Select Contents of Oriental Journals

This section lists noteworthy articles and notes from a range of Oriental journals published in late 1945. From Bharatiya Vidya (vol. VI, Nov.–Dec. 1945) it highlights Jagan Nath’s discussion of the identification of Budhagupta with Purugupta, Dines Chandra Sircar’s article on King Āma of Kānyakubja, G. V. Devasthali’s note on the author of the Paramapadanirṇayaka, and Moreswar G. Dikshit’s publication of a fragmentary inscription from Lonad. The same journal includes S. P. Sancar’s study of religious crimes under Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb. From Brahmavidya (Adyar Library Bulletin, vol. IX, part 4) the section mentions P. K. Gode’s research on Indian cosmetics and perfumery, K. Mahāva Kṛṣṇa Śarma’s notice of manuscripts by Vidyānātha, and G. Narahari’s examination of the date of Viśveśvara’s Padavākyārthaparīkṣā. It also summarises papers on topics such as the Khotan Dharmapada, Central‑Asian Kharoṣṭhī documents, the phonology of Sinhalese inscriptions, the Bhum countries of eastern India, glimpses of economic life in Bengal from a seventeenth‑century Brahmin, and the constitutional significance of saṃgha‑gaṇa in the post‑Vedic period. Further entries note articles from the Journal of the University of Bombay on the Gupta dynasty and Vedic hymns, and from Indian Culture on Apri hymns, comparisons of Jain texts and Vedānta, and Mayāvāda. A piece in Modern Review analyses the Maurya empire, concluding that the Maurya polity was a federal unity with space for local patriotism. The section thus provides readers with a curated digest of recent scholarship across history, epigraphy, linguistics, religious studies and literature.

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