Select Contents of Oriental Journals
Summary
This section summarises selected articles from contemporary Oriental journals. Highlights include P. K. Gode’s analysis of Caturbhuja Miśra’s commentary on the love‑poem ‘Amaruśataka’, which dates the author to between 1250 and 1600 and identifies Kampil, near Farakkabad, as his residence. K. M. Krishna Sarma surveys Prthvicandra’s ‘Dharmatatva‑kalanidhi’, a vast Dharmashastra treatise whose surviving manuscripts date to the late fifteenth century. A. N. Krishna Aiyangar publishes three Tamil inscriptions from Uttaramērūr recording grants for perpetual temple lamps during the reign of Chola king Rājārāja I. H. G. Narahari edits Tryambaka Miśra’s ‘Viśeṣāmṛta’, a lexicon of variant spellings. The section also lists serial publications such as an edition of the Rigveda with commentary, an English translation of Udayana’s ‘Nyāyakusumāñjali’ and various astrological and Vedānta texts. Summaries from the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society include H. N. Velankar’s identification of family hymns in the Rigveda, A. D. Pusalkar’s argument that the newly discovered drama ‘Yajñaphala’ is by Bhāsa, and A. J. Karmarkar’s study of the Purusha‑sukta. The Journal of Indian History features Bayy Natu Puri’s claim that the Kushana rulers supported Brahmanism rather than suppressing it and S. Tiruvenkatachari’s description of a Trivikrama temple at Mahabalipuram. Finally, the Journal of the Numismatic Society of India reports E. H. C. Walsh’s study of the Patraba hoard of punch‑marked coins and B. L. Altekar’s identification of new kings of Kausambi from recently discovered coins and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal summarises papers on Tibetan iconography and matriarchal customs among the Kolli Malaiyalis.
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Conclusion
The ‘Select Contents’ section offers concise summaries of diverse Orientalist research from Sanskrit commentaries and Dharmashastra to numismatics and anthropology. It serves as a bulletin for scholars, pointing them to noteworthy studies across languages, regions and disciplines.