A History of Agriculture in India v1.c3.11

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The history of ancient India has been slowly discovered due to the patient work of scholars, Europeans and Indians. In the first phase Sanskrit classics were translated into English. Sir Charles Wilkins translated the Bhagvadgita (A.D. 1785) and the fables of Hitopdesha (1787). Sir Willam Jones (A.D. 1964-94) translated the Code of Manu. Franz Bopp (A.D. 1790-1867), a German scholar, founded the science of Comparative Philology. In early forties of the nineteenth century, the French Orientalist, Eugene Burnouf, laid the foundations of Vedic scholarship in Europe. One of his pupils was F. Max Müller (A.D. 1823-1900), who produced the first edition of the Rig-Veda in six volumes. Burnouf and Lassen, with the publication of their *Essay on Pali* (1826), laid the foundation of the study of Pali. It was thus that the secrets of Sanskrit and Pali texts were unlocked for the English-reading people.