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A History of Sanskrit Literature

by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

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Europe's discovery of Sanskrit literature in the late eighteenth century is where Arthur Anthony Macdonell's history begins. The introductory chapter recounts early doubt, including Voltaire's enthusiasm for a forged text and a philosopher's claim that Sanskrit itself was a forgery, then turns to Warren Hastings, Charles Wilkins's 1785 translation of the Bhagavad-gita, and Sir William Jones, who founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784 and translated the drama Shakuntala in 1789. Macdonell was a professor of Sanskrit at Oxford, and the history first appeared in 1900.

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Pages
371
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