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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1898.
His chief works were the Digest of Hindu Law (1867-76), written in conjunction with Sir Raymond West; Manu, translated with a masterly introduction (Oxford, 1886); and texts and translations of Apastumba and other minor jurists. He also edited several important texts in lexicography and historical romance, besides usefulworks for educational parposes. Of his contributions to periodicals a few only can be mentioned. The chief are to be found in the Vienna Oriental Journal (mainly founded, and largely edited, by him) and in the Indian Antiquary. He frequently wrote in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, of which he was and honorary member and also an active supporter. Amongst his other articles I may note: Die Asoka- Inschriften;' . Ueber das Leben des Hemachandra' (1889); Ueber' die Secte der Jaina' (1887); Die indische Inschriften und das Alter der Kunstpoesie' (1890); and his
Indian Studies,' written in English, though pablished in Austria, " not to save you trouble," as he once told me, but for the good of those in India. The crowning work of his life was to have been the Encyclopædia of Indo-Aryan Research, designed and edited by him, of which some account has already been given in the Atheneum, No. 3593. Of his great published contribution to this, Indische Palãographie,' it is impossible for me to speak withont gratefully recording the generous acknowldegment (as charming as it was characteristic) of the work done by others who had preceded or aided him in any line of research. During his visit to London in 1897, and also ap to his death, I believe, he was mainly engaged on the ancient geography of India. I fear however, from what he told me, that he had made but little progress with what might have heen his greatest work, the pre-Muhammadan history of India. He would have gathered together in this his numerous and brilliant contributions to the Epigraphia Indica.
Bühler had the true nature of a scholar - accurate, incisive, critical in his own work helpful, kindly, stimulating to others. His tact and savoir-faire made him a natural leader of men on occasions like congresses of Orientalists, where, indeed, his familiar figure will be very greatly missed. His genial, hearty manner made him equally popnlar and influential with scholars and with men of the world. In all senses he made the best of both worlds.
GEORG BUHLER.
IN MEMORIAM.
BY A. A. MACDONELL, M.A., Ph.D. I FEEL that the various able and full obituary notices of Prof. Bühler which have appeared, leave hardly anything for me to say. But I am glad to have an opportunity of saying that little as a small tribute to the memory of one whose abilities and achievements I have admired ever since I began the study of Sanskrit, now nearly twenty-four years ago, under his old teacher, Theodor Benfey. Never since then has the death of any scholar produced on me the impression of an irreparable calamity, till the papers last Easter announced the news that Bühler, a solitary sculler on a Swiss lake, had mysteriously disappeared beneath the waves in the evening twilight of Good Friday. All the eminent Sanskritists, Benfey, Stenzler, Whitney, Roth, who have died within this period, were all old men, ranging in age from about seventy to eighty years, and had accomplished their life's work. Bühler, on the other hand, was only sixty and, though he had already achieved so much, was really but entering upon what would have been the most important epoch of his career. Quite a short time before his death he expressed the opinion that he would require ten years to finish his chief work, for which his past life had only been a preparation. It was at least fortunate that he lived long enough not only to plan, but to see carried out to a considerable extent, the greatest enterprise yet undertaken in the field of Sanskțit scholarship, his Encyclopedia of Indo-Aryan Research. His organising ability, his practical talent, his intimate knowledge of modern India, and his keen interest in all departments of Sanskrit learning, singled him out
