Keshavram Kashiram Bambhaniya (Gujarati (ISO 15919): Keśavarāma Kāśīrāma Śāstrī), also known as K. K. Shastri, was a scholar of Gujarat, India. Biography Shastri completed his school up to matriculation (conclusion of secondary education) and then was taught Sanskrit grammar, poetry, and Vedānta by his father, Kāśīrāma Karaśanajī Śāstrī (Bāṁbhaṇiyā). He then spent 1923 as a teacher in Caṁdavāṇā, a village near Mangrol, Gujarat, following which he served as a part-time teacher in his father's Sanskrit school. He then spent 11 years as an assistant teacher in Coronation High School in Mangrol.
In 1936 he moved to Ahmedabad and became an editor of Prajābaṁdhu, a Gujarati weekly, and in the following year joined the Gujarat Vernacular Society as a researcher. In 1939, he began teaching postgraduate courses on Apabhraṃśa and Old Gujarati literature. In 1944, the University of Bombay gave him permission to give M.A. exams, and in 1955 gave permission to advise PhD students and taught at the university for 42 years. He also served as an adjunct professor at Balabhai Damodardas Women's College in Ahmedabad from 1961 to 1971. Since 1960, he served as an honorary professor at the B. J. Institute of Learning in Ahmedabad.
He was a mentor to the current Prime Minister of India- Narendra Modi.
Achievements
In 1952 he was awarded the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak (Ranjitram Gold Medal) by the Gujarat Sahitya Sabha for his lifetime research on Gujarati literature and grammar. In 1976 he was awarded the Padma Shri by the President of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed for his studies in grammar and linguistics.
Death He died September 9, 2006, in Ahmedabad at the age of 101.
Books Shastri's prominent publications are as under,
(collaborative)
References