page_title: Arthur Coke Burnell
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur Coke Burnell / Works
caption_attribution_description: Map of South Indian scripts
context_page_description: Arthur Coke Burnell was an English civil servant who served in the Madras Presidency who was also a scholar in Sanskrit and Dravidian languages. He catalogued the Sanskrit manuscripts in southern India, particularly those in the collections of the Tanjore court collections. He was, with Henry Yule, a co-compiler of Hobson-Jobson, a compendium of Anglo-Indian terms.
context_section_description: In 1874, Burnell published a Handbook of South Indian Palaeography, characterized by Max Müller as "an avenue through one of the thickest and darkest jungles of Indian archaeology, and is so full of documentary evidence, that it will long remain indispensable to every student of Indian literature". He received a honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg. In 1880 he compiled, with the encouragement of Lord Napier, the Classified Index to the Sanskrit MSS in the Palace at Tanjore. The Tanjore collection was estimated by Burnell as being the work of nearly 300 years begun by Tanjore rajas and continued by Mahratta rulers. He was also the author of a large number of translations from, and commentaries on, various other Sanskrit manuscripts, being particularly successful in grouping and elucidating the essential principles of Hindu law. These included Madhava's Commentary on the Parâśarasmriti (1868), The law of partition and succession, from the manuscript Sanskrit text of Vaṛadarâja's Vyavahâranirṇaya, Specimens of South Indian Dialects, Clavis humaniorum litterarum sublimioris Tamulici idiomatis (1876), and The Aindra School of Sanskrit Grammarians (1875). He published many papers in the Indian Antiquary. He also published on the history of the Portuguese in India.
  In addition to his exhaustive acquaintance with Sanskrit, and the southern India languages, he had some knowledge of Tibetan, Arabic, Kawi, Javanese and Coptic. Burnell originated with Sir Henry Yule the dictionary of Anglo-Indian words and phrases, Hobson-Jobson.
  A list of his publications included his own books as well as notes and translations in the works of other collaborators:
  Dayavibhaga. The Law of Inheritance. From the published Sanskrit texts of the- Vyahavaharakanda of the Madhaviya Commentary of the Paracarasmriti. Madias, 1868.
  Catalogue of a Collection of Sanskrit MSS., Part I. Vedic MSS., with many extracts. Madras, 1869.
  A few Suggestions as to the best way of making and utilizing Copies of Indian Inscriptions.  Madras, 1870.
  The Law of Partition and Succession. From the MS. Sanskrit text of Varadaraja's Vyahavaharanimaya. Mangalore, 1872.
  Specimens of South Indian Dialects, consisting of versions of the Parable of the Sower (St. Matthew xiii. 1-34), with Grammatical and Ethnographical Introductions.
  In the Konkani Dialect spoken by the Roman Catholics of South Canara. Mangalore, 1872. Second Edition, Mangalore, 1873
  In the Dialect of Malayalim spoken by the Mappilas of South Canara, and of Amindivi (Laccadivo) Islands. In the Mappila-Arabic characters and in Lepsius's Standard Alphabet.  1873.
  In the Kodagu (Coorg) Language, by the Rev. R Kittel. 1873.
  In the Tanjore Dialect of Tamil.    Tranquebar, 187C.
  In the Language of the Todas (Nilagiri Hills), by the Rev. F. Metz.    1873.
  In the Dialect of Canarese spoken by the Badagas of the Nilagiri Hills, by the same. 1873.
  In the Dialect of Konkani spoken by the Sarasvat Brahmins of South Canara.
  In the Kundapur Dialect of Canarese.
  In the Tanjore Tamil-Brahman Dialect. Tranquebar, 1877.
  Ethnography of the S.W, Frontier of the Aryan and Dravidian races.    1873.
  The Samavidhana Brahmana of the Sama-Veda, edited with the Commentary of Sayana, an English Translation, Introduction and Indexes. Vol.I. containing the Text, with an introduction. London, 1873.
  The Vamsa Brahmana of the Sama-Veda, with an introduction on Sayana's life and works, his Commentary and Index.  8vo. Mangalore, 1872.
  The Devatadhyaya Brahmana of the Sama Veda with Sayana's Commentary, Index, &c.  1873.
  On some Pahlavi Inscriptions in S. India. Mangalore, 1873.
  Elements of South Indian Palaeography. Mangalore, 1874. 2nd Edition, Mangalore, 1878.
  Dayadasasloki, with Translation. Mangalore, 1875.
  On  the   Aindra   School   of   Sanskrit   Grammarians. Mangalore, 1875.
  Arsheya Brahmana of the Sama-Veda, with Extracts from Sayana's Commentary, an Introduction and Index of Words. Mangalore, 1876.
  The Samhitopanishad Brahmana of the Sama-Veda, with an anonymous Commentary.  1877.
  A legend from the Jalavahara or Jaiminiya Bra
caption: Burnell's map of south Indian scripts
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