Wojtilla Gyula: A List of Words Sanskrit and Hungarian by Alexander Csoma de Kőrös.

II. Csoma and Sanskrit Studies

45 a new idea about the relation between Hungarian and Indian languages presupposed a contact in the territory of presentday Armenia in the 6th century B.C.

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2 This proposition has a grain of truth insofar it forecasted the theory about a periodic intercourse between Finno-Ugrian and Aryan languages. For certain reasons it is interesting what István Horvát and Ferenc Kállay wrote about Sanskrit and Sanskrit-Hungarian relationship. This later question will be dealt with in the next chapter. Horvát was familiar with contemporary specialised literature on handbookleve1. In his writings he refers to Friedrich Adelung's Versuch einer Literatur der SanskritSprach

e (St. Petersburg, 19 30) and quotes Peter von Bohlen's work too. His opponent in the subject, Ferenc Kállay, seems to have deeper insight into the Sanskrit language. He possessed a copy of Bopp's Sanskrit grammar and disfavoured Adelung's book on account of the lack of Sanskrit knowledge of its author!

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4 It is easy to see that Hungarian scholars even with the help of European scholarship did not produce anything we could compare to Csorna's works.

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