Bibliographical Notes

The final section lists newly published books and monographs across a wide spectrum of Indian and Asian studies. Among the works noted are Mallinath Sharma’s edition of a Sanskrit treatise on religion; B. Subbarao’s “Stone Age Cultures of Bellary”; H. D. Sankalia’s archaeological survey of Gujarat; and Percy Brown’s revised volume on Buddhist and Hindu periods of Indian architecture. The notes mention M. G. Dikshit’s study of etched beads, A. B. Keith’s history of the Sāṃkhya system and his reprint of “History of Sanskrit Literature”, and P. Thomas’s book on Hindu religion, customs and manners. Medical history is represented by H. R. Zimmer’s lectures on Hindu medicine edited by L. Edelstein, while modern history appears in S. Gopal’s study of the permanent settlement in Bengal and Holden Furber’s “John Company at Work”, which analyses the East India Company’s operations in the late eighteenth century. Also included are translations of Buddhist texts and philosophical treatises, such as D. T. Suzuki’s “Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, a critical edition of Āryadeva’s works and J. J. Jones’s English version of the Mahāvastu. The list references works on architecture (Sūtradhāra Maṇḍana), chess, and esoteric interpretations of the Ṛgveda compiled by Kapali Sastri. Later entries highlight N. Subramania Sastri’s study of libraries in ancient and medieval India; catalogues of Tamil manuscripts; ethnographic studies of aboriginal tribes; editions of Pahlavi texts and Anglo‑Sikh relations; and numerous Sanskrit commentaries and devotional texts edited by Puri Das. The bibliographical notes thus function as an annotated checklist for scholars, providing publication details and brief descriptions that help researchers identify new resources in history, archaeology, philology, religion and literature.

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