Jagannath Tarka Panchanan

Jagannath Tarka Panchanan (23 September 1695 – 1806) was a legendary Sanskrit scholar and pundit of ancient Hindu Laws.

Biography

Tarka Panchanan was born in Tribeni in 1695. He was the son of Rudradeva Bhattacharji, a poor Brahmin of Tribeni, Hooghly district. He obtained great respect by the highest Hindu nobles and the Hindu community. Tarka Panchanan had a wonderful memory and became a remarkable logician and unrivaled in his knowledge of Hindu law. He was a great teacher and had immense knowledge on all branches of the Dharmasastras.[1] Tarka panchanan assisted Sir William Jones (philologist) in his endeavor to compile Vivadabhangarnava that literally means 'a break wave on the ocean of disputes' and reconcile the schools of Hindu jurisprudence. He assisted judges to familiarize with the Indian culture as a consequence of a parliamentary mandate to perform judicial duties.[2] The text was first published in 1801 under the title – A Digest of Hindu Law, which tried to legitimize the transformation of the prescriptive guidelines enshrined in the Sastras into legal rules to be directly administered through court by using terminologies like Digest.[3][4] Tarka Panchanan taught Sanskrit to Robert Clive.[5] He supposedly introduced Durga Puja in Tribeni.

References
  1. T. J. Abraham (1999). A Critical Study of Novels of Arun Joshi, Raja Rao and Sudhin N. Ghose. ISBN 9788171567744. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  2. Tirthankar Roy, Anand V. Swamy (20 September 2016). Law and the Economy in Colonial India. ISBN 9780226387642. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  3. "Page:Dictionary of Indian Biography". Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  4. C. E. Buckland (1999). Dictionary of Indian Biography. ISBN 9788170208976. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  5. "Durga puja's colonial roots". Retrieved March 10, 2019.
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