Miscellaneous translations from Oriental languages.

Format:

Book

Series:

Oriental Translation Fund. Publications ; v. 16.

Publications ; v. 16.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oriental literature--Translations into English.

Oriental literature.

English literature--Translations from Oriental literature.

English literature.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for the Oriental Translations Fund, 1831-1834.

Contents:

v.1. Notes of a journey into the interior of Northern Africa, by Hadji Ebn-ed-din El-Eghwaati; tr. by W. B. Hodgson.

Extracts from the Sakas Thevan Saasteram, or Book of Fate; tr. by J. Roberts.

The last days of Krishna and the sons of Pandu; tr. by D. Price.

The Devàla Cadai; tr. by B. G. Babington.

Indian cookery, as practised and described by the natives of the East; tr. by S. Arnot.

v.2. Genealogical catalogue of the kings of Armenia, by Prince Hubboff ; tr. by J. Clen.

An account of the siege and reduction of Chaitùr by the Emperor Akbar, from the Akbarnamah of Shaikh Abul-Fazl; tr. by D. Price.

Short history of the secret motives which induced the deceased Alemdár Mustafá Páshá, and the leaders of the Imperial Comp, to march from the city of Adrianople to Constantinople.

The ritual of the Budd'hist priesthood; tr. by B. Clough.

Translation of an extract from a horticultural work, in Persian, by Baboo Radhakant Deb. of Calcutta.

Account of the grand festival held by the Amír tímúr on the plains of Kánah Gul, or Mine of Roses, after his return from Asia Minor, and the defeat of Ilderum Báyázíd, or Bajazet, A.H. 803; tr. by Col. Francklin.

Notes:

Each translation has distinctive t.p. and own pagination.

OCLC:

2569261