Sris Chandra Basu or Srish Chandra Vasu was an Indian Sanskrit scholar, judge, writer and translator of numerous works. He translated major yoga texts such as the Yogaśāstra, the Gheranda Samhita, and the Siva Samhita into English, several through his own publishing setup called the Panini office in Allahabad.

Gheranda Samhita is a Sanskrit text of Yoga in Hinduism. It is one of the three classic texts of hatha yoga, and one of the most encyclopedic treatises in yoga. Fourteen manuscripts of the text are known, which were discovered in a region stretching from Bengal to Rajasthan. The first critical edition was published in 1933 by Adyar Library, and the second critical edition was published in 1978 by Digambarji and Ghote. Some of the Sanskrit manuscripts contain ungrammatical and incoherent verses, and some cite older Sanskrit texts.