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Franklin Edgerton

Franklin Edgerton (July 24, 1885December 7, 1963) was an American linguist and Indologist. He was Salisbury Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at Yale University (1926) and visiting professor at Benares Hindu University (1953–4). Between 1913 and 1926, he was the Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania.

Edgerton is remembered for his notably literal translation of the Bhagavad Gita which was published as volume 38–39 of the Harvard Oriental Series in 1944. He also edited the parallel edition of four recensions of the ''Simhāsana Dvātrṃśika'' ("32 Tales of the Throne", also known as ''Vikrama Charita'': "Adventures of Vikrama"), and a reconstruction of the (lost) original Sanskrit text of the ''Panchatantra''.

Edgerton was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1920, the American Philosophical Society in 1935. He died in Laramie, Wyoming, on December 7, 1963, after sustaining injuries during a fall. Provided by Wikipedia