Essays analytical, critical, and philological on subjects connected with Sanskrit literature
By: by H.H. Wilson ; collected and edited by Reinhold Rost.
Contributors: Rost, Reinhold, 1822-1896.
Series: Works by the late Horace Hayman Wilson ;; vol. 3-5
Publisher: Trübner
Published: 1864
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Sanskrit literature -- History and criticism; Sanskrit philology
Other titles: Essays on Sanskrit literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Spine title: Essays on Sanskrit literature.
LC set incomplete: v. 2-3 wanting. Weber Collection 1123. Ms. notes by Albrecht Weber on recto of front free endpaper.
Table of contents: title: vol. 1. Analysis of the Puráńas. Hindu fiction. On the medical and surgical sciences of the Hindus. Introduction to the Mahábhárata, and translation of three extracts. Introduction to the Daśakumáracharita; title: vol. 2. Analytical account of the Pancha tantra, illustrated with occasional translations. Hindu fiction. Extracts from the Daśakumára, or, The ten princes. On the art of war as known to the Hindus. The Megha dúta, or, Cloud messenger / by Kálidása ; translated into English verse; title: - vol. 3. Review of Sir F.W. Macnaghten's Considerations of the Hindu law as it is current in Bengal. Review of A.W. Schlegel's edition of the Bhagavadgitá, Bonn, 1823. Preface to the Sanskrit dictionary, 1st ed., Calcutta, 1819. Notice of European grammars and dictionaries of the Sanskrit language. Review of professor Max Müller's History of ancient Sanskrit literature.