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	==Biography==		==Biography==

	=== Personal life ===		=== 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 [[Kulin Brahmin]] family of the highest rank, the Bhattacharyya family of Narit, which has long been distinguished for the zealous cultivation of Sanskrit learning, and the number of learned Pandits it has produced.		Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, who was one of the most distinguished Sanskrit scholars in India, was born on 22 February 1836 to a [[Kulin Brahmin]] family of the highest rank, the Bhattacharyya family of Narit, which has long been distinguished for the zealous cultivation of Sanskrit learning, and the number of learned Pandits it has produced.

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'''Mahamahopadhyay Pandit Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya''', [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] (22 February 1836 – 12 April 1906), was an Indian scholar of [[Sanskrit]], and the principal of the [[Sanskrit College]] between 1876 and 1895. A friend and colleague of [[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]], he played an important role in the [[Bengal Renaissance]]. He was one of the most eminent [[Bengali people|Bengalis]] in [[Kolkata]] of the nineteenth century.

==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 [[Kulin Brahmin]] family of the highest rank, the Bhattacharyya family of Narit, which has long been distinguished for the zealous cultivation of Sanskrit learning, and the number of learned Pandits it has produced.
His father, Harinarayan Tarkasiddhanta, and his two uncles, Guruprasad Tarkapanchanan and Thakurdas Churamani, were eminent Pandits. His elder brother, Pandit Madhab Chandra Sarbabhauma, was the Sabha Pandit of [[Mahishadal]] Raj.

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 Sarbadhikary as the principal of the [[Sanskrit College]] in 1876.

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.<ref>https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=dmVkaWNncmFudGgub3JnfHd3d3xneDo2NjkxMjhlZmVkMzk4YzVj</ref>
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 (court)|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 [[The Asiatic Society|Bengal Asiatic Society]], the [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science]], the [[University of Calcutta]], the Board of Examiners, the Central Text Book Committee of Bengal, the Behar Sanskrit Samaj and the [[Asiatic Society of Bombay|Anthropological Society of Bombay]].
He was a Joint-Secretary of the Hindu Hostel Committee, member of the [[Bethune College]] Committee and a Visitor at the [[Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur|Government Engineering College]] at Shibpur, Howrah.<ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=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|author=Lethbridge, R.|date=1893|publisher=Aakar Books|isbn=9788187879541|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7iOsNUZ2MXgC|accessdate=21 August 2015}}</ref>

He was also in charge of Sanskrit education of the Bengal presidency, which comprised then, the present West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa states.<ref name="googleusercontent">{{cite web|url=http://www.mlahanas.de/Stamps/Data/PHPerson/S.htm |title=Physicist / Astronomer S |publisher=webcache.googleusercontent.com |accessdate=21 August 2015 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705032157/http://www.mlahanas.de/Stamps/Data/PHPerson/S.htm |archivedate=5 July 2014 }}</ref>

Nyayratna Lane<ref name="wikimapia">{{cite web|url=http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=22.599798&lon=88.37184&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2|title=Nyaratna Lane |publisher=wikimapia.org|accessdate=21 August 2015}}</ref> 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<ref name="wikimapia2">{{cite web|url=http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=22.599568&lon=88.371084&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2|title=Wikimapia - Let's describe the whole world!|publisher=wikimapia.org|accessdate=21 August 2015}}</ref> in [[Shyambazar]] is named after him, the first Indian [[Accountant General]] of [[Madras]]. Manmatha Nath was a close friend and confidante of [[Swami Vivekananda]]<ref name="ramakrishnavivekananda">{{cite web|url=http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/reminiscences/057_ksi.htm |title=Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda |publisher=ramakrishnavivekananda.info|accessdate=21 August 2015}}</ref> who was based at his palatial establishment in Madras, when he toured South India.<ref>[[Wikisource:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 6/Conversations and Dialogues (Translated from the diary of a disciple)/XII]]</ref> Vivekananda kept in touch wit Manmatha Nath on a regular basis and wrote to him regularly from the USA.<ref>[[Wikisource:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 7/Epistles - Third Series/XXIII Mr. Bhattacharya]]</ref> Manmatha Nath's daughter was worshipped by Vivekananda as the [[Kumari (children)|Kumari]], during the first ever Kumari Puja in 1901, at the historic [[Belur Math]] in Howrah.

==Works online==
*{{cite book|editor=Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya|title=The Mimansa Darsana (Bibliotheca Indica)|url=https://archive.org/stream/bibliothecaindi04unkngoog#page/n6/mode/1up|year=1889|publisher=Baptist Mission Press|language=Hindi}}

==References==
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== External links ==
*{{cite book|title=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|author=Lethbridge, R.|date=1893|publisher=Aakar Books|isbn=9788187879541|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7iOsNUZ2MXgC|accessdate=21 August 2015}}
*[http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/reminiscences/057_ksi.htm Ramakrishnavivekananda.info]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=EtcoeaQIQdAC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq=manmatha+nath+bhattacharya+vivekananda&source=web&ots=a5wIeUxYr4&sig=_2vQJ74R4C0n_tXjHzepTFSJN74&hl=en Swami Vivekananda in India: A Corrective Biography by Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081203164401/http://www.commonground.ca/iss/0303140/lost_teachings_of_yoga.shtml Commonground.ca]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=_Wptq3dOqZYC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=manmatha+nath+bhattacharya+vivekananda&source=web&ots=mn6g8VUVsu&sig=lQlCK7IX4OPHM3yp60gPzFVefmY&hl=en Myth and Mythmaking by Julia Leslie]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070711075526/http://www.frankreport.com/vivekananda/KnownLetters/Bhattacharya.html Frankreport.com/vivekananda/KnownLetters]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110726054937/http://glorine.firehead.org/~pturing/occult/vivekananda/volume_6/conversations_and_dialogues/xii_sharat_chakravarty_frame.htm Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 6, Conversations and Dialogues]
*[http://www.vivekananda.net/PDFBooks/Reminiscences/SrinivasaPai.html Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda by A. Srinivasa Pai]

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