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Literary Reference to Samudragupta

By Ramesh Chandra Majumdar

Vol. 9 · No. 4December - 1933pp. 930–933English

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  • “This setting of the Paffotanire text undouhtedly reminds us of the Thousand and One Nights.”
  • ““In old tiineg there was a king who traced पिंड genealogy 10 the family of Samudragupta (dna ngusena 507૪ Prablu, દે pwa Kula- વર્ડડ Strudraguptapurampara), ડિલ had many fore-fathers but of those between the founder of the royal family and the king himself I will eay vothing.”
  • “Now, although no historical importance attaclies to the introduction which merely serves as a selting of the text, the nawe of ઉકાઈ: gupta, the fore-fath:r of the king of Pataliputra undoubtedly indicates that the name and fame of Samudregupta was still a living tradition in India when the original Sanskrit text was composed.”

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  1. Tentri Kamandelka, 8 Javanese text, edited with a Dutch Translation by Dr. 0. Hooykaas and published in Bibliotheca Javanica series
  2. Ramacarite
  3. Kamauli grant
  4. D. Banerit

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Vol. 9 · No. 4
829–834Kalidasa in ChinaLouis Finot835–853Vamana's Theory of Riti and GunaPrakash Chandra Lahiri854–865Krsna and JarasandhaSadashiva L. Katre866–871The Rise of Najib-ud-daulaJadunath Sarkar872–879The Architecture of the Taj and its ArchitectShyam Chand Mukherjee880–885The Puranic Traditions - (about earlier homes and migrations of the Indian Aryas)Narayana Tripathi886–897The Origin of the MalpahariasSasanka Sarkar898–911Some Sanskrit Texts on PaintingV. Raghavan912–922Two Types of Subjectivism in Monistic VedantaMakhanlal Mukherji923–929The Date of KarkacaryaG. B. Makoday930–933Literary Reference to SamudraguptaRamesh Chandra MajumdarCurrent article934–942An almost Contemporary Account of Mahmud's Invasions of IndiaSri Ram Sharma943–947Daspalla Copper-Plate AgreementBinayak Misra948–950King Narasimha of Gaunda and the study of the Mahabhasya in BengalJogendra Chandra Ghosh951–956Early History of the Gahadavala DynastyDhirendra Chandra Ganguly957–966Epigraphic NotesDineshchandra Sircar967–968The Art of Pantomime in KeralaC. S. Srinivasachari969–972The Dasas of the Karnatak CountryS. Hanumantha Rao973–977Hindu Theatre (Part 1)D. R. Mankad978–979AryadevaVidhushekhara Bhattacharya979–980Sankaracarya and DharmakirtiVidhushekhara Bhattacharya981Sankara's Reference to a Buddhist PassageVidhushekhara Bhattacharya981–983A so-called Convention of the Hindu DramaMano Mohan Ghosh984–986Varahamihira and BuzurjmehrAdinath Neminath Upadhye987–988Syntactic Position of the Preposition in ArdhamagadhiAdinath Neminath Upadhye989–991Vainyagupta DvadasadityaRamesh Chandra Majumdar991–994Hindu Theatre (Part 2)V. Raghavan995–1003The Seventh All-India Oriental ConferenceP. C. Bagchi1004–1030ReviewsBatakrishna Ghosh, Edward J. Thomas1031–1039Select Contents of Oriental Journals1041–1042Addendum: Some Sanskrit Texts on PaintingV. Raghavan

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