Batakrishna Ghosh

Batakrishna Ghosh (1905-1950) was an Indian linguist, who specialised in Indo-European linguistics. He was born in 1905 and died at the age of 45 in 1950. He had written a number of books and articles on Sanskrit and Indo-European linguistics. He had translated Wilhelm Geiger's German book on the Pali language into English and had it published by the University of Calcutta.^[1][2]

His first major contribution in the field of Sanskrit is 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).ISBN 81-215-0716-2.
• 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. ISBN 8177557637.

References

1. Geiger, Wilhelm and Ghosh, Batakrishna, "Pāli literature and language", University of Calcutta, 1943
2. "Two-Week Intensive Introduction to Pāli", Mangalam Research Centre for Buddhist Languages