About - K. V. RAMAKRISHNAMACHARYULU

After retiring from his position as the Head of the Department of Vyākaraṇa in the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University in Varanasi, Prof. Ramyatna Shukla served as a Visiting Professor at the Lal Bahadur Sanskrit Vidyapeetha and was a Shastra Chudamani Scholar at the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan. He was also associated with the French Institute of Pondicherry as an Honorary Professor. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Certificate of Honour for Proficiency in Sanskrit conferred by the President of India and the Vachaspati Puraskar Award of the K.K. Birla Foundation for a work entitled Vyākaraṇadarśane Sr̥ṣṭiprakriyāvimarśaḥ (2005) and most recently the Padma Shree, India's fourth highest civilian award. He holds titles such as Mahāmahopādhyāya, Abhinava Pāṇini, and Sarasvatīputra.

Prof. K. V. Ramakrishnamacharyulu is the former Vice-Chancellor of the Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit University, Jaipur and a retired Professor in Vyākaraṇa at the Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha in Tirupati. He has studied in depth the Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāra and all its commentaries, and is now engaged in writing a comprehensive commentary on this text. He has been honoured with titles such as Mahāmahopādhyāya (honoris causa), Śāstravidvanmaṇi, Vyākaraṇa Śāstra Viśārada, and with various awards, including the Certificate of Honour for Proficiency in Sanskrit for the year 2017, conferred by the President of India, and the Ramakrishna Award from the Sarasvati Vikas, Canada. He is currently associated with the French Institute of Pondicherry as an Honorary Professor.