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Rahas Bihari Dwivedi (Sanskrit: रहसबिहारीद्विवेदः, born January 2, 1947) is a Sanskrit scholar and poet from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. He was awarded the President's Ceritificate of Honour for Sanskrit in the year 2012. He was the formerly the Head of the Department of Sanskrit at Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur.
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Life
Rahas Bihari was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. He obtained an Acharya (Master of Arts) degree in Sanskrit literature and followed it by the Sahitya Ratna and MLitt degrees. He obtained his PhD degree from the Rani Durgavati University in 1977 with his thesis on critical study of Sanskrit epic poems composed in the 1960s. Later he joined the university as a Sanskrit professor and supervised 16 doctoral theses during his tenure. He also holds the post-doctoral Vidyavachaspati degree.
Major Works
Rahas Bihari Dwivedi has authored several books and more than 50 papers in Sanskrit, Hindi and English. Some of them are–