Great Garhwali Personality

Arvind Purohit and Beena Benjwal : Architects of Garhwali Hindi Shabdakosh (20070
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The publication of Garhwali hindi dictionary by Winsar Publication , valley road, Jakhan, Dehradun is a mile stone in the history of Garhwali language. This is the third attempts for Garhwali words collection and publishing Garhwali Hindi dictionary after jai lal varma and Malchand Ramola

The archtechts of Garhwali Hindi Shabdakosh (2007) are Arvind Purohit and Veena Benjwal

A tribute to these two great personalities is a must . The briefs of both is as under:

Arvind Purohit
Birth year: 9th July, 2 1952
Village : Kurjhan, Rudra Prayag, Uttarakhand
Mother : Smt : rajmati Purohit
Father: Aditya Ram Purohit
Qualification : M A B Ed, Proficiency in astrology, and scriptural books Vedas, puran etc

At present: Principle R U Ma V Kalimath , RudraPrayag, Beena Devshali, Bainjwal
Birth: 17th November, 1969
Village: Dev Shal, Rudra Prayag
Mother : Smt Radha Devi Devshali
Father : Revati Nand Devshali
Published works in Garhwali and Hindi
1- hundreds of poems in both languages
2-Muthi Bhar Barf ( Collection of Hindi poetires)
3-Kameda akhar (Collection of Garhwali poetries)
At Present, teacher in T G T Dehradun



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