John Leyden

thumb|Portrait of Dr. John Leyden by W. and A.K. Johnston John Caspar Leyden (8 September 1775 – 28 August 1811) was a Scottish Indologist. Quotes Alas! that Scottish maid should sing  The combat where her lover fell!That Scottish Bard should wake the string,  The triumph of our foes to tell! "Ode on Visiting Flodden", quoted as an epigram in the front matter of Walter Scott's Marmion, ed. Thomas Bayne (Oxford, 1889) In Vishnu’s lotus-foot aloneConfide! His power shall ne’er decay,When tumbles every earthly throne, And mortal glory fades away. Excerpted from John Leyden's 1805 translation of a sorrowful Dirge on Tippoo Sultan from the Kanara, from popular local Kannada songs. Rev. James Mortan. The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr John Leyden, With Memoirs of His Life (London: Longman, 1819), pp. 277–85. Quoted in Vikram Sampath - Tipu - The Saga of Mysore's Interregnum (2024) External links Category:Linguists from Scotland Category:Non-fiction authors from Scotland Category:Poets from Scotland Category:1775 births Category:1811 deaths Category:Indologists Category:University of Edinburgh alumni Category:Deaths from disease