Editing Ved Prakash Upadhyay (section)

==Early life and career==
Upadhyay was born on 2 February 1947 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh in British India.<ref name=a/> His father was [[Saryupareen Brahmin|Saryuparin]] Vedic scholar Pt.Shriramjeevan Upadhyay.<ref name=a/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bhartiya |first1=Bhawanilal |title=Ārya lekhaka kośa: Āryasamāja tathā r̥shi Dayānanda vishayaka lekhana se juṛe sahastrādhika lekhakoṃ ke jīvana evaṃ kāryavr̥tta kā vistr̥ta vivaraṇa |date=1991 |publisher=Dayānanda Adhyayana Saṃsthāna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=szoWAAAAIAAJ&q=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6+%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF |accessdate=21 July 2023 |language=hi}}</ref> He is a former professor of [[Panjab University|Punjab University]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gupta |first1=Raj |title=A critical and comparative study of Dattakamimamsa of Nanda Pandita and Dattakacandrika of Raghumani Vidyabhusana |date=31 December 1984 |publisher=Shodhganga@INFLIBNET |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8443/jspui/bitstream/10603/107613/2/02_certificate.pdf |access-date=26 September 2023}}</ref>