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'''Jagannath Tarka Panchanan''' (23 September 1695 – 1806) was a legendary [[Sanskrit]] scholar and pundit of ancient Hindu Laws.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Tarka Panchanan was born in [[Tribeni, Hooghly|Tribeni]] in 1695. He was the son of Rudradeva Bhattacharji, a poor [[Brahmin]] of Tribeni, [[Hooghly district]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=পাতা:বংশ-পরিচয় (অষ্টম খণ্ড) - জ্ঞানেন্দ্রনাথ কুমার.pdf/২৬২ - উইকিসংকলন একটি মুক্ত পাঠাগার|url=https://bn.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B6-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC_(%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%B7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%AE_%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%A3%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1)_-_%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9E%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A5_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0.pdf/%E0%A7%A8%E0%A7%AC%E0%A7%A8|access-date=2021-05-11|website=bn.wikisource.org|language=bn}}</ref> He obtained great respect by the highest Hindu nobles and the [[Hindus|Hindu]] community. Tarka Panchanan had a wonderful memory and became a remarkable logician and unrivaled in his knowledge of Hindu law. He was a great teacher and had immense knowledge on all branches of the [[Dharmaśāstra|Dharmasastras]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYyeSyaf18QC&q=Jagannath+Tarka+Panchanan&pg=PA92|title=A Critical Study of Novels of Arun Joshi, Raja Rao and Sudhin N. Ghose|last=T. J. Abraham|year=1999|isbn=9788171567744|access-date=March 10, 2019}}</ref> Tarka panchanan assisted Sir [[William Jones (philologist)]] in his endeavor to compile ''Vivadabhangarnava'' that literally means 'a break wave on the ocean of disputes' and reconcile the schools of Hindu jurisprudence. He assisted judges to familiarize with the Indian culture as a consequence of a parliamentary mandate to perform judicial duties.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5mspDQAAQBAJ&q=Jagannath+Tarka+Panchanan+sanskrit&pg=PA124|title=Law and the Economy in Colonial India|last=Tirthankar Roy, Anand V. Swamy|date=20 September 2016|isbn=9780226387642|access-date=March 10, 2019}}</ref> The text was first published in 1801 under the title – A Digest of [[Hindu law|Hindu Law]], which tried to legitimize the transformation of the prescriptive guidelines enshrined in the Sastras into legal rules to be directly administered through court by using terminologies like Digest.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_Indian_Biography.djvu/431|title=Page:Dictionary of Indian Biography|access-date=March 10, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_dA0RAwd4oC&q=TARKAPANCHANAN+JAGANNATH&pg=PA415|title=Dictionary of Indian Biography|last=C. E. Buckland|year=1999|isbn=9788170208976|access-date=March 10, 2019}}</ref> Tarka Panchanan taught Sanskrit to [[Robert Clive]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-durga-puja-s-colonial-roots-1754517|title=Durga puja's colonial roots|access-date=March 10, 2019}}</ref> He supposedly introduced [[Durga Puja]] in Tribeni.<br />
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[[Category:1695 births]]<br />
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[[Category:Bengali Hindus]]<br />
[[Category:Sanskrit writers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Sanskrit scholars]]<br />
[[Category:17th-century Indian linguists]]<br />
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