Cowell Edward Byles 1826-1903 Professor of Sanskrit, Cambridge University

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Cowell Edward Byles 1826-1903 Professor of Sanskrit, Cambridge University

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Edward Byles Cowell was born in Ipswich in 1826, and became interested in oriental languages at the age of 15, when he found copies of William Jones' work in his local library. Self-taught he starting translating and publishing Sanskrit works. On theread more