The Works of Sir William Jones : With the Life of the Author by Lord Teignmouth Paperback / softback
by William Jones
Edited by Lord Teignmouth
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society series
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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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