A History of Sanskrit Literature c21.s1: Chapter I
A History of Sanskrit Literature c21.s1
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Chapter I
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On the history of Sanskrit studies see especially Benfey, *Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft*, Munich, 1869. A very valuable work for Sanskrit Bibliography is the annual *Orientalische Bibliographie*, Berlin (begun in 1888). Page 1: Some inaccurate information about the religious ideas of the Brahmans may be found in Purchas, *His Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages*, 2nd ed., London, 1614; and Lord, *A Discoverie of the Sect of the Banians* [Hindus], London, 1630. Abraham Roger, *Open Deure*, 1631 (contains trans. of two centuries of Bhartṛihari). Page 2, Dugald Stewart, *Philosophy of the Human Mind*, part 2, chap. i. sect. 6 (conjectures concerning the origin of Sanskrit). C. W. Wall, D.D., *An Essay on the Nature, Age, and Origin of the Sanskrit Writing and Language*, Dublin, 1838. Halhed, *A Code of Gentoo* [Hindu] *Law, or Ordinations of the Pandits, from a Persian translation, made from the original written in the Shanscrit language*, 1776. Page 4: F. Schlegel, *Ueber die Sprache und Weisheit der Inder*, Heidelberg, 1808. Bopp, *Conjugationssystem*, Frankfort, 1816. Colebrooke, *On the Vedas*, in *Asiatic Researches*, Calcutta, 1805. P. 5: Roth, *Zur Literatur und Geschichte des Veda*, Stuttgart, 1846. Böhtlingk and Roth's Sanskrit-German Dictionary, 7 vols., St. Petersburg, 1852-75. Bühler's *Encyclopædia of Indo-Aryan Research*, Strasburg (the parts, some German, some English, began to appear in 1896). Page 6: See especially Aufrecht's *Catalogus Catalogorum* (Leipsic, 1891; Supplement, 1896), which gives a list of Sanskrit MSS. in the alphabetical order of works and authors. Adalbert Kuhn, *Herabkunft des Feuers*, 1849; 2nd ed., Gütersloh, 1886. Page 11: A valuable book on Indian chronology (based on epigraphic and numismatic sources) is Duff's *The Chronology of India*, London, 1899. On the date of Buddha's death, *cf.* Oldenberg, *Buddha*, Berlin, 3rd ed., 1897. Page 13: *Fa Hian*, trans. by Legge, Oxford, 1886; *Hiouen Thsang*, trans. by Beal, *Si-yu-ki*, London, 1884; *I Tsing*, trans. by Takakusu, Oxford, 1896. Führer, *Monograph on Buddha Sakyamuni's Birthplace*, Arch. Surv. of India, vol. xxvi., Allahabad, 1897; Alberūnī's *India*, trans. into English by Sachau, London, 1885. Page 14: *Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum*, vol. i., 1877, vol. iii., 1888, Calcutta. *Epigraphia Indica*, Calcutta, from 1888.
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Important Oriental journals are: *Indian Antiquary*, Bombay; *Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft*, Leipsic; *Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society*, London (with a Bengal branch at Calcutta and another at Bombay); *Journal Asiatique*, Paris; *Vienna Oriental Journal*, Vienna; *Journal of the American Oriental Society*, New Haven, Conn. On the origin of Indian writing (pp. 14–20), see Bühler, *Indische Palæographie*, Strasburg, 1896, and *On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet*, Strasburg, 1898. Page 18: The oldest known Sanskrit MSS., now in the Bodleian Library, has been reproduced in facsimile by Dr. R. Hoernle, *The Bower Manuscript*, Calcutta, 1897. The Pāli *Kharoshṭhī* MS. is a Prākrit recension of the *Dhammapada*, found near Khotan; see Senart, *Journal Asiatique*, 1898, pp. 193–304. Page 27: The account here given of the Prākrit dialects is based mainly on a monograph of Dr. G. A. Grierson (who is now engaged on a linguistic survey of India), *The Geographical Distribution and Mutual Affinities of the Indo-Aryan Vernaculars*. On Pāli literature, see Rhys Davids, *Buddhism, its History and Literature*, London, 1896. On Prākrit literature, see Grierson, *The Mediæval Vernacular Literature of Hindostan*, trans. of 7th Oriental Congress, Vienna, 1888, and *The Modern Vernacular Literature of Hindustan*, Calcutta, 1889.