Profiles

Moṭagānahaḻḻi Subrahmanya Shastry - Personality

Personality Subrahmanya Shastry had a tall, sturdy, and handsome figure. He was radiant and could attract the onlooker’s attention even when he was in the mid...

Moṭagānahaḻḻi Subrahmanya Shastry - Books and Independent Articles

The Kannada literary world was familiar with two works of the poet Janna[1], namely - Anantanātha-purāṇa and Yaśodhara-carita. Shastry published yet another wor...

Kshetrajna's Prowess over Language and Music

Rāḻḻapalli Ananthakrishna Sarma (Part 8)

High-water Mark of Critical Examination The forewords that Sarma wrote to some of the books in Telugu and Kannada have turned out to offer an excellent, holist...

Works of Kshetrajna

Rāḻḻapalli Ananthakrishna Sarma (Part 7)

Powerhouse of Genius Sarma received awards for many of his Sanskrit and Telugu works. Śrī Mahīśūra-rājyābhyudayādarśaḥ, his classical poetry composition about...

Moṭagānahaḻḻi Subrahmanya Shastry - Kannada Translations

Subrahmanya Shastry seemed to have had quite a long relationship with the Skānda-mahā-purāṇa. This was probably the earliest of the works he had taken up. He ha...

The Life of Kshetrajna - By DVG

Rāḻḻapalli Ananthakrishna Sarma (Part 6)

Music Practice In 1909, during the birth anniversary ceremony of Krishnaraja Wodeyar III, there was a music recital by Bidaram Krishnappa in the Royal Court of...

Moṭagānahaḻḻi Subrahmanya Shastry - Major Works

On 29th August 1959, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan visited Mysore to inaugurate the All India Conference on Philosophy. Subrahmanya Shastry wrote the following v...

Rāḻḻapalli Ananthakrishna Sarma (Part 5)

Perception A small episode will help us gauge the greatness of Sarma’s scholarly lineage that resulted in the culturing of his mind. In some context, Śrī Kṛṣṇa...

Moṭagānahaḻḻi Subrahmanya Shastry - Childhood and Household Affairs

Childhood and Education Subrahmanya Shastry lost his father when he was just about seven or eight years old (c. 1913). He received his early lessons in the Sa...