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HOPKINS, EDWARD WASHBURN (1857— )

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HOPKINS, See also:EDWARD See also:WASHBURN (1857— ) , See also:American See also:Sanskrit See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Northampton, See also:Massachusetts, on the 8th of See also:September 18J7. He graduated at See also:Columbia University in 1878, studied at See also:Leipzig, where he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1881, was an instructor at Columbia in 1881—1885, and See also:professor at Bryn Mawr in 1885—1895, and became professor of Sanskrit and See also:comparative See also:philology in Yale University in 1895. He became secretary of the American See also:Oriental Society and editor of its See also:Journal, to which he contributed many valuable papers, especially on numerical and temporal categories in See also:early Sanskrit literature. He wrote See also:Caste in See also:Ancient See also:India (1881); Manu's Lawbook (1884); Religions of India (1895); The See also:Great Epic of India (Igor); and India Old and New (1901).

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