A History of Indian Literature v2.c15.5

v2.c15.5

During the time which has elapsed since the publication of the first half of this volume, death has made deep gaps in the ranks of the scholars whose studies afforded some of the most valuable basic material of this work. Heinrich *Kern*, the patriarch among Buddha researchers, Ernst *Windisch*, to whom we are indebted for some of the most valuable researches into Buddhist literature, Paul *Deussen*, the enthusiastic pioneer of ancient Indian philosophy, and Hermann *Oldenberg*, who had so profound a knowledge of both Buddhist and Vedic literature and religion, coupled with so great a talent in presenting them, who scarcely left a single field of the culture of India uncultivated, have passed away in rapid succession. My dear friend Leopold von *Schroeder*, too, who more than thirty years ago, undertook to write a history of Indian literature and culture, and to whom I was permitted to dedicate this work as a token of grateful admiration, and who ever followed its progress with affectionate interest, is no longer among the living. The memory of these men will not fade in the history of our science,—*na hi karma kṣīyate*—for "deeds are not lost."