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Macdonell was born in India and educated at Göttingen University , then matriculated in 1876 at Corpus Christi College, Oxford , gaining a classical exhibition and three scholarships (for German , Sanskrit , and Chinese ). He graduated with classical honours in 1880 and was appointed Taylorian Teacher of German at Oxford. In 1883 he obtained his Ph.D. from the University Of Leipzig , and then became Deputy Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford in 1888, and Boden Professor of Sanskrit in 1899.

Macdonell edited various Sanskrit texts, wrote a grammar, compiled a dictionary, published a work on Vedic Mythology, and a wrote a history of Sanskrit.


SELECTED WORKS

  • ''The Brhad-Devata Attributed to Saunaka : A Summary of the Deities and Myths of the Rgveda--Critically edited in the original Sanskrit with an introduction and seven appendices and translated into English with critical and illustrative notes'', Arthur Anthony MacDonell. Cambridge, 1904. 2 v., xxxv, 198, 334 p.


  • ''History of Vedic Grammar'', A.A. Macdonell. Delhi, Sanjay Prakashan, 2004, iv, 448 p., ISBN 81-7453-143-2.


  • ''History of Vedic Mythology'', A.A. Macdonell. New Delhi, Sanjay Prakashan, 2004, ix, 270 p., ISBN 81-7453-103-3.