Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi

Mahamahopadhyaya Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi
Born	1893
Died	1985
Nationality	British India (1893-1947) Indian (1947-1985)
Subject	Sanskrit, History
Notable awards	Sahitya Akademi Fellowship (1973) Padma Bhushan (1975)

Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi (1893–1985) was a

.

Early life

Dr. Mirashi was born in a middle-class family on 13 March 1893 at Kuwale village in

University of Bombay

.

Career

After his academic career, he shifted to

Amraoti

.

In the 1957-1966 period, Mirashi worked as the Honorary Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, Head of the Department of Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit, and Head of the Department of Post-Graduate Teaching in Humanities at

Nagpur University

. He was also the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the university.

Professor Mirashi was also one of the earliest proponents of the Vidarbha Sanshodhan Mandal (historical research society based in Nagpur) and for many years served as its Chairman.

Authorship

Mirashi wrote 30 research works in English, Marathi, and Hindi, and more than 275 papers in various Indological journals.

His Inscriptions of the Kalchuri-Chedi Era (1955), Inscriptions of the Vakatakas (1963), and Inscriptions of the Silaharas (1977) were published in the renowned Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Series of the Archaeological Survey of India. He also worked on the stone inscriptions of Satvahanas and Kshatrapas.

Mirashi's other important works comprise four volumes of Literary & Historical Studies in Indology, Kalidasa, and Bhavabhuti.

Honours

Mirashi received a large number of honours for his research work.

In 1941, the then

, awarded him a Certificate of Honour for proficiency in Sanskrit learning. In 1970, he was nominated as the Honorary Correspondent of the Archaeological Department of the Government of India.

The universities of Saugar and Nagpur conferred him with honorary D. Litt. degrees in 1958 and 1960, respectively. He was elected General President of the Numismatic Society of India (1951), the All India Oriental Conference (1959), and the Indian History Congress (1961). The Numismatic Society of India elected him its Honorary Fellow in 1959, and the Epigraphical Society of India did the same in 1974.

The Sahitya Akademi of India elected Mirashi as a fellow in 1973 and he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1975.^[1]

Mirashi died on 3 April 1985.

See also

• Vakataka dynasty
• Ajanta Caves
• Tirodi copper plates
• Indology
• Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
• Padma Bhushan Awards (1970-1979)

References

• Prachin Bharatiya Itihasachi Sadhane (Marathi) by Dr. Shobhana Gokhale
• Shilahar Rajvanshacha Itihas ani Koriv Lekh (Marathi) by Dr. V.V.Mirashi
• Books by Dr.V.V.Mirashi
• Dr. Mirashi Felicitation Volume. Vidarbha Sanshodhan Mandal, Nagpur, 1965. (https://books.google.com/books/about/Mahamahopadhyaya_Dr_V_V_Mirashi_Felicita.html?id=prCHHwAACAAJ)