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ticism, and is therefore beyond the scope of this investigation. Suffice it to say that Friedrich's famous little book Die Weisheit der Indier, published in 1808, besides marking the beginning of Sanskrit studies and comparative grammar in Germany,125 is also of interest to us because here for the first time a German version of selections from the Mahābhārata, Rāmāya?a and the Code of Manu, as well as a descriptio

s that have anything to do with India, and both of these were written before he had begun the study of Sanskrit. The first is "Die Bestattung des Braminen,"130 a somewhat morbid description of the burning of a corpse. It was addressed to his brother Karl August, who had joined a Hanoverian re

r (ii. 234) are of no special interest here. With those against Rückert, however, the case is different. It is worth while noting that towards the distinguished scholar-poet Schlegel assumed

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not by name. Nārada's speech, p. 236, is in ?lōka, 16 syllables to the line; the first

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