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Dr. Rameshchandra S. Betai (Born 5th Feb. 1926), M.A. (Sanskrti), M.A. (Hindi), Ratna (Hindi) worked as Professor and PRIncipal in different colleges. He taught Sanskrit, Gujarati and Hindi upto post-Graduate level. He also worked as Director of the Research institute of Dwarka and at L.D. Institute of indology. His specialization is in the field of Sanskrit poetics. Vedanta and Indian culture. He has written almost 50 books in English, Gujarati and Sanskrit and contributed about 100 papers in all the Research Journals. His dissertation of Ph.D. (1957) was on ‘Monusmrti’ and its sociological, ethical, political, legal and cultural aspects, which was published by Gujarat University. He has ten successful Ph.D. students to his credit who have worked in variojs indological subjects. He was also invited to examine several thesis from different universities as an expert. He has been a member in board of studies in different universities. He got the President’s Award as an Eminent Scholar of Sanskrit in India in 1992. The auathor has translated and published some 15 books from English into Gujarati and vice verse e.g. Croce’s Asthetics in Gujarati and Essence of Jainism from Gujarati and Essence of Jainism from Gujarati to English, and to Prakarans of Adishankaracharya.