Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna

Mahamahopadhyay Pandit Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, CIE was an Indian scholar of Sanskrit, and the principal of the Sanskrit College between 1876 and 1895.

A friend and colleague of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, he played an important role in the Bengal Renaissance. He was one of the most eminent Bengalis in Kolkata of the nineteenth century.

Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, who was one of the most distinguished Sanskrit scholars in India, was born on 22 February 1836 to a Kulin Brahmin family of the highest rank, the Bhattacharyya family of Narit, which has long been distinguished for the zealous cultivation of Sanskrit learning, and the number of learned Pandits it has produced. He died at the age of 70 on 12 April 1906.