In Fall 1862 Bühler was appointed assistant at the
Göttingen library; he moved there in October. While settling in, he received an invitation via Prof.
Max Müller to join the
Benares Sanskrit College in
India. Before this could be settled, he also received (again via Prof. Müller) an offer of Professor of Oriental Languages at the
Elphinstone College,
Bombay (now
Mumbai). Bühler responded immediately and arrived in Bombay on 10 February 1863. Noted Sanskrit and legal scholar
Kashinath Trimbak Telang was then a student at the college. In the next year Bühler became a Fellow of
Bombay University and member of the Bombay Branch of the
Royal Asiatic Society. He was to remain in India until 1880. During this time he collected a remarkable number of texts for the Indian government and the libraries of
Berlin,
Cambridge University, and
Oxford University. In the year 1878 he published his translations of the Paiyalachchhi, the oldest
Prakrit dictionary, with glossary and translation. He also took responsibility for the translation of the
Apastamba,
Dharmasutra etc. in Professor
Max Müller's monumental compilation and translation, the
Sacred Books of the East, vols. 2, 14, and 25. In 1880 he returned to Europe and taught as a professor of Indian philology and archeology at the
University of Vienna, where he worked until the end of his life. On 8 April 1898 Bühler drowned in
Lake Constance, under somewhat mysterious circumstances. Contemporary accounts mostly attributed it to an accident, but it has been speculated that it was a suicide motivated by Bühler's connections to a scandal involving his former student
Alois Anton Führer. ==Selected publications==