Dr. Om Prakash Pandey (also sometimes spelled as Om Prakash Pande), is a poet who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 2008.^[1]

He is a professor and head of the Sanskrit department at Lucknow University^[2][3][4] and has been visiting professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, and has also been visiting faculty in universities at Utrecht in the Netherlands, Torino in Italy, and Germany.^[3][5] Based on his experiences in France, he wrote a Sanskrit work Rasapriya Paris Rajadhani, published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.

He is also affiliated to Maharishi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Vidya Prasthistan, Ujjain, and was appointed by the government on a task force to document and preserve Vedic chanting forms, under UNESCO’s World (intangible) Heritage Preservation programme.^[6] They were inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists in 2008.^[7] He has written a book on the Rudradhyaya of the Shankayana Shakha (branch) of the Rgveda.^{[citation needed]}

In 2006 he was the victim of an assault by a student union leader demanding admission.^[8] He is from Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, and has been writing since 1977.^[9]

Works

• Vaidik Sahitya aur Samskriti ka swarup (in Hindi). Vishwa Prakashan (A unit of Wylie Eastern) 1994, New Delhi, ISBN 81-7328-037-1
• Rasapriya Paris Rajadhani (in Sanskrit). Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.^[10]
• Rgvediya-Shankayana Rudradhyaya. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2009. ISBN 978-81-85503-15-8^[11]
• Sarva-Veda-Rudradhyaya Sangraha. 2006. ISBN 81-7081-626-2.^[12]
• Jivanaparvanatakam: Hariscandropakhyanadhrtammaulikam Samskrta-natakam (Sanskrit play on Harishchandra). Penman Publishers, 1998. ISBN 978-81-85504-28-5^[13]
• Vaishnav Aagam Ke Vaidik Aadhaar (in Hindi). 2005. ISBN 978-81-7081-621-8^[14]
• Drashtavya Jagat Ka Yatharth (in Hindi). Prabhat Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7315-524-6.^[15]
• Atharvavediya Parishist Granthon Ka Parisheelan (with Smt. Dr. Anjul Dubey) Nag Publishers, 2005. ISBN 978-81-7081-623-2.^[16][17]
• Romance with Sanskrit - Sanskrit Subodha, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series (C.S.St. 128).^[18]
• Rasapriyaa Vibhaavanam. Nag Publishers, 2005. ISBN 978-81-7081-613-3.^[19]
• Sadukti-karṇāmṛtam: with Hindi commentary, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, 2005.^[20]
• Ambika Dutt Vyas (Modern Sanskrit writer), Makers of Indian Literature series, 1993. ISBN 81-7201-502-X

Articles

• The other tradition of Sanskrit poetry: with special reference to the Saduktikarṇāmṛta in: Bulletin d'études indiennes 15, 1997, pp. 205–211
• Vedic Poetry: Experience at Multiple Levels. In Conversation: Prof. T. N. Dharmadhikari, Prof. G. C. Tripathi, and Prof. Om Prakash Pandey with Sudha Gopalakrishnan, in the September 2006 Issue of Kriti-Rakshana, the bi-monthly publication of the National Mission for Manuscripts