American linguistic scholar and professor (1885–1963)
Franklin Edgerton
Born
July 24, 1885
Died
December 7, 1963
Academic work
Discipline
linguistics
Institutions
Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Notable works
translation of the Bhagavad Gita
Franklin Edgerton (July 24, 1885 – December 7, 1963) was an American[1] linguistic scholar. He was Salisbury Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at Yale University (1926) and visiting professor at Benares Hindu University (1953–4). Between 1913 and 1926, he was the Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania.[2] He is well known for his exceptionally literal translation of the Bhagavad Gita[3] which was published as volume 38-39 of the Harvard Oriental Series in 1944. He also edited the parallel edition of four recensions of the Simhāsana Dvātrṃśika ("32 Tales of the Throne", also known as Vikrama Charita: "Adventures of Vikrama"), and a reconstruction of the (lost) original Sanskrit text of the Panchatantra.[4][5][6][7] Edgerton was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1920, the American Philosophical Society in 1935.[8]
^M. B. Emeneau, "Franklin Edgerton", Language, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1964), pp. 111-123
^"Franklin Edgerton (1885-1963), portrait photograph". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-05-27.
^Short Biography at Oxford Reference
^Brown, W. Norman (1925-01-01). "Review". The American Journal of Philology. 46 (2): 186–190. doi:10.2307/289147. ISSN 0002-9475. JSTOR 289147.
^Dewhurst, R. P. (1925-04-01). "Review". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 57 (2): 326–327. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00068775. ISSN 0035-869X. JSTOR 25220721. S2CID 250346558.
FranklinEdgerton (July 24, 1885 – December 7, 1963) was an American linguistic scholar. He was Salisbury Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology...
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Edgerton, Jr. Benjamin Franklin's Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1996. ISBN 0-674-06659-6 pp. 205–206. Edgerton (1990), pages 207-208. Edgerton (1990)...
FranklinEdgerton, The American Journal of Philology, Volume 33, No. 131, page 249-252 A Hindu Book of Tales: The Vikramacarita, FranklinEdgerton, The...
R. Norman, Pāli could also be considered a form of BHS. However, FranklinEdgerton states that Pāli is in essence a Prakrit. In many places where BHS...
Kadambari. Transl. P. Rajappa, Penguin Books 2010, p. 19 Nilakantha; FranklinEdgerton (1931). The Elephant-lore of the Hindus: The Elephant-sport (Matanga-lila)...
Sanskrit term for a female yakṣa, and yakṣaṇī as a Buddhist variant, see FranklinEdgerton, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary, Vol. 2, Motilal...
University Press, ISBN 978-88-7652-155-3, pp. 229–232 with footnote 133 FranklinEdgerton (1996), The Bhagavad Gita, Cambridge University Press, Reprinted by...
271-272, 314 The Panchatantra translated in 1924 from the Sanskrit by FranklinEdgerton, George Allen and Unwin, London 1965 ("Edition for the General Reader")...
Emeneau began Sanskrit and Indo-European studies with the Sanskritist FranklinEdgerton and Indo-Europeanist Edgar Sturtevant. In 1931 Emeneau was awarded...
poet Shamal Bhatt had adapted these stories as narrative poetry. FranklinEdgerton translated it as "The Adventures of Vikrama" in four of its popular...
corrupted edition of Adi Parva by Vishnu S. Sukthankar; Reviewed by FranklinEdgerton, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 48, (1928), pages...
Mulhern (1959) A History of Education: A Social Interpretation p. 93 FranklinEdgerton (1925) The Bhagavad Gita: Or, Song of the Blessed One, India's Favorite...
elephants, and also the anatomy and zoological features of elephants. FranklinEdgerton, who published a translation of the text to English, has argued that...
Classics. p. 8075. ISBN 978-1-78656-128-2. Harward University Press. The Bhagavad Gita Translated By FranklinEdgerton Harward University Press. p. 57....
25 1920 Arthur Berriedale Keith Rigveda Brahmanas 26 and 27 1926 FranklinEdgerton Vikrama's Adventures 28 and 29 and 30 1921 Eugene Watson Burlingame...
Cambridge University Press. pp. 85–89 with notes. ISBN 978-0521604017. FranklinEdgerton (1952). The Bhagavad Gita, Part 2. Harvard University Press. pp. 91–92...
dialects. This view has also been taken by various modern scholars like FranklinEdgerton. However, the Sarvāstivāda Vinaya texts state that chandasas does...
Mulhern (1959) A History of Education: A Social Interpretation p. 93 FranklinEdgerton (1925) The Bhagavad Gita: Or, Song of the Blessed One, India's Favorite...
included William F. Albright, Robert Pierpont Blake, Rhys Carpenter, FranklinEdgerton, W. Max Müller, E. A. Speiser, and Solomon Zeitlin. The fifth anniversary...
compared below. A-T — Aarne–Thompson tale type index number. Edge — FranklinEdgerton's 1924 reconstruction of the Sanskrit text of the original Panchatantra...
photograph on the Flickr site". Flickr.com. Retrieved 2013-04-14. FranklinEdgerton, The Panchatantra Reconstructed, American Oriental Series, New Haven...
from 1934 until 1935, during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term as President. Edgerton was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on November 26...
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