John Leyden

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 alone
    Confide! 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)
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