Jaygopal Tarkalankar

Jaygopal Tarkalankar (7 October 1775 — 13 April 1846) was a Bengali writer and Sanskrit scholar.

Early life

Tarkalankar was born in 1775 at Ghritapur village, Keshiary in British India. He completed his primary education from His father, Pandit Kebalram Tarkapanchanan.[1]

Career

Tarkalankar went to Benaras and worked with Henry Thomas Colebrooke. He taught Colebrooke Bengali and Sanskrit and helped him translation projects.[2] He worked under William Carey from 1805 to 1823 in Serampur where he composed Shikshasar. Tarkalankar also worked with John Clark Marshman and published Samachar Darpan.[3] Immediately after its establishment of Sanskrit College in 1824 he was appointed as lecturer of Vernacular literature. In his 22 years teaching career he taught Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar[4] and Madan Mohan Tarkalankar. His principal aim was to uplift the Bengali language and rescue it from the Persian Arabic influences. Tarkalankar revised versions of Krittivas's Ramayana and Mahabharata of Kashiram Das which were published from Serampore Mission Press in 1834 and 1836 respectively.[1][5]

Works
  • Shikshasar
  • Krishvavisayakshlokah
  • Chandi
  • Patrer Dhara
  • Babgavidhan
  • Paraseek Avidhan[6]

References
  1. Mohan Lal (1992). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot. ISBN 9788126012213. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
  2. Sachindra Kumar Maity (1997). Professor A.L. Basham, My Guruji and Problems and Perspectives of Ancient. ISBN 9788170173267. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
  3. Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs, Kate Rousmaniere (March 2014). Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross-Cultural. ISBN 9781782382676. Retrieved July 31, 2018.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Chapter 4, Subal Chandra Mitra. "Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a story of his life and work". Retrieved July 31, 2018.
  5. Kunal Chakrabarti, Shubhra Chakrabarti (22 August 2013). Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis. ISBN 9780810880245. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
  6. Tarkalankar, jaygopal. "Paraseek Avidhan". archive.org. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
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