Ralph T. H. Griffith

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Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith (1826-1906), scholar of indology, B.A. of Queen's College was elected to the vacant Sanskrti Scholarship on Nov 24, 1849. He translated the Vedic scriptures into English. He held the position of principal at the Benares College in India for an unknown period of time.

His translations follow the texts of Max Müller's six-volume edition and are partly based on the work of the great scholiast Sayana who was Prime Minister at the court of the King of Vijaynagar - in what is now the District of Bellary - in the fourteenth century. Though out of copyright since long, copies of his translation of the Rigveda is widely available on the internet while that of the Shukla Yajurveda (also known as the White Yajurveda) is not.