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Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya was born on 22 February 1836 to a Kulin Brahmin family, the Bhattacharyya family of Narit. His father, Harinarayan Tarkasiddhanta, and his two uncles, Guruprasad Tarkapanchanan and Thakurdas Churamani, were known Pandits. His elder brother, Pandit Madhab Chandra Sarbabhauma, was the Sabha Pandit of Mahishadal Raj.
In 1848, he married Mandakini, the daughter of Pandit Ram Chand Tarkabagis, in Jehanabad, Hooghly.
He had a daughter, Manorama, and three sons – Manmatha Nath Vidyaratna Bhattacharyya MA, who was born on April 1863 and was the first Indian Accountant General of Madras, Munindra Nath Bhattacharyya MA, BL was born in February 1868, he was the Vakil of the High Court of Calcutta and Mahima Nath Bhattacharyya BA, who was born in April 1870, Mahima is the first Indian Collector in the Excise Department for the Government of India.
He died at the age of 70, on April 12th 1906.
Career in academia
On 1876, he succeeded Prasanna Kumar Sarbadhikari as the principal of the Sanskrit College. During his 19-year tenure as principal, he took the initiative of introducing the Sanskrit Title Examination, for the conferment of titles on students of special departments of Sanskrit learning.
He later started a secondary Anglo-Sanskrit school in his native village of Narit that exists to this day as Narit Nyayratna Institution.
Written work
He has written and edited Kavya Prakas, Mimansa Darshan and the Black Yajur Veda. He wrote numerous pamphlets, such as remarks on Dayananda Saravati's Veda-Bhashya, Tulasidharan Mimansa, The Authorship of Mrichchhakatika and Lupta Samvatsara.
Philanthropy
He has not only improved roads and infrastructure in and around Narit, but also took a role in developing roads and infrastructure, including tramways, in his native district of Howrah.
Honours and titles
The title of Mahamahopadhyay was conferred as a personal distinction on 16 February 1887, on the occasion of the Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria, for eminence in oriental learning. It entitled him to take rank in the Durbar immediately after titular Rajas.
Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna was made a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) on 24 May 1881 and the estimation with which Indian scholars held him is marked by the title of Nyayratna.
He was elected as a member or had a position in the following institutions:
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