Franklin Edgerton (July 24, 1885 – December 7, 1963) was an American[1] linguistic scholar. He was Salisbury Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative PhilologyatYale University (1926) and visiting professoratBenares 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]
Franklin Edgerton
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Born | July 24, 1885 |
Died | December 7, 1963 |
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Discipline | linguistics |
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Notable works | translation of the Bhagavad Gita |
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