| Names |
MAHAPANDIT RAHUL
SANKRITYAYAN |
| Date of
Birth |
April 09, 1893 |
| Date of
Death |
April 14, 1963 |
| Identity |
Father of Hindi Travel
Literature |
| General |
- Birth name : Kedarnath Pandey
- One of the most widely-travelled
scholars of India, spending forty-five years of his life on
travels away from his home.
- Scholar, Polymath, Polyglot, Nationalist Indian.
- He is referred to as the 'Greatest Scholar' (Mahapandit)
for his scholarship.
- He became a Buddhist monk (Bauddha Bhikkhu) and
eventually took up Marxist Socialism.
- He was also an Indian nationalist, and had been arrested
and jailed for three years for creating anti-British
writings and speeches.
- He travelled to different parts of India, including
Ladakh, Kinnaur, and Kashmir.
- He also travelled to several other countries including
Nepal, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Iran, China, and the former Soviet
Union.
- He spent several years in the Saran District in Bihar.
- The entry gate to this village is named Rahul Gate.
- While returning from Tibet, he brought valuable
paintings and Pali and Sanskrit manuscripts back to India.
Most of these formed a part of the libraries of Vikramshila
and Nalanda Universities. These objects had been taken to
Tibet by fleeing Buddhist monks during the twelfth and
subsequent centuries when the invading Mughal armies had
destroyed universities in India.
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