Making the Argument for Sanskrit

[Lars Martin Fosse]

Some more information on Sanskrit and the West may be available in Eric J.
Sharpe's book "The Universal Gita". Sharpe discusses the influence of the
Gita on Eliot among others.

Lars Martin Fosse
 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Salomon
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:23 PM
> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Making the Argument for Sanskrit
> 
> Also of course T.S. Eliot who studied Sanskrit at Harvard, 
> whence his Upanisad citation in "The Wasteland." (I think 
> Gary Tubb knows the details of his Sanskrit coursework.)
> 
> Rich Salomon
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald R. Davis, Jr." <drdavis at WISC.EDU>
> To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Making the Argument for Sanskrit
> 
> 
> Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) the famous French sociologist and 
> member of the
> Année Sociologique studied Sanskrit.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Don Davis
> Dept of Languages & Cultures of Asia
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> 
> Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
> > Further to David's point below, it could be useful to 
> compile a list of 
> > particularly famous people who had Sanskri, sometimes 
> unexpectedly, in 
> > their backgrounds.  Using such a list would be purely a 
> rhetorical device, 
> > but could still be effective in winning some hearts and minds.
> >
> > examples off the top of my head:
> >
> > Hermann Grassmann (1809-1877), famous mathematician.
> > Leonard Bloomfield (1887--1949), structural linguist, behaviourist,
> >   scholar of American Indian languages, and founder of the 
> Linguistic
> >   Society of America.
> > Ferdinand de Saussure (1857--1913), linguist, founder of 
> structuralism.
> >
> > Dominik
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, David Rustin Mellins wrote:
> >
> >> I certainly agree with Andrea and others that the most effective
> >> immediate response to the current crisis is to send letters in
> >> support of the Sanskrit program in Berlin. As a component of a more
> >> comprehensive strategy to redress cutbacks in Sanskrit programs
> >> throughout the world, would it be feasible or helfpul to conduct
> >> studies to investigate whether studying Sanskrit expedites
> >> linguistic capacity more generally? Statistical evidence might well
> >> strengthen the argument for Sanskrit studies.
> >>
> >>                          David Mellins
>