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'''Batakrishna Ghosh''' (1905-1950) was an [[India]]n [[linguist]], who specialised in [[Indo-European studies|Indo-European linguistics]]. He was born in 1905 and died at the age of 45 in 1950. He wrote a number of books and articles on [[Sanskrit]] and Indo-European linguistics. He translated [[Wilhelm Geiger]]'s German book on the [[Pali language]] into English, published by the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref>Geiger, Wilhelm and Ghosh, Batakrishna, [https://books.google.com/books/about/P%C4%81li_literature_and_language.html?id=OG5jAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y "Pāli literature and language"], University of Calcutta, 1943</ref><ref>[http://www.mangalamresearch.org/programs/past-programs/two-week-pali-intensive/ "Two-Week Intensive Introduction to Pāli"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210093917/http://www.mangalamresearch.org/programs/past-programs/two-week-pali-intensive/ |date=February 10, 2013 }}, Mangalam Research Centre for Buddhist Languages</ref><br />
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His first major contribution in the field of Sanskrit was his book ''Les formations nominales et verbales en p du Sanskrit'' (1933), published by Adrien-Maisonneuve (Paris).<br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''Āpastamba and Gautama''. 1927.<br />
* ''Goethe and His Faust''. 1932.<br />
* ''Collection of the fragments of lost Brāhmanas''. Panini, 1935.<br />
* ''Indo-European Origin of Sanskrit''. (edition). 1935.<br />
* ''Vedica''. Calcutta Oriental Press.<br />
* ''Nominal and verbal formations in -p- in Sanskrit'', tr. by Dilip Kumar Biswas. Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1982.<br />
* ''Pāli Literature and Language'' by Geiger, Wilhelm (trans. by Batakrishna Ghosh) . New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. (1943, 2004).{{ISBN|81-215-0716-2}}.<br />
* '' A Survey of Indo-European languages''. Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1979.<br />
* ''A Law of Visarga-sandhi in Rksaṃhitā''.<br />
* ''Bijñānabāda'', Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1988<br />
* ''Hindu Ideal of Life: According to Grhyasutras, Srauta-sŭtras, Dharmaśăstras,Arthasastra and Kamasŭtra''. Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1995.<br />
* ''Linguistic Introduction To Sanskrit''. (reprint) Cosmo Publications, 2006. {{ISBN|8177557637}}.<br />
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