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Mandakolathur Patanjali Sastri B.A. B.L. (January 4 1889 – unknown) was the second Chief Justice of India serving in the post from 7 November 1951 to 3 January 1954.He was the son of Pandit Krishna Sastri senior Sanskrit pandit of Pachaiyappa’s College Madras. He graduated in B.A. B.L. from Madras University before taking to advocacy as a profession. He practised as a lawyer in the Madras High Court for some time before being elevated to the Bench on March 15 1939.