18th-century Indian scholars

Indian muslim scholar

Indian martyr and Saint

Sanskrit scholar

Sharia judge

130px|thumb|Bhaskararaya was Lalitaʻs devotee. Bhāskararāya Makhin (1690–1785) was a religious exponent and writer known for his contributions to the Shakta tradition of Hinduism. He was born in a Maharashtrian Brahmin family at Hyderabad, Telangana. Bhaskara raya was welcomed by king Serfoji II of Bhonsle dynasty in South India, and thereupon he settled in Tamil Nadu. According to Douglas Renfrew Brooks, a professor of Religion specializing in Shaktism studies, Bhāskararāya was "not only a brilliant interpreter of Shri Vidya, he was an encyclopedic writer", and that he was a "thinker who had

Bengali writer

scientist

Roman Catholic archbishop

Bengali philanthropist