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Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya (1896–1974, ) was a distinguished scholar of
Sanskrit from
India. A scholar of Sanskrit,
Veda, grammar,
Pali,
Prakrit and
philology, he was born on October 27, 1896 in village Nimta of
North 24 Parganas in what was then
Bengal. He came from an illustrious family of
Kulina Brahmans of Deshmukho in District
Hooghly. The Indian writer
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay belonged to the same family and Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya inherited the spirit of
Indian renaissance from him.
Education
Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya studied in a number of schools and passed the matriculation examination of the
Calcutta University in 1913 from
Hindu School of
Calcutta. He then attended the
Presidency College, Calcutta for Intermediate examination and passed in 1915. He then migrated to the United Province of
Agra and
Oudh and passed the
B.A. examination of
Allahabad University (1917) and
M.A. in
Sanskrit from Queen’s College,
Benares (1919). He also passed the M.A. Examination in
Veda from
Calcutta University in 1921 and
Vedant in 1922. He in his college days became an intimate friend of
Subhash Chandra Bose who later became a prominent figure in Indian politics and the
Indian independence movement. Chattopadhyaya was a student of
Dr. Ganganath Jha.
Career
Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya joined
University of Allahabad as a lecturer in the department of
Sanskrit in 1924. In the year 1950 he was promoted to reader and from 1956 for about a couple of years he acted as professor of Sanskrit. Later he became Director, Research Institute at
Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Benares. As the director, he was in a position to guide research exclusively.
Chattopadhyaya was the editor of book series
Sarasvati Bhavana Granthamala and famous Sanskrit Journal,
Sarasvati Susama. He was also appointed as a special scholar for comparative study of
Veda and
Avesta by the Ministry of Education,
Govt. of India at Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth,
Tirupati. The
Calcutta University appointed him Stephan’s Nirmalendu Ghosh Lecturer on Comparative Religion in 1960 (In that period he was on leave from
Sampurnanand Sanskrit University).
Disciples
He has produced many scholars, among them are
- B P T Vagish Shastri
- Vidya Niwas Mishra
- Govind Chandra Pande
- Govardhan Rai
- Kamaleshdutt Tripathi
Work
Chattopadhyaya had been actively connected with All India Oriental Conference since its third session held in
Madras in December, 1924. He presided over its Veda and Indo-Aryan section in the ninth session held at
Trivandrum in 1937 and its Veda section in the eighteenth session held at Annamalainagar in 1955. He presided over the
Philology section of Akhil Bhartiya Hindi Sahitya Sammelana held at
Karachi in December 1946.
Honor
Certificate of Merit,
President of India, 1966.
Book authored
Eshakenopanishad (First Edition 1916), Reprinted in University Bi-Centenary Series, (Ed. B.N. Mishra), Vol VIII, Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, 1992.
Vedavittaprakasika, 1966.
Studies in Vedic and Indo-Iranian Religion and Literature, (Ed.Vidya Niwas Mishra), 1976.Further Information
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