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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1775|10|07|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = Ghritapur Village, [[Keshiary]], [[British India]] (now, [[Paschim Medinipur]], [[West Bengal]], India)<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1846|04|13|1775|09|07|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal]], British India <br />
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| notable_works = ''Krishvavisayakshlokah (1817)''<br /> ''Shikshasar (1818)''<br /> ''Krishvavisayakshlokah (1817)''<br />''Chandi(1819)''<br />''Patrer Dhara (1821)''<br />''Babgavidhan (1838)''<br />''Paraseek Avidhan (1838)''<br />
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'''Jaygopal Tarkalankar''' ({{langx|bn|জয়গোপাল তর্কালঙ্কার}}; 7 October 1775 – 13 April 1846) was a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] writer and [[Sanskrit]] scholar.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bhowmik |first1=Dulal |title=Jaygopal Tarkalankar |url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Jaygopal_Tarkalankar |publisher=Banglapedia |access-date=14 May 2025}}</ref> One of his descendants Sri Ankur Bhattacharya lived in [[Nabadwip]], Nandipara in [[Nadia district]].<br />
[[File:Dynasty chart of Jaygopal Tarkalankar.jpg|thumb|Founded and created in 2024]]<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Tarkalankar was born in 1775 at Ghritapur village, [[Keshiary]] in [[British India]]. He completed his primary education from his father, ''Pandit'' Kebalram Tarkapanchanan.<ref name="Mohan Lal 2018" /><br />
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==Career==<br />
Tarkalankar went to [[Benaras]] and worked with [[Henry Thomas Colebrooke]]. He taught Colebrooke Bengali and Sanskrit, and helped him translation projects.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tyU4bC4OcvUC&q=Jaygopal+Tarkalankar&pg=PA221|title=Professor A.L. Basham, My Guruji and Problems and Perspectives of Ancient|last=Sachindra Kumar Maity|year=1997|publisher=Abhinav Publications |isbn=9788170173267|access-date=July 31, 2018}}</ref> He worked under [[William Carey (missionary)|William Carey]] from 1805 to 1823 in [[Serampore|Serampur]] where he composed ''Shikshasar.'' Tarkalankar also worked with [[John Clark Marshman]] and published ''[[Samachar Darpan]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-pfiAgAAQBAJ&q=Jaygopal+Tarkalankar&pg=PA99|title=Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross-Cultural|last=Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs, Kate Rousmaniere|date=March 2014|publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=9781782382676|access-date=July 31, 2018}}</ref> Immediately after its establishment of [[Sanskrit college|Sanskrit College]] in 1824 he was appointed as lecturer of Vernacular Literature. In his 22 years teaching career he taught [[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]]<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Isvar_Chandra_Vidyasagar,_a_story_of_his_life_and_work/Chapter_4|title=Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a story of his life and work|last=Chapter 4|first=Subal Chandra Mitra|chapter=Chapter 4 |access-date=July 31, 2018}}</ref> and Madan Mohan Tarkalankar. His principal aim was to re-develop the [[Bengali language]] by ridding it of its [[Dobhashi|Perso-Arabic influences]]. Tarkalankar revised versions of [[Krittibas Ojha|Krittivas's]] [[Ramayana]] and [[Mahabharata]] of [[Kashiram Das]] which were published from [[Serampore Mission Press]] in 1834 and 1836 respectively.<ref name="Mohan Lal 2018">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C&q=Jaygopal+Tarkalankar&pg=PA4301|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot|last=Mohan Lal|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi |isbn=9788126012213|access-date=July 31, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVOFAAAAQBAJ&q=Jaygopal+Tarkalankar&pg=PA342|title=Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis|last=Kunal Chakrabarti, Shubhra Chakrabarti|date=22 August 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810880245|access-date=July 31, 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''Shikshasar''<br />
* ''Krishvavisayakshlokah''<br />
* ''Chandi''<br />
* ''Patrer Dhara''<br />
* ''Babgavidhan''<br />
*''Paraseek Avidhan''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.291641|title=Paraseek Avidhan|last=Tarkalankar, jaygopal.|website=archive.org|access-date=July 30, 2018}}</ref><br />
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[[File:সাহিত্য-সাধক-চরিতমালা প্রথম খণ্ড.jpg|thumb|Acknowledgments on the memory of Sri Joygopal Tarkalankar]]<br />
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