. . . "Both a creative and a critical writer, Dr.Satya Vrat Shastri had to his credit in creative writing in Sanskrit three Mahakavyas of about a thousand stanzas each, each one of which has become a subject for research for the Ph.D. degree in some Indian University or the other, three Khandakavyas, one Prabandhakavyas and one Patrakavya and five works in critical writing including the pioneering one, T" .