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Monier Williams was born in Bombay, the son of Colonel Monier Williams, surveyor-general in the Bombay presidency. His surname was "Williams" until 1887, when he added his given name to his surname to create the hyphenated "Monier-Williams". In 1822, he was sent to England to be educated at private schools at Hove, Chelsea and Finchley.
Monier Williams, the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit, photographed by Lewis Carroll. The position of Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford was established in 1832 with money bequeathed to the university by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Boden, a retired soldier in the service of the East India Company. [1]
Monier Williams, elected as the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit in 1860; this photograph was taken by Lewis Carroll.. The election in 1860 for the position of Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford was a competition between two candidates offering different approaches to Sanskrit scholarship.
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Monier-Williams's 1889 work Buddhism uses the spelling "Connexion" for the word "connection". I first thought it is a typo, but apparently it isn't. Solomon 7968 16:24, 30 March 2014 (UTC) Yes, a lot of such variant spellings were common in the late 19th century.
The nineteenth century was a golden age of Western Sanskrit scholarship, and many of the giants of the field (Whitney, Macdonnell, Monier-Williams, Grassmann) knew each other personally. Perhaps the most commonly known example of Sanskrit in the West was also the last gasp of its vogue. T. S.
It was started by Sir Monier Monier-Williams in 1883 to provide training for the Indian Civil Service of the British Raj. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The institute's building is located in central Oxford , England , at the north end of Catte Street , on the corner with Holywell Street , and facing down Broad Street from the east.
Monier Williams translates Āvikśita as a descendant of Avikśit, and Kāmapri as son of Kāmapra, name of Marutta. Monier Williams also translates viśve devāḥ as "all the gods collectively" or the "All-gods" (a particular class of gods, plural of viśva deva, forming one of the nine gaṇas enumerated under gaṇadevatā).