COLEBROOKE. 'HENRY THOMAS,_ was the first to giVe.a tolerable sketch of the character and contents' of the Vedas in 1805 ; and in 1823 1827 he expounded the principles of the different systhms of Hindu philosophy. His father, Sir George. Colebrooker, Bart., was for many years chairman of the E. Company. Hein)! Thomas was born in London, 15th June 1765, and died there 10th March 1837, aged 73. He arrived at Madras in 1783, from %which he went on to Calcutta, where his elder biother was established. In 1786 he was appointed Assistant Collector in Tirhut. In 1801 he attained to the, judicial line as First Judge in the High Court of Appeal, after wards called the Sudder Diwani and Nizamat Adalat,. and in 1807 he became a member of Council. He left India in 1815; at the age of 50: His principal writings were,— .
On the Husbandry and Commerce of Bengal, Calcutta 1795 • Hindu L'aw on Contracts and Successions, Calcutta 1798, and London 1818 ; Sanskrit Grammar, Calcutta 1805 ; Amara Kosha, a Sanskrit Lexicon, Calcutta 1808 ; Translation of the Dayabhuge of Jimutavahana and Yajnyavalkya ; Two Treatises on the Hindu Law. of Inheritance, Calcutta 1810 ; Algebra from the Sanskrit of Brahmagupta and Bhas cara, London 1817.
In the Asiatic Researches, between 1795 and 1816, he wrote on the Duties of a Hindu Widow, Enumeration of Indian Classes, Indian Weights and Measures (1798) Religious Ceremonies of the Hindus, on the Sans'krit and Prakrit Languages and their Poetry? on the Vedas, on the Jaina Sea, on the Source of the Ganges, on the Gyal, on Olibanum, on the Dryobalanops camphora, on the Indian and Arabian Divisions of the Zodiac, on the Procession of the Equinoxes. ,
In the Transactions of the Royal As. Society, 1823 to 1828, on the Philosophy of the Hindus, on the Jaina Sect.
He was one of the original "founders of the Astronomical Society, and of the Society for the Promotion of Oriental Literature, ,now known as the Royal Asiatic Society. His Sanskrit 3ISS., which cost hint about £10,000, he presented to the E. I. Co. At the time of his death he was a Fellow- of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, of the Astronomical, Geological, Linnman, and Zoological Societies of London, of the Royal Academies of Paris and Munich, and of the Imperial Acadeiny of St. Petersburg.—Jo. I?. As. Soc. v. 1839 ; Ed. 1?ecieu., 1872 ; Sir J. E.
Colebrooke's Life of H. 7'. Cokbrooke, Lond. 1872 • Afar hlidkr's Chips, pp. 377-417.
col.EllizooKE, IAEUTENANT R. II., wrote on tho ishinds Naukouree and Comarati, AB. Res. iv. p. 129 ; Astronomical Observations in the Anda mans, ib. iv. pp. 317, 385 ; Barren Island, iv. p. 397 ; Observations on the Course of the Ganges, xii. p. 1.