Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya

Sanskrit scholar

Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1899

Place of Birth: Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Date of Death: 12-Nov-1965

Profession: Sanskrit scholar

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Durga Mohan Bhattacharyya was an Indian scholar of Sanskrit.
He had served as a professor of Sanskrit at the Scottish Church College in Calcutta.He was a key figure in reviving many manuscripts of the Paippalada-Sa?hita and its ancillary literature like the A?girasakalpa after painstaking search over years in Orissa and south-west Bengal.
Durgamohan Bhattacharyya’s discovery of a living tradition of the Paippalada-Sa?hita, unknown until then, was hailed in the Indological world as epoch making.
Ludwig Alsdorf went so far as to say that it was the greatest event in Indology.
Bhattacharyya died in 1965 leaving his edition of the text incomplete.
This task was completed by his son Dipak, whose critical edition of the first 18 ka??as was published by the Asiatic Society, Calcutta came out in three volumes in 1997, 2008 and 2011.