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Pandit Pandharinathacharya Galagali was a Sanskrit scholar, author, poet, journalist, and orator.
Over the course of a lifetime, Pandit Galagali has published 22 original Sanskrit works, 21 original Kannada works, and 23 translated works., among which are Shri Shambhu Linga

Vijaya Champu (Sanskrit), Raaga Viraga (Kannada), Bharata Swaatantraya Sangramasya Itihasaha (Sanskrit), and Mahabharatada Mahileyaru (Kannada). He was also the editor of five Kannada and Sanskrit newspapers for over four decades.
His discourses about Sanatana is watched by

millions even today, yet neither the government nor the people remembers these heroes who made Karnataka proud.
Pandharinathacharya Galagali was born on 10 July 1922 to Kurmacharya Galagali in a village named Galagali. His formal education was stopped in the first grade, and he

began his study of Vedic literature under his father Kurmacharya Galagali and uncle Ramacharya Galagali.
From 1944 to 1960, he worked as a Sanskrit teacher at Shankrappa Sakri High School in Bagalkote. In 1961, he moved to Gadag, where he started a Sanskrit school called

Veera Narayana Pathashala.
In 1971, Acharya Galagali established the Veda Purana Sahitya Mala to translate and publish the 18 Mahapuranas into Kannada (14 have been translated into 18 volumes so far).
For over forty years, Acharya Galagali served as the editor for the following

newspapers:
• Shri Sudha (Kannada)
• Madhura Vani (Sanskrit)
• Panchamrutha (Kannada)
• Vaijayanti (Sanskrit)
• Tatvavada (Kannada) - Published by Akhila Bharat Madhwa Mahamandala.

Pandarinatha won the Sahitya Akademy Award for his Shree Shambhu Linga Vijaya Champu written

in Samskrutam and he wrote biographies of Tatya Tope, Subhash Chandra Bose and also Bharata Swatantrya Sangramasya Itihasaha all in Samskrutam.
Of the many original Kannada works, Mahabharatha Kosha and 3 Volume Role of women in Mahabharatha, Mahabharatada Mahileyaru and

Mahabharathada Pashu Pakshigalu are legendary.
Phandarinatha Galagali never limited his works to Mahabharatha , its and Madhwa Siddhanta alone, he published biographies of Maharshi Vidyaranya (Instrumental in establishing world renowned Vijayanagara Empire) and wrote extensively

on Samskruta writers, Epigraphists, Dramatists, Astrolgers hailing from Karnataka.
Galagali also translated Kalhana’s Rajatarangini which gives History of Kashmir to Kannada.

The Rashtrapati Prashasti Vijeta attained Sadgati on 29 August 2015, leaving behind a legacy of his own.

#ForgottenHeroes
#VANDEMATARAM