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Ernst Trumpp, Die Religion der Sikhs: nach den Quellen Dargestellt, one of the first European accounts Leipzig, Otto Schulze, 1881(2)
12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
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Ernst Trumpp, Die Religion der Sikhs: nach den Quellen Dargestellt, one of the first European accounts
Leipzig, Otto Schulze, 1881
Leipzig, Otto Schulze, 1881
124 pp., German text, later cloth and marbled boards, 178 x 123 mm.; and Frederic Pincott, The Arrangement of the Hymns of the Adi Granth, pamphlet, extract from the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society vol. 18, 1886, pp. 437-461, bound with other unrelated pages from the Transactions, paper covers
220 x 140 mm.(2)
220 x 140 mm.(2)
Footnotes
The India Office had commissioned a German missionary and scholar, Dr Ernest Trumpp, who had learned Arabic, Sanskrit, Hindi and Sindhi, to translate the Granth into English, but the partial translation (Trumpp had given up after seven years in despair), which appeared in 1877, was unacceptable, indeed offensive, to many Sikhs. Max Arthur Macauliffe (see lot 188) undertook a new translation with the encouragement of Sikh scholars and other figures in the community.
The contents of Trumpp's study consist of chapter 1, Geschichte der Sikh Religion, and chapter 2, Darstellung der Sikh Religion.
Frederic Pincott was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society. His pamphlet consist of a brief Introduction, followed by a Table of Contents of the Adi Granth.