Haraprasad Shastri

Haraprasad Bhattacharya, known as Shastri, was born on 6 December 1853 at Kumira, in the Khulna district, into a family originally from Naihati. Trained at the Sanskrit College and the Presidency College in Calcutta, a Sanskritist and archivist, he catalogued the manuscripts of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, which he presided over in 1919 and 1920. He went to Nepal four times in search of manuscripts, and there in 1907 he discovered the oldest known songs in the Bengali language, which he published in 1916. He died in Calcutta on 17 November 1931.

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• Novelবেণের মেয়েHaraprasad Shastri · 1919not translated into EnglishLiterature