Select Contents of Oriental Journals

This article is a review of select contents from various Oriental journals published between 1953 and 1958. It covers a wide range of subjects in Indology, including Sanskrit literature, ancient Indian history, epigraphy, law, and religious studies. The author summarizes the main arguments and evidence presented by various scholars in their respective fields. The article begins with a discussion of P. C. Divanji’s comparison of the Brhad-yogi-yajnavalkya-smrti and the work published under the title Yoga-yajnvalkya. Divanji argues that the latter has a better claim to be considered the authentic Yoga treatise associated with the great Yajnavalkya. D. Chattopadhyaya’s study of Asoka’s Edict of Aioka ૦૪, which details the public benefactions of Queen Caruvaki, is also highlighted. Ronald M. Smith analyzes the intellectual worth of the contents of the Brhadaranyaka Upanisad. S. K. Dikshit seeks to demonstrate that the ‘Vikrama Samvat’ was used in Kharosthi and early Brahmi inscriptions of northern and north-western India. He argues that the evidence of epigraphic and numismatic records of the earlier kings indicates that the inscriptions of Kaniska and his successors ‘are dated with the two hundreds omitted’. K. Goetz dates Anandabbarati or Anandasiddha and his medical treatise Anandamali to between 8 A.D. 1350 and 1600. Lubor Sternbach discusses different versions of the ‘Gullible Husband and his Cunning Wife’ tale found in different Sanskrit and other sources, quoting Smrti aphorisms dealing with the duties of a father towards his daughter and a wife towards her husband. M. A. Dorai Rangaswamy traces the sculptural representations of Daksinamurti in South Indian temples to the Indus civilization and discusses the esoteric significance of the form explained by the Saiva mystic Sundarar. S. Arumugar Mudaliar examines the literary works in Tamil of the Pallava period. N. Venkata Rao writes on Telugu literature under Mysore rulers. M. Govinda provides an account of the Yaksagana, a deity type of music popular in South India. S. S. Bhandarkar edits the Tattvajnanavirenavidhi with Anandagiri’s gloss, focusing on the nature of the soul. M. N. Saha discusses different methods of date-recording in ancient and medieval India and the origin of the Saka Era. D. Chandra Panigrahi assigns King Khiravela of the Hathigumpha inscription to the middle of the second century B.C. R. C. Majumdar critically examines Chinese accounts of Wang Hi-nan-ts’s Indian campaign, arguing that the ambassador’s campaigns to 648 A.D. were confined to a very narrow region along the hills of the Himalayas extending to the plains of N. Bihar. H. Goetz describes a masterpiece of mediaeval Kashmiri metal art, King Sankaravarman’s frame for an image of Buddha Avatara in the Srinagar Museum. Sunpar H. Hora discusses the knowledge of the Ancient Hindus concerning fish and fisheries of India. N. C. Ray compares the Makbzan-i-Afghani and Tawarikb-i-Majlis as sources of history. R. C. Hazra traces the origin of the Vidushaka in Sanskrit dramas. Haarinarian Ghoshal provides an economic survey of the district of Tirhut at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century (1790-1820 A.D.). Satindra Nath Sengupta examines the sentiment of laughter in Sanskrit poetics. Ram Sharan Sharma discusses the Vedic gana and the origin of the post-Vedic republics. Kalikinkar Datta writes on the Indian movement of 1857-59 and its reaction abroad. Umesh Mishra analyzes Krsnamisra’s Prabodbacandrodaya, an allegorical drama presenting a picture of the spiritual struggle of the human mind. M. Arokiaswami discusses the list of early Ganga kings who ruled from Skandapura in Kongudefa. Bhabatos Bhattacharya lists verses from the Visnudharmott

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