Author:Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith

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Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith
(1826–1906)

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Scholar of indology, B.A. of Queen's College, Oxford, was elected to the vacant Sanskrti Scholarship on Nov 24, 1849; translated the Vedic scriptures into English; held the position of principal at the Benares College in India for an unknown period of time.

Works

The Birth of the War-God (translation from Kalidasa) (1853)
The Ramayana of Valmiki translator (1870)
The Hymns of the Rigveda translator (1896) (Vol 1, Vol 2)
The Hymns of the Sama Veda translator (1893)
The Hymns of the Atharva-Veda translator (1896)
The Texts of the White Yajurveda translator (1899)

Anthologized

In Poets of John Company (1921):
"The Suppliant Dove"

"The Rains"

Works about Griffith

"Griffith, Ralph Thomas Hotchkin," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
"Griffith, Ralph Thomas Hotchkin," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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