Jahangir Edalji Sanjana was born on 14 May 1880 in Akola, Maharashtra.
He was appointed an assistant in the Mumbai government's Oriental Translator department, and then promoted to its head.
[1] Sanjana has several pen-names which include Anarya, Payakar, and Tirohit.
He was well-versed in several languages including Marathi, Persian, Urdu, English and Sanskrit.
[2] He wrote a detailed review of the book Klant Kavi [gu], a collection of Balashankar Kantharia's poems edited by Umashankar Joshi, in which Sanjana strongly criticised the editor.