Mueller:  Mueller, Max, A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it Illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans, London and Edinburgh:  Williams and Norgate, 1860.
 
 
 

Illustrations in this website have been taken from a copy of Asiatick Researches (vol. 1, London:  1801) in the possession of the webmaster.  Asiatick Researches was an annual published by the Society Instituted in Bengal For Inquiring into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia, first published in Calcutta in 1784.  These illustrations accompanied an article by Sir William Jones entitled "On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India".  Jones is best known for his "Third Anniversary Discourse" (also from Asiatick Researches, vol. 1), which is credited as the first contribution to the modern, Western discipline of linguistics:  in this article, Jones proposed that the classical languages of Europe and India descended from a common source, and in so doing he laid the foundation for the scientific study of historical and comparative linguistics.