A Grammar Of The Sanskrita Language

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An increasingly rare treatise on the grammar of Sanskrit language printed for the first time in England.

4to, First edition, complete with half-title and 6pp. errata leaves at the end, 5 engraved plates of scripts with occasional offsetting as usual.

For the ease of the writers and other subjects of the Company in the Bengal legislative affairs, Governor-General Warren Hastings patronized the English translations of several Sanskrit epics and religious texts, including grammar and novels. Charles Wilkins started learning and translating such works around the 1780s until his return to England in 1786. Despite ill-health and several setbacks related to a fire that burnt the first 16 pages of his grammar compilation that he finished in 1795, Wilkins resumed the publication for the proper training of students at the East India College and ultimately had this published in England in 1808. Charles Wilkins is best known as the translator of the Bhagavat Geeta (1785, inquire for our copy offered for sale), the sacred book of the Hindu religion, under the patronage of Governor-General Warren Hastings. His translation of the Heetopadesha gained considerable popularity and is also the first English translation of the ancient Indian fables directly from Sanskrit (1787, inquire for our copy offered for sale).

Title: A Grammar Of The Sanskrita Language

Publisher: Printed for the Author, by Bulmer & Co., London, 1808.

Publication Date: 1808

Binding: Later 19th century half-morocco

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First