Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

Kalinjar Fort: The Time Winner Ancientmost Fort of India

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

Dinesh Chandra describes Kalinjar Fort, one of India’s oldest and most strategically located hill forts. Perched on an isolated Vindhyan peak in modern Uttar Pradesh, the fort rises about 1,200 feet…

Was Jalal-ud-Din the Patron of Rayamukuta?

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

Addressing a historiographical question, this article examines whether the medieval poet Rayamukuta was patronised by the Muslim ruler Jalal‑ud‑Din. Assessing manuscript colophons, biographical notes…

The Sraddhasagara of Kulluka Bhatta

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

This study investigates the authenticity of a rare Sanskrit text titled ‘Sraddhasagara’. Scholars had cited it as an authoritative treatise on funeral rites, but the author discovered that the…

Gaṅgādāsa and his Father Gopāladasa

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

This biographical essay explores the lives and works of Gaṅgādāsa, a renowned scholar of Sanskrit prosody, and his father Gopāladasa, an eminent Ayurvedic author. Gaṅgādāsa is best known for…

More Light on the Authorship of Bhasapariccheda

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

Revisiting debates about the authorship of the Bhāsāpariccheda, a popular Nyāya manual, the author examines colophons, manuscripts and commentaries. He notes that multiple scholars – including…

Śrīvatsācārya, a long‑forgotten Naiyāyika

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

In this miscellany piece the author introduces Śrīvatsācārya, a little‑known figure in Indian philosophy. The only known reference to Śrīvatsa comes from Rājashekhara’s commentary on the…

More Light on Sanskrit Literature of Bengal (Hindu Period)

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

This paper supplements earlier surveys of Sanskrit literature in Bengal during the Hindu period by focusing on Brahmanic institutions and overlooked centres of learning. While Buddhist institutions…

Samvatsarapradipa

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

This note discusses the authorship and transmission of the Samvatsarapradipa, a work on ritual and calendar calculation. Dr. Hazra attributed the text to Halayudha, but the author argues that there…

Bengali Scholars at Benares (1657 A.D.)

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

The article examines a Nirnayapatra written in Benares in 1657 A.D. and published in a 1926 Marathi journal. It identifies and analyzes the Naiyayikas among the seventy-seven signatories, focusing on…

Ramabhadras of Bengal

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

The article "Ramabhadras of Bengal" by N. Venkataramanayya examines the historical confusion surrounding the multiple figures named Ramabhadra in Bengal's Sanskrit literary history. The author argues…

Harikela and the Ruins at Mainamati

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

Harikela and the Ruins at Mainamati is an article that attempts to identify the location of the ancient kingdom of Harikela, celebrated in Chinese accounts as a major seat of Buddhist learning in…

Puruṣottamadeva’s Commentary on the Mahābhāṣya

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

Puruṣottamadeva’s Commentary on the Mahābhāṣya is a short but important article that reports on the discovery of fragments of a long‑lost commentary on Pāṇini’s Mahābhāṣya attributed to the Bengal…

Bharata Mallika and his Patron

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

This biographical essay examines Bharata Mallika, a prolific Bengali scholar sometimes called the ‘Mallinatha of Bengal.’ The author notes that Bharata’s commentary on the Bhattikāvya was published…

Rayamukuta's Patron

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

This brief note addresses the identity of the patron of the poet Rayamukuta, whose works include grammatical treatises and devotional compositions. Earlier scholars speculated that Rayamukuta enjoyed…

Date and Works of Rayamukuta

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

In this companion piece to the previous article, the author examines chronologies proposed for Bṛhaspati Rayāmukuṭa and assesses the authenticity of works attributed to him. Scholars had previously…

Who wrote the Bhasapariccheda ?

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

This short article investigates the authorship of the Nyāya primer Bhāsāpariccheda (also known as Bhāṣāpariccheda). The treatise, widely studied in traditional logic curricula, has long been…

Ciranjiva and his patron Yasavanta Simha

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

This article explores the life and works of Ciranjiva Bhattacarya, a prolific Bengali poet and poetician of the early seventeenth century. It opens by listing four of his extant…

Reviews

By Satkari Mookherjree, Dineshchandra Sircar, Sushil Kumar De, Mano Mohan Ghosh, Chintaharan Chakravarti, Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya, A. S. Altekar, S. K. Dutt, Kokileswar Sastri

The Reviews section offers critical appraisals of recently published works on Indian history, literature and culture. It covers texts ranging from Nandalal Chatterji’s study of colonial Bengal,…

Vasudeva Sarvabhauma

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya

‘Vasudeva Sarvabhauma’ examines the life and work of the medieval polymath Vasudeva Sarvabhauma, known in Vaiṣṇava circles as a preceptor of the Bhāgavata school. Using hagiographies, philosophical…

Sanskrit Scholars of Akbar's Time

By Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya