{"id":2516,"date":"2025-05-03T03:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2025-05-03T03:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:01:46","slug":"q-who-of-the-following-had-first-deciphered-the-edicts-of-emperor-ashoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-who-of-the-following-had-first-deciphered-the-edicts-of-emperor-ashoka","title":{"rendered":"Q. Who of the following had first deciphered the edicts of Emperor Ashoka?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>Georg Buhler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James Prinsep<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Max Muller<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>William Jones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(b) James Prinsep<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"james-prinsep\"><strong>James Prinsep<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>James Princep was a European scholar who\u00a0<strong>deciphered the edicts of the Ashoka.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He was an\u00a0<strong>English scholar, orientalist, and antiquarian.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He was the founding editor of the\u00a0<strong>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>He is best remembered for his understanding of the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"georg-buhler\"><strong>Georg B\u00fchler<\/strong>:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Professor\u00a0<strong>Johann Georg B\u00fchler<\/strong>\u00a0was a\u00a0<strong>German scholar of ancient Indian languages and law<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B\u00fchler\u2019s\u00a0<strong>contributions to Indology\u00a0<\/strong>still serve as an important cultural link between India and the German-speaking world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He significantly contributed to the understanding of India through his\u00a0<strong>extensive work in Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit languages, as well as his collection of manuscripts and decipherment of inscriptions<\/strong>, particularly focusing on\u00a0<strong>Dharma\u015b\u0101stra, Jainism, and Sanskrit literature<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"max-muller\">Max M\u00fcller:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Friedrich Max M\u00fcller was a\u00a0<strong>German-born British comparative philologist and Orientalist.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The renowned Sanskritist Max Mueller\u00a0<strong>committed his whole life to the study of Indian languages and scriptures, with an unwavering focus on Sanskrit literature<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"sir-william-jones\">Sir William Jones:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sir William Jones is significant for his role as a<strong>\u00a0judge, linguist, and founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal<\/strong>, which promoted the\u00a0<strong>study of ancient Indian languages and culture<\/strong>, including his famous\u00a0<strong>Third Discourse<\/strong>\u00a0proposing a common origin for Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He is particularly known for his proposition of the\u00a0<strong>existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages<\/strong>, which he coined as Indo-European.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>His linguistic studies<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jones\u2019 was the first to suggest that\u00a0<strong>Sanskrit, Greek and Latin languages had a common root\u00a0<\/strong>and that indeed they may all be further related, in turn, to Gothic and the Celtic languages, as well as to Persian.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He also suggested that Sanskrit \u2018was introduced to India by conquerors from other kingdoms in some very remote age\u2019 displacing \u2018the pure Hindi\u2019 of north India<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>His claim rested on the evidence of several Sanskrit words that had similarities with Greek and Latin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer:&nbsp;(b) James Prinsep James Prinsep: Georg B\u00fchler: Max M\u00fcller: Sir William 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