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Avadana and Apadana

By Edward J. Thomas

Vol. 9 · No. 1March - 1933pp. 32–36English
Pali Sanskrit Comparison

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Vol. 9 · No. 1
1–10Notes on the Guhyasamaja‑Tantra and the Age of the TantrasMaurice Winternitz11–17The Kingdom of KiraRamesh Chandra Majumdar18–21Maha‑Pralaya and Last JudgmentAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy22–29Mepputtur Narayana BhattatiriK. Rama Pisharoti30–31The Madhyamikas and the TathataLouis de La Vallée Poussin32–36Avadana and ApadanaEdward J. ThomasCurrent article37–39The Karddamaka KingsHem Chandra Raychaudhuri40–45What a Deity RepresentsBiswanath Bhattacharya46–48On some Tibetan names of the BuddhaF. Otto Schneider49–62Muhammad Bakhtyar's Expedition to TibetNalini Kanta Bhattasali63–75The Tamil Sangam in a Pandyan Charter of the early Tenth Century A.D.S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar76–87Remarks on the Fourth Rock Edict of AsokaJarl Charpentier88–91Satvant, Satvata and NasatyaJean Przyluski92–97The Nagavamsis of CakrakotyaHiralal Jain98–102A Note on Krsnadasa Kaviraja’s Caitanya‑CaritamrtaSushil Kumar De103The Phalius Worship in the VedaVidhushekhara Bhattacharya104–106TapasVidhushekhara Bhattacharya107–112New Contributions to the Interpretation of the MahavamsaWilhelm Geiger113–120The Yerragudi Copy of Asoka’s Minor Rock EdictB. M. Barua121–130The Pratihara AdministrationRamashankar Tripathi131Indo‑European 'kh' in Sanskrit and AvestanMuhammad Shahidullah132–136Did Tailapa II Defeat a Cedi King?V. V. Mirashi137–140Akbar as a Sun‑WorshipperHirananda Sastri141–144Note on a Newly‑Discovered Taxila InscriptionHarit Krishna Deb145–148A Note on the Girdharpur Brahmi Inscription of the Year 28Sten Konow149–153Notion of Time in Hindu PhilosophySukumar Ranjan Das154–156The Nati of PataliputraA. Banerji - Sastri157–160The Monetary System of the Mughal TimesGottlieb L. Schanzlin161–169Identification of some Brahmanical SculpturesDhirendra Chandra Ganguly170–187A Study of the Twenty Aspects of SunyataEugéne Obermiller188–196Sri Krsna and the Source of the BhagavadgitaAmar Nath Roy197–201Who was the Gupta contemporary of the Kadamba King Kakusthavarman?N. Lakshminarayan Rao202–207Two Saura Images from the District of 24-ParganasKalidas Datta208–214Epigraphic Notes – Genealogy of the SalankayanasDineshchandra Sircar215–226Formal Elements in Indian InscriptionsOtto Stein227–236The Buddhist Manuscripts at GilgitNalinaksha Dutt237–243The Saivaite Deity KsetrapalaChintaharan Chakravarti244–252Some political Ideas in the Tamil Work (Kural)C. S. Srinivasachari253–265Some Linguistic NotesP. C. Bagchi266–272HetucakranirnayaDurgacharan Chatterji273–278Epigraphic Notes – Genealogy of the VisnukundinsDineshchandra Sircar279–281Some Technical Terms of Sanskrit GrammarKshitish Chandra Chatterjee282–289The Mainamati Copper‑plate Ranavankamalla Harikaladeva (1i41 SSaka).Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya290–299The Samkarṣa Kāṇḍa—A genuine Supplement to the Pūrva-mimāmsā ŚāstraV. A. Ramaswami Sastri300–306The Pusti‑marga of VallabhaG. H. Bhatt307–416Dr. Haraprasad Sastri (1853–1931) and ApendixNarendra Nath Law—An Image from Bodh Gaya and Appendix

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