Jain Journal 1973 01

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

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Dr. Amulya Chandra Sen
Born on 6th June 1899, in Dibrugarh, Assam, Amulya Chandra Sen graduated from Scottish Church College and after obtaining Masters Degree in Ancient Indian History and Culture and also Bachelor of Law from Calcutta University, he practised in Alipur Court for some time and then went to Shantiniketan as a Research Scholar working under Mahamahopadhyaya Vidhusekhar Shastri. While in Shantiniketan he studied Pali & Prakrit and published some research papers on the canonical literature of the Jainas.
Mr. Sen left for Germany in July 1933 on receiving Deutche Academie's Humboldt Scholarship and worked under Prof. Schubring, Director, The Indological Seminar of Hamburg University and Prof. Ziebarth who was his teacher in Greek and Roman History which he studied as one of the subsidiary subjects.
Having spent one year in Hamburg, he went to Berlin (in order to avoid Hamburg winter on medical advice) and worked with the famous Indologist Prof. Heinrich Lueders returning to Hamburg in May 1935 and was admitted to the Doctor's Degree the same year-- subject for his thesis being "A Critical Examination of the Tenth Arga called Panhāvāgaraņāim” (in Sanskrit Prašna Vyākaraṇāni).
In July 1936, Dr. Amulya Chandra Sen joined the Oriental Institute, Prague, as Lecturer and returned to Hamburg in May 1938 and worked with Prof. Schubring on some unpublished Jaina noncanonical texts. He also took a course on the “Rock Edicts of Asoka" with him.
Dr. Sen travelled very widely in Europe and met many eminent Indologists and Orientalists.
Clouds of war began gathering in the horizon from September 1938 and Dr. Sen finally left Germany in March 1939.
Dr. Sen's first assignment in India was the post of Director, All India Radio, Dacca, which he could not continue for long as a