Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hinduism and Buddhism, An HistoricalSketch, Vol. 3 (of 3), by Charles EliotThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3)Author: Charles EliotRelease Date: October 10, 2005 [EBook #16847]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: UTF-8*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM ***Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Sankar Viswanathan, and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.netTranscriber's Note:Volume 1 may be found at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/5/15255/Volume 2 may be found at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/5/4/16546/ Excerpts from the Preface to the book from Volume 1, regarding the method of transcription used. "In the following pages I have occasion to transcribe words belonging to many oriental languages in Latin characters. Unfortunately a uniform system of transcription, applicable to all tongues, seems not to be practical at present. It was attempted in the Sacred Books of the East, but that system has fallen into disuse and is liable to be misunderstood. It therefore seems best to use for each language the method of transcription adopted by standard works in ...