The Sabdakhanda of Gangesa’s Tattvachintamani

Sukharanjan Saha studied Advaita Vedanta with Professor Gopinath Bhattacharya for his Ph.D. degree of Calcutta University, and studied Nyaya with Pandit Visvabandhu Bhattacharya at Calcutta Sanskrit College for his Tarkatirtha degree of Bangiya Samskrita Siksa Parisat.  He joined the Department of Philosophy of Jadavpur University in 1970 and retired in 2003 as Professor of Indian Philosophy.  He also worked as Visiting Faculty at Burdwan University, Calcutta University and Indian Academy of Philosophy.  Apart from publishing articles in different journals and anthologies he authored Advaita Theory of Illusion (1982), Perspectives on Nyaya Logic and Epistemology (1987), Meaning, Truth and Predication (1991) and Epistemology in Pracina and Navya Nyaya (2003).  He also edited The Sabdakhanda of Tattvacintamani along with Rucidatta's commentary Prakasa in a companion volume (1991), Essays in Indian Philosophy (1997), Rashvihary Das on Advaitism (2003) and Religions of the People of India (2003).