New Catalogus Catalogorum by V. Raghavan; K. Kunjunni Raja; New Catalogus Catalogorum.Vol. IV. kārtavīryārjuna°.-Kṛṣṇasarasvatī by V. Raghavan; K. Kunjunni RajaReview by: Ernest BenderJournal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 89, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1969), p. 816Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/596973 .

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NEW CATALOGUS CATALOGORUM. An Alphabetical Regis- ter of Sanskrit and Allied Works and Authors. Vol. III, ft - kartavirya'. Editor, V. RAGHAVAN; Associate Editor, K. KUNJUNNI RAJA. (Madras University

Series, No. 28) Pp. iv + 398. Madras: UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS, 1967. Rs. 25.00.

NEW CATALOGUS CATALOGORUM. Vol. IV. kartaviryar- juna'.-Krqzuasarasvati. Editor, V. RAGHAVAN; Asso- ciate Editor, K. KUNJUNNI RAJA. (Madras Uni- versity Series, No. 29) Pp. iv + 374. Madras: UNI- VERSITY OF MADRAS, 1968. Rs. 25.00.

A continuation of the work started by Dr. Raghavan in November 1935 and pursued single-handedly by him through to the publication of the first volume in 1949. In 1951 the University made available to him two Re- search Assistants; in 1957 the University Grants Com- mission provided assistance and the Rockefeller Founda- tion made possible the employment of five Research Assistants. Volume II appeared in 1966 (See JAOS 87.2 (1967) 215). After its publication the authorities of the University, to expedite this great work, appointed Dr. K. Kunjunni Raja Associate Editor. The publication of Volume III coincided with the Silver Jubilee of the Vice-Chancellorship at the University of Madras of Dr. A. Lak~manaswami Mudaliar, who, amid the de- mands of his multiple responsibilities, maintained interest in the NCC. The relatively quick appearance of Volume IV was made possible by having different parts of it printed concurrently at two presses-a necessary resort, but one which the present reviewer, marked by personal experience, does not recommend, excepting circumstances where other remedies are not forth- coming. (Time, alas, does not heal all wounds.)

This past December (1968), Dr. Raghavan wrote me of his award of a fellowship from the Jawaharlal Nehru Foundation in Delhi to prepare a critical edition of the Sanskrit text of the magnum opus, Bhoja's Srhgarapra- kasa, a study of which he had published earlier in Eng- lish. Fellow scholars will be pleased to know that the NCC will not be deprived of his inestimable services, for he will continue his association with it in an honorary capacity.

ERNEST BENDER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

THE VhLMIKI-RiMXYANA. Critical Edition. Vol. VI. Yuddhakadzda. Fasc. 1. Edited by P. L. VAIDYA.

(General Editors: U. P. Shah and the late G. H. Bhatt) Pp. 352. Baroda: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE, 1967.

This edition is based on 34 manuscripts which fall into two groupings, a northern and a southern. The Northern is sub-divided into three: a Northwestern group-

Sarada version (two mss.); a Northeastern group, with three subgroupings, a Nepali version (2 mss.), a Maithil! version (3 mss.), and a Bengali version (4 mss.); and a Devanagari Composite Version (13 mss.). The Southern recension falls into three groups: a Telegu (3 mss.); a Grantha (3 mss.); and a Malayalam (4 mss.).

Of the 34 mss. used, 22 are dated and of these 22 six were copied in the 17th century, 10 in the 18th century, 4 in the 19th century and one in the eleventh century- this last one, dated Saml.vat 1076 (c. 1020 A.D.) is from the Bir Library, Kathmandu, Nepal. Other than the Com- mentary of Ud.Iri Varadardj a from the Tanj ore Maharaj a Serfoji's Saraswathi Library the date of which is esti- mated to be before 1250 A.D., this, as noted by editors of preceding volumes, is by far the earliest dated manu- script. It is disappointing that the editor of this volume had not enlarged upon the observations relating to this mis. which follows the Northwestern pattern rather than the Northeastern. (See the remarks of G. H. Bhatt, Introduction to the Aranyakainda, Vol. III, pp. xxv-xxvi, edited by P. C. Divanji; Introduction to Vol. IV, the Kiqkhindhakazdua, p. xxix, by D. R. Mankad; and the Introduction to Vol V, Sundarakadoa, pp. xxiv-xxvii, by G. C. Jhala.) I mention this, keeping in mind the status of Sanskrit works, lost to India and retrieved through reconstructions from earlier translations into languages of areas beyond India, and wonder if any reconstruction from a translation of an "original" text can recreate the original?-Must it claim this to validate its own merit? When this great undertaking is completed, comparisons of this Critical Edition with versions from areas outside India may yield interesting data.

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Elements of Hindu Iconography. By T. A. GOPINATHA

RAO. Vol. I, Pt. 1, pp. xxxiii + 296; Vol. I, Pt. 2, pp. 299-400 + 71 + 160 + 29 (Index); Vol. II, Pt. 1, pp. xxvi + 358; Vol. II, Pt. 2, pp. 361 to 578 + 279 + 37 (Index). New York: PARAGON REPRINT CORPORA-

TION, 1968. $65.00.

This edition is what its publisher describes it to be: an unaltered and unabridged reprint of the Madras edi- tion of 1914 (-1916). Excepting several instances, the photographs are clear and seem even better than those of the original with which I compared it. Allowance, however, must be given to the fading and yellowing pre- rogative of time. No matter, the photographs are beyond criticism, for skilled photographic activity during the intervening fifty-three years has yielded a harvest of pictures, available-either in published books or from collections-to the researcher requiring a greater sampl- ing or more detailed examples.

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