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Mahadevshastri Joshi
Mahadevshastri Joshi (January 12, 1906 - December 12, 1992) was an Indian Marathi writer.
Joshi was born on January 12, 1906, in the town of Ambede in Goa. He received the epithets shastri and pandit following his education in a Sanskrit pathshala in Sangli.
In his student days, Joshi also frequented the public library in Sangli and widely read the works of modern Marathi writers of his time like Narayan Sitaram Phadke and Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar. Especially, Khandekar's short stories and novels highly influenced him to want to be a writer like Khandekar.
Pune University awarded an honorary D. Lit. degree to Joshi for his Bharatiya Sanskruti Kosh (भारतीय संस्कृतिकोश), which comprised 10 volumes of 800 pages each.
Thirteen Marathi movies, including "कन्यादान”, "धर्मकन्या”, "वैशाख वणवा”, "मानिनी”, and जिव्हाळा were based on Joshi's short stories.
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Mahadevshastri Joshi
Mahadevshastri Joshi (January 12, 1906 - December 12, 1992) was an Indian Marathi writer.
Joshi was born on January 12, 1906, in the town of Ambede in Goa. He received the epithets shastri and pandit following his education in a Sanskrit pathshala in Sangli.
In his student days, Joshi also frequented the public library in Sangli and widely read the works of modern Marathi writers of his time like Narayan Sitaram Phadke and Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar. Especially, Khandekar's short stories and novels highly influenced him to want to be a writer like Khandekar.
Pune University awarded an honorary D. Lit. degree to Joshi for his Bharatiya Sanskruti Kosh (भारतीय संस्कृतिकोश), which comprised 10 volumes of 800 pages each.
Thirteen Marathi movies, including "कन्यादान”, "धर्मकन्या”, "वैशाख वणवा”, "मानिनी”, and जिव्हाळा were based on Joshi's short stories.