धर्मपुत्रिका : A Critical Edition and Study of Dharmaputrikā Saṁhitā: A Text on Six-fold Śaiva Yoga

Dr. Anil Kumar Acharya (1978), M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Shiksha Shastri (B.Ed.), is an Assistant Professor (Selection Grade) working in the Department of Sanskrit, Ambedkar College (A Govt. Degree College), of Tripura, since 2011. Before this, he also worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Indology of the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), a research institute of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs situated in the Union Territory of Puducherry. His areas of research are Sanskrit Literature, Manuscriptology, and the History of Śaivism (Śivadharma Corpus and Odisha). He has attended a number of National and International Conferences/workshops, including the international workshop on “Early Tantra” at Kathmandu and the 15th World Sanskrit Conference at New Delhi. He is crowned with the “Pandit Ganeshwar Dash Prize” for the best performance in the “Epic & Puranas” section of the 45th session of the All-India Oriental Conference held at Tirupati. He has published several research papers in various national and international journals and books pertaining to his area of study, and is associated with different research organizations and academic bodies in various capacities.