Herbert Henry Gowen

missionary and professor

Herbert Henry Gowen (1864–1960) was an Anglican missionary and orientalist who wrote on the history of China and Japan and was long associated with the University of Washington.

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  • Often enough it seemed as though, like the river Sarasvatī, the lost stream of the old Sapta-sindhavas, the river of Indian thought had disappeared beneath the surface or had become lost in shallow marshes and morasses . . . But, sooner or later, we see the stream reappear, and then old ideas resume their way.
    • Gowen, Herbert H., A History of Indian Literature from Vedic Times to the Present Day, D. Appleton, New York & London, 1931, p. 9 in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
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