Bane, Francis William

Born in the family of Joseph Bane. He received his primary education at Westminster School, studied at the Church of Christ, in Oxford (Christ Church, Oxford), where he showed an inclination towards the classical sciences, in 1889 he was elected a member of the College of All Saints. In his youth he was fond of football and played against the Cambridge team (1883-1886). In 1892 he entered the Indian Educational Service (Indian Educational Service), intending to become a professor of history in the Indian city of Pune ( Deccan College ). He worked in it until his retirement in 1919.

One of the most outstanding works of The Digit of the Moon , translated from Sanskrit according to a manuscript supposedly presented to him before his death by one poor brahmin, whom Bane looked after during the plague in the city of Pune . In the English-language literary environment, the version of the translation of this work from Sanskrit is controversial.

The plot of the novel The Moon's Digit is the story of the Indian king Suryakanta, who fell in love with the beautiful and wise princess Anangaraga, who promised to marry only someone who could solve a riddle to her, to which she could not give the right answer.

The book contains numerous footnotes referring to puns in Sanskrit and pun, which, according to the author, it is impossible to convey by means of the English language. “The Moon Digit” refers to a series of works, including: Syrup of the Bees, Bubbles of the Foam, Essence of the Dusk, Ashes of a God and others.

Before working on a “fairy-tale” series of works, Bane wrote several works on political topics, one of which was Antichrist: A Short Examination of the Spirit of the Age.

• A Digit of the Moon on Archive.org; several other copies
• FW Bain works in the Gutenberg project
• The Indian Stories of FW Bain , at the Internet Sacred Texts Archive
• FW Bain on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The figure of the moon. "The pearl of the forgotten literature. (Inaccessible link)