Buddhist Legends (3 vols)
by Ed. Charles Rockwell Lanman

In the Commentaries on the Vedic and Sanskrit text the principal purpose of the sanskrit text the principal purpose of the author is often to interpret and explain the words of the text. The Dhammapada Commentary is one of the best known Pali commentaries upon the stanzas of the Dhammapada a Buddhist cononical text which for its popularity and sacredness is often called the Gita of the Buddhsit and has been enlisted as a representative Buddhist text of UNBSCO collection. Eugene Watson Burlingame was fellow of the American Academy of arts and science Harrison fellow for research University of Pennsylvania and Johnston scholar in sanskrit at Johns Hopkins University and lecturer in Pali in Yale University.Charles Rockwell Lanman was professor at Harvard University honorary fellow of the asiatic society of Bengal of France of England and of Germany corresponding member of the society of science at Gottingen the Russian academy of science and the academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Letters of the Institute of France.