European contacts with Hinduism

[Michael Witzel]

One person that always is forgotten is the early Russian trader Nikitin.
It is a long time that I looked at him, so please read yourself,
and it also is unlikely that he had a great impact on the rest of Europe,
but here he is:


                                                India in the fifteenth
century : being a collection of
                                                narratives of voyages to
India in the century preceding the
                                                Portuguese discovery of the
Cape of Good Hope from Latin,
                                                Persian, Russian, and
Italian sourcess / edited, with an
                                                introduction [by] R.H. Major.
                                                 New Delhi : Asian
Educational Service, 1992.


Sabsoub, Jean-Pierre.
Die Reise des Kaufmanns Nikitin von der Rus' nach Indien, 1466-1472 : ein
Beitrag zur Begegnung mit dem Anderen / Jean -Pierre Sabsoub.  Bonn :
Holos, 1988.


                                                Nikitin, Afanasii Nikitich,
                                                Khozhenie za tri moria
Afanasiia Nikitina / izdanie podgotovili
                                                IA.S. Lur'e i L.S. Semenov.
                                                Leningrad : Izd-vo "Nauka,"
Leningradskoe otd-nie, 1986.

Le voyage au-dela des trois mers d'Afanasij Nikitin : (1466 -1472) /
introd., traduction du vieux-russe et notes par Jean -Yves Le Guillou.
Quebec, Canada : Comeditex, 1978.


plus a dozen more, older books. Also a detailed Slavistic/Indian
dissertation, by

Inge Wezler, diss. Univ. Tuebingen c. 1965/70.

(perhaps George Bauman can help here, please?)


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