Michael Viggo Fausböll was a Danish

Denmark

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 pioneer of Pāli

Páli

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 scholarship.

Fausböll was a Professor of Sanskrit

Sanskrit

Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...

 in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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. His version of the Dhammapada

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada is a versified Buddhist scripture traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself. It is one of the best-known texts from the Theravada canon....

was the basis for the first translation of this text into English, by Max Müller

Max Müller

Friedrich Max Müller , more regularly known as Max Müller, was a German philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion...

 in Vol. 10 of the Sacred Books of the East

Sacred Books of the East

The Sacred Books of the East is a monumental 50-volume set of English translations of Asian religious writings, edited by Max Müller and published by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910...

.

Publications

Fausböll's translations include:

• The Dhammapada: Being a collection of moral verses in Pali (trans. into Latin) (Copenhagen, 1855).
• Sutta-Nipata
  Sutta Nipata
  The Sutta Nipata is a Buddhist scripture, a sutta collection in the Khuddaka Nikaya, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. All its suttas consist largely of verse, though some also contain some prose. It is divided into five sections:...
  
  (Sacred Books of the East
  Sacred Books of the East
  The Sacred Books of the East is a monumental 50-volume set of English translations of Asian religious writings, edited by Max Müller and published by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910...
  
  ) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1881; and, London: PTS
  Pali Text Society
  The Pali Text Society was founded in 1881 by T.W. Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pali texts".Pali is the language in which the texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism is preserved...
  
  , 1885).
• Jataka
  Jataka
  The Jātakas refer to a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of the Buddha....
  
   with Commentary
  Atthakatha
  Atthakatha refers to Pali-language Theravadin Buddhist commentaries to the canonical Theravadin Tipitaka. These commentaries give the traditional interpretations of the scriptures. The major commentaries were based on earlier ones, now lost, in Old Sinhalese, which were written down at the same...
  
  (London: PTS, 1877-1896).

Fausböll also wrote:

• Indian mythology according to the Mahabharata
  Mahabharata
  The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India and Nepal, the other being the Ramayana. The epic is part of itihasa....
  
  . (London: Luzac, 1903; reprinted as Indian mythology according to the Indian epics, New Delhi: Cosmo, 1981)

External links

Fausböll, V. (trans.) (1881). The Sutta Nipata

Sutta Nipata

The Sutta Nipata is a Buddhist scripture, a sutta collection in the Khuddaka Nikaya, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. All its suttas consist largely of verse, though some also contain some prose. It is divided into five sections:...

(Vol. X of The Sacred Books of the East). Oxford: Clarendon Press. Retrieved 11 Nov. 2008 from "Sacred Texts" at http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe10/index.htm.