ABOUT THE BOOK : Tue results of comparative philology are now so generally incorporated into our modern classical grammars lexicons and text-books that even a slight knowledge of Sanskrit if it be accurate so far as it goes is of great service to the classical teacher in making his instruction interesting and effective. As independent disciplines moreover Sanskrit and comparative philology and the literatures and religions of India are constantly gaining in importance so that for example Sanskrit is now taught at all but one of the twenty universities of the German Empire. ABOUT THE AUTHOR : (born July 8 1850 Norwich Conn. U.S.—died Feb. 20 1941 Boston Mass.) was an American scholar of Sanskrit who wrote the widely used Sanskrit Reader (1884) and helped edit the “Harvard Oriental Series ” which offered scholarly English translations of the ancient Hindu Vedic texts.He received his doctorate from Yale University where he studied Sanskrit under William Dwight Whitney. After further study in Germany Lanman was appointed to Johns Hopkins University (1876) and later to Harvard University (1880) where he became Wales professor of Sanskrit (1903–26). In 1891 Lanman became editor of the Harvard Oriental Series founded and financed by his friend and pupil Henry Clark Warren. During Lanman’s editorship 31 volumes were issued; and many of them such as Whitney’s Atharva Veda and Arthur B. Keith’s Yajur Veda and Rig Veda Brahmanas furnished for the first time scholarly translations into English of ancient Sanskrit texts. In 1884 Lanman published the first edition of his Sanskrit Reader which formed a standard introduction to that language for English-speaking students remaining in print into the second half of the 20th century.

Isbn No.   9788196123628

Author:   Charles Rockwell Lanman

Publisher:   Motilal Banarsidass International

Binding:   Paperback

Language:   English

Edition:   1 st

No. Of Pages :   405

Year Of Publication :   2024