Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa Mṛgarājalakṣmana, also known as Nishānārāyana, was a Sanskrit scholar and writer who belonged to the Pancharatra Rarhi branch of Sandilya family of Kanyakubja Brahmins.
He is believed to have been summoned from Kanyakubja (Kannauj) to Bengal by King Ādisūra, who ruled after the Pala dynasty came to power in the middle of the eleventh century.
Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa, was a disciple of Dharmakirti with whom he co-authored Rupavatara.
[1] The construction of this drama may be bad but characterization is vigorous; many violent situations are described in long narrative digressions in poetic but undramatic style, yet there are graces of poetry, power of crude and furious descriptions, of impressive sonorous diction, of vivid depiction of detached scenes and situations, and of vigorous characterization.
The chronicle also mentions names of 16 sons of BhattaNarayana and provides details his descendent up to 1975.The Tagore family and the Nadia Raj family claims their descent from Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa.