Dainandini
दैवं हि दैन्यमिति कापुरुषाः वदन्ति।
दैवं निहत्य कुरु पौरुषमात्म शक्त्या
यत्ने कृते यदि न सिध्यति कोऽत्र दोषः॥
Wealth always reaches only those lion-like people who persistently keep trying and continuously toil. But some people consider poverty and misery as fate. One can overcome fate through continuous efforts. Even after trying hard, if one does not succeed, one should find out where the fault lies.
Mm. Prof. Kuppuswami Sastri
MAHAMAHOPADHYAYA, DARSANA KALANIDHI,VIDYAVACASPATI PROFESSOR KUPPUSWAMI SASTRI (1880-1943)
Introduction
Mm. Prof. S. Kuppuswami Sastri was a Sanskrit Scholar of repute in India during his time and had devoted his life time to study of Sanskrit and Indology. He was a Professor, Editor and Author in Sanskrit Language and of Sanskrit heritage in other languages. He was a well know literary figure of yesteryears in India and abroad after India.
KSRI was established in 1945 as a fitting tribute to him and his contributions to Sanskrit heritage and related Indology.
Hailing from a great family of saintly scholars, Professor Sastri had mastered Vedanta, Nyaya, Mimamsa, Vyakarana and Sahitya even before he was twenty years (20) of age. He combined an all round traditional scholarship both in Sastra and Sahitya with modern scholarship. He contributed largely in many ways to the cause of Sanskrit learning, education and research. A pioneering scholar in Purva Mimamsa, he became the first Principal of the Madras Sanskrit College, the premier college in India that teaches Purva Mimamsa. He had earned the great respect of not only all the traditional and modern researchers but also great statesmen scholars like Rt. Hon'ble V.S.Srinivasa Sastri, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, Prof. M. Hiriyanna and others.
Mm. Prof. S. Kuppuswami Sastri - Career Details
1936-40
Honorary Professor of Sanskrit at the Annamalai University, Annamalainagar.
1914-36
Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at the Presidency College, Madras; Curator of Madras Govt. Oriental Mss. Library, Madras
1910-14
Principal of the Raja's College of Sanskrit and Tamil Studies, Thiruvaiyaru.
1906-10
Principal of the Madras Sanskrit College, Mylapore; Chairman of the Board of Examiners in Sanskrit in the Madras University.
Fashioned the Sanskrit Honours Syllabus, the Siromani course of study on the traditional lines and the oriental titles in the University of Madras.
Started
1927
The Samskrita Academy
1927
Journal of Oriental Research
1926-27
The Oriental Research Institute at the University of Madras
Delivered series of lectures and continually wrote articles in Research journals.
Edited
Dhvanyaloka with Locana, Kaumudi and his own Upalocana, Udyota I
Brahmasiddhi
Vibhrama Viveka of Mandana Misra
Vinavasavadatta
66 volumes of Descriptive and Triennial Catalogues of the Manuscripts at the Madras Government Oriental Manuscripts Library.
Authored
Primer of Indian Logic
Highways and Byways of Literary Criticism in Sanskrit
Compromises in the History of Advaitic Thought.
Presided over sections in the All India Oriental Conferences, Indian Philosophical Congress, Kanchipuram Parishads, and the Advaita Sabha of South India.