Subrahmanya Saastri, Mellacheruvu(born 22 May 1948) is a prolific scholar, poet, writer, dramatist and translator in Sanskrit and Telugu. Born in Tenali of Guntur district of undivided Andhra Pradesh studied at famous Oriental College Kota Lakshmaiah Naidu Sanskrit College, Tenali. He received his first Oriental title Saahitya Vidyaa Praveena from this college. Later he earned his first class Master's both in Sanskrit and in Telugu from Andhra University, Vizag, Andhra Pradesh. Spent nearly four decades in teaching and writing in Sanskrit and Telugu, he retired as Senior lecturer from Gorantla Venkkanna Sanskrit Oriental College, Timmasamudram, Andhra Pradesh. Well known for his multiple works in Sanskrit and Telugu; some of his most popular works are: Sri Gurucharita Mahaakaavyam,Lalitaananda Lahari, Saalabhanjika Sutradhaaram, Akarmaanada Lahari,Sri Krishna Raasa Leela--Yogatrayee Hela, Gajendra Moksham-Rishi Runam, Vaamanudu-Vamanamu and Saami Saranam. These works deconstruct the hitherto unknown semiotics, which relate to Yoga and to different paths of Self-realization embedded in ancient Indian spiritual literature. These work also lay bare the phenomenology, rhetoric and psychoanalysis associated with the narrative and logic (tarka) in the ancient Sanskrit texts.
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