Haridas Shastri
Indian Gaudiya Vaisnava scholar and practitioner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shri Haridas Shastri (1918-2013) was an Indian Gaudiya Vaisnava scholar and practitioner.[1] A prolific Sanskrit scholar,[2] he wrote more than a sixty books, including translations from the Sanskrit of several Gauḍīya books and his own commentaries on them. His original works include the highly regarded book, the Vedānta-darśanam bhāgavata bhāṣyopetam, his translation-cum-commentaries of the Sat Sandarbhas, and his transliterations of Śrī-caitanya-bhāgavata, Śrī-caitanya-caritāmṛta and Śrī-caitanya-maṅgala. Jonathan Edelmann at the University of Florida has called Śāstrī "arguably the most prolific and well-educated Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava “insider” scholar of the twentieth century" and "a voice distinct from the more well known Gaudīya-Maṭha and ISKCON".[3] Among his disciples is the noted Gauḍīya scholar and practitioner, Dr. Satyanarayana Dasa.[3]