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{{Short description|Indian writer}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Dr. Satyanarayana Rajguru
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1903|08|19}}
| birth_place = British India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1997|06|11|1903|08|19}}
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| occupation = Epigraphist, writer, historian
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| known for = Studies in Odisha history
| spouse = Taramani Devi
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| children = 4 son and 1 daughter
| parents = Harikrushna Rajguru<br>Sunamani Devi
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>[[Sahitya Akademi Award]]<br>[[Odisha Sahitya Academy Award]]
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'''Satyanarayana Rajguru''' (1903-1997) was an Indian litterateur, epigraphist and historian.<ref name="Padmashree Satyanarayana Rajguru">{{cite web | url=http://gajapati.nic.in/sonsofsoil/eminent%5Cemiperson.htm | title=Padmashree Satyanarayana Rajguru | publisher=Gajapati | date=2015 | accessdate=13 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Memories of My Father">{{cite web | url=http://odisha.gov.in/e-magazine/Orissareview/2010/April/engpdf/58-64.pdf | title=Memories of My Father | publisher=Government of Odisha | date=2010 | accessdate=13 June 2015}}</ref> He was a curator and epigraphist at the [[Odisha State Museum]] and was a recipient of [[Sahitya Akademi Award]],<ref name="Memories of My Father" /> ''Bharati Bhushan'' award, Ganjam Sahitya Sammilani award, [[Odisha Sahitya Academy Award]] and ''Sarala Sanman''.<ref name="Padmashree Satyanarayana Rajguru" /> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] in 1974.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Shri | publisher=Padma Shri | date=2015 | accessdate=11 November 2014 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Biography==
Born on 19 August 1903 to Harikrushna Rajguru and Sunamani Devi<ref name="Memories of My Father" /> in the Indian state of [[Odisha]], Rajguru passed the ''Oriya and Sanskrit'' title examination from [[Andhra University]] and started his career in 1929 as the manager of ''Parala Padmanabha Rangalaya'',<ref name="Padmashree Satyanarayana Rajguru" /> the first theatre in Odisha, founded by Padmanabha Narayan Deo, erstwhile Raja of the state of Parala.<ref name="History of Indian Literature, Volume 1">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHklK65TKQ0C&q=Parala+Padmanabha+Rangalaya&pg=PA565 | title=History of Indian Literature, Volume 1 | publisher=Sahitya Akademi | author=Sisir Kumar Das | year=2000 | pages=815 | isbn=9788172010065}}</ref> During his tenure there, he was associated with the activities of [[Utkal Sammilani]] and assisted [[Krushna Chandra Gajapati]] in the formation of Odisha state in 1937; he is known to have submitted a thesis on the state reorganization.<ref name="Padmashree Satyanarayana Rajguru" />

Rajguru, after his tenure as the president of the [[Ganjam District]] Education Council (1942–45), worked as an assistant at the Kalinga Historical Research Society at [[Bhawanipatna]] from 1947 and later, joined [[Odisha State Museum]] to work as a curator (1950–61) and later as an epigraphist (1963–70).<ref name="Padmashree Satyanarayana Rajguru" /> He was a member of the working committee of Odisha Sahitya Academy and the chairman of [[Paralakhemundi]] Municipality.<ref name="Padmashree Satyanarayana Rajguru" /> He was a life member of [[Berhampur University]] and was awarded DLitt by the university.<ref name="Padmashree Satyanarayana Rajguru" />

Rajguru is known to have done notable research on the history of Odisha<ref name="Inscriptions of Orissa">{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924063477313/cu31924063477313_djvu.txt | title=Inscriptions of Orissa | publisher=Cornell University Library | date=2015 | accessdate=13 June 2015}}</ref> and is credited with findings on the early of life of [[Jayadeva]], the thirteenth century [[Sanskrit literature|Sanskrit]] poet and the author of [[Gita Govinda]].<ref name="Jayadeva (1200 AD)">{{cite web | url=http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/jayadeva_2012_9.pdf | title=Jayadeva (1200 AD) | publisher=Poem Hunter | date=2015 | accessdate=13 June 2015}}</ref> He translated ''The Palanquin Bearers'', a poem by [[Sarojini Naidu]] into [[Odia language]] under the name, ''Palinki Bahaka''<ref name="Padmashree Satyanarayana Rajguru" /> and has published several other works, some of which are prescribed text for university studies.<ref name="Historical Background of Gopinath & Radha Krishna">{{cite web | url=http://ddceutkal.org/Journal/Search_Journal_2013_Vol-I.pdf | title=Historical Background of Gopinath & Radha Krishna | publisher=Utkal University | date=2015 | accessdate=13 June 2015}}</ref>
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* Mo Jeevana Sangrama (autobiography)<ref name="Mo Jibana Sangram">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mo-Jibana-Sangram-Rajagurudr-Satyanarayan/dp/B0018Y3VN0 | title=Mo Jibana Sangram | publisher=Sri Balabhadra Rath | author=Satyanarayana Rajguru | year=1994 | asin=B0018Y3VN0}}</ref>
* Swapane Chumban
* Janani Utkal
* Radhavisek
* Odia Lipira Krama Bikash<ref name="Odia Lipira Krama Bikash">{{cite web | url=http://www.davcollegekoraput.org.in/LibraryBooks.asp?pgno=186 | title=Odia Lipira Krama Bikash | publisher=DAV College | date=2015 | accessdate=13 June 2015 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150615164141/http://www.davcollegekoraput.org.in/LibraryBooks.asp?pgno=186 | archivedate=15 June 2015 }}</ref>
* History of Gangas<ref name="History of theGangas">{{cite web | url=http://odisha.gov.in/e-magazine/journal/journalvol3/pdf/15-27.pdf | title=History of theGangas | publisher=Government of Odisha | date=2015 | accessdate=13 June 2015}}</ref>
* The Korasanda Copper Plate Grant of Visakhavarmma
* History of Eastern Gangas of Kalinga<ref name="The History of Medieval Vaishnavism in Orissa">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7LFzfbhmJcMC&q=History+of+Ganges+rajguru&pg=PA20 | title=The History of Medieval Vaishnavism in Orissa | publisher=Asian Educational Services | date=1981 | accessdate=13 June 2015 | author=Prabhat Mukherjee | pages=200| isbn=9788120602298 }}</ref>
* Heirographic Letters of Naraj
* The Odras and their Predominency
* The Historical Research in Orissa
* The Konduli Copper Plate Grant of Narasimha Deva of Saka 1305
* Sumandal Plates of Dharmaraj
* Ranpur plates of Dharmaraja<ref name="Ranpur plates of Dharmaraja">{{cite web | url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10603/34826/15/15_appendice.pdf | title=Ranpur plates of Dharmaraja | publisher=Shodhganga | date=2015 | accessdate=13 June 2015}}</ref>
* Historical Background of Gopinath & Radha Krishna
* Oriya Inscription on a Stone Image<ref name="Oriya Inscription on a Stone Image">{{cite web | url=http://www.southasiaarchive.com/Content/sarf.120364 | title=Oriya Inscription on a Stone Image | publisher=South Asia Archive | date=2015 | accessdate=13 June 2015}}</ref>
* South Indian Inscriptions<ref name="Economic History of Orissa">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1AA9W9_4Z9gC&q=The+Historical+Research+in+Orissa+Rajguru&pg=PA112 | title=Economic History of Orissa | publisher=Indus Publishing | date=2015 | accessdate=13 June 2015 | author=Nihar Ranjan Patnaik| isbn=9788173870750 }}</ref>
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Satyanarayana Rajguru died on 11 June 1997 at the age of 93, his wife Taramani Devi preceding him in death by one year.<ref name="Memories of My Father" /> He is survived by his sons Gopeshwar Rajguru, Radha Raman Rajguru and Sitakant Rajguru.

==Honours, awards and recognition==
Rajguru was awarded the civilian honour [[Padma Shri]] in 1974 by the [[Government of India]].<ref name="Padma Shri" /> He received the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for his autobiography, ''Mo Jeevana Sangrama'' in 1996.<ref name="Akademi Awards (1955-2014)">{{cite web | url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp#ODIA | title=Akademi Awards (1955-2014) | publisher=Sahitya Akademi | date=2015 | accessdate=13 June 2015}}</ref> He was also a recipient of ''Bharati Bhushan'' award from [[Andhra Mahasabha]], Ganjam Sahitya Sammilani award (1968) and Odisha Sahitya Academy award (1968).<ref name="Padmashree Satyanarayana Rajguru" /> He was a recipient of ''Sarala Sanman'' (1989) from Sarala Sansad.<ref name="Sarala Samman 2011 to Ramakant Rath">{{cite web | url=http://incredibleorissa.com/en/sarala-samman-2011-ramakant-rath/ | title=Sarala Samman 2011 to Ramakant Rath | publisher=Incredible Orissa | date=2015 | accessdate=13 June 2015}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mo-Jibana-Sangram-Rajagurudr-Satyanarayan/dp/B0018Y3VN0 | title=Mo Jibana Sangram | publisher=Sri Balabhadra Rath | author=Satyanarayana Rajguru | year=1994 | asin=B0018Y3VN0}}
* {{cite web | url=http://satyanarayanrajguru.blogspot.ae/2013_08_01_archive.html | title=Padmashree Satyanarayan Rajguru | publisher=Google Blogger | work=Blog | date=29 August 2013 | accessdate=13 June 2015 | author=Satyanarayana Rajguru}}

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