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The Works of Sir William Jones - With the Life of the Author by Lord Teignmouth (Paperback)
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The Works of Sir William Jones - With the Life of the Author by Lord Teignmouth (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 13
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A renowned Enlightenment polymath, Sir William Jones (1746-94) was
a lawyer, translator and poet who wrote authoritatively on
politics, comparative linguistics and oriental literature. Known
initially for his Persian translations and political radicalism,
Jones became further celebrated for his study and translation of
ancient Sanskrit texts following his appointment to the supreme
court in Calcutta in 1783. He spent the next eleven years
introducing Europe to the mysticism and rationality of Hinduism
through works such as his translation of the Sanskrit classic
Sacontala. Volume 13 of his thirteen-volume works, published in
1807, contains Jones' most critical engagements with Hinduism,
including his translations of the Sanskrit Hitopadesa (Aesop-like
fables of Hindu mythology) and sacred religious texts such as the
Isa Upanishad. The volume also contains Jones' nine original
'Hymns' to Hindu deities, poems based on Hindu philosophy that
influenced Romantics such as William Blake, Robert Southey and
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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