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Hopkins, Edward Washburn, 1857-1932

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Edward Washburn Hopkins, Ph.D., LL.D. (September 8, 1857–1932), American Sanskrit scholar, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts.

He graduated at Columbia University in 1878, studied at Leipzig, where he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1881, was an instructor at Columbia (1881-1885), and professor at Bryn Mawr (1885-1895), and became professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Yale University in 1895.

He became secretary of the American Oriental Society and editor of its Journal, to which he contributed many valuable papers, especially on numerical and temporal categories in early Sanskrit literature. He wrote:

  • Caste in Ancient India (1881)
  • Manu's Lawbook (1884)
  • Religions of India (1895)
  • The Great Epic of India (1901)
  • India Old and New (1901)
  • Epic Mythology (1915)
  • History of Religions (1918)

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  • This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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Books

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

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