Rahul Sankrityayan
1893–1963Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893–1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'
Jain scholar monk
Jinaratna
1200–1250, writes in Sanskrit, writer, poet
Jinaratnasuri (Jina·ratna·suri; Hindi: जिनरत्नसूरी was a Śvetāmbara Jain scholar and a monk of Kharatara Gaccha, who composed Līlāvatīsāra. He completed his poem in the year 1285 CE in Jabaliputra, western India,. It is an epitome of a much larger work called Nivvāṇalīlāvaīkahā composed in Jain Maharashtri, a Prakrit language, in 1036 by Jineshvarasuri, also a Jain monk.
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Also writing in Sanskrit
Sanjib Chattopadhyay
b. 1936writer
Satya Vrat Shastri
1930–2021Jnanpith Award recipient in Sanskrit. Indian academic
Aurobindo Ghosh
1872–1950Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)
Keshab Chandra Dash
b. 1955writer
B. N. Krishnamurti Sharma
1909–2005Sanskrit writer