Ludo Rocher

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ludo Rocher is involved.

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Ezourvedam: A French Veda of the Eighteenth Century

Edited by Ludo Rocher

The Ezourvedam, used by Voltaire among others, as sourcebook for the most ancient of religions, was thereupon found to have been a fraud. Actually it was composed by a Christian – the text shows him to have been a French Jesuit missionary, who did not necessarily know Sanskrit – in order to convert… read more

[University of Pennsylvania Studies on South Asia, 1] 1984. vii, 214 pp.

Dissertation on the Sanskrit Language

Paulinus A.S. Bartholomaeo

Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo’s Dissertatio historico-critica in linguam Samscrdamicam (1790) serves as an introduction to his Sidharubam, the first Sanskrit grammar published in Europe. The Dissertatio is also important for another reason: it is concerned with speculations about the nature and origin… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 12] 1977. xx, 222 pp.