Sons of Sarasvatī : Late Exemplars of the Indian Intellectual Tradition

authors systematically exclude such context, making intellectual biography something of a rarity-very rare in English and sparse even in the regional languages.This book contains translations from the original Kannaḍa of the biographies of Garaḷapurī Śāstri, Śrīkanṭha Śāstri, and Kunigala Rāmaśāstri of nineteenth-century Mysore, all representing the highest echelons of traditional pānḍitya at this critical period of transition. Their fields are literature, grammar, and logic, respectively. The biographies focus on the personal lives of these scholars and their many contexts.These biographies are almost contemporaneous accounts, reflecting firsthand knowledge. The translations are accompanied by copious footnotes as well as appendices drawn from the relevant primary sources. [Publisher's Text]