Wilkins, C.

Japanese: Wilkins,C.(英語表記)WilkinsC
Wilkins, C.

…In 1783, the British judge W. Jones (1746-94) was appointed as a judge of the Calcutta High Court, and the following year, 1784, he founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal, laying the foundation for Indian studies, and the society's journal, Asiatic Researches, marked the first step in Indian studies. Also in 1784, Wilkins C. Wilkins (1749-1836), a secretary for the East India Company, published an English translation of the Bhagavad Gita, an important Hindu scripture. This was the first direct translation of the Sanskrit original into a modern Western language. …

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…1783年イギリスのジョーンズW.Jones(1746‐94)がカルカッタの高等法院判事として赴任し,翌84年にはベンガル・アジア協会Asiatic Society of Bengalを創設してインド学の礎石を置き,同協会の雑誌《アジア研究Asiatic Researches》によってインド研究のまず第一歩が踏み出された。この84年にはまた,東インド会社の書記ウィルキンズC.Wilkins(1749‐1836)が,ヒンドゥー教の重要な聖典である《バガバッドギーター》の英訳を発表した。これはサンスクリット原典が直接西洋の近代語に訳された最初のものである。…

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