Kalikapurane Murtivinirdesah

Dr. Biswanarayan Shastri (b. 1923) studied Sanskrit language and literature, Mimamsa and Navya-Nyaya in traditional method. He did his M.A. topping the list, from the Banaras Hindu University and obtained D. Litt. Degree for his thesis on concept and development of Samavaya in Nyaya-Vaisesika phi8losophy. An indologist of international repurt, Dr. Shastri is an authority in Nyaya-Vaisesika. Dr. Shastri writes in Assamese, English, Sanskrit and Hindi and has published a good number of research papers. He has edited and translated the Kalikapurana into English and the Kathasaritasagara and the Sahityadarpana into Assamese. He has also editied the Yoginitantra, the Kamakhyatantra and a few other text. His creative writings have erned him name and fame. His historical novel A vinasi in Sanskrit was selected for the Sahitya Akademi Award: it also won the Banabhatta Award of the Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Academy and the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award. An educationist, freedom-fighter, former Member of Parliament (Loksabha), Dr. Shastri is a familiar name in the scholarly world. He is associated with many research organizations and learned societies in India and abroad.