Jinakālamālī by Aggamahāpandita A. P. Buddhadatta MahatheraReview by: E. B.Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 83, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1963), p. 278Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/598393 .

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BRIEF NOTICES OF BOOKS

Histoire de t'ecriture. (Nouvelle edition.) By JAMES G. FEVRIER. Pp. 616. Paris: PAYOT, 1959. A famous, all-embracing work, thoroughly worked over and brought up to date. It is to be hoped that future editions can bet set in letter-press. (H. M. H.)

Primitive Classification. By EMILE DURKHEIM and MARCEL MAUSS. Translated with an Introduction by RODNEY NEEDHAM. Pp. xlviii + 96. Chicago: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 1963. $3.00. A critical edition in English translation of the essay which first appeared in Anne'e Sociologique in 1903. The editor, in his Introduction discusses the signifi- cance of this product of the Annee Sociologique school (which was almost wiped out by the first world war) and its impact on European social anthropology, 'yet it is an odd and perturbing fact that it is virtually unknown to the majority of professional anthropologists . . . and even the dis- tinguished gathering of linguists, anthropologists, psychologists and philosophers who met in 1953 to discuss Whorf's hypotheses about the relationship of linguistic categories to conceptions of the world nowhere mention Durkheim and Mauss's essay in the result on their proceedings.' (pp. ix-xi).

(E. B)

Mila-madhyamaka K:rikd of Ndgdrjuna. Part II. Ed. by H. CHATTERJEE. Calcutta: FIRMA K. L. Mu- KHOPADHYAY, 1962. Critical edition of the sixth and seventh chapters of the Milla-madhyamaka Kirika of NAgarjuna; the Klrika-s are a sustained attempt to evolve the AiinyatA doctrine out of a criticism of the realistic and dogmatic interpreta- tions of early Buddhism. In this work Nagarjuna applied the dialectic against the Ibhidharmika system, the doctrine of Elements. In this edition the Kiirika-s are followed by Candrakirti's commen- tary and the English and Bengali translations as well as a modern Sanskrit commentary named MafijuvyAkhya. The Mflla-madhyamaka Karika was originally published in Bibliotheca Buddhica IV; the work was edited by La Vallee Poussin with the Prasannapada commentary (Candrakirti), St. Petersburg 1903. The Tibetan and Chinese versions were published by Max Walleser, Heidelberg 1912. The present edition is well and clearly printed by Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay in Calcutta. Different types were used for the Karika-s and the commen- tary; that enhances the value of the book. The first five chapters were edited by Dr. Chatterjee in 1957; the eighth and ninth chapters are in the Press. (L. S.)

Jinakdlamtli. By AGGAMAHAPANDITA A. P. BUDDHA-

DATTA MAHATHERA. Pp. xv + 153. London: LuZAC AND Co. LTD., 1962. This, one of the few Pali works dealing with the international activities of Bud-

dhism, was composed in 1516, A. D., by a Thai Elder of a Sinhalese community of monks founded in 1413, A. D., in the Menam Valley of Thailand by Thai Elders who had received their higher ordina- tion in Ceylon. A significant document, containing departures from the Sinhalese JAtaka-Nid~na. Of special interest to historians of Buddhism is the third part of this work, which records intercourse between Thailand and Ceylon. A translation of this by S. Paranavitana appeared in 1932 in JRAS (Ceylon Branch). (E. B.)

Technical Reports on Archaeological Remains. By JULIET CLUTTON-BROCK, VISHNU-MITTRE and A. N. GULATI. Pp. 59, 2 figures. Poona: DECCAN COL- LEGE POSTGRADUATE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 1961. Rs. 15. Three reports: J. Clutton-Brock's "The Mongoose Skeleton Found at the Microlithic Site Langhnaj, Gujarat," V. Mittre's " Plant Economy in Ancient Navdatoli-Maheshwar," and A. N. Gulati's "A Note on the Early History of Silk in India."

(E. B.)

Paramalaghumaxjii/ff of Ari Ndgeha Bhatta. By PT. KXLIKiPRAsXD SHUKLA. Pp. xiii + 217 (Depart- ment of Archaeology and Ancient Indian History, Deccan College, University of Poona, Publication No. 2.) Baroda: BARODA SANSKRIT MAHAVIDYA- LAYA, 1961. Rs. 6.25. A treatise by NAgega (fl. last half of 17th cent. and first half of 18th cent.) in which he examines and assesses the theories of the different schools of philosophy and grammar.

(E. B.)

Udbhata's Commentary on the KRvyalamkdra of BM- maha. By RANIERO GNOLI. Pp. xliii + 110; 29 plates. (Serie Orientale Roma, Vol. xxvii.) Roma: INSTITUTO ITALIANO PER IL MEDIO DE ESTREMO ORIENTE, 1962. An edition of Udbhata's lost com- mentary contained in the fragments of a birch-bark manuscript recently discovered in Kafirkoth. The script is ?Arada and the date set for the 9th to 11th cent. A. D. An important discovery. Other fragments were identified by Professor Gnoli to comprise the Raghuvamga of KAlidasa. This is de- scribed and edited by Miss Margherita Taticchi in the appendix. The manuscript is assigned to the 10th-12th century, A. D. Written in EAradA char- acters, the manuscript seems to be the oldest known of this work and of great interest in the number of variant readings as compared with the text upon which Mallinatha based his commentary. (E. B.)

Milinda-Tikd. Edited by PADMANABH S. JAINI. Pp. XV + 76. London: LUZAC AND Co., LTD. (Pali Text Society), 1961. ?1.1.0. The editor describes his high hopes on the discovery of this manuscript of what appeared to be the only known tik& on the

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