Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya
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Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya | |
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| Born | 22 February 1836 |
| Died | 12 April 1906 (aged 70) |
| Known for | Sanskrit Academic administration Social welfare Philosophy |
| Title | Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (1881) Mahamahopadhyay (1887) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sanskrit, academics, academic administration, social welfare, philosophy |
| Institutions | Sanskrit College University of Calcutta Narit Nyayratna Institution Hungarian Academy of Sciences Bengal Asiatic Society Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Anthropological Society of Bombay Government Engineering College, Shibpur |
Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya CIE (22 February 1836 – 12 April 1906) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar during the Bengal Renaissance. He served as the principal of Sanskrit College from 1876 to 1895 and was a colleague of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.
Biography
[edit]Personal life
[edit]Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya was born on 22 February 1836, into a Kulin Brahmin Bhattacharyya family of Narit. His father, Harinarayan Tarkasiddhanta, and his two uncles, Guruprasad Tarkapanchanan and Thakurdas Churamani, were well-known Pandits. His elder brother, Pandit Madhab Chandra Sarbabhauma, was the Sabha Pandit of Mahishadal Raj.
In 1848, he married Mandakini, daughter of Pandit Ram Chand Tarkabagis, in Jehanabad, Hooghly.
He had a daughter, Manorama, and three sons: Manmatha Nath Vidyaratna Bhattacharyya (born April 1863), who became the first Indian Accountant General of Madras; Munindra Nath Bhattacharyya (born February 1868), who served as a vakil of the High Court of Calcutta; and Mahima Nath Bhattacharyya (born April 1870), who became a collector in the Department of Excise of the Government of India.
He died on 12 April 1906, at the age of 70.
Academic career
[edit]In 1876, he succeeded Prasanna Kumar Sarbadhikari as the principal of the Sanskrit College. During his 19-year tenure, he introduced the Sanskrit Title Examination to confer titles on students in specialized areas of Sanskrit learning.
He later started a secondary Anglo-Sanskrit school in his native village of Narit, named the Narit Nyayratna Institution.
Life's Works
[edit]He wrote and edited Kavya Prakas, Mimansa Darshan, and the Black Yajur Veda. He also wrote pamphlets, including remarks on Dayananda Saravati's Veda-Bhashya, Tulasidharan Mimansa, the authorship of Mrichchhakatika and Lupta Samvatsara. Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, ed. (1889). The Mimansa Darsana (Bibliotheca Indica) (in Hindi). Baptist Mission Press. He also contributed to the development of roads and infrastructure, such as tramways, in Narit and Howrah.
Honors and Titles
[edit]The title of Mahamahopadhyaya was conferred on 16 February 1887, on the occasion of the Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria, for eminence in oriental learning. It entitled him to take rank in the Durbar immediately after the titular Rajas.
Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna was made a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) on 24 May 1881. He also held the title of Nyayratna.
He held positions in the following institutions:
- Foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Budapest
- Member of the Bengal Asiatic Society
- Member of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
- Member of the University of Calcutta
- Member of the Central Text Book Committee of Bengal
- Member of the Behar Sanskrit Samaj
- Member of the Anthropological Society of Bombay
- Joint Secretary of the Hindu Hostel Committee
- Member of the Bethune College Committee
- Visitor at the Government Engineering College at Shibpur, Howrah[1]
He was also in charge of Sanskrit education during the Bengal presidency, which then comprised the present West Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa states.[2]
Nyayratna Lane and Manmatha Bhattacharyya Street in Shyambazar, North Kolkata, are named after him.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Lethbridge, R. (1893). The Golden Book of India: A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated of the Indian Empire. Aakar Books. ISBN 9788187879541. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ "Physicist / Astronomer S". www.mlahanas.de. Archived from the original on 5 July 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Nyaratna Lane". wikimapia.org. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
External links
[edit]- Lethbridge, R. (1893). The Golden Book of India: A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated of the Indian Empire. Aakar Books. ISBN 9788187879541. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
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- 1836 births
- 1906 deaths
- Scholars from British India
- People from the Bengal Presidency
- Bengali Hindus
- 20th-century Bengalis
- 19th-century Bengalis
- Indian educators
- 19th-century Indian educators
- University of Calcutta alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
- Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire
- Indian Sanskrit scholars
- Sanskrit scholars from Bengal
- Academics from Kolkata
- People from Howrah district
- Indian philanthropists
- Indian social workers
- Social workers from West Bengal
- Indian social reformers