Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
Jataka stories, English
“Valuable as exhibiting the doctrine of the Buddhists in its purest,
least adulterated, form, it brings the modern reader face to face with
that simple creed and rule of conduct which won its way over the minds
of myriads, and which is now nominally professed by 145 millions, who
have overlaid its austere simplicity with innumerable ceremonies,
forgotten its maxims, perverted its teaching, and so inverted its
leading principle that a religion whose founder denied a God, now
worships that founder as a god himself.”--_Scotsman._
Post 8vo, cloth, pp. xxiii.-360, price 18s.
THE HISTORY OF INDIAN LITERATURE.
BY ALBRECHT WEBER.
Translated from the Second German Edition by JOHN MANN, M.A., and
THÉODOR ZACHARIAE, Ph.D., with the sanction of the Author.
Dr. BÜHLER, Inspector of Schools in India, writes:--“I am extremely
glad to learn that you are about to publish an English translation
of Professor A. Weber’s ‘History of Indian Literature.’ When I was
Professor of Oriental Languages in Elphinstone College, I frequently
felt the want of such a work to which I could refer the students.
I trust that the work which you are now publishing will become a
class-book in all the Indian colleges, as it is the first and only
scientific one which deals with the whole field of Vedic, Sanskrit, and
Prakrit literature.”
Professor COWELL, of Cambridge, writes:--“The English translation of
Professor A. Weber’s ‘History of Indian Literature’ will be of the
greatest use to those who wish to take a comprehensive survey of all
that the Hindoo mind has achieved. It will be especially useful to
the students in our Indian colleges and universities. I used to long
for such a book when I was teaching in Calcutta. Hindu students are
intensely interested in the history of Sanskrit literature, and this
volume will supply them with all they want on the subject. I hope it
will be made a text-book wherever Sanskrit and English are taught.”
Professor WHITNEY, Yale College, Newhaven, Conn., U.S.A., writes:--“I
am the more interested in your enterprise of the publication of Weber’s
Sanskrit Literature in an English version, as I was one of the class to
whom the work was originally given in the form of academic lectures.
At their first appearance they were by far the most learned and able
treatment of their subject; and with their recent additions they
still maintain decidedly the same rank. Wherever the language, and
institutions, and history of India are studied, they must be used and
referred to as authority.”
Post 8vo, cloth, pp. xii.-198, accompanied by Two Language Maps, price
12s.
A SKETCH OF THE MODERN LANGUAGES OF THE EAST INDIES.
BY ROBERT N. CUST.
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