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Pandit Sukhlal Sanghavi
An Appreciation Manāmalopadhyāya Vidhusekhara Śästri Pandit Shri Sukhlalji Sanghavi is one of the greatest Sanskrit scholars in India, of whom everyone should feel proud not only in this country but also abroad. He was born in 1880 A. D. at Limbli near Wadhwan (Kāthiāwād). His education began, as usual, in a school in which he read only Gujarāti up to the 7th class. Unfortunately, however, owing to a virulent type of small-pox he lost his eyes being completely blind at the age of sixteen. But nobody then could have the remotest idea that this boy was destined to become a great Sanskrit savant in our country. Indeed, though he was deprived of his Marnsa-Chakshus
fleshy eye', he was destined to be a Prajña-Chakshus 'having the eyes of wisdom' of the highest class. In fact, his real education began after his unfortunate blindness, when he had to depend completely on his reader. From the very beginning he had a genuine love for Sanskrit and Philosophy. From Kāthiāvåd he came to Benares. There he studied Nyaya under the late Mm. Pandit Vamācharania Bhattacharya whom I am proud to call a satīrtha (fellowstudent) of mine under the late Mm. Pandit Kailasachandra Bhattachärya. For his study he had to travel also to Mithila where he read under several teachers, the most prominent of whom was Mm. Pandit Balakrishna Mishra. Here a short event in his life happend which for its interestingness may be recounted. His pecuniary condition was not good, and it is well-known how a Sanskrit student lives in the house of his teacher. He had a sweater on his body which his poor Sanskrit teacher saw and praised. Pandit Sukhlalji offered it to him next day without thinking as to how he could pass the severe winter of Mithila, And what he did ? He passed the cold nights spreading over
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