Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya
Mahamahopadhyay Pandit Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, CIE | |
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Mahamahopadhyay Pandit Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya
Biography
Personal life
Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, who was one of the most distinguished Sanskrit scholars in India, was born on 22 February 1836 to a
In 1848, he married Mandakini, the daughter of Pandit Ram Chand Tarkabagis, in Jehanabad, Hooghly.
He had a daughter, Manorama, and three sons – Manmatha Nath Vidyaratna Bhattacharyya, MA (first Indian Accountant General of Madras), born April 1863, Munindra Nath Bhattacharyya, MA, BL (Vakil of the High Court of Calcutta), born February 1868 and Mahima Nath Bhattacharyya, BA (first Indian Collector in the Excise Department, Government of India), born April 1870.
He died at the age of 70 on 12 April 1906.
Career in academia
He succeeded Prasanna Kumar Sarbadhikari as the principal of the
During his 19-year tenure as principal he took the initiative of introducing the Sanskrit Title Examination, for the conferment of titles on meritorious students of special departments of Sanskrit learning.
He started a secondary Anglo-Sanskrit school at his native village of Narit, that exists till date as Narit Nyayratna Institution.
Written work
He edited, with copious notes, Kavya Prakas, Mimansa Darshan and the Black Yajur Veda. He wrote numerous pamphlets, such as Remarks on Dayananda Saravati's Veda-Bhashya, Tulasidharan Mimansa, The Authorship of Mrichchhakatika and Lupta Samvatsara.
Swami Dayanand eminent Vedic scholar replied doubts raised by Maheshchandra NyayaRatan by publishing a book name Bhranti Nivarana in 1880.[1] He achieved notably in the general advancement of Sanskrit learning and also, by financial aid and otherwise, in furtherance of famine relief, the promotion of education and opening out means of communication.
Philanthropy
He not only greatly improved roads and infrastructure in and around Narit, but also took a leading role in developing roads and infrastructure, including tramways, in his native district of Howrah.
Honours and titles
The title of Mahamahopadhyay was conferred as a personal distinction 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 titular Rajas.
Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna was made a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) on 24 May 1881 and the estimation with which Indian scholars held him is marked by the title of Nyayratna.
He was elected a Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Budapest. He was a member of the
He was also in charge of Sanskrit education of the Bengal presidency, which comprised then, the present West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa states.[3]
Nyayratna Lane[4] in Shyambazar (North Kolkata) is named after him.
Descendants
Many of his descendants have left their mark in the pages of Kolkata's rich history. Foremost among them was his eldest son, Manmatha Nath Vidyaratna Bhattacharyya.
Manmatha Bhattacharyya Street
Works online
- Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, ed. (1889). The Mimansa Darsana (Bibliotheca Indica) (in Hindi). Baptist Mission Press.
References
- ^ https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=dmVkaWNncmFudGgub3JnfHd3d3xneDo2NjkxMjhlZmVkMzk4YzVj [bare URL]
- ISBN 9788187879541. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ^ "Physicist / Astronomer S". www.mlahanas.de. Archived from the original on 5 July 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Nyaratna Lane". wikimapia.org. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ^ "Wikimapia - Let's describe the whole world!". wikimapia.org. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ^ Wikisource:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Conversations and Dialogues (Translated from the diary of a disciple)/XII
- ^ Wikisource:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 7/Epistles - Third Series/XXIII Mr. Bhattacharya
External links
- 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.
- Ramakrishnavivekananda.info
- Swami Vivekananda in India: A Corrective Biography by Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya
- Commonground.ca
- Myth and Mythmaking by Julia Leslie
- Frankreport.com/vivekananda/KnownLetters
- Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 6, Conversations and Dialogues
- Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda by A. Srinivasa Pai