Panditaraj Somnath Sigdel, Nepal, 1973 - Stamp, Brochure

Panditaraj Somnath Sigdel (1884-1972) was the first Principal of the Valmiki Sanskrit College, Kathmandu. He was educated at Varanasi and he passed his Kavyatirtha from Calcutta. He was a Sanskrit Grammarian and also well-known for his Sanskrit works.*

The language of Sanskrit progressed in Nepal after his appointment as Head Pandit in 1915 at the Rajkiya Sanskrit Pradhan Pathasala.   

His magnum opus is Adarsa Raghava (1948), in highly Sanskritized Nepali.

Nepal issued a stamp, an FDC and a brochure  honoring this Sanskrit scholar on 05.10.1973 in the denomination of R1.25.

*AN APPEAL

Readers are requested to provide a picture of the FDC and details about the titles of his Sanskrit works.