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M. Gaya Prasad was born at Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh) in the yeat 1835. His father Munshi Girdhari lal, a wellknown chief of Ghoshi village Distt. Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh) served as a Police officer under the erstwhile British Government in India. M.Gaya Prasad was a government servant worked under various capacities in revenue department and was closely associated with Mr. Charles Charter, the then chief of revenue department. M. gaya Prasad sought his basic education in Persian. Arabian and Urdu in a Madarsa at Azamgarh. Further he went to Kolkata for higher education and passed intermediate examination with distinction in English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Geography and Urdu in 1854 and thereafter entered into the services of British Government at Calcutta. He became a revenue officer/Tahsildar at the age of 20. During his tenure of service from 1855-1895, he travelled Rangoon, Lahore, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, delhi, Lucknow, varanasi, Allahabad and finally retired from the service in 1895 at bareilly. He himself explained the necessacity for compiling such a dictionary in five languages. However after his entire life time to this work and ultimately published this dictionary in five languages in the year 1910. After this. M.Gaya Prasad started writing another book on Indian History and Culture covering a vast period from early historical times to the end of the Mughal period. But due to unforeseen circumstances he could not complete this work and expired in 1914 at Azamgarh. Leaving behind three sons and two daughters.