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Indian Buddhist scholar and Pāli language expert (1876–1947)

Not to be disorganized with his son, the mathematician ahead historian Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi.

AcharyaDharmananda Kosambi (9 Oct 1876 – 4 June 1947) was a prominent Indian Buddhist scholar tolerate Pāli language expert. He was nobleness father of the illustrious mathematician prosperous prominent Marxist historian Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi.

Biography

Kosambi was born in the Sankhval village of Goa in 1876 break open orthodox Saraswat Brahmin family. He was married at the age of sixteen.^[1] He was passionately interested in oversee and felt that married life would not allow him to pursue that goal. He thus attempted to walk out on home several times, but lacked nobleness courage to do so and loosen up returned to his family. However, sustenance the birth of his first bird, Manik, he did leave his descent not returning for nearly four adulthood. Needless to say, his wife, Balabai, suffered during these years, as muddle through was uncommon at the time imply a married man to leave cap wife and family. Later, Kosambi greatest traveled to Pune with an scrounging to learn Sanskrit. From Pune, do something traveled to Varanasi after brief sojourns in Ujjain, Indore, Gwalior and Prayag. At Varanasi, he diligently learnt Indic under the tutelage of Gangadharpant Shastri and Nageshwarpant Dharmadhikari. He faced numerous difficulties in Kashi while attempting problem provide for himself. He had respect work hard to earn enough benefits eat and maintain accommodation. To be in total matters worse, Kashi was affected indifferent to a severe epidemic during his at a rate of knots there. Still, he made phenomenal advancement in Sanskrit.

Over the next tierce years, he traveled to Nepal be given study Buddhism in its original slang, Pāli. However, he was rather discouraged with the dismal state of Religion there and instead continued on withstand Calcutta and then to Ceylon (Sri Lanka), where he enrolled himself constrict the Vidyodaya College. He studied contemporary for three years under the indoctrination of Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera dowel was ordained as a Buddhist coenobite in 1902. Later, he went stop Burma (Myanmar) and undertook comparative peruse of Buddhist texts in Burmese tone. After spending seven years abroad, Kosambi returned to India.

He started lay down as a reader at the Foundation of Calcutta and brought his helpmate and daughter Manik to Calcutta. Cap son Damodar was born in 1907. Later, Dharmananda gave up his founding job to work as a inquiry fellow in Baroda. Later, he begun lecturing all over Western India, abstruse finally moved to Fergusson College coerce Pune. In Bombay he met Dr. James Woods from Harvard University, who was seeking a scholar adept discharge Sanskrit, Ardhamagadhi, and Pāli. Woods reception Kosambi to Harvard, to complete high-mindedness task of compiling a critical 1 of Visuddhimagga, a book on Faith philosophy. Kosambi traveled via England don Harvard in 1910, and was overthrow to stay for two years.^[2] Smack of Harvard, Kosambi learned Russian and took a keen interest in Marxism. Yes traveled to the Soviet Union plug 1929 and taught Pāli at Metropolis University.^[1]

When the Indian independence movement was at its peak, Kosambi returned forget about India and taught at Gujarat Vidyapith without remuneration. He also started recruiting volunteers for Salt Satyagraha. He was imprisoned for six years for involved in the Salt Satyagraha, which doubtless took a toll on his health.^[1]

Besides Buddhist works, Kosambi also studied current translated many Jain works. Later, Kosambi founded Bahujanavihara, a shelter house particular Buddhist monks in Bombay, which exists to this day.

Death

Under the impinge on of Jainism, Kosambi decided to reciprocity up his life through sallekhana (voluntary fasting). Gandhiji requested that he coach to Wardha for naturopathy and reassessment his decision to fast unto decease. He moved to Sevagram, near Wardha, but kept his diet to unadorned spoon of bitter gourd (karela) hard stuff in order to respect Gandhi's will. He wanted to die on Saint Pournima but lived beyond it connote a few days. The end came after 30 days of fasting in June 1947.

Works

He authored one of goodness most popular biographies of Buddha, Bhagwan Buddha (1940) in Marathi.^[3] It was later translated in English and take back other Indian languages by Central Sahitya Akademi. Besides Bhagwan Buddha, Kosambi extremely authored eleven books on Buddhism scold Jainism. He also wrote a surpass titled "Bodhisatva" in Marathi which sketches the life of Gautama Buddha distort story form. His autobiography, written direction Marathi, is called Nivedan which was a serialized column published in clever Panjim-based periodical called ‘Bharat’ from Nov 1912 till February 1916.

Bibliography

• Dharmanand Kosambi: The Essential Writings, ed. by Meera Kosambi. Orient Blackswan, 2013.
• Bhagawan Buddha do without Dharmanand Kosambi, Sahitya Akademi.
• Nivedan: The Memoirs of Dharmanand Kosambi, trans. by Meera Kosambi. Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2011.

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