Sadanand Jha is a scholar of Sanskrit poetics and literary criticism (Alaṅkāraśāstra). He has produced a critical edition of अलङ्कारतिलकम् (Alaṅkāratilakam), a work on the science of poetic figures authored by the 14th-century aesthetician M. M. Bhanudatta Mishra. Jha's work makes this text on Sanskrit rhetoric available for contemporary students and researchers.