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on the religion of Buddha, and it was followed in 1852 

 by his "Lotus de la bonne loi," the first Occidental trans- 

 lation of an important Buddhist text, issued with a 

 score of relevant learned memoirs. Burnouf made Paris 

 the chief center for Indian studies and Indianists in the 

 forties; and the power of his personality and teaching 

 is shown by the fact that he drew to himself such 

 famous pupils as Adolphe REGNIER and BARTHELEMY- 

 SAINT-HILAIRE, GoLDSTUCKER, Rudolf ROTH, and Max 



MtJLLER. 



It is the times of bitterest trial for France that have 

 witnessed some of the most notable events in the history 

 of French Orientalism. Chezy's inaugural was delivered 

 only a few months before the battle of Waterloo. The 

 cole des Hautes Etudes was opened in 1868. And it 

 was only a little after the disasters of the Franco-German 

 war of 1870-71 that a splendid trio of. Indianists SE- 

 NART and BERGAIGNE and BARTH arose to give luster 

 to French scholarship. SENART, a native of Rheims, by 

 his "Grammar of Kaccayana" (1871), laid a solid foun- 

 dation for the further study of Pali, begun by Burnouf. 

 The grammar was soon followed by his Essay on the 

 Legend of Buddha. Many of the most important texts 

 relating to this subject are contained in the Maha Vastu; 

 Senart published an edition of this in three volumes 

 (1882-1897) which may truly be called monumental. 

 So also are his two volumes entitled "Les inscriptions 

 de Piyadasi" or Agoka (about 250 B.C.), the "Constan- 

 tine of Buddhism," containing very old and impor- 

 tant data for the study of the palaeography and the 

 linguistics of India and of its religious and political 

 history. 



Abel BERGAIGNE (1838-1888), pupil of a devoted 

 teacher, HAUVETTE-BESNAULT, inaugurated the instruc- 

 tion in Indology at the Sorbonne, and founded a school 



