Decoding the Divine. W.H. Mill’s Sanskrit Rendition of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed and Its Religious and Linguistic Resonance

Abstract

Starting from some historical and historiographical reflections, which constitute the necessary contextualisation, this article proposes an investigation into some verses of the Sanskrit translation of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed by William Hodge Mill in 1823. The aim is to explore some of Mill’s translation choices and frame the lexicon used in a broad scenario that considers the terms’ philological analysis and semantic history within the Indian historical-religious framework.