Pappaiah (2021)
Asavadi Prakasarao (2021)
Lalbiakthanga Pachuau (2021)
Najma Akhtar (2022)
T Senka Ao (2022)
J K Bajaj (2022)
Sirpi Balasubramaniam (2022)
Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat (2022)
Harmohinder Singh Bedi (2022)
Maria Christopher Byrski (2022)
Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous) (2022)
Dhaneswar Engti (2022)
Narasimha Rao Garikapati (2022)
Girdhari Ram Gonjhu (Posthumous) (2022)
Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous) (2022)
Narasingha Prasad Guru (2022)
Avadh Kishore Jadia (2022)
Tara Jauhar (2022)
Rutger Kortenhorst (2022)
P Narayana Kurup (2022)
V L Nghaka (2022)
Chirapat Prapandavidya (2022)
Vidyanand Sarek (2022)
Kali Pada Saren (2022)
Dilip Shahani (2022)
Vishwamurti Shastri (2022)
Tatiana Lvovna Shaumyan (2022)
Siddhalingaiah (Posthumous) (2022)
Vidya Vindu Singh (2022)
Raghuvendra Tanwar (2022)
Badaplin War (2022)
Radha Charan Gupta (2023)
C. I. Issac (2023)
Rattan Singh Jaggi (2023)
Anand Kumar (2023)
Prabhakar Bhanudas Mande (2023)
Antaryami Mishra (2023)
Ramesh Patange (2023)
B. Ramakrishna Reddy (2023)
Mohan Singh (2023)
Prakash Chandra Sood (2023)
Janum Singh Soy (2023)
Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari (2023)
Dhaniram Toto (2023)

v t e Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit
1950–1970	History of Dharmaśāstra by P. V. Kane (1956) Vaidik Vijnan aur Bhartiya Sanskriti by Giridhar Sharma Chaturvedi (1961) A History of Dvait School of Vedanta and its Literature by B. N. Krishnamurti Sharma (1963) Tantrik Vangmaya Men Shaktadrishti by Gopinath Kaviraj (1964) Bhoja's Sringara Prakasa by V. Raghavan (1966) Chitrakavya Kautukam by Ramaroop Pathak (1967) Srigurugovindasimhacharitam by Satya Vrat Shastri (1968) Shabdatarangini by V. Subramanya Sastri (1970)
1971–1980	Sritilakayasornavah by Madhav Shrihari Aney (1973) Shrishivarajyodayam by S.B. Warnekar (1974) Buddhavijayakavyam by Shanti Bhikshu Shastri (1977) Keralodayah by K. N. Ezhuthachan (1979) Kristubhagavatam by P. C. Devassia (1980)
1981–1990	Kapishayani by Jagannath Pathak (1981) Visvabhanu by P. K. Narayana Pillai (1982) Shri Shambulingeswar Vijaya Campu by Pandharinathacharya Galagali (1983) Sindhu-Kanya by Shrinath S. Hasurkar (1984) Vindhyavasini Vijaya Mahakavyam by Vasant Trimbak Shevde (1985) Sri Radhacarita Mahakavyam by Kalika Prasad Shukla (1986) Avinasi by Biswanarayan Shastri (1987) Ikshugandha by Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra (1988) Sandhya by Ram Karan Sharma (1989) Srimat-Pratap Ranayanam Mahakavyam by Ogeti Parikshit Sharma (1990)
1991–2000	Svatantrya Sambhavam by Rewa Prasad Dwivedi (1991) Bhishma Chiritam by Hari Narayan Dikshit (1992) Jayantika by Jaggu Alwar Iyengar (1993) Sandhanam by Radhavallabh Tripathi (1994) Sri Radha Panchashati by Rasik Vihari Joshi (1995) Isha by Keshab Chandra Dash (1996) Triveni by Shyam Dev Parashar (1997) Pratanini by Bachchoolal Awasthi (1998) Tadeva Gaganam Saivadhara by Srinivas Rath (1999) Jagadguru Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Vijayam by S. Srinivasa Sarma (2000)
2001–2010	Ko Vai Rasah by P. Ramachandrudu (2001) Harsacarita Manjari by Kashinath Mishra (2002) Nirjharini by Bhaskaracharya Tripathi (2003) Akhyana Vallari by Kala Nath Shastry (2004) Sribhargavaraghaviyam by Swami Rambhadracharya (2005) Tava Sparshe Sparshe by Harshadev Madhav (2006) Lasallatika by Hari Dutt Sharma (2007) Rasapriya Vibhavanam by Om Prakash Pandey (2008) Anabheepsitam by Prashasya Mitra Shastri (2009) Bhargaviyam by Mithila Prasad Tripathi (2010)
2011–2020	Bharatayanam by Harekrishna Satapathy (2011) Laghupadyahprabandhatrayi by Ramji Thakur (2012) Chaladuravani by Radhakant Thakur (2013) Kanakalochanaha by Prabhu Nath Dwivedi (2014) Vanadevi by Ram Shankar Awasthi (2015) Kavyanirjhari by Sitanath Acharya (2016) Gangaputravadanam by Niranjan Mishra (2017) Mama Janani by Rama Kant Shukla (2018) Prajnachakshusham by Madhusudan Penna (2019) Vaishali by Mahesh Chandra and Sharma Gautam (2020)
2021–Present	Srijati Shankhnadam Kil, Kavita by Vindeshwariprasad Mishra 'Vinay' (2021) Deepmanikyam by Janardan Prasad Pandey 'Mani' (2022)