Franklin Edgerton
Franklin Edgerton | |
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| Born | July 24, 1885 |
| Died | December 7, 1963 |
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| Discipline | linguistics |
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| Notable works | translation of theBhagavad Gita |
Franklin Edgerton(July 24, 1885 – December 7, 1963) was an American[1]linguisticscholar. He was Salisbury Professor ofSanskritandComparative PhilologyatYale University(1926) andvisiting professoratBenares Hindu University(1953–4). Between 1913 and 1926, he was the Professor of Sanskrit at theUniversity of Pennsylvania.[2]He is well known for his exceptionallyliteral translationof theBhagavad Gita[3]which was published as volume 38-39 of theHarvard Oriental Seriesin 1944. He also edited the parallel edition of four recensions of theSimhāsana Dvātrṃśika( "32 Tales of the Throne", also known asVikrama Charita:"Adventures ofVikrama"), and a reconstruction of the (lost) original Sanskrit text of thePanchatantra.[4][5][6][7]Edgerton was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesin 1920, theAmerican Philosophical Societyin 1935.[8]
Publications
[edit]- Edgerton, Franklin (1924).Panchatantra reconstructed.2 Volumes. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society.Volume 1: Text,Volume 2: Translation
- Edgerton, Franklin (1926).Vikrama's Adventures.Harvard Oriental Series, Volumes 26 & 27. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Part 1: Translations,Part 2: Texts
- Edgerton, Franklin (1931)The elephant-lore of the Hindus.Yale University Press.
- Edgerton, Franklin (1944) The Bhagavad Gita, Translated and interpreted from the Sanskrit, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass.
- Edgerton, Franklin (1953). Buddhist hybrid sanskrit grammar and dictionary, Vol. 1:Grammar.New Haven: Yale University Press
- Edgerton, Franklin (1953). Buddhist hybrid sanskrit grammar and dictionary, Vol. 2:Dictionary.New Haven: Yale University Press
- Edgerton, Franklin (1965). The Beginnings of Indian Philosophy: Selections from the Rig Veda, Atharva Veda, Upanisads, and Mahabharata, Translated from the Sanskrit with an Introduction, notes, and glossarial index. Harvard University Press & George Allen & Unwin London
References
[edit]- ^M. B. Emeneau,"Franklin Edgerton",Language,Vol. 40, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1964), pp. 111-123
- ^"Franklin Edgerton (1885-1963), portrait photograph".Archived fromthe originalon 2016-03-04.Retrieved2014-05-27.
- ^Short Biographyat Oxford Reference
- ^Brown, W. Norman(1925-01-01). "Review".The American Journal of Philology.46(2): 186–190.doi:10.2307/289147.ISSN0002-9475.JSTOR289147.
- ^Dewhurst, R. P. (1925-04-01). "Review".Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.57(2): 326–327.doi:10.1017/S0035869X00068775.ISSN0035-869X.JSTOR25220721.S2CID250346558.
- ^R., S. (1925-01-01). "Review".Revue Archéologique.Cinquième Série.21(ArticleType: book-review / Full publication date: JANVIER-JUIN 1925 / Copyright © 1925 Presses Universitaires de France): 204.ISSN0035-0737.JSTOR41031931.
- ^Rose, H. A.(1924-12-31). "Review".Folklore.35(4): 396–399.ISSN0015-587X.JSTOR1255942.
- ^"APS Member History".search.amphilsoc.org.Retrieved2023-06-08.
External links
[edit]- Franklin EdgertonatGoogle Scholar
- Franklin EdgertonatGoogle Books
- Franklin Edgerton Papers (MS 1720).Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
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