Shastri was born as Bidhushekhar Bhattacharya[1] at Harishchandrapur, Maldah in British India.
Shastri became expert in Sanskrit language and wrote prose and poetry.
Initially he worked in Metropolitan Bohubazar Branch School in Kolkata,[2] In 1905, he started his career as a Sanskrit professor in Brahmacharya Vidyalay at Santiniketan,[3] became the principal of Vidya Bhawan, founded by Rabindranath.
He had knowledge about Vedic literature, French, German, Tibetan and Chinese languages.
He edited 17 books in Bengali and English on a number of subjects like Logic, Philosophy, Pali, History of Buddhism etc.