A. K. Shastry (Anant Krishna Shastry) was an Indian historian in the state of
Karnataka,
India.
Life
Shastry was the first scholar to extensively study and research manuscripts called Kadata.[citation needed] He also studied more than a hundred thousand palm leaf and paper manuscripts.[citation needed]
Shastry's research focuses on social, political, economic and religious aspects of Sringeri Dharmasamsthana in particular and Karnataka in general, during this time period.[citation needed]
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.[1] Due to his work on Kadatas, he is known as "Kadata Shastry" in Karnataka's history circles.[citation needed]
In 1998, a felicitation volume called 'Itihasa Samshodhaka', edited by Dr. G. M Hegde, was published
In 2015, on the occasion of Dr. Shastry's 75th birthday, a felicitation volume called 'Ananta Krishna Charita', edited by Ganapati Bhat, Vargasar, was published