page_title: Harshadev Madhav
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Harshadev Madhav / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Harshadev Madhav at H.K. Arts College, Ahmedabad on 15 August 2014
context_page_description: Harshadev Madhav is a Sanskrit and Gujarati language poet and writer who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 2006 for his work of poetry, Tava Sparshe Sparshe. He had composed over 2200 poems in Sanskrit as of 1992.
context_section_description: Harshavadan Mansukhlal Jani was born on 20 October 1954 in Vartej, a city in Bhavnagar district to Mansukhlal and Nandanben. He took his primary education from Vartej Primary School. He completed his high school education (old ssc) in 1971 from Koliyak Madhyamik Shala, Koliyak. He got his Bachelor of Arts as an external student from Gujarat University in 1975. While working in a telegraph office in Palitana, he completed his Master of Arts in 1981 with Sanskrit from Saurashtra University with first rank, and subsequently became a lecturer at H. K. Arts College, Ahmedabad. He completed B.Ed in 1983 and Ph.D in 1990 from Gujarat University. He received Ph.D for his research work " Mukhya Puranoma Shap Ane Teno Prabhav" (Curse Element And Its Influence In Major Puranas).
  He married Shruti Jani on 29 April 1985 and they have a son, Rushiraj Jani.
caption: Harshadev Madhav at H.K. Arts College, Ahmedabad on 15 August 2014
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