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The honorific mahapandit ("Great scholar" in Hindi) has been applied before his name since his lifetime. Sankrityayan wrote extensively, his collection of works spanning more than 100 books on various subjects like Indology, Communism, Buddhism, and philology as well as various short stories, novels and plays.
Apr 20, 2017 · Rahul Sankrityayan, who was universally called Mahapandit (great scholar) as he knew nearly 30 languages and could speak, read and write with great facility more than a dozen of them including ...
Apr 30, 2021 · The Kashi Pandit community called him “Mahapandit” (great scholar) for his extraordinary erudition in Indian philosophy, especially Buddhist philosophy. As a result, he was known as Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan.
Apr 22, 2018 · While he is still remembered as a great scholar—he was universally called Mahapandit—and people do talk about him being a polyglot who knew nearly 30 languages, it is also a fact that not many people now possess much knowledge about his life or work.
FROM 1929 TO 1938, an Indian scholar called Rahul Sankrityayan discovered a number of Sanskrit manuscripts in mid-western Tibetan monasteries that ‘shaped the very basis of modern scholarship in the field [of Madhyamaka philosophy and, in general, Buddhist epistemology]’, in the words of Ernst Steinkellner, one of the great scholars of ...
Jan 1, 2017 · Rahul Sankrityayan, often called mahāpaṇḍita (great scholar), was one of the most widely travelled scholars of India, who spent 45 years of his life on travel and away from home. He became a Buddhist monk and eventually moved towards Marxist Socialism.
Jun 23, 2018 · It was but natural that he was known as Mahapandit (Greatest scholar). His published works numbering more than 135 ranged from travelogues, sociology, history, religion, Tibetology, fiction, science, drama, essays and more.
