Milinda-Ṭīkā by Padmanabh S. JainiReview by: E. B.Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 83, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1963), pp. 278-279Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/598397 .

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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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Brief Notices of Books 279

Milindapafiha and his disappointment, after inspect- ing it, to discover that only the first 46 out of 188 leaves of this palm-leaf manuscript in Cambodian script could be properly considered a t-ka on the text. The text, nevertheless, has value for the preparation of a new edition of the Jataka. The editor notes that the Jataka stories quoted seem to have been based on a Burmese redaction different from that used by Fausboll. He also points out that the author of the tbkA corrects incongruities between the Milindapaiha and the Jdtaka. His comments, regarding the five introductory gathas and the prologue and epilogue, ascribing them to Buddhaghoea, reveals, so the editor proposes, the existence of a tradition which delegates to Buddha- gho~a a r5le in the revising or recasting of the Milindapafiha. The editor assigns the composition of the manuscript to the beginning or middle of the 13th century, A.D., possibly later (1474, A.D.).

(E. B.)

Mohavicchedani Abhidhammamnutikatthavannan4 by Kas- sapatthera of Cola. Edited by AGGAMAHIPANDITA A. P. BUDDHADATTA MAHITHERA and A. K. WARDER. Pp. xxvii + 384. London: LUZAC AND Co., LTD. (Pali Text Society), 1961. ?4.4.0. The discovery of this work fills the gap between the Abhidhamma traditions of Ceylon and Burma-traditions which have been lost in Ceylon while they continue to flour- ish in Burma. The editors identify the author of the Mohavicchedan!, Kassapa, as a native of the Cola country of South India, during the period between the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century, A. D. (E. B.)

Andhra Pradesh Government Archaeological Series, No. 1, " Piklihal Excavations." By F. R. ALLCHIN. Pp. xvii + 153. 64 plates. Calcutta: THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS (Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad), 1960. Rs. 15. Here the author pre- sents a detailed report of the excavations conducted at the Piklihal site of the Raichur Doab in South India and suggests several theories of the origins of the culture. He traces a movement or movements of people, probably pastoralists in the last centuries of the third millenium, B. C., in the Turkoman Steppe and Elburz mountains. In time they entered the Indus Valley coming into contact with the late Harappan culture. Some tribes, eventually moved eastward across Sind and Saurashtra and turned south into the Deccan. He further suggests that these substratum of settlers mingled with the Veddid or Australoid elements and to them might be attributed the introduction of the Dravidian family of languages. Dr. Allchin indicates the need for further investigations of sites in India, Pakistan and Iran to test the valdity of the theories proposed. The work is solid; the conclusions enlightening.

(E. B.)

Prom History to Pre-history at Nievasa (1954-56). By H. D. SANKALIA, S. B. DEO, Z. D. ANSARI and S. EHRHARDT. (Department of Archaeology and An- cient Indian History, Deccan College. Publication

No. 1.) Pp. xxv + 549. 213 figures. Poona: DECCAN POSTGRADUATE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 1960. Rs. 60. A report of excavations carried out at Nevasa in Maharashtra, best known as the place where Jfianeivara composed his commentary on the Bhagavad GItM. The finds reflect human activity over 150,000 years ranging from a rudimentary " food gathering " stage, through a pastoral stage (1000 B. C.) to its position as a religious center (1100, A. D.) and continuing on to the present day.

(E. B.)

Paupannamahdpurisacariyam by Jcarya gri gil&ika. Edited by PT. AMRITLAL MOHANLAL BHOJAK. (Prakrit Text Society Series No. 3.) Pp. 31 + 384. Ahmedabad/Varanasi: PRAKRIT TEXT SOCIETY, 1961 Rs. 21. An important document at one time of great interest to scholars as a possible source for Hemacandra's Tri~a~taldkapurusacarita. Dr. Klaus Bruhn, in his introductory essay demonstrates the two to stem from different sources. The appearance of this edition provides material not only for the study of the "Universal History" of the Jains but points to the need for investigations comparing Jain, Buddhist and Brahmanical traditions.

(E. B.)

The Kama-Sutra of Vatsyayana. Translated by SIB RICHARD S. BURTON with an Introduction by JOHN W. SPELLMAN. Pp. 252. New York: E. P. DUTTON AND CO., INC., 1962. $4.95. A reprint of Burton's translation which appeared in 1883. Dr. Spellman, in his Introduction, places " the KEma Sutra within a framework which, we hope, shows both how it was affected by the society from which it arose and how, in turn, it affected aspects of Indian civilization" (P. 10). (E. B.)

The Nava Nalanda Bahavihara Research Publications. Edited by SATKARI MOOKERJEE. Vol. I, pp. viii + 343 + 71, 1957. Vol. II, pp. iv + 386 + 110, 1960. Nalanda (Patna). NAVA NiLANDX MAHAVIHARA. The Nalanda Institute of Research and Post-Gradu- ate Studies in Buddhist and Pali is directed to advanced studies and research in Buddhist learning and the publication of the results of such studies. The first two volumes comprise articles by scholars who have been associated with the Institute. With some exceptions (viz., number 5 of the first volume which is concerned with a problem of PRnini's gram- mar) the articles concentrate upon ancinent Bud- dhist thought. (E. B.)

Ksemendralaghukafyasailgrahah. Edited by VIDYi- RATNA E. V. V. RXG]HAVCHIARYA and D. G. PADHYE. Pp. 31 + 519. Hyderabad: THE SANSKRIT ACADEMY, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY, 1961. Rs. 15. An edition published for the first time in a single volume of the minor works of KEemendra, the scholar and literary critic who flourished in Kashmir in the eleventh century, A. D. An interesting feature of this book is the fifth appendix which lists words and compounds not recorded in any of the present-day lexicons. (E. B.)

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