234 PHILOLOGY 



Latin and Celtic, GAUTHIOT in the Baltic languages, 

 CUNY in Greek, ERNOUT and MAROUZEAU in Latin, 

 Jules BLOCK in the languages of India. 



Indology. The mystical and theological speculations 

 of Ancient India, as contained in the Upanishads, were 

 first introduced to the Occident by ANQUETIL-DUPER- 

 RON, who went to the Orient as an employee of the East 

 India Company. Without ever learning the sacred lan- 

 guage of India, the Sanskrit, he studied the Upanishads 

 in a Persian translation, and from that he made a Latin 

 version which he published in 1801-02. CHEZY, as pro- 

 fessor of Sanskrit at the College de France, delivered 

 his inaugural address on the use and value of that study 

 in 1815. Fifteen years later he published the text of 

 the masterpiece of the Hindu drama, Kalidasa's akun- 

 tala, in an edition which after almost a century is still 

 used and respected. It contains not only the drama, 

 but also the text of the epic form of the akuntala- 

 story as it appears in the Maha Bharata, thus presenting 

 the data for an interesting study in literary genetics. 



Eugene BURNOUT (1801-1852) was the successor of 

 Chezy at the College de France; in him were united a 

 prodigious power of work, endless patience, scrupulous 

 accuracy, and wonderful divinatory gift, a combina- 

 tion amounting to nothing short of genius. Besides 

 being a most eminent Sanskritist, Burnouf was a pioneer 

 in the sacred language of Buddhism, the Pali, and in 

 Tibetan and Siamese and Burmese, and even in the 

 language of the Avesta, the ancient texts of which he 

 interpreted. His text and translation of the history of 

 Krishna (the Bhagavata Purana) make three folios, 

 magnificent, and yet so ponderous as hardly to be usable 

 for every-day study. His "Introduction a 1'histoire du 

 Buddhisrne indien" is the first great Occidental work 



