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Moriz Winternitz

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Also known as Maruice Winternitz

Austrian Indologist (1863–1937)

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  • Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism; from Winternitz, Sylvain Levi, Huber
  • 'Indiya cā pe sa muiṅʻʺ Buddha cā pe kaṇḍa
  • Geschichte der Indischen Litteratur; Volume 1

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  • ...We shall probably have to date the beginning of this development to about 2000 or 2500 BC
  • As Maurice Winternitz ... notes about the Vajrasûchî, a text attributed to the Brahmin-born monk Ashvaghosha: 'This work refutes the Brahmanical caste system very cuttingly. The author (...) seeks to prove from the Brahmanical texts themselves, by quotations from the Veda, the Mahâbhârata and the law book of Manu, how frail the claims of the Brahman caste are.'
  • As Winternitz ([1907] 1962) points out, "it is at the fixing on these purely arbitrary dates that the untenable part of Max Muller's calculations begins" (255).
  • Winternitz (1907), too, felt that since "all the external evidence fails, we are compelled to rely on the evidence out of the history of Indian literature itself, for the age of the Veda. . . . We cannot, however, explain the development of the whole of this great literature, if we assume as late a date as round about 1200 or 1500 B.C. as its starting point. We shall probably have to date the beginning of this development about 2000 or 2500 B.C." (310).

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date of birth
1863-12-23
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1937-01-09
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