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Naheed Abidi is an Indian scholar of Sanskrit and writer. She was honoured by the Government of India, in 2014, by bestowing on her the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for her contributions to the field of literature. ==Biography== Naheed Abidi was born in 1961, in a Muslim zamindari family at Mirzapur,〔 in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Choosing Sanskrit as her subject, Abidi did her graduation at the Kamla Maheshwari Degree College and secured her MA from the K. V. Degree College, Mirzapur. She moved to Varanasi, an ancient seat of Sanskrit scholarship after her marriage with Ehtesham Abidi - an advocate in the city.〔〔 Varanasi is deemed holy by the Hindu text Garuda Purana.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Garuḍa Purāṇa XVI 114 )〕 She went on to secure a doctoral degree (PhD) from the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith (MGKV), a public university in the city, and published her thesis titled as ''Vedic Sahitya Mein Ashviniyon Ka Swaroop'' (''The Form of Ashvinis in Vedic Literature'') in 1993. In 2005, Abidi started working as a lecturer without any pay at Banaras Hindu University. Soon after, she joined the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith to work as a part-time lecturer on a daily wage scheme. However, the Sanskrit scholar,known as the first Muslim female to have worked as a lecturer in Sanskrit, had difficulties finding a regular job.〔 Her first book was published in 2008 and was titled ''Sanskrit Sahitya Mein Rahim'' - which is an account of the Sanskrit leanings of the renowned poet, Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana.〔 This was followed by ''Devalayasya Deepa'', a translation of ''Chairag-e-Dair'', written by poet, Mirza Ghalib.〔 The third book was ''Sirr-e-Akbar'', a Hindi translation of 50 Upanishads, earlier translated by the Mughal prince, Dara Shikoh into Persian. She has published a Hindi translation of Vedanta, translated into Persian by Dara Shikoh and also the Sufi texts by the prince.〔〔〔〔〔 Naheed Abidi lives with her spouse Ehtesham Abidi and her two children, a son and a daughter,〔〔 in VDA colony in the Shivpur area of Varanasi. She also serves as an Executive Council member at the Sampurnanad Sanskrit University.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Naheed Abidi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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