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After nearly a half century as professor of Sanskrit at the University, Professor C. R. Lanman, editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, will resign and become Professor Emeritus, it was announced yesterday by the University office. Dr. Lanman came to the University in 1880 and in 1903 was appointed as the first occupant of the then newly established Wales Professorship of Sanskrit...
Professor C. R. Lanman, Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, lectured yesterday afternoon to a large audience in the Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House on Brahmanism and Brahman literature...
After quoting many examples of Sanskrit poetical literature, Professor Lanman described how the life of a Brahman is divided into four phases: first, the "Walk with God" or life as a student; second, the support of a family; third, the life of a forest hermit; fourth, the renunciation of the World. Karma (meaning "deed") was defined as inherited tendency, derived from some former existence, and Transmigration, as viewed by Brahman philosophy, was described as birth after birth until the Karma becomes sterile and unable to reproduce. In each successive existence, the bodily form has a relation to the previous existence...
...close of the lecture, Professor Lanman answered many interesting questions submitted by members of the audience...
Having labored for many years in the monumental work of editing the Harvard Oriental Series, Professor Lanman has recently engaged in the production of a three volume work on ancient India, consisting of more than 1,200 pages...