It was he who, on behalf of the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph in conjunction with the New York Herald, arranged the journey of H.M. Stanley to Africa to discover the course of the Congo River, and Stanley named after him a mountain to the north-east of Albert Edward Nyanza.
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His chief work with this object is The Light of Asia which was translated into various languages such as Hindi (tr. by Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla).
The Light of Asia, subtitled The Great Renunciation, is a book by Edwin Arnold.
1884 Edwin Arnold as Poetizer and as Paganizer, including An Examination Of The "Light Of Asia" For Its Literature And For Its Buddhism
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As English renderings of great eastern classics these are in the same league as Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, "Arabian Nights" of Richard Francis Burton or Edwin Arnold’s "Light of Asia".