Essays Analytical, Critical, and Philological on Subjects Connected With Sanskrit Literature (Volume 3)

ISBN 10: 1154051560 ISBN 13: 9781154051568

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865. Excerpt: ... at the same time it will not answer the purpose of its publication, as the conclusions are too loose, and, as we have presumed to argue, are in many instances too inaccurate to entitle it to become a safe and sure guide in matters of Hindu law. The utility of the work is also much impaired by the utter want of arrangement which prevails throughout, and for which the learned judge pleads in extenuation the haste with which the work was put together, as we have cited his apologies to prove. But what occasion was there for so much precipitancy? Why could not the materials have been taken home, and digested by the learned Judge in the otium cum dignitate, he is about to enjoy? We might then have had a work worthy of his known powers and long experience, and which would have entitled Sir F. Macnaghten to the permanent gratitude of the profession, and of the public. XII. REVIEW of BHAGAVAD G1TA, id est 9E2T1EEI0N ME AO I, sive Almi Krishnse et Arjunse Colloquium de Rebus divinis Bharatse Episodium. Textum recensuit et interpretation em latinam adjecit Augustus Guilielmus SCHLEGEL. Bonn (1823), 1 vol. 8vo. From the Oriental Quarterly Review. Calc. 1825. Vol. Ill, p. 1-61. The cultivation of Sanskrit by the Scholars of the Continent is no pretended nor unprofitable pursuit: they have not engaged in it merely to acquire the repute of mastering a venerable and difficult language, or to familiarise themselves with a new branch of literature for their private gratification, but they have come forward to exhibit public proofs of their proficiency, and have enriched the community of letters with the spoils of individual research. Amongst the foremost is Augustus William Schlegel, a name long known in the highest departments of literature, and one particularly dear to E...

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• ISBN 10: 1154051560
• ISBN 13: 9781154051568
• Einband: Rústica