Mansukhram Suryaram Tripathi (pronounced [mənsukʰɾɑːm suɾjəɾɑːm t̪ɾipɑːʈʰiː]; 1840–1907) was a Gujarati essayist, biographer, and thinker from British India.

Tripathi was born into a Vadnagara Nagar Brahmin family[1] on 23 May 1840 in Nadiad in the British Indian state of Gujarat to his father, Suryaram, and mother, Umedkunwar.

[1] In 1866–67 (Vikram Samvat 1923), Gokulji Zala, a dewan (a senior government official) of Junagadh state, heard a lecture by Tripathi at Bombay, and was impressed.

Since Gokulji was a Vedantist, the book also contains a detailed chapter on Shankaracharya, one of the founders of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy.

As a result of this Ramanbhai Neelkanth, a liberal intellectual and a proponent of Western culture, targeted him in his novel Bhadrambhadra in which the protagonist insists on using highly Sanskritized language.

[6] His style of Sanskritised Gujarati was followed by his younger cousin Govardhanram Tripathi in his epic novel Sarswatichandra.