Bhau Dagee, was born in Parcem at Pernem in Goa. His father left for Bombay for better opportunities and was a very industrious and a notable painter. He had a distinguished ingenuity and was known in the city of Bombay as ‘Parcencar’ after the village of his birth. Bhau Dagee, after completing his preparatory studies, enrolled at Grant College and distinguished himself in many branches of medical science in which he won prizes and obtained his graduate degree in 1851. He was a sub-assistant surgeon and was a highly accredited doctor in Bombay. He was a member of the medical society of Grant’s college of the University if Bombay and was awarded the honorary title of the Royal Asiatic society. He was also a member and syndicate of the university of Bombay and has been a part of several important commissions since 1861. He was a member of the Board of Education and secretary of the Bombay Association. In 1855 he was the president of Grant college Medical Society and since 1864 he has been vice-president of the Royal Asiatic society. In addition to all this, he was very respected and esteemed as a great naturalist and botanist, and possessor of vast knowledge of antiquities and oriental languages, mainly Sanskrit; he had spent huge sums of money to study the history of the most notable buildings in Asia and notes on inscriptions in Sanskrit and other languages, and of antiquity in the caves of the Elephanta Island and different other locations in British India.