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 on february 10, 1863 in bombay. 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.