Batakrishna Ghosh (1905-1950) was an Indian

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

, who specialised in

Indo-European linguistics Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pro ...

. He was born in 1905 and died at the age of 45 in 1950. He wrote a number of books and articles on

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...

and Indo-European linguistics. He translated

Wilhelm Geiger Wilhelm Ludwig Geiger (; ; 21 July 1856 – 2 September 1943) was a German Orientalist in the fields of Indo-Iranian languages and the history of Iran and Sri Lanka. He was known as a specialist in Pali, Sinhala language and the Dhivehi language o ...

's German book on the

Pali language Pali () is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist ''Pāli Canon'' or ''Tipiṭaka'' as well as the sacred language of ''Theravāda'' Buddhism ...

into English, published by the

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered ...

."Two-Week Intensive Introduction to Pāli"
, Mangalam Research Centre for Buddhist Languages His first major contribution in the field of Sanskrit was his book ''Les formations nominales et verbales en p du Sanskrit'' (1933), published by Adrien-Maisonneuve (Paris).

Works

* ''Āpastamba and Gautama''. 1927. * ''Goethe and His Faust''. 1932. * ''Collection of the fragments of lost Brāhmanas''. Panini, 1935. * ''Indo-European Origin of Sanskrit''. (edition). 1935. * ''Vedica''. Calcutta Oriental Press. * ''Nominal and verbal formations in -p- in Sanskrit'', tr. by Dilip Kumar Biswas. Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1982. * ''Pāli Literature and Language'' by Geiger, Wilhelm (trans. by Batakrishna Ghosh) . New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. (1943, 2004).. * '' A Survey of Indo-European languages''. Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1979. * ''A Law of Visarga-sandhi in Rksaṃhitā''. * ''Bijñānabāda'', Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1988 * ''Hindu Ideal of Life: According to Grhyasutras, Srauta-sŭtras, Dharmaśăstras,Arthasastra and Kamasŭtra''. Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1995. * ''Linguistic Introduction To Sanskrit''. (reprint) Cosmo Publications, 2006. .

References

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