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Yajnesvara

By Krishna K. Handiqui

Vol. 7 · No. 1March - 1931pp. 161–162English

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  • “Dr, Venkatasubbiah wrote an article on YigeSvara, a rare word occurring in Piirnabhadra’s Paficatantra.”
  • “He pointed out that Dr. Hertel was wrong in taking the word 1 the sense of ‘gold’.”
  • “He referred also to the fact that the word occurred in the Naisadha of Sriharsa (12. 38) and Mallinitha and Niriyana took it to mean ‘a crystal phallus of Siva’.”

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  1. Piirnabhadra’s Paficatantra
  2. Naisadha of Sriharsa
  3. Skanda-purana (MahieSvara-khanda, 11.6 of Kumniriki-khanda)
  4. Nariyana’s commentary (vide the 4th N. 5. edition)
  5. Srikaptha-carita 3) 14

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Vol. 7 · No. 1
1–16On Foreign Element in the TantraP. C. Bagchi17–18Dhorail Inscription of the Reign of Mahmud Shah: Saka 1455Nirad Bandhu Sanyal19–27Cultivation in Ancient IndiaR. Ganguli28–33SilaparikathaAnathnath Basu34–36Inscriptions of Govindacandra Hari Candana in the Fort of LangalaveniLakshmi Narayan Harichandan Jagadeb37–40The Candra Dynasty of ArakanJogendra Chandra Ghosh41–54The Administration of the Delhi Empire in the Pre-Mughal PeriodJogindra Nath Chowdhuri55–56Persian Inscriptions in the Gwalior StateRam Singh Saksena57–77Dandin's Conception of the GunasPrakash Chandra Lahiri78–92Origin of Madhava-Vidyaranya TheoryR. Rama Rao93–116Early Visnuism and Narayaniya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta117–124The Chronology of the Ksatrapas and the AndhrasHari Charan Ghosh125–137The Lokayatikas and the KapalikasDakshina Ranjan Shastri138–149A Short Chronology of Indian AstronomySukumar Ranjan Das150–160Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India161–162YajnesvaraKrishna K. HandiquiCurrent article163–169Date of the Mudra-RaksasaS. Srikanta Sastri169–173Characteristic Features of the Sataka Form of DramaChintaharan Chakravarti173–175On Manimekhala "the guardian deity of the sea” (a Cambodian document)Sylvain Levi176–186Notes on DravidianL. V. Ramaswami Aiyar187–190Bharatavakya and the BhagavadajjukamD. R. Mankad190–191A Further note on BharatavakyaChintaharan Chakravarti191–192A Note on Meherunnisa and JehangirDasharatha Sharma193–195Notes on Asoka RescriptsSailendra Nath Mitra196–207ReviewsH. C. Ray, Niharranjan Roy208–213Select Contents of Oriental Journals

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