TY  - GEN
AU  - Oldenberg, H
TI  - Ancient India Its Language and Religions
SN  - 9788121289818
U1  - 934 OLD 
PY  - 2023///
CY  -  New Delhi 
PB  - Gyan Publishing House 
KW  - Language and Religions
N2  - The study of Sanskrit, the science of the antiquities of India, is about a century old. It was in the year 1784 that a number of men acting in Calcutta as judges or administrative officers of the East India Company, formed themselves into a scientific society, the Asiatic Society. We may say that the founding of the Asiatic Society was contemporaneous with the rise of a new branch of historical inquiry, the possibility of which preceding generations had barely or never thought of. Englishmen began the work; soon it was taken up by other nations; and in the course of time, in a much greater degree than is the case with the study of hieroglyphic and cuneiform inscriptions, it has become ever more distinctly a branch of inquiry peculiarly German. The knowledge and likewise the use of Sanskrit in India had lived on in unbroken tradition
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