THE SACRED BOOKS AND
EARLY LITERATURE OF
THE EAST
WITH HISTORICAL SURVEYS OF THE CHIEF
WRITINGS OF EACH NATION
_Translations, Bibliographies, etc., by the following
Leading Orientalists_:
IN AMERICA:
MORRIS JASTROW, LL.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, University
of Pennsylvania; JAMES H. BREASTED, LL.D., Professor of Egyptology,
University of Chicago; CHARLES C. TORREY, D.D., Professor of Semitic
Languages, Yale University; A. V. W. JACKSON, LL.D., Professor of
Indo-Iranian, Columbia University; CHARLES R. LANMAN, LL.D., Professor
of Sanskrit, Harvard University; REV. CHARLES F. AIKEN, S.T.D., Dean
of the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University; FRIEDRICH HIRTH,
LL.D., Professor of Chinese, Columbia University; REV. WILLIAM E.
GRIFFIS, D.D., former Professor at the Imperial University, Tokio.
IN EUROPE:
E. A. W. BUDGE, F.S.A., Director of Egyptology in the British Museum;
SIR GASTON MASPERO, D.C.L., Member of the Royal Institute of France;
REV. A. H. SAYCE, LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford
University; W. FLINDERS-PETRIE, LL.D., Professor of Egyptology,
University College, London; STEPHEN LANGDON, Ph.D., Professor of
Assyriology, Oxford University; SIR ERNEST SATOW, LL.D., G.C.M.G.
British Minister to Japan; H. OLDENBERG, LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit,
Kiel University; T. W. RHYS-DAVIDS, LL.D, Librarian of the Royal
Asiatic Society; ARMINIUS VAMBÉRY, LL.D, Professor of Oriental
Languages, University of Budapest.
IN ASIA:
SIR M. COOMARA SWAMY, Legislative Council of Ceylon; ROMESH CHUNDER
DUTT, C.I.E, Author of the History of Civilization in Ancient
India; DARAB D. P. SANJANA, Educational Society of Bombay; VISCOUNT
KENCHO SUYEMATSU LL.M, Japanese Minister of the Interior; SHEIK
FAIZ-ULLAH-BHAI, Head Master of the Schools of Anjuman-i-Islam; RALPH
T. GRIFFITH, President Benares College, India; JIVANJI JAMSHEDJI MODI,
Fellow of Bombay University, Officier de l'Academie Française.
_Under the editorship of a staff of specialists directed by_
PROF. CHARLES F. HORNE, PH.D.
PARKE, AUSTIN, AND LIPSCOMB, INC.
NEW YORK LONDON
This Volume is one of a complete set of the Sacred Books
and Early Literature of the East, consisting of fourteen
volumes. In Volume I of the series will be found a certificate
as to the limitation of the edition and the registered
number of this set.
Copyright, 1917,
Parke, Austin, and Lipscomb, Inc.
[Illustration: THE SLAVE GIRL OF ABU ZAYD.
"_Behold I had a slave girl, elegant of shape,
Smooth of cheek, patient to labor._"
AL HARIRI, The Eighth Assembly.]
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EARLY LITERATURE OF
THE EAST
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