Oriental and Linguistic Studies: The East West; Religion and Mythology; Orthography and Phonology; Hindu Astronomy [Hardcover]

About The Book - The present volumes by eminent Indologist and Linguistic W.D. Whitney contains valuable and important research articles. The volume One contains 13 articles namely—The Vedas; The Vedic doctrine of a future life; Muller's History of Vedic literature; The translation of the Veda; Muller's Rig Veda translation; The Avesta; Indo-European philology and Ethnology; Muller's lectures on language; Present state of the question as to the origin of language; Bleek and the Simious theory of language; Schleicher and the Physical theory of language; Steinthal and the Psychological theory of language; Language and education. In the end an index of the words.Volume two contains articles pertain ing to the East and West; Religion and mythology; orthography and phonology; Hindu astromony etc. This volume contains 12 articles. They are: The British in India; China and the Chinese; Chinese and the West; Muller's Chips from a German workshop; Cox'x Aryan mythology; Alford's Queen's English; How shall we spell? The elements of English pronunciation; The relation of Vowel and Consonant; Bell's visible speech; On the accent in Sanskrit and on the Lunar Zodiac of India, Arabia and China. An index in the end.