Umesha Mishra Commemoration Volume (An Old and Rare Book)

Pandit Umesha Mishra joined the University of Allahabad as Lecturer in the Department of Sanskrit in 1923 and served the Department till his retirement in 1959 with considerable devotion. He was educated at Darbhanga and Varanasi and he studied Sanskrit under his own father Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Jayadeva Mishra. Pandit Mishra obtained the degree of Doctor of Letters of the University of Allahabad in 1933 on a thesis dealing with Indian Philosophy. His researches continued up to the moment of his death and obtained universal appreciation and recognition. The Government awarded the title of Mahamahopadhyaya' in 1943 to him in recognition of his work.

Dr. Mishra was the Secretary of the Ganganatha Jha Research Institute from its foundation and continued to be in that office upto his death. In the work of the Institute, he was mainly guided by Pandit Amaranatha Jha and in later days by Pandit Adityanatha Jha -two distinguished sons of the great Scholar, whose name is commemorated in this Institute. Dr. Mishra's devotion to this Institute was great and the progress that the Institute made, was mostly due to his efforts. It is, therefore, in the fitness of things that the Institute is honouring the memory of Dr. Mishra by bringing out the Commemoration Volume.

My personal association with Dr. Mishra was since his arrival in Allahabad in 1923 and continued up to the last. As a colleague in the University of Allahabad and as a neighbour in the city. I found Dr. Mishra a great friend and a loyal co-worker.

I hereby express my gratitude to the contributors to this Volume and to the members of the Editorial Board.

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