Author : Kavasji Edalji Kanga
Release : 2015-07-01
Genre : Religion
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Extracts from the Narrative of Mons; Anquetil Du Perron's Travels in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extracts from the Narrative of Mons; Anquetil Du Perron's Travels in India write by Kavasji Edalji Kanga. This book was released on 2015-07-01. Extracts from the Narrative of Mons; Anquetil Du Perron's Travels in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from Extracts From the Narrative of Mons; Anquetil Du Perron's Travels in India: Chiefly Those Concerning His Researches in the Life and Religion of Zoroaster, and in the Ceremonial and Ethical System of the Same Religion as Contained in Zend and Pehlvi Books It may not be unknown to the reader that Mons. Anquetil du Perron was the first European scholar to come to India with the two-fold object of learning the religion of Zoroaster from the followers of the prophet themselves, and of acquainting the learned men of Europe in general, and those of his own country in particular, with the result of his studies. It is true that previous to his time Dr. Hyde had sought to create an interest in Zoroastrian lore by* the publication of a learned work on it; and that since his time many eminent scholars have given to the world the results of their researches in the same direction. But from one point of new - and that an important one - to him alone belongs the credit of having been the first, as he seems to have been hitherto the last, European labourer, in the field of Zoroastrian studies. He came to India with the express object of learning all about the religion and literature of the Parsis from their own lips, stayed there for several years devoting them to the prosecution of this single purpose, and on his return carried with him to Europe a large and valuable collection of Zoroastrian manuscripts, depositing them with la Bibliotheqiue du Roi at Paris. Dr. Hyde, on the contrary, had never travelled to India in the pursuit of the same object, and had never seen a Zoroastrian in all his life. Professor of Latin and Arabic at Oxford he had no opportunities of learning Zend and Pehlvi, which Mons. Anquetil had during his sojourn among the Parsi Dustoors at Surat. And consequently his knowledge of the religion and literature of the Paris was confined to a few small'books written in Persian. Therefore, even though it was the accidental sight of a few pages of Dr. Hyde's publication which first kindled the spirit of enterprise in the bosom of the adventurous Frenchman, yet the debt due to him, compared with that due to Dr. Hyde, by the scholars of Europe m general and Zoroastrians in particular, is great beyond measure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.