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the Veda) Leipzig, 1926. P. Thieme (Tuebingen) studied etymo. logy of the Veda in Untersuchungen zur Wortkunde und Auslegung des Rgveda (Studies in the Etymology and Interpretation of the Rgveda), Halle, 1949. W. Neisser also worked in this field.
The Sacred Books of the East edited by Mueller, contain the chief religious writings of Asia in English translation. The whole series was reprinted in Delhi recently. J. Eggeling translated the
Satanatha Brāhmana. and many of the other contributors were Germans too. H. Oldenberg discussed the style of the Brāhmaṇas and older Upanisads in Zur Geschichate der altindischen Prosa (On the history of ancient Indian prose), Berlin, 1917. The Srauta Grhyasūtras were edited during the last 25 years of the 19th century. A. Hillebrandt discussed Vedic rites and rituals in Ritual literatur, Vedische Opfer und Zauber, Strassburg, 1897. H. Oldenberg studied the world view of the Brāhmana texts in Vorwissenchaftliche Wissenschaft, Die Welranschaung der Brähmana Texte (Scientific Thought before Science. The World View of the Brāhmaṇa Texts), Goettingen, 1919.
Pali & Prakrit Languages
· C. Lassen was the first to study Prakrit in his Institutiones Lingua, Prakriticae, Bonn, 1837. R. Pischel's Grammatik der Prakrit Sprache is still the best survey of literary Prakrit, although outdated in parts. It has once been described "the best Indian grammar available". W. Printz wrote on Bhasa's Prākrit. Frankfurt, 1921. H. Jacobi's Ausgewaehlte Erzaehlungen in Mahārāshtri (Selected stories in Mabā. Täshri). 1886. reprint 1967. serves as a valuable introduction. L. Alsdorf discussed the Prakrit used by Jains in Les Etudes Jaina, Paris, 1965, R. Schmidt compared Sauraseni with Mahārāshtrī and Māgadhi in a Primer, Elementarbuch der Sauraseni mit Vergleichung der Maharāshtri und Māgadhi, Hannover, 1924. R. Pischel wrote on the Apabhramsha known in his time. Modern studies got a fillip after H. Jacobi's discovery of an Apabhramsha text in a Jain library. L. Alsdorf' Apabhramsha studies, 1936 and 1937, are important publications in this field.
W. Geiger's Pali, Literatur und Sprache which appeared in English as Pali, Literature and Language', Delhi, 1968. is the best introduction to this language. H. Lueders discussed the language of the · Buddha in his Beobachtungen ueber die Sprache des buddhistischen
Urkanons (Observations on the language of the original Buddhist Canon), Berlin. 1954. The critical Pali Dictionary. begun by V. Trenckner, Copenhagen 1924, was continued by L. Alsdorf and
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