Rajeshwar Shastri Dravid

Rajeshwar Shastri Dravid (1899 – 1950) was an Indian writer, scholar, grammarian and translator of Sanskrit literature.

[1] Dravid (Sanskrit: द्रविड) is a surname found in the Tamil Brahmin community who migrated to the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka, India.

A significant population has emigrated to Madhya Pradesh and Varanasi among other places.

[2] Born in 1899 in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, he was the author several books in Sanskrit which included Sāṅkhyakārikā,[3] Bhāratīya-rājanīti-prakaśah[4] and R̥ṣikalpanyāsaḥ.

[5] His brother, Raja Ram Dravid, was the author of The Problem of Universals in Indian Philosophy, a critique of ancient Indian philosophy.