Select Contents of Oriental Journals

This section provides brief notices of articles appearing in various Oriental research journals, thereby guiding scholars to recent work across disciplines. It begins with papers from the Annals of Oriental Research, University of Madras. V. Raghavan’s piece on the Yuktidīpikā offers emendations and notes on this important sub‑commentary of the Sāṅkhyakārikā, while S. Subrahmanya Sastri extracts Prabhākara Mīmāṃsā ontological categories from an unpublished commentary. In the Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, P.T. Raju argues against the notion that Indian philosophy lacks activism: he maintains that the Mīmāṃsā school upholds action (karma) as a divine principle and traces how ethical activism evolves into the doctrine of niṣkāmakarma in the Bhagavadgītā. Other entries include C.R. Devadhar’s critical edition of the Amarukaśataka with the commentary of Koka, K.V. Anantanarayana Sastri’s study of the Kandinśkramanikā, and T.G. Aravamuthan’s expansive article on Harappan civilisation that analyses its iconography and cultural motifs across eleven thematic sections. The journal notes further summarise R.D. Karmarkar’s discussion on whether Śaṅkara authored the Bhagavadgītā bhāṣya and highlight articles from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Letters, such as Helmuth von Glasenapp’s survey of Indian influences on German science, philosophy and literature and Ervin Baktay’s new information on the Hungarian tibetologist Alexander Csoma de Kőrös. The section also mentions Satya Vrat’s examination of the concept of space (dik) in Bhartṛhari’s Vākyapadīya and Kumar Ray Choudhuri’s analysis of whether memory yields valid knowledge, reviewing positions from Nyāya and Buddhist philosophers as well as Western thinkers. Additional summaries cover articles on prehistoric Indian porcelain and the role of music in Islam. Collectively, these notices underscore the diversity of current research in Sanskrit and Indic studies, ranging from textual criticism and philosophy to archaeology and comparative thought.

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