Author:Horace Hayman Wilson

Horace Hayman Wilson
(1786–1860)

Horace Hayman Wilson

Works

Periodicals

• "Historical Sketch of the Kingdom of Pándya, Southern Peninsula of India", in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. III

Compilations

• Works by the late Horace Hayman Wilson
  • Vol 1 (transcription project), 2 (transcription project) Essays and Lectures chiefly on the Religion of the Hindus
  • Vol 3 (transcription project), 4 (transcription project), 5 (transcription project) Essays (analytical, critical and philological) on subjects connected with Sanskrit Literature
  • Vol 6 (transcription project), 7 (transcription project), 8 (transcription project), 9 (transcription project), 10 (transcription project) The Vishṅu Puráṅa: a system of Hindu mythology and tradition
  • Vol 11 (transcription project), 12 (no scan on Commons, but see below), 13 (transcription project) Select specimens of the theatre of the Hindus

Anthologized

• "The Ganges" in Poets of John Company (1921)

Translations

• Rig-Veda Sanhitá
• The Mrichchakati, or The Toy Cart, translation from Śūdraka (1826): (transcription project)
• Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus

  1st ed., in 3 vols. (1827) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)

  2nd ed., in 2 vols. (1835) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

• Vishnu purana (1840)
• The Mégha Dúta or Cloud Messenger, translation from Kalidasa: (transcription project)
  • 2nd edition (1843): (transcription project)

Works about Wilson

• "Wilson, Horace Hayman," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Wilson, Horace Hayman," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Wilson, Horace Hayman," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)