Jain Journal 1968 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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The Late
Sailendranath
Sengupta
November 30, 1908-May 22, 1968
A student of Economics and Statistics and Law, Sailendranath Sengupta joined the judicial service and served in various capacities reaching the position of Judicial Secretary, West Bengal, before his retirement. He was a member of the Language Commission and a Treasurer of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Apart from several scholarly articles published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, Sengupta published a book in Bengali on the systems of Sanskrit grammar.
More important to us is Sengupta's profound interest in Jainology in general and Hemacandra in particular. In fact Sengupta was a living authority on Hemacandra whom he considered to be one of the greatest savants India has ever produced. It is no exaggeration if we acknowledge that the last Mahavira Jayanti number of the Jain Journal on Hemacandra was largely inspired by him and contained two valuable papers from his pen. Sengupta had started writing scholarly notes on Hemacandra's Dvyasraya Kavya which was scheduled to appear along with the text serially from the current issue onwards of the Jain Journal but due to his sudden passing away the work remains incomplete, a great loss to the world of scholarship.
As a mark of our respect to this departed savant we quote below a few suggestions offered by him as chief guest during the Mahavira Jayanti celebration in 1967, later contained in a