Sri Anirvan (8 July 1896 – 31 May 1978), born Narendra Chandra Dhar, was an Indian Hindu monk, writer and philosopher.
[1] Widely known as a scholar,[1][2] his principal works were a Bengali translation of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine[1] and the three-volume treatise Veda Mimamsa.
[1] He was a disciple of the ashram's founder, Paramahansa Srimat Swami Nigamananda Saraswati Dev, who initiated him into sannyas.
[1] He travelled widely in North India,[1] eventually returning to Assam and establishing an ashram in Kamakhya near Guwahati.
[1] His reputation as a Vedic scholar grew;[1][2] and he wrote both in Bengali (chiefly) and in English (he was also fluent in French) on various aspects of Hindu philosophy (particularly Samkhya, the Upanishads, the Gita and Vedanta) and the parallels between Rigvedic, Puranic, Tantric and Buddhist thought.