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            "name": "Kalika Prasad Shukla",
            "bio": "Kalika Prasad Shukla (Sanskrit: कालिकाप्रसादशुक्लः) (born 15 October 1921 - 1993) was a Sanskrit scholar and poet based in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in the year 1986 for the epic poem Śrīrādhācaritamahākāvyam. He was the Head of Departments of Vedanga and Vyākaraṇa at the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University.\nKalika Prasad Shukla was born in the Mathia-Shukia village in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh. He obtained the Navyavyakaranacharya, Nyaya Shastri and Kavyatirtha degrees in the traditional (Gurukula) system of Sanskrit learning. He then obtained the Acharya (Master of Arts) degree in Sanskrit from Agra University in 1957. In 1978, he obtained the degree of Vachaspti (DLitt) from the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University along with a Gold Medal.\nFrom 1957 to 1968, he taught as a lecturer in the Baroda Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya under the Maharaja Sayajirao University. He joined the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University in 1968 and served there till his retirement in 1982. From 1968 to 1975 he served as a Lecturer, from 1975 to 1979 as a Reader, and from 1979 to 1982 as a Professor.  He retired as the Head of Departments of Vedanga and Vyakarana. After retiring from the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, he settled in Varanasi. He took his last breathe because of brain haemorrhage on 21 June 1993 in Varanasi as per his last wish.",
            "raw_bio": "Kalika Prasad Shukla (Sanskrit: कालिकाप्रसादशुक्लः) (born 15 October 1921 - 1993) was a Sanskrit scholar and poet based in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in the year 1986 for the epic poem Śrīrādhācaritamahākāvyam. He was the Head of Departments of Vedanga and Vyākaraṇa at the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University. Kalika Prasad Shukla was born in the Mathia-Shukia village in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh. He obtained the Navyavyakaranacharya, Nyaya Shastri and Kavyatirtha degrees in the traditional (Gurukula) system of Sanskrit learning. He then obtained the Acharya (Master of Arts) degree in Sanskrit from Agra University in 1957. In 1978, he obtained the degree of Vachaspti (DLitt) from the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University along with a Gold Medal. From 1957 to 1968, he taught as a lecturer in the Baroda Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya under the Maharaja Sayajirao University. He joined the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University in 1968 and served there till his retirement in 1982. From 1968 to 1975 he served as a Lecturer, from 1975 to 1979 as a Reader, and from 1979 to 1982 as a Professor.  He retired as the Head of Departments of Vedanga and Vyakarana. After retiring from the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, he settled in Varanasi. He took his last breathe because of brain haemorrhage on 21 June 1993 in Varanasi as per his last wish.",
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            "name": "Palkuriki Somanatha",
            "bio": "\nPalkuriki Somanatha was one of the most noted Telugu language writers of the 12th or 13th century. He was also an accomplished writer in the Kannada and Sanskrit languages and penned several classics in those languages. He was a Lingayat a follower of the 12th century social reformer Basava and his writings were primarily intended to propagate this faith.  He was a well acclaimed Shaiva poet.\nIndication that he was not a Shaiva by birth comes from the fact that he mentions the names of his parents in his very first work, Basava Purana, as Visnuramideva  and Sriyadevi, violating a general practice of Shaiva writers who do not mention their real parents but rather consider the god Shiva as the father and his consort Parvati as the mother. However, the scholar Bandaru Tammayya has argued that he was born a Jangama (devotee of the god Shiva). The scholar Seshayya places him in the late 13th to early 14th century and proposes that the writer lived during the reign of Kakatiya king Prataparudra II, whereas the Kannada scholar R. Narasimhacharya dates his writings to the 12th century and claims Somanatha was patronised by Kakatiya king Prataparudra I (1140–1196). His place of birth is uncertain because there is a village by the name Palkuriki in the Warangal district of the Telangana state as well as in the Kannada speaking region (Karnataka).",
            "raw_bio": "Palkuriki Somanatha was one of the most noted Telugu language writers of the 12th or 13th century. He was also an accomplished writer in the Kannada and Sanskrit languages and penned several classics in those languages. He was a Lingayat a follower of the 12th century social reformer Basava and his writings were primarily intended to propagate this faith.  He was a well acclaimed Shaiva poet. Indication that he was not a Shaiva by birth comes from the fact that he mentions the names of his parents in his very first work, Basava Purana, as Visnuramideva  and Sriyadevi, violating a general practice of Shaiva writers who do not mention their real parents but rather consider the god Shiva as the father and his consort Parvati as the mother. However, the scholar Bandaru Tammayya has argued that he was born a Jangama (devotee of the god Shiva). The scholar Seshayya places him in the late 13th to early 14th century and proposes that the writer lived during the reign of Kakatiya king Prataparudra II, whereas the Kannada scholar R. Narasimhacharya dates his writings to the 12th century and claims Somanatha was patronised by Kakatiya king Prataparudra I (1140–1196). His place of birth is uncertain because there is a village by the name Palkuriki in the Warangal district of the Telangana state as well as in the Kannada speaking region (Karnataka).",
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            "name": "Ramanuja",
            "bio": "\nRamanuja (; Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmānuja c. 1017 CE – 1137 CE;), also known as Ramanujacharya, was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and a social reformer. He is noted to be one of the most important exponents of the Sri Vaishnavism tradition within Hinduism. His philosophical foundations for devotionalism were influential to the Bhakti movement.\nRamanuja's guru was Yādava Prakāśa, a scholar who according to tradition belonged to the Advaita Vedānta tradition, but probably was a Bhedabheda scholar. Sri Vaishnava tradition holds that Ramanuja disagreed with his guru and the non-dualistic Advaita Vedānta, and instead followed in the footsteps of Tamil Alvārs tradition, the scholars Nāthamuni and Yamunāchārya. Ramanuja is famous as the chief proponent of Vishishtadvaita subschool of Vedānta, and his disciples were likely authors of texts such as the Shatyayaniya Upanishad. Ramanuja himself wrote influential texts, such as bhāsya on the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita, all in Sanskrit.",
            "raw_bio": "Ramanuja (; Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmānuja c. 1017 CE – 1137 CE;), also known as Ramanujacharya, was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and a social reformer. He is noted to be one of the most important exponents of the Sri Vaishnavism tradition within Hinduism. His philosophical foundations for devotionalism were influential to the Bhakti movement. Ramanuja's guru was Yādava Prakāśa, a scholar who according to tradition belonged to the Advaita Vedānta tradition, but probably was a Bhedabheda scholar. Sri Vaishnava tradition holds that Ramanuja disagreed with his guru and the non-dualistic Advaita Vedānta, and instead followed in the footsteps of Tamil Alvārs tradition, the scholars Nāthamuni and Yamunāchārya. Ramanuja is famous as the chief proponent of Vishishtadvaita subschool of Vedānta, and his disciples were likely authors of texts such as the Shatyayaniya Upanishad. Ramanuja himself wrote influential texts, such as bhāsya on the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita, all in Sanskrit.",
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            "location": "Sriperumbudur, Chola Empire\n (present-day Tamil Nadu, India)",
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            "name": "Sharan",
            "bio": "Sharan was a Sanskrit poet of the 12th century AD from Bengal. He was among five gems at the court of Lakshmana Sena.\nJayadeva described Sharan among his contemporaries and praised his poetry. No major work of Sharan was discovered.\nSharan was mentioned in Saduktikarnamrta of Shridhar Das who was a governor under Lakshmana Sena and in the padavali of Rupa Goswami. It is believed that, Sharan's another names were Sharan Datta and Chirantana Sharan. It is also believed that he wrote Durghatavrtti.",
            "raw_bio": "Sharan was a Sanskrit poet of the 12th century AD from Bengal. He was among five gems at the court of Lakshmana Sena. Jayadeva described Sharan among his contemporaries and praised his poetry. No major work of Sharan was discovered. Sharan was mentioned in Saduktikarnamrta of Shridhar Das who was a governor under Lakshmana Sena and in the padavali of Rupa Goswami. It is believed that, Sharan's another names were Sharan Datta and Chirantana Sharan. It is also believed that he wrote Durghatavrtti.",
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            "name": "Subandhu",
            "bio": "\nVasavadatta (Sanskrit: वासवदत्ता, Vāsavadattā) is a classical Sanskrit romantic tale (akhyayika) written in an ornate style by Subandhu, whose time period isn't precisely known. He is generally taken to have written the work in the second quarter of the seventh century. However, scholar Maan Singh has stated that he was a courtier of the Gupta emperors Kumaragupta I (414-455) and Skandagupta (455-467), dating him between 385 and 465 AD.\nThe work's style has been described as \"developed, elaborate, ornate and pedantic\" and has influenced later prose writers. The Kanchanadarpana of Sivarama Tripathin (18th century) and the Tattvadipini of Jagaddhara are two significant works of criticism and commentary on the Vasavadatta.",
            "raw_bio": "Vasavadatta (Sanskrit: वासवदत्ता, Vāsavadattā) is a classical Sanskrit romantic tale (akhyayika) written in an ornate style by Subandhu, whose time period isn't precisely known. He is generally taken to have written the work in the second quarter of the seventh century. However, scholar Maan Singh has stated that he was a courtier of the Gupta emperors Kumaragupta I (414-455) and Skandagupta (455-467), dating him between 385 and 465 AD. The work's style has been described as \"developed, elaborate, ornate and pedantic\" and has influenced later prose writers. The Kanchanadarpana of Sivarama Tripathin (18th century) and the Tattvadipini of Jagaddhara are two significant works of criticism and commentary on the Vasavadatta.",
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            "name": "Śūdraka",
            "bio": "Shudraka (IAST: Śūdraka) was an Indian playwright, to whom three Sanskrit plays are attributed: Mrichchhakatika (The Little Clay Cart), Vinavasavadatta, and a bhana (short one-act monologue), Padmaprabhritaka. According to the prologue of Mrichchhakatika, he was a king; according to one theory, he may have been a third century Abhira king. According to another theory, Shudraka is a mythical figure, and the authorship of plays attributed to him is uncertain.\nIn the prologue of the play Mrichchhakatika, the stage manager states that its poet was a wise king renowned as \"Shudraka\". He had performed Ashvamedha ritual to prove his superiority, and immolated himself aged 110 years, after crowning his son as the new king. The prologue describes him as a distinguished wise man, who had gained knowledge of the Rigveda, the Samaveda, mathematics, the Kamashastra and the art of training elephants.\nTwo lost works titled Shudraka-katha (IAST: Śūdraka-kathā, \"the story of Shudraka\") are known from other sources. A verse attributed to the 10th century poet Rajashekhara in Suktimuktavali praises two writers - Ramila and Somila - for jointly composing a novel titled Shudraka-katha. Because it is described as a novel, it was probably a work of fiction. Another Shudraka-katha, attributed to a writer called Pancha-shikha, is known from other sources.",
            "raw_bio": "Shudraka (IAST: Śūdraka) was an Indian playwright, to whom three Sanskrit plays are attributed: Mrichchhakatika (The Little Clay Cart), Vinavasavadatta, and a bhana (short one-act monologue), Padmaprabhritaka. According to the prologue of Mrichchhakatika, he was a king; according to one theory, he may have been a third century Abhira king. According to another theory, Shudraka is a mythical figure, and the authorship of plays attributed to him is uncertain. In the prologue of the play Mrichchhakatika, the stage manager states that its poet was a wise king renowned as \"Shudraka\". He had performed Ashvamedha ritual to prove his superiority, and immolated himself aged 110 years, after crowning his son as the new king. The prologue describes him as a distinguished wise man, who had gained knowledge of the Rigveda, the Samaveda, mathematics, the Kamashastra and the art of training elephants. Two lost works titled Shudraka-katha (IAST: Śūdraka-kathā, \"the story of Shudraka\") are known from other sources. A verse attributed to the 10th century poet Rajashekhara in Suktimuktavali praises two writers - Ramila and Somila - for jointly composing a novel titled Shudraka-katha. Because it is described as a novel, it was probably a work of fiction. Another Shudraka-katha, attributed to a writer called Pancha-shikha, is known from other sources.",
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            "name": "Shankaracharya",
            "bio": "\nShankaracharya (Sanskrit: शङ्कराचार्य, IAST: Śaṅkarācārya, \"Shankara-acharya\") is a religious title used by the heads of amnaya monasteries called mathas in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism. The title derives from Adi Shankara; teachers from the successive line of teachers retrospectively dated back to him are known as Shankaracharyas.\nAccording to a tradition developed in the 16th century, Adi Shankara set up four monasteries known as Mathas or Peethams, in the North, South, East and West of India, to be held by realised men who would be known as Shankaracharyas. They would take on the role of teacher and could be consulted by anyone with sincere queries of a spiritual nature. Another monastery Kanchi Kamkoti Peeth in south India also derives its establishment and tradition to Adi Shankara, however its heads are called \"Acharya\" or \"Jagadguru\" instead of \"Shankaracharya\".",
            "raw_bio": "Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: शङ्कराचार्य, IAST: Śaṅkarācārya, \"Shankara-acharya\") is a religious title used by the heads of amnaya monasteries called mathas in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism. The title derives from Adi Shankara; teachers from the successive line of teachers retrospectively dated back to him are known as Shankaracharyas. According to a tradition developed in the 16th century, Adi Shankara set up four monasteries known as Mathas or Peethams, in the North, South, East and West of India, to be held by realised men who would be known as Shankaracharyas. They would take on the role of teacher and could be consulted by anyone with sincere queries of a spiritual nature. Another monastery Kanchi Kamkoti Peeth in south India also derives its establishment and tradition to Adi Shankara, however its heads are called \"Acharya\" or \"Jagadguru\" instead of \"Shankaracharya\".",
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            "name": "Trivikrama Panditacharya of Dvaita Tradition",
            "bio": "\nSri Trivikrama Panditacharya (c.1258 - c.1320), was an Indian scholar and one of the disciples of Sri Madhvacharya, the great Dvaita philosopher. He composed the Vayu Stuti, one of the most famous Stotras in the Madhva tradition.\nSri Trivikrama Panditacharya's biographical account is also given with considerable detail by his son Sri Narayana Panditacharya in Sri MadhwaVijaya. Sri Trvivikrama Panditacharya's father was Sri Subramanya Panditacharya.",
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            "name": "Vallabha Acharya",
            "bio": "\nVallabhacharya Mahaprabhu (1479–1531 CE), also known as Vallabha, Mahaprabhuji and Vishnuswami, or Vallabha Acharya, is a Hindu Indian saint and philosopher who founded the Krishna-centered Pushtimarg sect of Vaishnavism in the Braj (Vraja) region of India, and the Vedanta philosophy of Shuddha Advaita (Pure Non-dualism).\nHe is the jagadguru acharya and guru of the Pushti Marg bhakti tradition and Suddhadvaita, which he founded after his own interpretation of the Vedanta philosophy.",
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            "location": "Champaran (now in Raipur district, Chhattisgarh, India)",
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            "name": "Valmiki",
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            "name": "Vedanta Desika",
            "bio": "\nSrimathe Nigamantha Maha Desikaya Namah:\n(श्रीमते निगमान्त महादेशिकाय नमः)\nVedanta Desika (1268–1369), also rendered Vedanta Desikan, Swami Vedanta Desika, and Thoopul Nigamantha Desikan, was an Indian polymath who wrote philosophical as well as religious and poetical works in several languages, including Sanskrit, Manipravaḷam (a Sanskritised form of literary Tamil), Tamil and Prakrit. He was an Indian philosopher, Sri Vaishnava guru, and one of the most brilliant stalwarts of Sri Vaishnavism in the post-Ramanuja period. He was a Hindu devotee, poet, Master of Acharyas (desikan) and a logician and mathematician. He was the disciple of Kidambi Appullar, also known as Athreya Ramanujachariar, who himself was of a master-disciple lineage that began with Ramanuja. Vedanta Desika is considered to be avatar (incarnation) of the divine bell of Venkateshvara of Tirumala by the Vadakalai sect of Sri Vaishnavism. Vedanta Desika belongs to Vishvamitra/Kaushika gotra.",
            "raw_bio": "Srimathe Nigamantha Maha Desikaya Namah: (श्रीमते निगमान्त महादेशिकाय नमः) Vedanta Desika (1268–1369), also rendered Vedanta Desikan, Swami Vedanta Desika, and Thoopul Nigamantha Desikan, was an Indian polymath who wrote philosophical as well as religious and poetical works in several languages, including Sanskrit, Manipravaḷam (a Sanskritised form of literary Tamil), Tamil and Prakrit. He was an Indian philosopher, Sri Vaishnava guru, and one of the most brilliant stalwarts of Sri Vaishnavism in the post-Ramanuja period. He was a Hindu devotee, poet, Master of Acharyas (desikan) and a logician and mathematician. He was the disciple of Kidambi Appullar, also known as Athreya Ramanujachariar, who himself was of a master-disciple lineage that began with Ramanuja. Vedanta Desika is considered to be avatar (incarnation) of the divine bell of Venkateshvara of Tirumala by the Vadakalai sect of Sri Vaishnavism. Vedanta Desika belongs to Vishvamitra/Kaushika gotra.",
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            "location": "Thoopul (Thiruthanka) (present-day Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India)",
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            "name": "Nudurupati Venkanna",
            "bio": "Nudurupati Venkanna was a Telugu and Sanskrit poet from the Pudukkottai kingdom. He is known for the creation of the Telugu lexicon Andhra Bhasharnavamu and the Tondaman Vamsavali, a detailed chronicle of the Pudukkottai kingdom.\nVenkanna was born in the distinguished Telugu-speaking Nudurupati family of Pudukkottai. His father Sitharamaiah was also a poet and bore the title Uddanda Kavi.\nVenkanna's important works are Andhra Bhasharnavamu, Parvathi Kalyanamu, Raghunathivamu, Mallupuranamu, Brhannayika Dandakamu and Tondaman Vamsavali.",
            "raw_bio": "Nudurupati Venkanna was a Telugu and Sanskrit poet from the Pudukkottai kingdom. He is known for the creation of the Telugu lexicon Andhra Bhasharnavamu and the Tondaman Vamsavali, a detailed chronicle of the Pudukkottai kingdom. Venkanna was born in the distinguished Telugu-speaking Nudurupati family of Pudukkottai. His father Sitharamaiah was also a poet and bore the title Uddanda Kavi. Venkanna's important works are Andhra Bhasharnavamu, Parvathi Kalyanamu, Raghunathivamu, Mallupuranamu, Brhannayika Dandakamu and Tondaman Vamsavali.",
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