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{{Short description|Indian academic (1836–1906)}}
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| name = Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya
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|birth_place     = [[Howrah District|Narit]], [[Bengal]] (now [[West Bengal]]), [[British Raj|India]]
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|field           = [[Academics]], [[Sanskrit]], [[academic administration]], [[social welfare]], philosophy
| birth_place = [[Howrah District|Narit]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]] (now [[West Bengal]], [[India]])
|work_institution = [[Sanskrit College]]<br />[[University of Calcutta]]<br />Narit Nyayratna Institution<br />[[Hungarian Academy of Sciences]]<br />Bengal Asiatic Society<br />[[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science]]<br />Anthropological Society of Bombay <br />[[Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur|Government Engineering College, Shibpur]]
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|influences      = Harinarayan Tarkasiddhanta
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|title           = [[Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the British Empire]] (1881)<br />[[Mahamahopadhyay]] (1887)<br />[[Nyayratna]]
| known_for = [[Sanskrit]]<br />[[Academic administration]]<br />[[Social welfare]]<br />[[Philosophy]]
| title = Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (1881)<br />[[Mahamahopadhyaya|Mahamahopadhyay]] (1887)
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[[Mahamahopadhyaya]] [[Pandit]] '''Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya''' <ref>{{Cite web |title=Howrah family Durga Puja honours 300-year-old legacy |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/howrah-family-puja-honours-300-year-old-legacy-prnt/cid/2125508}}</ref> {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|CIE}} (22 February 1836 – 12 April 1906), was an Indian [[Sanskrit]] [[scholar]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Remembering Mahamahopadhyay Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya: One of India's greatest Sanskrit scholars |url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/remembering-mahamahopadhyay-mahesh-chandra-nyayratna-bhattacharyya-one-of-indias-greatest-sanskrit-scholars |access-date=2025-10-18 |website=Free Press Journal |language=en}}</ref> during the [[Bengal Renaissance]]. He served as the principal of the [[Sanskrit College and University|Sanskrit College]] from 1876 to 1895 and was a colleague of [[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Remembering Mahamahopadhyay Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya: One of India's greatest Sanskrit scholars |url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/remembering-mahamahopadhyay-mahesh-chandra-nyayratna-bhattacharyya-one-of-indias-greatest-sanskrit-scholars |access-date=2025-10-19 |website=Free Press Journal |language=en}}</ref>


'''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==


==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 was born on 22 February 1836 into the [[Kulin Brahmin]] [[Bhattacharya (surname)|Bhattacharyya]] family of Narit. His father, Harinarayan Tarka Siddhanta, and his two uncles, Guruprasad Tarka Panchanan and Thakurdas Churamani, were [[Pandit]]s. His elder brother, Pandit Madhab Chandra Sarvabhauma, was the Sabha Pandit of [[Mahishadal]] Raj.
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.
In 1848, he married Mandakini, daughter of Pandit Ram Chand Tarkabagish, in [[Jehanabad]], [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]].


===Career in academia===
He had a daughter, Manorama, and three sons: Manmatha Nath Vidyaratna Bhattacharyya (born April 1863), who became Indian Accountant General of [[Madras]]; '''Munindra Nath Bhattacharyya''' (born February 1868), who served as an [[Vekil|attorney]] of the High Court of [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]; and Mahima Nath Bhattacharyya (born April 1870), who became a collector in the Department of Excise of the Government of India.
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 died on 12 April 1906, at the age of 70.


He started a secondary Anglo-Sanskrit school at his native village of Narit, that exists till date as Narit Nyayratna Institution.
===Academic career===
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 give titles to students in specialized areas of Sanskrit learning.


===Written work===
He later started a secondary Anglo-Sanskrit school in 1885 in his native village of Narit, named the Narit Nyayratna Institution.
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 was also in charge of Sanskrit education during the [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal presidency]], which then comprised the present states of [[West Bengal]], [[Bihar]], and [[Orissa]].<ref name="googleusercontent">{{cite web |title=Physicist / Astronomer S |url=http://www.mlahanas.de/Stamps/Data/PHPerson/S.htm |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705032157/http://www.mlahanas.de/Stamps/Data/PHPerson/S.htm |archivedate=5 July 2014 |access-date=21 August 2015 |publisher=www.mlahanas.de}}</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===
===Life's works===
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]].
He wrote and edited the books Kavya Prakash, Mimansa Darshan, and the [[Yajurveda|''Krishna Yajurveda'']]. He also wrote pamphlets, including remarks on Dayananda Saraswati's ''Veda-Bhashya'', ''Thulasidharan Mimansa'', the authorship of ''Mrichchhakatika,'' and ''Lupta Samvatsara'', {{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}} He made contributions to the development of roads and infrastructure, including the establishment of tramways in [https://geoiq.io/places/Narit/0uIkF1Kq9m Narit] and [[Howrah]].


===Honours and titles===
===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.
The title of ''[[Mahamahopadhyaya]]'' was conferred on 16 February 1887, on the occasion of the [[List of jubilees of British monarchs|Jubilee]] of [[Queen Victoria|Queen Victoria's]] reign, in recognition of outstanding contributions to oriental learning.{{cn|date=December 2025}} It entitled him to take rank in the [[Durbar (court)|Durbar]] immediately after the titular Rajas.{{cn|date=December 2025}}
 
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===
He was made a [[Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) on 24 May 1881.{{cn|date=December 2025}} He also held the title of Nyayratna.{{cn|date=December 2025}}
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.
He held positions such as 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>


==Works online==
Nyayratna Lane and Manmatha Bhattacharyya Street in [[Shyambazar]], [[North Kolkata]], are named after him.<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=Nyayratna Lane |publisher=wikimapia.org|accessdate=21 August 2015}}</ref>
*{{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 ==
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*{{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}}
* {{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://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://books.google.com/books?id=EtcoeaQIQdAC&dq=manmatha+nath+bhattacharya+vivekananda&pg=PA102 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://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://books.google.com/books?id=_Wptq3dOqZYC&dq=manmatha+nath+bhattacharya+vivekananda&pg=PA134 Myth and Mythmaking by Julia Leslie]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070711075526/http://www.frankreport.com/vivekananda/KnownLetters/Bhattacharya.html Frankreport.com/vivekananda/KnownLetters]
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*[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]
* [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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Latest revision as of 15:49, 4 March 2026

Not to be confused with Mahesh Chandra Bhattacharyya.

Mahamahopadhyay Pandit

Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya

CIE
Born(1836-02-22)22 February 1836
Narit, Bengal Presidency, British India (now West Bengal, India)
Died12 April 1906(1906-04-12) (aged 70)
Known forSanskrit
Academic administration
Social welfare
Philosophy
TitleCompanion of the Order of the Indian Empire (1881)
Mahamahopadhyay (1887)
Scientific career
FieldsSanskrit, academics, academic administration, social welfare, philosophy
InstitutionsSanskrit 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 [1] CIE (22 February 1836 – 12 April 1906), was an Indian Sanskrit scholar[2] during the Bengal Renaissance. He served as the principal of the Sanskrit College from 1876 to 1895 and was a colleague of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.[3]

Biography[edit | edit source]

Personal life[edit | edit source]

Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya was born on 22 February 1836 into the Kulin Brahmin Bhattacharyya family of Narit. His father, Harinarayan Tarka Siddhanta, and his two uncles, Guruprasad Tarka Panchanan and Thakurdas Churamani, were Pandits. His elder brother, Pandit Madhab Chandra Sarvabhauma, was the Sabha Pandit of Mahishadal Raj.

In 1848, he married Mandakini, daughter of Pandit Ram Chand Tarkabagish, in Jehanabad, Hooghly.

He had a daughter, Manorama, and three sons: Manmatha Nath Vidyaratna Bhattacharyya (born April 1863), who became Indian Accountant General of Madras; Munindra Nath Bhattacharyya (born February 1868), who served as an attorney 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 | edit source]

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 give titles to students in specialized areas of Sanskrit learning.

He later started a secondary Anglo-Sanskrit school in 1885 in his native village of Narit, named the Narit Nyayratna Institution.

He was also in charge of Sanskrit education during the Bengal presidency, which then comprised the present states of West Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.[4]

Life's works[edit | edit source]

He wrote and edited the books Kavya Prakash, Mimansa Darshan, and the Krishna Yajurveda. He also wrote pamphlets, including remarks on Dayananda Saraswati's Veda-Bhashya, Thulasidharan Mimansa, the authorship of Mrichchhakatika, and Lupta Samvatsara, Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, ed. (1889). The Mimansa Darsana (Bibliotheca Indica) (in Hindi). Baptist Mission Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) He made contributions to the development of roads and infrastructure, including the establishment of tramways in Narit and Howrah.

Honours and titles[edit | edit source]

The title of Mahamahopadhyaya was conferred on 16 February 1887, on the occasion of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign, in recognition of outstanding contributions to oriental learning.[citation needed] It entitled him to take rank in the Durbar immediately after the titular Rajas.[citation needed]

He was made a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) on 24 May 1881.[citation needed] He also held the title of Nyayratna.[citation needed]

He held positions such as Visitor at the Government Engineering College at Shibpur, Howrah.[5]

Nyayratna Lane and Manmatha Bhattacharyya Street in Shyambazar, North Kolkata, are named after him.[6]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Howrah family Durga Puja honours 300-year-old legacy".
  2. ↑ "Remembering Mahamahopadhyay Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya: One of India's greatest Sanskrit scholars". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  3. ↑ "Remembering Mahamahopadhyay Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya: One of India's greatest Sanskrit scholars". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 19 October 2025.
  4. ↑ "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)
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Nyayratna Lane". wikimapia.org. Retrieved 21 August 2015.

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