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'''Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Sr.''' (1916 – 17 July 1999) was the Wales Professor of [[Sanskrit]] at [[Harvard University]]. Born and raised in [[New York City]], Ingalls received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard before serving as an officer in the [[US Army]] in [[World War II]]. After the war, Ingalls returned to Harvard as Wales Professor of Sanskrit. He was particularly known for his translation and commentary in ''An Anthology of Sanskrit Court [[Poetry]]'', which contains some 1,700 Sanskrit verses collected by a Buddhist abbot, [[Vidyākara]], in [[Bengal]] around AD 1050. Ingalls was a student of the Indian grammarian [[Shivram Dattatray Joshi]],<ref name="bu">{{cite web | title=Obituary: Shivaram Dattatray Joshi (1926-2013) | url=http://www.bu.edu/applied-linguistics/2013/07/31/all-obituary-shivaram-dattatray-joshi-1926-2013/ | accessdate=August 16 2013 | date=July 31 2013 | publisher=Boston University}}</ref> and the teacher of many famous students of Sanskrit, such as [[Wendy Doniger]], [[Diana Eck]], John Stratton Hawley, [[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson]], [[Robert Thurman]], [[Sheldon Pollock]], and Gary Tubb. He was renowned for the rigor of his introductory Sanskrit course. He was the editor of the [[Harvard Oriental Series]] from 1950 to 1983.<ref>[http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/hos.htm Harvard Oriental Series]</ref>
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'''Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Sr.''' (4 May 1916&nbsp;– 17 July 1999) was the Wales Professor of [[Sanskrit]] at [[Harvard University]].


==Early life==
Ingalls was the father of the computer scientist [[Dan Ingalls]] and the author [[Rachel Ingalls]].
Ingalls was born in [[New York City]] and raised in [[Virginia]]. He received his A.B. in 1936, at Harvard majoring in Greek and Latin. and his A.M. in 1938 studying symbolic logic under [[Willard Van Orman Quine]]<ref name=Springer>{{cite journal|last=Hara|first=Minoru|title=Obituary|journal=[[Indo-Iranian Journal]]|year=2000|volume=43|issue=1|pages=7-9|doi=10.1023/A:1004047600718|url=http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1004047600718}}</ref>

He was appointed a junior fellow in the [[Harvard Society of Fellows]] in 1939 after which he set off for Calcutta for the study of [[Navya-Nyāya]]{{#tag:ref|Ingalls’s "Materials for the Study of Navya-Nyāya Logic", published as volume 40 of the Harvard Oriental Series in 1951 was the first bibliography of [[Navya-Nyāya]] logic in any European language<ref name=Amphil/>|group="n"}} logic with [[Kalipada Tarkacharya]] (1938-1941).<ref name=Amphil>{{cite journal|last=Pingree|first=David|title=Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls|journal=[[Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society]]|year=2001|month=June|volume=145|issue=2|pages=204-206|url=http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/proceedings/Ingalls.pdf}}</ref>

His fellowship was interrupted by the [[World War II|Second World War]] during which he served as an Army code breaker decoding Japanese radio messages for the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (1942–44).<ref name=Amphil/>

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After the war, Ingalls returned to Harvard as Wales Professor of Sanskrit. He was particularly known for his translation and commentary in ''An Anthology of Sanskrit Court [[Poetry]]'', which contains some 1,700 Sanskrit verses collected by a Buddhist abbot, [[Vidyākara]], in [[Bengal]] around AD 1050. Ingalls was a student of the Indian grammarian [[Shivram Dattatray Joshi]],<ref name="bu">{{cite web | title=Obituary: Shivaram Dattatray Joshi (1926-2013) | url=http://www.bu.edu/applied-linguistics/2013/07/31/all-obituary-shivaram-dattatray-joshi-1926-2013/ | accessdate=August 16 2013 | date=July 31 2013 | publisher=Boston University}}</ref> and the teacher of many famous students of Sanskrit, such as [[Wendy Doniger]], [[Diana Eck]], John Stratton Hawley, [[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson]], [[Robert Thurman]], [[Sheldon Pollock]], and Gary Tubb. He was renowned for the rigor of his introductory Sanskrit course. He was the editor of the [[Harvard Oriental Series]] from 1950 to 1983.<ref>[http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/hos.htm Harvard Oriental Series]</ref>

Ingalls was the father of the computer scientist [[Dan Ingalls]] and the author [[Rachel Ingalls]].<ref name="Pace">{{cite news|last=Pace|first=Eric|title=Daniel H. H. Ingalls, 83, Sanskrit Scholar and Harvard Professor|work=The New York Times|page=7|date=22 July 1999|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/22/arts/daniel-h-h-ingalls-83-sanskrit-scholar-and-harvard-professor.html}}</ref>

He was also chairman of the department of Sanskrit and Indian studies and president of the American Oriental Society.


==An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry==
==An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry==
Volume 44 of the Harvard Oriental Series, 'An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry', is the acclaimed english translation by Ingalls of the sanskrit text 'Subhasitaratnakosa' of [[Vidyakara]]. The book has a lengthy introduction by Ingalls containing an incisive analysis of the structure of the sanskrit language, and also of Ingalls's perspective on sanskrit literature in general, and sanskrit poetry in particular. It also has a section titled 'On the Passing of Judgements' in which Ingalls criticizes some critics of Sanskrit poetry.
Volume 44 of the Harvard Oriental Series, 'An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry', is the acclaimed English translation by Ingalls of the Sanskrit text 'Subhasitaratnakosa' of [[Vidyakara]]. The book has a lengthy introduction by Ingalls containing an incisive analysis of the structure of the Sanskrit language, and also of Ingalls's perspective on Sanskrit literature in general, and Sanskrit poetry in particular. It also has a section titled 'On the Passing of Judgements' in which Ingalls criticizes some critics of Sanskrit poetry.


===Criticism of Nineteenth and Twentieth century Western Sanskritists===
===Criticism of Nineteenth and Twentieth century Western Sanskritists===
Ingalls writes that after the initial excitement at the discovery of sanskrit literature, which produced the enthusiastic and positive reviews of British sanskritists like Hastings and [[William_Jones_(philologist)| Sir William Jones]], there was a long period in which English writers subjected sanskrit literature to the literary canons of their own land. By doing this their judgements were sometimes "monstrous" according to Ingalls. The sanskritist [[Fitzedward_Hall|Fitzedward Hall]], writes Ingalls, being troubled by the sometimes erotic imagery in the poetry of the sanskrit poet Subandhu, exclaimed that Subandhu "was no better, at the very best, than a specious savage" and [[Arthur_Anthony_Macdonell|A.A. Macdonell]] according to Ingalls found nothing to say of the great sanskrit poets Bharavi and Magha except that they favored 'verbal tricks and metrical puzzles". The judgement of these scholars, explains Ingalls, was clouded with bias in as much as it was based on nineteenth century western morals and nineteenth century western notions of literature. "At no point was it enlightened by reference to the critical literature of sanskrit itself", writes Ingalls. Ingalls then goes on to criticize the British scholar [[A._Berriedale_Keith|A.B. Keith]] of whom Ingalls writes that although Keith was a great scholar of Vedic studies and modern Indian law, 'it is obvious from his works that for the most part he disliked Sanskrit literature' and that 'of Keith's reading, it seems to me, no word ever passed beyond his head to the heart'. Ingalls notes that when criticizing sanskrit poets, Keith never applies the remarks of any sanskrit critic to the work he is judging. <ref>{{citation | title = An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry |author1=Vidyakara | author2=Daniel H.H. Ingalls|publisher=Harvard Oriental Series}}</ref>
Ingalls writes that after the initial excitement at the discovery of Sanskrit literature, which produced the enthusiastic and positive reviews of British sanskritists like Hastings and [[William Jones (philologist)| Sir William Jones]], there was a long period in which English writers subjected Sanskrit literature to the literary canons of their own land. By doing this their judgements were sometimes "monstrous" according to Ingalls. The sanskritist [[Fitzedward Hall]], writes Ingalls, being troubled by the sometimes erotic imagery in the poetry of the Sanskrit poet Subandhu, exclaimed that Subandhu "was no better, at the very best, than a specious savage" and [[Arthur Anthony Macdonell|A. A. Macdonell]] according to Ingalls found nothing to say of the great sanskrit poets Bharavi and Magha except that they favored 'verbal tricks and metrical puzzles". The judgement of these scholars, explains Ingalls, was clouded with bias in as much as it was based on nineteenth century western morals and nineteenth century western notions of literature. "At no point was it enlightened by reference to the critical literature of Sanskrit itself", writes Ingalls. Ingalls then goes on to criticize the British scholar [[A. Berriedale Keith|A. B. Keith]] of whom Ingalls writes that although Keith was a great scholar of Vedic studies and modern Indian law, 'it is obvious from his works that for the most part he disliked Sanskrit literature' and that 'of Keith's reading, it seems to me, no word ever passed beyond his head to the heart'. Ingalls notes that when criticizing Sanskrit poets, Keith never applies the remarks of any Sanskrit critic to the work he is judging. <ref>{{citation | title = An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry |author1=Vidyakara | author2=Daniel H.H. Ingalls|publisher=Harvard Oriental Series}}</ref>

==Notes and references==
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== References ==
'''References'''
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== Further Reading ==
==Further Reading==
*[http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/08.19/ingalls.html Obituary notice in the Harvard Gazette]
*[http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/08.19/ingalls.html Obituary notice in the Harvard Gazette]
*[http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/02/daniel-henry-holmes-ingalls/ Memorial minutes in the Harvard Gazette]
*[http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/02/daniel-henry-holmes-ingalls/ Memorial minutes in the Harvard Gazette]
*[http://vimeo.com/4714623 Sanskrit and OCR] A video of Professor Ingalls and his son lecturing about Sanskrit to computer professionals
*[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/22/arts/daniel-h-h-ingalls-83-sanskrit-scholar-and-harvard-professor.html Obituary in the New York Times]
*[http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Esecfas/Ingalls_Memorial_Minute.pdf Harvard FAS Memorial Minutes], February 2009
*[http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Esecfas/Ingalls_Memorial_Minute.pdf Harvard FAS Memorial Minutes], February 2009
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*[http://www.springerlink.com/content/n82587134v3j2v47/ Obituary, Indo-Iranian Journal]


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Revision as of 09:50, 20 September 2013

Daniel H. H. Ingalls
Born4 May 1916
Died17 July 1999

Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Sr. (4 May 1916 – 17 July 1999) was the Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University.

Early life

Ingalls was born in New York City and raised in Virginia. He received his A.B. in 1936, at Harvard majoring in Greek and Latin. and his A.M. in 1938 studying symbolic logic under Willard Van Orman Quine[1]

He was appointed a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows in 1939 after which he set off for Calcutta for the study of Navya-Nyāya[n 1] logic with Kalipada Tarkacharya (1938-1941).[2]

His fellowship was interrupted by the Second World War during which he served as an Army code breaker decoding Japanese radio messages for the Office of Strategic Services (1942–44).[2]

After the war, Ingalls returned to Harvard as Wales Professor of Sanskrit. He was particularly known for his translation and commentary in An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry, which contains some 1,700 Sanskrit verses collected by a Buddhist abbot, Vidyākara, in Bengal around AD 1050. Ingalls was a student of the Indian grammarian Shivram Dattatray Joshi,[3] and the teacher of many famous students of Sanskrit, such as Wendy Doniger, Diana Eck, John Stratton Hawley, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Robert Thurman, Sheldon Pollock, and Gary Tubb. He was renowned for the rigor of his introductory Sanskrit course. He was the editor of the Harvard Oriental Series from 1950 to 1983.[4]

Ingalls was the father of the computer scientist Dan Ingalls and the author Rachel Ingalls.[5]

He was also chairman of the department of Sanskrit and Indian studies and president of the American Oriental Society.

An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry

Volume 44 of the Harvard Oriental Series, 'An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry', is the acclaimed English translation by Ingalls of the Sanskrit text 'Subhasitaratnakosa' of Vidyakara. The book has a lengthy introduction by Ingalls containing an incisive analysis of the structure of the Sanskrit language, and also of Ingalls's perspective on Sanskrit literature in general, and Sanskrit poetry in particular. It also has a section titled 'On the Passing of Judgements' in which Ingalls criticizes some critics of Sanskrit poetry.

Criticism of Nineteenth and Twentieth century Western Sanskritists

Ingalls writes that after the initial excitement at the discovery of Sanskrit literature, which produced the enthusiastic and positive reviews of British sanskritists like Hastings and Sir William Jones, there was a long period in which English writers subjected Sanskrit literature to the literary canons of their own land. By doing this their judgements were sometimes "monstrous" according to Ingalls. The sanskritist Fitzedward Hall, writes Ingalls, being troubled by the sometimes erotic imagery in the poetry of the Sanskrit poet Subandhu, exclaimed that Subandhu "was no better, at the very best, than a specious savage" and A. A. Macdonell according to Ingalls found nothing to say of the great sanskrit poets Bharavi and Magha except that they favored 'verbal tricks and metrical puzzles". The judgement of these scholars, explains Ingalls, was clouded with bias in as much as it was based on nineteenth century western morals and nineteenth century western notions of literature. "At no point was it enlightened by reference to the critical literature of Sanskrit itself", writes Ingalls. Ingalls then goes on to criticize the British scholar A. B. Keith of whom Ingalls writes that although Keith was a great scholar of Vedic studies and modern Indian law, 'it is obvious from his works that for the most part he disliked Sanskrit literature' and that 'of Keith's reading, it seems to me, no word ever passed beyond his head to the heart'. Ingalls notes that when criticizing Sanskrit poets, Keith never applies the remarks of any Sanskrit critic to the work he is judging. [6]

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ Ingalls’s "Materials for the Study of Navya-Nyāya Logic", published as volume 40 of the Harvard Oriental Series in 1951 was the first bibliography of Navya-Nyāya logic in any European language[2]

References

  1. ^ Hara, Minoru (2000). "Obituary". Indo-Iranian Journal. 43 (1): 7–9. doi:10.1023/A:1004047600718.
  2. ^ a b c Pingree, David (2001). "Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls" (PDF). Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 145 (2): 204–206. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  3. ^ "Obituary: Shivaram Dattatray Joshi (1926-2013)". Boston University. July 31 2013. Retrieved August 16 2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  4. ^ Harvard Oriental Series
  5. ^ Pace, Eric (22 July 1999). "Daniel H. H. Ingalls, 83, Sanskrit Scholar and Harvard Professor". The New York Times. p. 7.
  6. ^ Vidyakara; Daniel H.H. Ingalls, An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry, Harvard Oriental Series

Further Reading

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