THE BEGINNINGS OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY. SELECTIONS FROM THE RIG VEDA, ATHARVA VEDA, UPANISADS, AND MAH?ÄBH?ÄRATA. TRANSLATED FROM THE SANSKRIT WITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

1965, London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., first edition, pp 362, (vi), claret cloth in dustwrapper. Franklin Edgerton (1885-1963) was Salisbury Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at Yale University (1926) and visiting professor at Benares Hindu University (1953-54). He was a linguistic scholar who produced over two hundred works on Indian textual traditions, including a Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary. His exceptionally literal translation of the Bhagavadg? t?Å is still widely used by Westerns students of Sanskrit.