J. N. Farquhar

John Nicol Farquhar (6 April 1861 – 17 July 1929) was a Scottish educational missionary to Calcutta, and an Orientalist. Quotes He had to learn to sing, readily and accurately, all the tunes that were used in the many distinct Soma-sacrifices, and he had also to know which strophes were required for each sacrifice and in what order they were sung. Therefore, that the young priest might master all the tunes thoroughly and have any one at command at any moment, each was connected with a single stanza of the right metre, and the teacher made his pupils sing it over and over again, until tune and stanza were firmly imprinted, in indissoluble association, in the memory. quoted in Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, and David Frawley. - In search of the cradle of civilization _ new light on ancient India-Quest Books (2011) on the rigors of a tradi­tional pupilage in the schools of Sama-Veda External links Category:1861 births Category:1929 deaths Category:Academics from Scotland Category:Orientalists Category:Philologists Category:Indologists Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:University of Aberdeen alumni