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WE regret to record the death on Feb. 18, at Oxford, in his seventy-fifth year, of Mr. Frederick Eden Pargiter, the well-known oriental scholar. Mr. Pargiter was educated at Taunton Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford, where he took a first class in both Moderations and the final schools. He was also Boden Sanskrit scholar. He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1876 and served as district and sessions judge and was a judge of the Calcutta High Court, retiring in 1906. He was an active member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, of which he was successively secretary and president. On his retirement, he became closely associated with the work of the Royal Asiatic Society, serving for some years on its council and later becoming one of its vice-presidents. In his oriental studies he showed great originality. His “Dynasties of the Kali Age,” published in 1913, was a work which initiated the critical study of the semihistorical, semi-legendary Puranas. This study he carried further in his annotated translation of the Markandeya Purana and “Ancient Historic Indian Tradition.” He was a frequent contributor to Epigraphia Indica and prepared for the press the centenary volume of the Royal Asiatic Society issued in 1923.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 119, 397 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119397b0
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