Vidyalankara, Shastra-Chudamani, Sangitakalaratna, Veda kamala, Professor Saligrama Krishna Ramachandra Rao was a well-known scholar who combine traditional learning with modern research. Well versed in Sanskrit, Pali. Ardamagadhi and several modern Indian languages and acquainted with Tibetan and some European languages, he has written extensively on Vedanta, Buddhism, Jainism, Indian Culture, Art and Literature.In his professional career, however, he was a Professor of Psychology. He headed the Department of Clinical Psychology in the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Bangalore and he also headed the department of Indian Culture in the Bangalore campus of the University of the Pacific, US, for several years.He has written more than sixty books in Kannada, a play in Sanskrit, and a Pali commentary on a Buddhist classic. One of his books on Iconography in Kannada has won the State Sahitya Academi Award, as also another of his book on the Tirupati Temple.Among his numerous English Publications are: three volumes of Encyclopaedia of Indian Medicine (Popular Prakashan, Mumbai), Tibetan Tantrik Tradition and Tibetan Meditation (Arnold Heinemann, Delhi), Consciousness in Advaita, and a series of six books on Indian temples (IBH Prakashana, Bangalore) and Origins of Indian Thought (Bangalore University); Kalpatharu Research Academy has published his Pratima-Kosha in six volumes. Agama-Kosha in Twelve volumes, Art and Architecture of Indian Temples in three volumes.