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-| name        = Dr A. K Shastry
+| name        =Dr A. K Shastry
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-| birth_date  = 17 March 1940
+| birth_date  = {{birth date|1940|03|17|df=y}}
-| birth_place = Sirsi, Uttara Kannada
+| birth_place =[[Sirsi, Karnataka]]
-| death_date  =4-1-2020 {{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}
+| death_date  ={{death date and age|2020|01|04|1940|03|17|df=y}} {{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}
-| death_place = Sirsi
+| death_place =[[Sirsi, Karnataka]]
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-'''Dr. A.K Shastry (Anant Krishna Shastry)''' was a historian in the state of [[Karnataka]], [[India]]. He was the first scholar to extensively study and research manuscripts called ''''Kadata''''. He also studied more than a hundred thousand palm leaf and paper manuscripts. Kadatas are from the 15th century to the 19th century, and unique in how they are made. Kadata is a long sheet of cloth, seasoned with charcoal paste mixed with tamarind seed powder, dried and folded in the form a book. It opens out like a roll. Soapstone pencils were used to write.  The history of Kadata goes back to the 4th century BC. [[Nearchus]], an officer in Alexander The Great's army, mentions about Indians writing on a well-beaten cloth.<ref>Indian Paleography (Bühler)</ref> A large number of Kadatas are preserved at the Sringeri Math in Sringeri, Karnataka. Dr Shastry's research focuses on social, political, economic and religious aspects of Sringeri Dharmasamsthana in particular and Karnataka in general, during this time period.
+'''Dr. A.K Shastry (Anant Krishna Shastry)''' was an Indian historian in the state of [[Karnataka]], [[India]]. He was the first scholar to extensively study and research manuscripts called ''''Kadata''''. He also studied more than a hundred thousand palm leaf and paper manuscripts. Kadatas are from the 15th century to the 19th century, and unique in how they are made. Kadata is a long sheet of cloth, seasoned with charcoal paste mixed with tamarind seed powder, dried and folded in the form a book. It opens out like a roll. Soapstone pencils were used to write.  The history of Kadata goes back to the 4th century BC. [[Nearchus]], an officer in Alexander The Great's army, mentions about Indians writing on a well-beaten cloth.<ref>Indian Paleography (Bühler)</ref> A large number of Kadatas are preserved at the Sringeri Math in Sringeri, Karnataka. Dr Shastry's research focuses on social, political, economic and religious aspects of Sringeri Dharmasamsthana in particular and Karnataka in general, during this time period.
 Dr Shastry's major work involves reading, translating/transliterating from "modi kannada" [[Modi alphabet]] - an old Kannada script, and generating source material from these manuscripts. He has written several large volumes of source material books that capture these documents verbatim with commentary and analysis.<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/seminar-on-kadathas-gets-under-way-in-mysore/article3140341.ece Seminar on Kadathas gets under way in Mysore], The Hindu, 31 May 2006</ref> Due to his work on Kadatas, he is fondly known as "Kadata Shastry" in Karnataka's history circles.