Pandit Balachandra Shastri | |
Birth Date: | 1905 |
Birth Place: | Sonrai, Bundelkhand, British India |
Death Place: | Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh |
Occupation: | Editor, Linguist and Scholar |
Pandit Balachandra Siddhanta-Shastri (पंडित बालचंद्र सिद्धान्तशास्त्री) was a scholar and linguist who bridged classical and modern scholarship in Jainism during the mid-20th century.
Born in 1905 at Sonrai,[1] in the district of Sagar in Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh, he attended the traditional Jain institution at Sadhumal. He later studied at Kashi Vidyapith.He worked for several Jain institutions in India during his life as a scholar. His efforts resulted in the publication of several major Jain texts. He died in Hyderabad in 1985.
His contributions include