Arthur Anthony Macdonell,FBA (11 May 1854 – 28 December 1930)^[1] was an Indian-born British linguist andSanskrit scholar.

Macdonell was born atMuzaffarpur in theTirhut region of the state ofBihar inBritish India,^[2] the son of Charles Alexander Macdonell, of the Indian Army. He was educated atGöttingen University, then matriculated in 1876 atCorpus Christi College, Oxford, gaining a classical exhibition and three scholarships (for German, Chinese, and theBoden Scholarship for Sanskrit). He graduated with classical honours in 1880 and was appointedTaylorian Teacher of German (language) at Oxford. In 1883 he obtained his PhD from theUniversity of Leipzig, and then became Deputy Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford in 1888, andBoden Professor of Sanskrit in 1899 (a post that carried with it afellowship ofBalliol College, Oxford).^[3]

Macdonell edited various Sanskrit texts, wrote agrammar,^[4] compiled a dictionary, and published a Vedic grammar, a Vedic Reader, and a work onVedic mythology; he also wrote a history of Sanskrit.

• A Sanskrit-English Dictionary. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1893.OCLC 457790041.
• Vedic Mythology. Strassburg: Karl J. Trübner. 1897.OCLC 866585190.
• A History of Sanskrit Literature. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1900.
• A Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners (Second ed.). London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1901 [1886].OCLC 1256737328.
• Bṛhad-devatā, attributed to Saunaka: a summary of the deities and myths of the Rig-veda; Part I Introduction and text and Appendices. Harvard Oriental Series. Vol. V. Cambridge: Harvard University. 1904.OCLC 466061914.
• Bṛhad-devatā, attributed to Saunaka: a summary of the deities and myths of the Rig-veda; Part II Translation and Notes. Harvard Oriental Series. Vol. VI. Cambridge: Harvard University. 1904.OCLC 466061914.
• Vedic Grammar. Strassburg: Karl J. Trübner. 1910.OCLC 1141304420.
• MacDonell, Arthur Anthony;Keith, Arthur Barriedale (1912).Vedic Index of Names and Subjects. Vol. 1. London: John Murray.OCLC 877534019.
• MacDonell, Arthur Anthony;Keith, Arthur Barriedale (1912).Vedic Index of Names and Subjects. Vol. 2. London: John Murray.OCLC 877534019.
• A Vedic Reader for Students. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1917.OCLC 954916863.
• Hymns from the Rigveda. London: Oxford University Press. 1922.OCLC 827188.
• Lectures On Comparative Religion. Calcutta: University of Calcutta. 1925.OCLC 557945422.
• India's past: A Survey of her Literatures, Religions, Languages, and Antiquities. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1927.OCLC 39784406.

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