March, 1910.] Proc. of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. xcvii 



him to accept a Professorship in the Government Sanskrit 

 College of Calcutta. Among others, the late Raja Rajendra Lai 



as 



one of our past Assistant Secretaries, Babu Protap Chandra 

 Ghosha, and Babu Prasad Das Dutt, were mainly instrumental 

 to bring about this. It was in 1883 that Chandra Kanta 



as 



ture and Alankara. Soon after his appearance in Calcutta he 

 was recognized as the leading Pundit of the metropolis and his 

 connection with the Society became more intimate, and ■ ■ in 

 recognition of his great services in the cause of Sanskrit litera- 

 ture the Council placed his name in the list of distinguished 

 persons who received the Bibliotheca Indica publications free." 

 On the retirement of Madhusudan Smritiratna he was appoint- 

 ed to the chair of Smriti. 



In 1887 the title of Mahamahopadhyaya, the highest liter- 

 ary distinction in the gift of the Indian Government, created 

 in commemoration of the Jubilee of Her late Majesty the 

 Empress Victoria, was bestowed on him. It was during the 

 incumbency in the Sanskrit College that his Vaisesika Bhashya, 

 annotated edition of Kusumanjali, Katantrachhandaprakriya, 

 Kala Parasara Madhava among others were published, and each 

 of these works created a sensation among the Oriental Scholars 

 of India and Europe on their appearance. In 1897 he retired 

 from the Sanskrit College, and the Government very gracefully 

 came forward with a grant for the maintenance of his private 

 tol which he had all along kept up with unparalleled devotion 

 and undiminished glory. 



Government 



Chancellor 



few men of merit can escape, selected him as the first lecturer 

 to occupy the chair of Vedanta Philosophy endowed by Sri 

 Gopal Bose Mullick for five years, and these lectures were pub- 

 lished in book form. From 1901 with failing health he became 

 busy more than ever to see through press all his unpublished 

 works, but the work of the tol and examination work for ALA. 

 and P.R. examinations on behalf of the University continued 

 almost to the very end. 



Without making any comment ourselves we shall conclude 



this short notice by a few extracts from comments of his con- 

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ted during 



character 



as 



1. An extract from a letter of Mahesh Chandra Nyaya- 

 ratna as the Principal, Sanskrit College, to the Director of 

 Public Instruction, under date 28th April, 1894. . . . " He is 

 a most distinguished Sanskrit scholar, the like of whom cannot 

 easily be met with in the country. He is, morever, a most 



