The Upaniṣads reach Europe — in Latin, from Persian

Anquetil-Duperron publishes the Oupnek'hat, translated not from Sanskrit but from Dārā Shikōh's Persian, in idiosyncratic Latin. Schopenhauer reads it about 1814 and keeps it by him for the rest of his life.

Four languages, a century and a half, and an executed prince — and it still landed. The channel this app most enjoys, because nobody could have planned it and it worked anyway.